19-21 April Artevento preview / 24 April-4 May Kite Festival
Pinarella
Artevento Cervia - International Kite Festival
Since 1981 the Kite Festival has brought hundreds of wind artists and thousands of visitors to the beaches of Pinarella.
For a fortnight the sky is coloured with kites from all over the world. Every day the festival is animated by artistic, ethnic, historical and giant kites, exciting competitions and acrobatic flying displays, educational workshops, night shows and music, and a food area.
Guests of honour from far and wide bring their cultures and originality.
The Festival promotes the values of peace, human rights, sustainability, inclusion and pluralism.
Programme (updating)
19 - 21 April
Preview at the Magazzino del Sale, Cervia:
- Balance and Harmony
Exhibition of Kadek Armika, Indonesia's greatest contemporary wind artist, for the first time in Europe
A visionary sculptor of multidimensional structures that draw inspiration from the plant world, the most comprehensive synthesis of his work is on display here: from the display of the leaf series, to the abstract series, to sculptures, to video documents and a series inspired by the theme of plastic recycling, together with more exotic works inspired by Indonesian folklore themes. - Creative workshops for adults and children with international artists
International Kite Festival on Pinarella Beach
24 April - 4 May
25 April
2nd Postal cancellation
Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Liberation
26 April
Special award for flying merits to Vito Fiornino
Vito Fiorino, the fisherman who rescued 47 migrants during the tragedy that occurred on 3 October 2013 in the waters off Lampedusa, recounts that experience accompanied by the notes of the ‘Orchestra del Mare’, the fleet of musical instruments made from the wood of boats shipwrecked in the Mediterranean Sea and created by Milan prison inmates from an idea of publisher, essayist, poet and editor Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori.
In conjunction with the meeting, the docu-film ‘A Nord di Lampedusa’, dedicated to Fiorino's experience and realised by Davide Demichelis and Alessandro Rocca, will be screened.
Knock on the Sky and Listen to the Sound
Night performance
1st May
3rd Postal cancellation
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Lucio Dalla's Cervia's Kite
2-4 May
Cervia's Cup
Italian Acrobatic Flying Championship STACK Italy
3 May
The Night of Miracles
Multi-disciplinary show of performative actions and wind art installations