Outsider Festival 25

**OUTSIDER FESTIVAL 2025
September 17 – 21 | Ostuni and Cisternino**

From September 17 to 21, 2025, poetry takes center stage in the Itria Valley with the Outsider Festival and the Norah Zapata-Prill House of Poetry, under the patronage of the Municipalities of Ostuni and Cisternino, and in collaboration with partners such as Teatro Folletti e Folli/Teatro In Pineta, Studio Colizzi, Meteovalleditria/Climate Museum, FIAB Cicloamici Mesagne, Amici della Musica, Teatro delle Forche/Piccolo Anfiteatro Carlo Formigoni, Poesia in Azione, and La Radice dei Viandanti.
This international showcase weaves together poetry, music, theater, dance, and meetings in enchanting locations between Ostuni and Cisternino.
The festival will open on Wednesday, September 17 at Casa della Musica in Ostuni with the program presentation and institutional greetings, followed by poetry readings and musical performances by soprano Javiera Tapia and French pianist Anne Thomas.
The program features five days full of events:
Poetry and meetings with international poets and musicians including Claudia Cecilia Vaca Flores (Bolivia), Javier Claure Covarrubias (Bolivia/Sweden), Mirna Ortiz (Colombia), and Pietro Berra (Italy), Barbara Herzog (Switzerland/Italy), Lina Scarpati Manotas (Colombia/Italy), Massimiliano Bardotti (Italy), Renza De Cesare (Italy), Maria Teresa D’Amico (Italy), Emilio Coco (Italy), Mara Venuto (Italy), Maria Grazia Palazzo (Italy), soprano Javiera Tapia (Chile), internationally renowned pianist Anne Thomas (France-Italy), accordionist M° F.sco Palazzo, singer and guitarist Michele Mancone, drummer Sandro Esposito, percussionist Antonio Greco, and saxophonist Claudio Chiarelli.
Theater and dance performances by the companies "Teatro Folletti e Folli" and "La Radice dei Viandanti."
Book presentations and dialogues with publisher and poet Antonio Lillo and bookseller Serena di Lecce, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Franco Colizzi and psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Ivana Colizzi, in dialogue with Rosa Maria Messia, Antonella Colucci, and Giusy Pomes.
Poetic walks: one night walk at the Monumental Cemetery of Cisternino and another along the Acquedotto Pugliese Cycle Path, visits to Ashram Bhole Baba and Palazzo Lagravinese in Cisternino.
Music and performances: from the concert Harmonia Mundi by Michele Mancone, to the sensory iononononormale by poet Silvana Kuhtz.
The Outsider Festival 2025 reaffirms its commitment to creating bridges between poetry, the arts, and communities, transforming the area into a widespread stage where words meet sound, gestures, and the memory of places.

Adele Nacci and Dario Lacitignola, artistic directors of Outsider Festival.

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