Mittelfest, Mitteleuropean festival of theater, music and dance, returns to Cividale del Friuli

From July 21-30, 2023, the multidisciplinary (theater, music and dance) and international festival Mittelfest returns to Cividale del Friuli to promote live performance from Mitteleuropean countries in Italy. The festival, organized by theMittelfest Association, aims to be a bridge between the national and Mitteleuropean dimensions. Today Mittelfest promotes, through theater, music and dance, the dialogue between twenty-seven European countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine. For 30 years Mittelfest has been producing and offering contemporary Italian and European performance art and is the only international theater, music, dance festival in Friuli Venezia Giulia.

The theme of the 2023 edition of Mittelfest, chosen by artistic director Giacomo Pedini, is the term "Inevitable,“ or ”every destiny is a choice," evoking the opposition between destiny and possibility of choice, between immutability and free will. In continuity with the last two years, the festival is also dedicating 2023 to a Central European country, testifying to the dialogue that animates this area: it is the turn ofHungary. Inevitable, then, is a thought for Giorgio Pressburger: the festival’s first artistic director and a man of high culture and authentically Central European, who has dedicated a life, as a writer, director and translator, to the comparison and mutual discovery precisely between Hungary, the country of his birth, and Italy, his chosen homeland.

In theAula Magna of the Liceo Classico Paolo Diacono, the free admission exhibition Tornare. The Mitteleuropa of Giorgio Pressburger, curated by the Giorgio Pressburger Cultural Association and Mittelfest. Having passed the five-year anniversary of the death of Giorgio Pressburger (1937-2017), an intellectual with a strong innovative spirit who was among the most significant figures in the Italian and international cultural scene of the 20th century, the Mittelfest Association, of which Pressburger was the first and longest-serving artistic director, in collaboration with the “Giorgio Pressburger” Cultural Association, has decided to dedicate an exhibition to him that combines photographic and audiovisual images and personal objects. The aim is to promote the memory and knowledge of a boundless Central European intellectual, a son and protagonist of the great upheavals of twentieth-century Europe, whose scars he bore clearly on himself. The exhibition is open to the public from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 23 and 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

For the past two years, the Mitteleuropa Association has taken on the task, alongside the rich program of theater, music, dance and circus performances put on by Mittelfest, of also organizing an important moment of institutional friendship. As Mittelfest is the most important cultural festival for the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the Mitteleuropa Association embellishes and strengthens its historical mission and international reach with a forum of dialogues and meetings between Friuli Venezia Giulia and abroad, confirming the special relations of this region with countries close to it in geography, history and culture. In 2021, special guest was Slovenia, with the honor of the presence of the President of the Republic Borut Pahor; in 2022 it was the turn of Austria, with the presence of federal parliamentarians and government representatives from the neighboring state of Carinthia. In 2023, in view of the fact that the beautiful city of Veszprém is the European Capital of Culture 2023, this special event will be dedicated precisely toHungary.

The Mitteleuropa Association was founded in 1974 to promote cultural, economic and social dialogue between Central European countries-a challenge at a time in history when the splitting of the Iron Curtain made relations and projects very difficult, if not impossible. Today the association is accredited with the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region among the cultural bodies of regional importance and is listed in the European Commission’s Transparency Register.

For all festival info, schedules and program you can visit https://www.mittelfest.org/

Mittelfest, Mitteleuropean festival of theater, music and dance, returns to Cividale del Friuli

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