Italian Festivals, from North to South
Festivals in plant labyrinths and disused quarries, concerts designed to bring musical instruments back to play under the fir trees from which they originated, and much more.
Kilowatt Festival
The international festival dedicated to the contemporary scene
Kilowatt is an international multidisciplinary festival dedicated to the contemporary scene (theatre, dance, circus, music, visual arts, multimedia) and takes place annually in July between Sansepolcro and Cortona. The festival was conceived in 2003 and has been promoted and realised by the CapoTrave theatre production company ever since.
For the past 20 years, Sansepolcro, and for the past few years Cortona as well, have hosted a festival dedicated to the performing arts with an international scope. The initiative works annually with 50 citizens, known as ‘visionaries’, who engage in a 9-month engagement process and contribute to the festival's cultural offering.
MILANoLTRE Festival
Dance on stage in Milan
MILANoLTRE is a dance festival staged in Milan, at the Elfo Puccini Theatre. A place of contaminations, field invasions and opportunities to compare new national and international trends in the performing arts and contemporary dance in particular.
Risonanze Festival
Bringing instruments back to play, where they were born
The initiative to bring instruments back to play where they were born, in the presence of the resonance spruces of Val Saisera. Risonanze is an opportunity to go to the origin of sound, to get involved in the dialogue between instrument and musician, between nature and music, between luthier and artist. The festival takes place annually in June in Valbruna, on the border with Austria and Slovenia.
Lost Music Festival
An immersive festival among 200,000 bamboo plants
The Labirinto della Masone, inaugurated in 2015 in Fontanellato (Parma), is a 7-hectare park composed of more than 200,000 bamboo plants, the fruit of the dreams and visions of Franco Maria Ricci, publisher, graphic artist and collector. In line with the founder's artistic vision, Lost organises special events inside the Labyrinth related to contemporary languages, interweaving art, experience and experimentation. Conceived as an immersive event, Lost Music Festival celebrates contemporary expressions through a careful selection of Italian and international artists, bringing to life the mystical, esoteric and unknown aspects of this unique space.
Promoted by the Franco Maria Ricci Art Foundation, Lost Music Festival is celebrated in the world's largest plant labyrinth. As the bamboo forest becomes a backdrop for human creativity, performances and installations come together to create a unique experience of sound, light and nature, blurring the boundaries between reality and the unknown.
Tones Teatro Natura
A disused quarry becomes a stage
Tones Teatro Natura was born in 2022 near Verbania from an environmental redevelopment of a disused granite quarry and offers events with big international names and research projects. Immersive operas and musicals with immersive video projections, jazz concerts and dance performances, and a festival of electronics and multimedia arts. Tones also offers training activities on environmental issues, welfare and team building projects for companies, climbing gyms and practices for the care and well-being of people.
Youtopic Festival
A festival against conflict
YouTopic Fest - the International Festival on Conflict is an initiative is organised by the Associazione Rondine Cittadella della Pace which operates in Rondine, a small village near Arezzo and whose aim is to reduce conflict in the world through education. It is an international festival that brings young people from all over the world into dialogue with institutions, schools, businesses, journalists and academics to address conflict as a characterising element of our society, from the inner and interpersonal dimension to the intercultural and inter-religious dimension, up to the extreme degeneration of armed conflict.
Avant Festival
Experimental music amidst the architectural beauty of Apulia
Avant Festival is a boutique festival created to highlight the natural and architectural beauty of Apulia. The event is aimed at fans of contemporary experimental music and slow tourism, offering an intimate and relaxing experience of complete immersion in Salento's culture and landscapes. Activities include avant-garde music concerts, seafront trekking itineraries, visits to Baroque sites, and food and wine tastings.
Eolie Music fest
Sustainable tourism in the Aeolian Islands
Eolie Music Fest is a musical event organised by the Attiva Stromboli association that takes place on the Sicilian islands. In particular, the festival aims to explore, through music, the territory in an indissoluble union between nature and culture, to contribute to the growth of the Aeolian archipelago, and to promote and enhance the beauty of the places where it takes place, favouring a conscious and deseasonalised tourism.
NU Arts and Community
NU Arts and Community makes the streets of Novara play
NU Arts and Community involves the symbolic places of the city of Novara, a collective performance that makes the streets of the centre ring with music, giving space to local bands and offering the public the chance to actively participate in workshops and laboratories. The festival succeeded in activating the community, bringing testimonies and experiences of Italian and international artists, giving new life to the city's places.
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