Performers putting the Fest into Festival

The ‘Fest’ programme for the five-day event will feature 40 live performances and more than 100 artists representing 18 European countries and a rich mix of cultures. Among the many performances on site,  Irene de la Rosa’s solo Flamenco dance reshapes tradition through the experiences of people who are deaf and hard of hearing. Coletivo Gira, meanwhile, is a celebration of Afro-Brazilian culture that promotes inclusion, gender equality and anti-racist resistance.

The raw vitality of i Patagarri uses gypsy jazz and swing to bring collective joy and movement to the Festival. This group of trained classical musicians began playing at local markets in Milan and describe their song, Caravan, a hit on X Factor Italy in 2024, as “a cry for freedom.”

Meanwhile, Maria Arnal performs a solo project blending avant-pop, synthetic AI voices, and traditional Mediterranean vocal techniques.

Innovation for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences takes the stage with the AAA – All Areas Access concert:  a unique jazz-electronic performance where sound, sign language, and technology converge. Designed to be experienced beyond hearing, the performance uses vibrating jackets to transform music into a tactile experience, enabling audiences to feel rhythm and resonance throughout their bodies.

These, alongside dozens of other dancers and musicians, bring the Festival spirit to the park, where sound, movement, and shared experiences celebrate performances by both emerging artists and established names alike. 

Installations: a thousand paper cranes and inflatable heads 

Every day of the Fest, visitors searching for a more peaceful moment will find the New European Bauhaus values of beauty and togetherness on display inside the Art & History Museum itself. Installations created by Philippe Leblanc and Jay Khamtay Garnier (2003-2026) in the Small Narthex of the museum include Infinite Cloud, a colourful suspended vision of a thousand paper cranes, and Golden Rectangles E-Chain, celebrating rationality and the purity of forms, including numbering systems from different cultures.

French-Chinese artistic duo Benoit+Bo, meanwhile, draws on aspects of Chinese culture, ranging from opera to cartography. They will display their work Happy Heads, an installation of inflatable sculptures, along with photographs and masks inspired by Chinese folk theatre.  

Creative workshops: seed bombs and collective dance 

Throughout the Festival, visitors can join creative workshops taking place in cabins just outside the museum. They can turn metal coins into seed bombs with Manuela Pauk, make curtains from dried plants with EZARAS Studio, or design inclusive spaces for neurodivergent users at the NeuroDiver Comfort Space LAB. Mariana Piñar Castellano has a textile workshop where visitors can create small tapestries using recycled yarns and fabric scraps. 

Not to be missed is Ana Povoas, who invites participants into ‘Dancing is Inhabiting’, a project designed to create collective experiences through movement. By exploring how bodies move together, the project encourages reflection on how people’s bodies respond to their wider social environment and the cities and spaces they inhabit.

Bauplay reimagines the Bauhaus legacy, using games to explore the New European Bauhaus values of design, sustainability and inclusivity with people of all ages.

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