Festival 2023
From 30 April to 07 May 2023
Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease. High battlements of thought, habits that had seemed durable as stone, went down like shadows at the touch of another mind and left a naked sky and fresh stars twinkling in it.
Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO
2023. ORLANDO Festival turns 10 this year.
We have travelled through 10 editions of revolutions, experimentations, meetings, cultural militancy, a shared search for horizons where to recognise ourselves, dream and fall in love. We look back with gratitude, and a little disbelief, at all the beauty we have built with you year after year and invite you to be with us for a tenth time. This special edition will be part of the year of the Italian Capital of Culture, with international guests and significant events until July 2023.
Our guiding word will be obliqueness, an active practice of transition and crossing which can rewrite maps in a more equal and warmer way.
You are welcome to experience eccentric viewpoints, to go through different contexts and worlds, in a festival which questions, on a generative level, power dynamics and canons imposed. After 10 years, it is high time to celebrate “all our other possible births.”
We have travelled through 10 editions of revolutions, experimentations, meetings, cultural militancy, a shared search for horizons where to recognise ourselves, dream and fall in love. We look back with gratitude, and a little disbelief, at all the beauty we have built with you year after year and invite you to be with us for a tenth time. This special edition will be part of the year of the Italian Capital of Culture, with international guests and significant events until July 2023.
Our guiding word will be obliqueness, an active practice of transition and crossing which can rewrite maps in a more equal and warmer way.
You are welcome to experience eccentric viewpoints, to go through different contexts and worlds, in a festival which questions, on a generative level, power dynamics and canons imposed. After 10 years, it is high time to celebrate “all our other possible births.”
VENUES
Bergamo:
Auditorium di Piazza Libertà | Angolo via N. Duzioni, 2
Bikefellas | Via G. Gaudenzi, 6
CRP Club Ricreativo di Pignolo | Via Sant’Elisabetta, 11
Daste | Via Daste e Spalenga, 13-15
Edoné | Via A. Gemelli, 17
INK Club | Via G. Carducci, 4/b
Lo Schermo Bianco | Via Daste e Spalenga, 13
Sala alla Porta di Sant’Agostino | Via della Fara
Teatro Caverna | Via Tagliamento, 7
Bikefellas | Via G. Gaudenzi, 6
CRP Club Ricreativo di Pignolo | Via Sant’Elisabetta, 11
Daste | Via Daste e Spalenga, 13-15
Edoné | Via A. Gemelli, 17
INK Club | Via G. Carducci, 4/b
Lo Schermo Bianco | Via Daste e Spalenga, 13
Sala alla Porta di Sant’Agostino | Via della Fara
Teatro Caverna | Via Tagliamento, 7
TICKETS AND INFORMATION
Admission conditions are listed under each event.
Reduced entrance fee for CGIL, COOP, ARCI members, over 60s and under 27s. Further reductions for Immaginare Orlando and Lab 80 members. Lower fare tickets are also reserved for participants with disability, including free admission for the accompanying person.
All scheduled films are in the original version, with Italian subtitles. Further information on accessibility, can be found in the webpages of each event . For specific needs, please write to info@orlandofestival.it and we will do our best to accommodate you!
All scheduled films are in the original version, with Italian subtitles. Further information on accessibility, can be found in the webpages of each event . For specific needs, please write to info@orlandofestival.it and we will do our best to accommodate you!
Tel. 320 6149443
info@orlandofestival.it
www.orlandofestival.it
Facebook @orlandobergamo
info@orlandofestival.it
www.orlandofestival.it
Facebook @orlandobergamo
Instagram @orlandobergamo
Praticare Alleanze
For Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture, ORLANDO Festival, together with Qui e Ora Residenza teatrale and many other partners spread around the two territories, has built the special project PRATICARE ALLEANZE supported by Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione della Comunità Bergamasca and Fondazione della Comunità Bresciana. A programme of hybrid, plural and transdisciplinary actions, all aimed at showing the fundamental contribution of Culture in producing social wealth and inclusion. The project includes Dance Well Diffuso, Orizzonti Queer and many other performative actions that you will find described in the Festival programme 2023. Following the intersectionality principle, our focus is on building alliances (between different entities and themes) as a revolutionary practice to train in on a daily basis, to concretely build a more equal, welcoming, plural and free society.
Short note on language (for Italian readers)
After much thought, envied by the Accademia della Crusca, we have decided that in our communications we will opt for a broad language, which plays with disorder and tries to imagine and make room for the many possibilities in which different subjectivities and placements can feel comfortable among words. It is for this reason that here you will find ǝ for singulars, * for plurals, perhaps a few u's will peep out, sometimes you will stumble over _ and broken words. This is why you won't find over-extended masculine, all-encompassing feminine here (although we recognise the fundamental political quality of the use of the feminine as a claim to exist and resist millennia of imposed invisibility and oppression), or binary declensions. We claim chaos, we have fun with words, and we think that the absence of coherence is itself a form of coherence, simply untamed.
The ORLANDO Festival Staff
MEMBERSHIP
Make the difference. Dream with Orlando
Throughout the Festival you will have the opportunity to become a member of Associazione Immaginare Orlando and take part in the Festival community! Benefits and agreements with many shops and institutions around the town. Further information on the website orlandofestival.it
Throughout the Festival you will have the opportunity to become a member of Associazione Immaginare Orlando and take part in the Festival community! Benefits and agreements with many shops and institutions around the town. Further information on the website orlandofestival.it
ORLANDO is an international queer festival that features cinema, dance and theatre. It is addressed towards a broad, varied audience and characterized by its ironic, inclusive and welcoming approach. Our aim is to experience culture, overcome borders by broadening possibilities of expression and knowledge through multiple visions of reality. We want to raise a generation that is more liberated, and dream of a society that is more sensitive to equal opportunities, minority rights, gender violence and widen the possibilities of expression. We want a society that is brave and willing to explore otherness. During the course of nine days we bring valuable artistic experiences to Bergamo by transforming the city through a rich programme of films, shows, encounters, workshops and events thanks to our network of relations, cultural exchanges as well as national and international partnerships. The Festival and the association are named after Virginia Woolf’s novel. Her work clearly proves how cultural, gender, ethnic and affective orientation differences are indispensable to establish a cultural identity that is plural, alive and constantly transforming.
STAFF AND CONTACTS
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Mauro Danesi
mauro.danesi@orlandofestival.it
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Efrem Foglia
Caterina Sartor
info@orlandofestival.it
Mauro Danesi
mauro.danesi@orlandofestival.it
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Efrem Foglia
Caterina Sartor
info@orlandofestival.it
PRODUCTION
Emma Mainetti
PROGRAMMING COMITTEE
Marco Rizzoli
Giorgia Di Giusto
Sara Luraschi
Roberto Occhio
programme@orlandofestival.it
COMMUNICATIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA
Caterina Sartor
Mauro Danesi
Giorgia Di Giusto
Efrem Foglia
comunicazione@orlandofestival.it
PRESS OFFICE
Ippolita Aprile
Emma Mainetti
PROGRAMMING COMITTEE
Marco Rizzoli
Giorgia Di Giusto
Sara Luraschi
Roberto Occhio
programme@orlandofestival.it
COMMUNICATIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA
Caterina Sartor
Mauro Danesi
Giorgia Di Giusto
Efrem Foglia
comunicazione@orlandofestival.it
PRESS OFFICE
Ippolita Aprile
LOGISTIC & PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE
Emma Mainetti
Emma Mainetti
Francesca Tonfoni
Yuri Carminati
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Simone Moretti
ADMINISTRATION
Roberto Occhio
Federica Paladini
GRAPHIC PROJECT
Dario Carta
VIDEO PRODUCTION
Alberto Valtellina
PHOTOS
Samanta Cinquini
Carlo Valtellina
Simone Moretti
ADMINISTRATION
Roberto Occhio
Federica Paladini
GRAPHIC PROJECT
Dario Carta
VIDEO PRODUCTION
Alberto Valtellina
PHOTOS
Samanta Cinquini
Carlo Valtellina
ACCESSIBILITY CONSULTANCY
Elia Zeno Covolan
Al. Di. Qua. Artists
Elia Zeno Covolan
Al. Di. Qua. Artists
INTERPRETATION
Milena Finazzi
TRANSLATIONSMilena Finazzi
Silvia Giordano
MERCHANDISING
Andrea Buelli
Monica Donadoni
Jacopo Lazzari
AND ALL THE VOLUNTEERS WHO
MADE THE FESTIVAL POSSIBLE!
