In the kingdom of Very Nearby it's election day. Four candidates, a giant inflatable castle and an audience that decides everything. An acrobatic fairy tale that mixes circus, politics and participation, with the lightness of those who know that playing can be a form of resistance.
Make Circus, Not War!

🎟️ Admission: Paid entrance

Dates, times and places:
Wednesday, 1st July at 7:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Thursday, 2nd July at 7:30 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico

He dreams upside down hanging on a pole, she pedals with her hands and drives with her feet. Together they are water and flour preparing the bread waiting for it to rise, and in the meantime they take us on a journey through time and feelings.

🎟️ Admission: free

Dates, times and places:
Friday, 3rd July at 7:30 pm – Piazza Marconi
Saturday, 4th July at 5:30 pm and 9:00 pm – Piazza Marconi
Sunday, 5th July at 6:00 pm – Piazza Marconi

A reinvention of the classical circus where the same old risk meets the visual poetry of today.
Between the elegance of movement and the risk of falling, this show is a toast to those who dare to dance on a rope and reinvent their destiny at every turn.

🎟️ Admission: free

Dates, times and places:
Thursday, 2nd July at 6:15 pm – Piazza Caliterna
Friday, 3rd July at 6:00 pm – Piazza Marconi
Saturday, 4th July at 8:30 pm and 10:30 pm – Sal de Mar
Sunday, 5th July at 8:30 pm – Sal de Mar

What happens if a character finds himself stuck in a fantasy world?
A magical and fun journey between slapstick comedy, pop art and poetry. Between uncomfortable clothes, sudden sharks and mysterious dances, the protagonist will need all the help of the public to overcome the unknown.

🎟️ Admission: free

Dates, times and places:
Friday, 3rd July at 6:30 pm - Piazza Caliterna
Saturday, 4th July at 6:30 pm and 10:30 pm – Giardini della Biblioteca
Sunday, 5th July at 7:30 pm – Piazza Marconi

A historical and beloved show, a love story in disagreement, told between trapezes, aerial silks and an impossible orchestra.

🎟️ Admission: Paid entrance

Dates, times and places:
Saturday, 4th July at 7:00 pm – Teatro Verdi
Sunday, 5th July at 8:00 pm – Teatro Verdi

Sospesi is the first film that tells, with a choral and passionate look, the world of contemporary Italian circus:its poetics, its practices and its protagonists. A journey from north to south of the country, among artists who have transformed the circus into a language of the present, capable of speaking to society with artistic, political and cultural force.

Documentary, Italy, 2025, 78’
Subject, screenplay and direction: Luca Quaia and Francesco Sgrò
Production: Cordata F.O.R.
Co-production: Flash Future
With the support of: MiC – Ministry of Culture and Film Commission Torino Piemonte
With the contribution of: Play Juggling
In collaboration with: Quattrox4

🎟️ Admission: Paid entrance

Dates, times and places:
Wednesday, 1st July at 9:30 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Thursday, 2nd July at 10:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Saturday, 4th July at 8:00 pm – Teatro Verdi
Sunday, 5th July at 7:00 pm – Teatro Verdi

Directed by: Riccardo Strano

With: Ileana Deidda, Gaia Angelini, Cecilia Bossi, Enrico Canoci, Rebeca Códolo Belice, Vijay Deegan

Six young artists from FLIC Scuola di Circo transform their essais de cirque into scenic matter, accompanied in the creative process by the director Riccardo Strano.

🎟️ Admission: Paid entrance

Dates, times and places::
Saturday, 4th July at 9:30 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Sunday, 5th July at 9:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico

The project "Punti di Partenza – la nuova scena del circo contemporaneo italiano" is carried out with the support of the MiC and SIAE, as part of the "Per Chi Crea" programme. Punti di Partenza is designed and coordinated by Dinamica aps together with the Scuola di Circo FLIC, in collaboration with Muja Buskers Festival and Terminal Festival.

Directed by: Roberto Magro

With:
Beatrice Lorenzon
Lula Gabai
Davide Visintini
Sarah Ferretti
Tommaso Panagrosso
Juana Gargiulo
Lucas Weston

Circus, dance and live music merge in a suggestive bucolic setting, inspired by the sensation of what has already been experienced and transforming the artists' personal memories into poetic gestures that dialogue with the matter.
Six chairs, a table, wheelbarrows and ten kilos of apples become the partners of a visual journey suspended in the contortion of time.

🎟️ Admission: free

Dates, times and places:
Friday, 3rd July at 8:30 pm, Live creation – Piazza Caliterna
Saturday, 4th July at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm – Piazza Caliterna
Sunday, 5th July at 6:30 pm – Piazza Caliterna

The Gonzalos brothers kidnap the audience and drag them into a world they themselves do not know. Technical virtuosity, family drama and laughter are mixed in a flamenco delirium with a breathtaking and deeply stupid rhythm, as only reality knows how to be sometimes.

🎟️ Admission: free

Dates, times and places:
Saturday, 4th July at 8:30 pm – Piazza Marconi

A square of wooden toys of other times revisited through the fil rouge of light, so as to make them real light installations.
An Artist’s Fun Fair, where adults and children play together in a moment of exchange between generations.

🎟️ Admission: free

Dates, times and places:
Wednesday, 1st July at 6:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Thursday, 2nd July at 6:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Friday, 3rd July at 6:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Saturday, 4th July at 6:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Sunday, 5th July at 6:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico

A room with a piano, a museum in ruins, characters crossing the stage like ghosts. Winter is a great flow of images that slowly slides towards an inner cold, among songs, overlapping figures and small circus feats.
With lightness and irony, the show deals with the sense of being frozen on this planet without ever taking oneself too seriously.

Suitable for ages 6 years+.

🎟️ Admission: Paid entrance

Dates, times and places:
Wednesday, 1st July at 8:30 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Thursday, 2nd July at 09:00 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Friday, 3rd July at 9:30 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Saturday, 4th July at 10:30 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico
Sunday, 5th July at 9:30 pm – Piazzale Alto Adriatico