We had left off with an intense discussion about wars, about Gaza and the surrounding area. It was 23 August 2025 and, within the festival Ammajare, that meeting was among the most attended and appreciated.

Ammajare Off starts again from that very format, with the same desire to engage and to listen, and it does so by visiting another small town. Because the philosophy of Ammajare has always been to bring big themes to the small — and immense — places of our land.

In addition to Tergu, which will host the new debate on “Gaza and surrounding areas”, the festival is enriched with other stops, book presentations and theatre performances.

We will start in Porto Torres, on 31 October, with Undici, the latest book by Andrej Longo, which leads us through the lives of eleven women from Naples and its province, portrayed with a clear and compassionate gaze.

The title of this edition, On our skin, remains the common thread also in these new events: we will discover stories of women and men through original and intense points of view.

In Bonorva, on 7 November, Claudia Mandas will guide us through her Portraits of shadows, a journey into identities and the light-and-shade of the human soul.

We need new maps to find our way through the turbulence of our time: showing them to us will be Pier Giorgio Pinna with Volpe 132, a gripping spy story set in Sardinia, which takes us back to 2 March 1994 — a date that, even today, lives on our skin.

On 11 November, in Sassari, Franciscu Sedda will help us understand how to face the unpredictability of history and of our lives, presenting his essay The unpredictable happens.

In Siligo, last August, Gianluca Medas had enchanted us with the intense and politically necessary story of Emilio Lussu. We will meet him again in Sassari, on 13 November, with his unforgettable reading dedicated to the “untamed knight”.

Music, passion, secrets, adolescence: these are the themes intertwined in the novel by Roberto Delogu, Now yes, which will be presented in Sorso on 14 November.

After the success in August in Siligo, also Rita Nappi returns, who on 20 November in Sassari will lead us again among the Sardinian healers, suspended between medicine, magic and the Inquisition.

On 28 November, again in Sassari, the floor will go to Giampaolo Cassitta with his new novel The law of Donna Matilde: an ironic and disenchanted story set in a village in the Sardinian hinterland, where sweets, songs and politics intertwine in a thoroughly human battle.

We will conclude this second part of our journey by returning to the origins, to that thread that binds us to witches, inquisitions, to Julia Carta. On 4 December, in Mores — her hometown — the festival will close with an evening dedicated to her memory: the presentation of the novel by Antonietta Uras, Julia, the witch of Siligo, and the monologue My mother Julia, with Luca Fancello and Roberta Campagna as narrating voices, accompanied by the Renaissance music of Beatrice Melis on the harp.

We wanted to underline the importance of a festival different from the others. That is why we proudly call it “the other festival”.
We believe we succeeded: 15 events in August in Siligo, and another 11 meetings in this second part.

In total, 16 book presentations, three theatre performances, two concerts, two debates against war — and a single red thread: telling what has happened, from the Inquisition to today, on our skin.