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(ANSAmed) - ROME, AUGUST 27 - From Montenegro's guitars to migrant literature, going through a Turkish film festival: Ancona will be the exceptional stage of the 'Adriatico Mediterraneo' festival, an intercultural meeting of people from the Mediterranean basin and from the Balkans which will feature artists from 15 different nations and will last nine days, from August 28 to September 5.

Dozens of events have been scheduled for this festival, which wants to ''give a small contribution to create new scenarios for integration and for cohesion by giving more importance to dialogue and intercultural exchange'', artistic director Giovanni Seneca told ANSAmed.

The festival, at its fourth edition this year, replaced the Klezmer festival which was created in Ancona in 1997: after that first experience dedicated to Jewish music, Seneca said, ''we decided to open to the Mediterranean and thus we created the first edition of the festival for peace among people in 2007.

Since then, relations have expanded and the festival has included Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tunisia, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, and Montenegro. We have added concerts, cultural exchanges but also projects such as the creation of an Italian-Turkish orchestra which we are preparing for 2011''.

A long and complex path which finds its 'climax'' in the yearly appointment in Ancona, which features both Italian and international artist and creates a ''widespread'' event that involves the whole city: among the many places chosen to host the festival there are the Mole Vanvitelliana, the Pinacoteca, the Galleria Dorica, the Mole Lazzabaretto and also Piazza della Repubblica and the arch of Traian.

The musical scene will be livened up by the Boban and Marko Markovic Orkestar- the main brass band of the Balkans from Serbia- Srjdian Bulatovic and Darko Nikcevic's Montenegrian guitars, the music from Andalusia of Antonio's Sordo Group, Nabil Othma the interpreter of Algeria's Tuareg music, but also Ambrogio Sparagna and the Italian Popular Orchestra, and by Mediterranean jazz and popular music.

Literary meetings will also take place, with the presentation of Don Gallo's last book entitled ''On Earth As In Heaven'', an appointment with Sumaya Abdel Qader and Sara Hejazi about ''The Literature of Migration Without Veils'' and also an ''anti-racist reading'' with Tahar Lambri, Igiaba Scego, Mihai Mirceau Butcova and Muin Masri. Among the persons attending the festival there will also be the Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad who will open the exhibition ''Jasad- The Arab Body'' about the representation of the body in the Arab world, with the artists Ninar Esber and Sama Al-shaib.

Carmen Consoli will close the event. The Italian singer ''created a personalised show for the festival with a concert on the harbour during which she will sing accompanied by a popular Sicilian group'', the artistic director underlined. (ANSAmed).