Suq Festival - 25th Edition

Opening 16-25 June 2023 at Genoa's Old Port and other venues in the city, with a theatre preview on Thursday 15. Open every day from 4.00 p.m. to midnight; free entrance to all events except theatre performances. On 15 June there will be an opening at 9.00 pm only for the show. There will be many institutional partners, starting with the important patronage of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO and the Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security.

At the heart of the Festival is the Teatro del Dialogo review with 8 shows, dedicated to dialogue between cultures, which interweaves prose, music, and images and fills Piazza delle Feste and other nearby spaces: Isola delle Chiatte and Teatro TIQU in the historic centre. For this 25th edition, the original set-up will be unfailing, with the scenography reproducing a Mediterranean bazaar, full of scents, colours, and the flavours of many different cuisines to be tasted: Indian, Arab, South-East Asian, Mexican, Northern European, Senegalese, Nigerian, Persian, Lebanese Syrian, South American, and vegan. And you will also find Syrian sweets, Arabic coffee and tea. New this year, the collaboration with To Good to Go for the fight against food waste.

There will be many meetings dedicated to sensitive topics such as migration, women's rights in the world, and the more or less visible borders we find ourselves crossing. As always, a special space will be given to the environment with the Ecosuq Review. There will also be musical concerts and the traditional showcooking with Chef Kumalé. An important novelty will be the book Le Voci del Suq (Ed. Altreconomia) to be published in June, in time for the Festival. Thanks to many prestigious signatures and the most beautiful photos of these 25 years, it will be possible to get a close look at the history of an experience that represents a reference point of excellence for artistic and intercultural work.