Festival of the Five Continents: great news for the tenth anniversary

It shares the traveling event that involves Basilicata, Puglia and Calabria

Press release

VEIN (PZ) – The Festival of the Five Continents, the itinerant exhibition conceived and organized by the cultural association "The Circus Art" of Venosa, returns in the most beautiful and characteristic of Basilicata, Puglia and Calabria, with its traditional performances of street theater and contemporary circus and some interesting new features specially designed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the event. As in previous editions, the festival's artistic direction was entrusted to Pasquale Cappiello's "Artistic Management", which over time has been able to give the event visibility and prestige increasing.

The tenth edition of the festival will be an opportunity to evolve and embrace new forms of art - from literature to photography, music, contemporary art, al cinema –, but also to confirm itself as a party of the people, cultures, ideas, who wants to continue to amaze, giving the privilege of discovery and the taste of surprise. Great news, but the goal remains the same as always: the development of the area, historical centers, monuments. Castles, cloisters, churches, buildings, squares will once again be the setting for a magical and enchanting festival without borders.

This year the festival in its path along the south of Italy will involve 4 province, for a total of 9 areas falling within the circuit of the event: Acerenza, Brindisi di Montagna, Castelgrande, Pescopagano, Venosa and Viggiano in the province of Potenza, Isola Capo Rizzuto in the province of Crotone, Acres in the province of Cosenza, Rocchetta Sant'Antonio in the province of Foggia. Each stage will offer viewers young and old artistic performances unique in their kind, staged by companies from all over the world, but also cultural events such as exhibitions and contemporary art, conferences, book presentations, meetings with authors, reading teatrali, laboratories of writing and reading, concerts of contemporary music, visite guidate, screenings of short films, for a bill that will continue over the summer months.

The underlying theme of the festival will, as always multiculturalism, to allow the public to know the worlds near and far through the encounter with different cultures and peoples, stimulating the viewer to compare with each other and open-mindedness. But the Festival of the Five Continents like every year will also be an event of great tourist value, capable of giving emphasis to the specific cultural characteristics, environmental, art, wine and food of each country with, serving as a vehicle for promoting original and rediscovery of the historical centers, often the only places for history and identity.

Press Festival of the Five Continents
Responsible: Francesco Mastrorizzi
Contacts: 347 1241178 – prandss@cinquecthentinentifestival.com
Website: www.cinquecontinentifestival.com