2012/02/13

Funambolesco Festival, April 21st +22nd, 2012 Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi

At the foot of Assisi, it landed at Santa Maria degli Angeli in Umbria's first festival dedicated to street performance.
Two days to learn and discover this ancient art form, which looks at the Italian cultural scene since Roman times and reassert itself after a long period of stagnation, the Commedia dell'Arte or Comedy Italian style, in the sixteenth century .
A few historical notes to understand what the art of Busker (
artists on the street) is strongly connected to our socio-cultural heritage.
A large number of appointments that will color the village on Saturday 21 and Sunday, April 22. The focal point of the festival will be Piazza Garibaldi and then, for all the downtown streets of Santa Maria degli Angeli.
The festival features performances, repeated over the two days the company of professional artists from all over Italy.
You can attend performances mostly outdoors of jugglers, clowns, stilt walkers, artists, designers, bands and other touring puppet shows.
All events, aimed at an audience of any age will be accompanied by expressive workshops for children and young people who will provide training to build and animate puppets and approach to this ancient art form through instruments like small stilts and learn to express themselves and play with art in all its various forms.
An important area of the festival will be dedicated to the Exhibition of Ancient Game in which, under the eyes of passers-by real craftsmen will work to create different types of materials, as before, antique toys.
The festival ends on Sunday night in Piazza Garibaldi, with a suggestive Mangialonga in collaboration with local restaurants, where everyone can enjoy the typical local cuisine, followed by a big final concert.
translated from the text written on: www.euforisma.it

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