ARTISTI IN PIAZZA - International Performing Arts Festival 27°edition

Since 1998, Ultimo Punto cultural association has been organizing the international performing arts festival, ARTISTI IN PIAZZA in Pennabilli. Just from the beginning, it has stood out as one of the most important street art festivals organised in Italy and over the years it has evolved into a multidisciplinary festival, recognised and supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

In 2 days, the historic centre of Pennabilli welcomes about 50 international performers and collectives, over 200 artists, about 350 performances and 30.000 public attendance for each edition. The performance of artists - together with the collateral actions such as workshops, art installations, exhibitions of figurative arts, walking acts and land art, parties and evening DJ-set, kid's area, handicraft market and varied offers of food- are the backbone of the festival. The festival is born from the idea of enhancing all the expressions of art, from theatre and music to contemporary circus, dance, puppetry, and visual arts, presenting them in public places that become a stage for all kinds of entertainment, to feel new energies and good vibrations transmitted by art and moments of shared beauty.

After 25 years of activity, the festival has conquered a prominent position in the European panorama: every year we receive more than 500 applications from worldwide artists, and we count on average 50 accredited operators and art directors that come to Pennabilli to intercept new shows. The festival is recognised as an important professional showcase with the aim of contributing to the professional growth of emerging artistic realities.

The 27th ed. will take place from 1st to 4th June in Pennabilli. The program includes artists and collectives representing countless disciplines, selected according to the general programmatic and thematic lines: experiential and interactive, site-specific in relation to the landscape, and interdisciplinarity. It’s the result of a careful selection process that aims to highlight the originality, innovation, enhancement of tradition, involvement of the public, multidisciplinary character and new art languages and poetics.