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Civitella Ranieri

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Founded in 1995, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation is an artist residency program that has hosted over 1,200 Fellows and Director's Guests at its 15th century castle in Umbria.

04/09/2026

Here Now: Youmna Saba is a Music Fellow from Lebanon. A musician, composer, and
musicologist, her current research focuses on instrument and space resonances in different sonic and musical contexts. With five albums to this date (the latest is "Wishah", 2023), she has collaborated with musicians of different musical expressions such as
Kamilya Jubran, Mike Cooper, and the Neue Vocalsolisten. In 2022-23, she was a resident artist at the Musée du Quai Branly, where her sound installation La Réserve des Non-Dits was exhibited. Other residencies include the INA-GRM (Paris) and Elektronmusikstudion EMS (Stockholm).

Experience more from Youmna at https://buff.ly/9WCeIhZ, and revisit her presentation at the Castle on our Instagram profile () now.

📸 Cover photo of Youmna live at Casa Das Artes by Pedro Cosme.

03/09/2026

Here Now: Yukiko Tominaga is a Writing Fellow from Japan. Born and raised in Japan, she was a finalist for the 2020 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, selected by Roxane Gay. Her debut novel "See: Loss. See Also: Love." (Scribner, 2024) was longlisted for the 2025 PEN Open Book Award and a Martin Cruz Smith Award for Emerging Diverse Voices. She is a contributing editor at Counterpoint Press, where she helps to introduce never-before-translated books from Japan to English-language readers.

Yuko presents at the Castle this evening at 6 PM CEST, also livestreamed here on Instagram at 12:15 PM ET. Reserve your seat at https://buff.ly/DVdNuSd.

📸 Profile photo of Yuki by Mayumi Yamada

02/09/2026

Happy Pub week to Claudia Durastanti's (CRF 2022) "Falsi amici" (La nave di Teseo)!

Piero della Francesca, Amy Winehouse's shoes, women's literature under fascism, Cesare Pavese, "Lo**ta", and a house in the province of Messina...

In Claudia's first collection of essays, all these stories have one color in common: pink. A color both feminine and violent, pink becomes the starting point for a quest that inspires the author like an archaeologist of the present.

After her forays into autofiction and genre fiction, with "Falsi amici" Claudia Durastanti brings her intimate and analytical writing to the realm of narrative essays, exploring seemingly eclectic topics and inspirations.

02/09/2026

Here Now: Biliana Voutchkova is a Music Fellow from Bulgaria. She is an internationally active composer-performer, violinist, interdisciplinary artist, improviser, educator, and curator with a distinctive and unconventional artistic language. Rooted in deep listening, her classical training, and her long-term development as a contemporary artist, she explores states of spontaneity and intuitive resonance within a multifaceted practice. Biliana is the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival and a member of the composition faculty at HKB Bern. At the core of her practice lies the connection between inner world and sonic space.

RSVP at https://civitella.org/at-the-castle-yukiko-tominaga-biliana-voutchkova-presentations/ to attend Biliana’s presentation tomorrow at the Castle, or tune in on Instagram Live () at 12:15 PM EST / 6:15 PM CEST.

📸 Profile image of Biliana by Bernd Ott

01/09/2026

We closed out August with our final week of selections including a short poetry and artwork collection by Mark Strand, who we owe a debt of gratitude for gifting Civitella his entire personal library upon his death. 5,000 volumes and “I am what’s missing,” to quote his poem “Keeping Things Whole”.

31/08/2026

Here Now: Nursalim Yadi Anugerah is a Music Fellow from Indonesia. His work is shaped by deep engagement with the cultural and ecological realities of Kalimantan, Borneo. A composer and multi-instrumentalist, his practice centers on sonic experimentation rooted in indigenous cosmologies, acoustic ecology, and environmental activism. He listens closely to place, tracing how cultural and ecological systems entangle and resonate through sound; the resulting compositions feel grounded and porous, carrying the weight of memory and ongoing environmental struggle.

Nursalim presents tonight at the Castle alongside Visual Arts Fellow Andrew Pierre Hart. RSVP at https://buff.ly/wGHkpf3 or tune in on Instagram live () at 6:15 PM CEST/12:15 PM EST.

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1 - Profile photo of Nursalim by Rendy Mahardika.
2 - "Aphid and a Palm on the Top of Orange Cliff" (2025), Nursalim Yadi, JACK Quartet for TIME:SPANS Festival, New York. Photo by Thomas Fichter.

27/08/2026

Here Now: Andrew Pierre Hart is a Visual Arts Fellow from the UK. London-based, he is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the symbiotic relationship between sound and painting. Driven by ongoing research into rhythmology, collective memory, and spontaneous generative processes, Hart examines how auditory frequencies can be translated into visual and spatial forms. His work champions cross-modality, utilizing improvisation to expand the traditional boundaries of painting. This experimentation extends into a multidisciplinary output that encompasses video, performance, found objects, and site-specific installations.

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1 - Asia Art Center
2 - Bio- data - Flows and other rhythms - a local story, solo show at Whitechapel Gallery- London 2024
4 - The Listening Sweet II Ghana , Residency show solo at Gallery 1957 -2024.-Ghana. Painting :The Listening Sweet II - Ghana
6 - Listening session in connection with Andrew’s solo show “And in every moment there is a song- Guangzhou Rhythms” (2026) at Longspace in Guangzhou, China.
8 - Andrew leading a listening session with his cohort at Civitella a few weeks ago
9 & 10 - Andrew leading a sound walk leading into a guided drawing workshop with his cohort and Civitella staff
10 - Andrew laying out the work of his fellow Fellows and Civitella’s staff at the end of the drawing workshop

26/08/2026

Novelist, poet and rapper Omar Musa (CRF 2018) won Australia’s most prestigious annual book prize for his novel "Fierceland" (Penguin Books Australia) about two siblings who reckon with the legacy of their late father, a palm oil baron in Malaysian Borneo. The award is given to a novel of the highest literary merit that presents Australian life in any of its phases.

Omar’s family comes from Malaysian Borneo and he grew up in Queanbeyan, New South Wales. "Fierceland", his second novel, was praised by the judges as “a tour de force” that “refashions the venerable, vernacular hikayat traditions of Malay storytelling into new Australian idioms.” Omar says the novel is “the most ambitious thing I’ve ever done.”

“I’m really Aussie and I’m aware that I’ll always be an outsider, to a certain extent…. fiction is a really radical form of empathy building. It’s humanising. And that’s no small thing in a country where oftentimes people are so quick to dehumanise or demonise others.”

Civitella congratulates Omar on this momentous win and celebrates the recognition of a work with global, connecting impact. More at https://buff.ly/Mw41g2e.

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1 - penguin.com.au
2 - Omar at the Castle during his residency
3 - Omar by Cole Bennetts

25/08/2026

Here Now: Darrell Grant is a Music Fellow from the USA. Darrell has released 10 albums as a leader, performed with jazz icons such as Betty Carter, Tony Williams, and esperanza spalding, and built an international reputation as an artist who channels the power of music toward community and social justice. His compositions include "Step by Step: The Ruby Bridges Suite", "The Territory", and "Sanctuaries", a jazz chamber opera exploring gentrification and displacement. He is a CMA New Works and MAP Fund grantee as well as Professor of Music & Interdisciplinary Studies at Portland State University, where he directs the Social Justice and the Arts program.

📸 Sabrina Tenteromano

24/08/2026

Civitella’s week three Sealey Challenge selections include coauthored book of poetry “The Country Where Everyone’s Name Is Fear” by current Director’s Guests Borys Khersonsky and Lyudmyla Khersonska, in residence since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

You can support Borys and Lyuda’s residency by making a donation to Civitella at civitella.org/donate.

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