The fifth edition of Affabulazione - Espressioni della Napoli policentrica, a theatre, music and dance festival promoted by the City of Naples with financial support from the National Fund for Performing Arts of the General Directorate for Performing Arts of the Ministry of Culture, sets off on Sunday 20 September from Pianura, with fourteen projects involving six Municipalities in a free-of-charge itinerary. Until 10 December, the spotlight falls on 14 projects selected through a public call, for a total of 130 live performance events and 242 workshops, meetings and sessions aimed at creating connections between and with the city's outlying areas. The main novelty is the thematic framework. Each participating Municipality has been paired with specific literary and musical genres, forming six major narrative districts. Municipality 4 (Poggioreale and the Industrial Zone) is paired with noir/crime fiction and blues and soul music; Municipality 6 (Ponticelli, San Giovanni, Barra) with comedy and humour and funky and jazz music. Municipality 7 (Secondigliano, Miano, San Pietro a Patierno) will follow the historical/biographical strand and classical music. Municipality 8 (Scampia, Piscinola, Marianella, Chiaiano) will be dedicated to adventure/epic genres and rock music, Municipality 9 (Soccavo, Pianura) to children's/coming-of-age literature and hip hop, ska and reggae music. Finally, Municipality 10 (Fuorigrotta, Bagnoli) is paired with fantasy and science fiction and electronic music. Part of the initiative, funded with approximately 900,000 euros, also involves the innovative use of venues outside the traditional live performance circuit, such as parks, churches, schools, libraries and multipurpose centres. Numerous artists are taking part in the festival, including Valerio Aprea, Andrea Bacchetti, Fabrizio Bosso, Cloris Brosca, Paolo Caiazzo, Lino D'Angiò, Maurizio de Giovanni, Stefano Di Battista, Francesco Di Leva, Cristina Donadio, Roberta Gambarini, Javier Girotto, Lello Giulivo, Biagio Izzo, Peppe Lanzetta, Dado Moroni, Adriano Pantaleo, Patrizio Rispo, Gino Rivieccio, Daniele Sepe and Marco Zurzolo.
Sergio Locoratolo, coordinator of cultural policies for the City of Naples, notes: "Over the four previous editions, the festival has seen steady growth, establishing itself as a cultural model for the territory: with approximately 4.6 million euros invested, 83 projects supported and more than one thousand activities carried out between 2022 and 2025, we have engaged a network of over 230 organisations including associations, cooperatives and other sector entities, not only local ones."
"Affabulazione," observes Ferdinando Tozzi, adviser to the Mayor of Naples for the music industry and audiovisual sector, "demonstrates how cultural investment produces a genuine cascading effect across the territory."
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