COLLISIONI 2016

COLLISIONI 2016
STRANGERS
July 14th - 18th
Barolo (CN)
The program of the 2016 edition has been announced.
Beyond the already announced concerts of
Modà, Elton John, Mika, Niccolò Fabi and Negramaro
Many guests are expected at the Literature Festival on the 16th and 17th of July
2016:
Svetlana Aleksievic - 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature,
Alessandra Amoroso, Vittorino Andreoli, Corrado Augias,
Stefano Benni, Loredana Bertè, Boiler Comedy Project, Carlo Conti,
Mauro Corona, Cristiano De Andrè, Concita De Gregorio, Erri De Luca,
Atom Egoyan, Emma, Abel Ferrara, Richard Ford, Lorenzo Fragola,
Antonio Galloni, Giuseppe Giacobazzi, Loretta Goggi, Francesco Guccini,
Michel Houellebecq, Luciano Ligabue, Mara Maionchi e Alberto Salerno,
Marta&Gianluca, Marco Mengoni, Negramaro, Nek, Noemi,
Francesco Renga, Ron, Beppe Severgnini, Stato Sociale,
Gianni Vattimo, Roberto Vecchioni
and live on the Collisioni stage:
Africa Unite, Andy (Dj set), Bianco, Calcutta, Cosmo,
Modena City Ramblers, Giosada, Federico Poggipollini, La Rua,
Saturnino (Dj set), Xylaroo and many more
The program of the 8th edition of Collisioni, the most awaited agri-rock Festival of literature and music
in Italy, has finally been announced taking place from the 14th to the 18th of July in Barolo, the Mecca of
Italian wine. Barolo is located in the amazing Langhe countryside, UNESCO heritage, which is the natural
stage to host music, meetings, conversations with Literature Nobel Prizes winners, Italian and international
music stars, worldwide known film directors. All this in a casual atmosphere where debates and arts meet,
and where writers, philosophers, directors and international singers will take part to the event as narrators
and poets.
Lots of guests will be taking part to this new, extraordinary edition of COLLISIONI ON THE 16TH AND
17TH OF JULY including Luciano Ligabue, who attended the festival five years ago, and will be presenting his
collection of short stories called Scusate il Disordine (Sorry for the Mess), in his first and only public
appearance before the huge live concert “Liga Rock Park” at Monza Park in September 2016. Francesco
Guccini will be attending Collisioni to launch his new book entitled Un Matrimonio, Un funerale, per non
parlare del Gatto (A wedding, a funeral, let alone the cat). Michel Houellebecq, the legendary and
controversial French author of Platform, will also be attending after that the publication of the book
Submission of last year started a debate with the Islamic extremists. Alessandra Amoroso, popular Italian
singer who just released the new album Vivere a Colori (Living in color), already a platinum record; the
American writer Richard Ford, a milestone of modern literature, author of The independence day winning
the Pulitzer Prize and Sportswriter; the Italian singer Emma, who just published his Adesso (Now), already
certified Platinum Album and at the top of Italian hits, who will meet Collisioni audience before starting her
tour that will touch all Italian most important locations; the Russian 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature Svetlana
Aleksievic, one of the most powerful voices of contemporary literature and international guide of “non
fiction” narrative; Antonio Galloni, American writer and independent publisher, founder of Vinous and one
of the most important figures in wine journalism, who brought wine to a whole new cultural level as an
essential element of our history; the Italian songwriter Nek, who just released the hit Uno di Questi Giorni,
anticipating the new album that will be released next autumn, and who has been Artistic Director of Italian
talent show Amici 2016. Carlo Conti, that will be talking about his television career, and the popular
psychiatrist Vittorino Andreoli who will be presenting his new book I tredici Gesù – un ritratto
contemporaneo dal Novecento a Papa Francesco (The thirteen Jesus – a contemporary portrait from the ‘900
to Pope Francesco).
Also, the American director Abel Ferrara will be attending, author of masterpieces such as Bad
lieutenet, Brothers, and King of New York, and Francesco Renga who just released a new album called Scriverò
il tuo nome (I’ll write your name). The Canadian director Atom Egoyan who wrote Ararat, Exotica, The Sweet
Hereafter, Remember with Bruno Ganz, earning a nomination as the Best Foreign Film at the 2016 edition of
the David di Donatello. Noemi, who attended the Sanremo Festival last spring with her song La borsa di una
donna (The bag of a woman), hit of her album Cuore D’Artista (Heart of an artist). The Italian writer Erri De
Luca, who will be presenting his new book La Faccia delle Nuvole (The face of the clouds); Loredana Bertè,
judge at Italian talent show Amici 2016 who just released the new album Amici non ne ho... ma amiche sì! (I
do not have boy-friends… but girl-friends I do!) produced by Fiorella Mannoia, full of featuring tracks, and
who just published her autobiography entitled Traslocando... è andata così (Moving… it went this way).
Stefano Benni will be reading some of his best pieces to the audience. Mara Maionchi, Italian producer and
tv showman, will be presenting her autobiography Il Primo Anno va male, tutti gli altri sempre peggio (The
First Year it goes bad, the others even worse) written with her songwriter husband Alberto Salerno; the
journalist Beppe Severgnini will be pleasing the audience with a musical reading prepared specifically for
Collisioni with Stefania Chiale, entitled Il Gusto di Andarsene via (Un viaggio tra i viaggi d’autore) (The
pleasure of going away – a travel through authorial travels) .
A special event will be organized in collaboration with Smemoranda, with the participation of
Marta&Gianluca and Boiler Comedy Project, and Marco Mengoni and Negramaro, already on the stage for
their concerts (on Saturday 16 and Monday 18 respectively), will meet the public as well.
Among the other guests, Loretta Goggi with her new edited book Mille Donne in Me (A thousand
women in me), Concita De Gregorio who will be presenting Cosa Pensano le Ragazze (What girls think)
speaking about her extraordinary career in tv and theatre and female characters who influenced her, Corrado
Augias with his last book Le ultime diciotto ore di Gesù (The last eighteen hours of Jesus). Singer and musician
Ron, lately active with a new musical project “La forza di dire sì” (The strenght of saying yes) supporting Aisla
(Italian association for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) that contains 24 tracks featuring the greatest artists of
Italian music. Philosopher Gianni Vattimo, Roberto Vecchioni for a meeting between literature and music
from his newly edited book Il Mercante di Luce (The light merchant). Mauro Corona with his new La via
delSole (The way of the sun), comician and performer Giuseppe Giacobazzi who will present, along with Carlo
Negri his new book Un po’ di me (A little bit of me). Lorenzo Fragola, with his new album Zero Gravity who
will meet Collisioni audience to speak about his artistic growth and his new projects. At last, a special
appointment with Cristiano De André who will present at Collisioni his autobiography La Versione di C (C’s
version), two-hands written with Giuseppe Cristaldi, where, for the first time, the author and singer speaks
about the tormented relationship with his father and his family. The group Stato Sociale who will present a
musical reading by their first book Il Movimento è fermo (Movement is still).
As for music, new concerts have be announced to enrich the extraordinary panel of Collisioni 2016.
Before the concert of Italian artist Marco Mengoni the public of the main stage will have the chance to attend
to performances by Bianco, Cosmo, La Rua and Federico Poggipollini, Luciano Ligabue’s guitarist. Before
Mika concert, Xylaroo, Giosada and Calcutta will held the stage.
Two main events will animate Collisioni green stage, devoted from the beginning of the festival to
independent music. Saturday it will be the turn of Africa Unite, for their only summer date in Piedmont and
on Sunday Modena City Ramblers will be in concert.
The festival Pink Square, on the other hand, will immerge the public in an electronic and digital mood
by hosting many deejays as Saturnino, Jovanotti long-time bas, while Sunday it will be the turn of Andy, cofounder of Bluvertigo,.
THE THEME OF THE EIGHT EDITION OF COLLISIONI FESTIVAL: STRANGERS
“Starngers” is a tribute to the artistic genius of David Bowie, with his song Strangers when we meet.
But it aims as well to be a thought-provoking title about the fear that overwhelms our lives, in the eyes of
the passers-by, in the streets after the attacks in Paris and Brussels. The fear for a foreign, a diverse, the one
we do not know well enough. It doesn’t matter much whether it is two boys kissing or two veiled girls at the
bus stop. An anxiety shared by the many thousands of castaways escaping their homeland trying to reach
Europe, shipwrecked on the sand of a new land with nothing less in their pockets, not a document, not a
name, becoming “Nobody”. The dismay of those who dreamt for freedom and woke up with no more civil
rights in a word dominated by that fear that make not only build up physical frontiers, but inner walls as well.
Nonetheless, art has always been teaching us that building up walls is treacherous and it helps us
keeping them opened. When we listen to that song that speaks about the love of a man for another man,
when we read about an Afghan child, it is the same amazement every single time to find ourselves in what
somebody else feels, the sudden wander of giving a name to the stranger. It is Ulysses revived every time,
when he speaks up and the strength of his tale makes his scruffy appearance fade away, while his word dig
deep into the frontier.
This is what a Festival should be about: putting in contact those people that – in spite of the differences
– are willing to make that marvelous gesture of altruism that is listening.
COLLISIONI FESTIVAL
Born eight years ago, Collisioni is nowadays the most important festival in Piedmont and it is
considered by the critic as the best festival in Italy, thanks to its innovative approach and its ability to speak
to a wide and transversal public by offering a varied offer of music, literature, cinema, enogastronomy and
entertainment. The festival takes place in Barolo, destination of international tourism known everywhere in
the world for its wine and food excellences and epicenter of UNESCO territory in Piedmont, the only Italian
vineyard landscape to receive this recognition. A village transformed for a week-end in a non-stop stage
where every square, every road is animated by meetings with the most prestigious names of international
literature, music, journalism, cinema, by artistic installations, performances and concerts with some of the
most famous Italian and international artists.
Bob Dylan has honored Collisioni by choosing the festival in 2012 as the only Italian stage of his world
tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Blowing in the wind”. It has been chosen as the only Italian date by
Jamiroquai in 2013, for the 20th anniversary of their formation, and by Neil Young and Deep Purple in 2014.
Last year, Collisioni hosted, among the others, concerts by Sting, Mark Knopfler, Passenger and Paolo Nutini.
But in order to understand the spirit of an agrirock festival as Collisioni is and to truly understand the
unique atmosphere that people will have the chance to live in Barolo those days, it isn’t enough to list the
richness and the quality of the cultural and musical program. Another protagonist of the kermesse, in the
village that is the symbol of the Italian enological culture, will be wine not only Barolo, but all the great wines
that will be guest of the festival coming from all Italian regions, that public will have the chance to appreciate
in tastings on the new wine&food stage of Barolo Castle. And above all, the many regional stands dedicated
to Italian cuisine excellences, that will make the public’s walks in Barolo during Collisioni an adventure of
discovering, looking for flavors and millennial traditions. Stands where cooks and producer will meet the
public with a street-food offer of their cuisine tradition and knowledge, from Piedmont’s excellences to
Marche’s ones, passing across Friuli Venezia Giulia, Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna, Veneto and the great
Southern Regions.
Institution Partners:
Regione Piemonte, Comune di Barolo, Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Agenzia Nazionale per i giovani,
Fondazione CRT - Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Compagnia di San Paolo, Regione Marche, Regione Abruzzo,
Consorzio di tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Dogliani, Assopiemonte, Consorzio Barbera d’Asti e vini
del Monferrato, Consorzio di Tutela della denominazione di origine controllata Prosecco, Enoteca Regionale
Lucana, Associazione "Io Grignolino”, Consorzio Altalanga, Consorzio Tutela Roero, Istituto Marchigiano di
tutela vini, Consorzio Franciacorta, Consorzio Tutela Nebbioli Alto Piemonte, Associazione Regina Nocciola,
Cottolengo
Brand Partners:
FIAT, Inalpi, UBI Banca, Diam, Poste Italiane, Tuborg, SAGAT Torino Airport, Signorvino, Lago
Main Partners:
Molino Quaglia, Baratti&Milano, Pastificio Felicetti, Red Bull, CIA Cuneo, Brenntag, Lavazza, Openjob metis,
The Bio San Bernardo, Enoteca Regionale Emilia Romagna
Partners:
Bosca, Sammontana, Antica Torroneria Piemontese, il Panatè di Mario Fongo, Marchesi di Barolo, Cucina
delle Langhe, Smemoranda, Valmora, Pico Maccario, Scuola Holden, Gin Agricolo, BBBell
Technical Partners:
Peraria, Ironika, Biemmedue, Librerie Coop, Tonoli
TICKETS:
3 concerts:
Marco Mengoni July 16, Mika July 17, Niccolò Fabi and Negramaro July 18:
80,50 € w/ presale
Collisioni Festival 2016 Ticket – Daily Saturday, July 16:
6,90 € w/ presale
Collisioni Festival 2016 Ticket – Daily Sunday, July 17:
6,90 € w/ presale
Carnet Saturday, July 16:
Marco Mengoni concert Ticket + Daily Saturday, July 16:
37,00 € w/ presale
Concerts:
Modà – Thursday, July 14: 23 € w/ presale
Elton John and his band – Friday, July 15: 59,80 € w/ presale
Marco Mengoni: Saturday, July 16: 37 € w/ presale
Mika: Sunday, July 17: sold out
Negramaro e Niccolò Fabi: Monday, July 18: 23 € w/ presale
Tickets available in Barolo at Collisioni office, on Ticketone online platform and in the local points
Ticketone, Piemonteticket e Ciaotickets
INFO:
[email protected] / tel. +39 389 2985454 / www.collisioni.it
twitter: @collisioni #collisioni16 #agrirock | facebook: Collisioni Festival
PRESS OFFICE:
Babel Agency
mail: [email protected]
Francesca Tablino - [email protected] - mob: 333 47 99 195
Maddalena Cazzaniga - [email protected] - mob: 347 00 00 159
Chiara Codeluppi - [email protected] - mob: 338 96 22 581
Local Press:
Greta Messori - [email protected] - mob: 338 42 82 344
Martina Po - [email protected] - mob: 347 15 46 474
www.collisioni.it