We start tomorrow 30th July with the events dedicated to the 40th INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE FESTIVAL ‘Città dei Trulli’ 1984/2004… 40 years well done!
The rich program will start tomorrow 30 July at Casa Alberobello with two appointments: at 5pm the inauguration of two exhibitions: the photographic exhibition on ‘The 40 years of the Festival’ and the memory of Franco Pontrelli, and ‘Bicycle’ with the celebratory exhibition of paintings by Giacinto Angiulli.
The exhibitions will be open to visitors from 31 July to 15 August at the following times: 10/13 and 17/20. At 5.30 pm the conference dedicated to ‘ The pizzica pizzica: sonorities of tradition’ will offer important food for thought on cultural traditions and influences on peoples with speeches by Gerardo Bonifati, national president of FITP, Fabrizio Cattaneo, president of IOV Italia, Giuseppe M. Gala, ethnochoreologist and anthropologist of dance, Cosimo Palasciano, president of BCC Alberobello, Sammichele and Monopoli, Valeria Sabatelli, councilor for culture of the municipality of Alberobello, Lucia Parchitelli, president of the Culture Commission of the Puglia Regional Council of Musicians and Dancers. The conclusions are entrusted to Nino Agostino, president of Gruppo Folklorico Città dei Trulli, Francesco De Carlo, mayor of the Municipality of Alberobello.
The second unmissable event is scheduled for July 31st with the festival preview in Coreggia at 9pm in Piazzale Polivalente with the presentation of the ‘Coreggia2025’ project logo and the performance of the musical groups. On August 1st at 9.30 pm in Piazzale Miraglia in Alberobello with the folk evening ‘Alberobello – Pietramadre’ in which groups from the cities already designated Capitals of Culture plus one will take part: Pesaro Italian Capital of Culture 2024 with “Li Matti dé Montecò” – Montecosaro , Agrigento Italian Capital of Culture 2025 ‘City of Agrigento’, L’Aquila Italian Capital of Culture 2026 ‘Corale Gran Sasso’, Alberobello Pietramadre Italian Capital of Culture 2027 ‘City of Trulli. From 2 to 4 August at 9.30 pm, the dance troupes from Bolivia with the Ballet Folk ‘Universidad Mayor De San Simon’, Taiwan with the Folk Dance Company ‘Tainan’, Kenya with the Folk Group ‘will take to the stage set up for the occasion’ Tarumbeta Africa’, Serbia with the Folk Dance Ensamble ‘Sveti Djordje’.
To give further emphasis to the initiative there will be two moments of meeting and intercultural comparison both with the Alberobello families who moved to New Jersey and then met on the occasion of the Columbus Day 2023 celebrations and with a team of young students from the University of San Francisco who will create documentary films on the entire musical festival which will be distributed on US PBS television stations and in universities across the American country.
The event is promoted and sponsored by the Municipality of Alberobello which included it in the ‘We are in TRULLI 2024’ event.