Raffaello Fusaro will be the artistic director of the 2024 San Nicola Procession

He will be the director and author from Bitonto Raffaello Fusaro to fill the role of artistic director at Procession Of Saint Nicholas 2024. The Culture division of the Municipality of Bari has entrusted the planning, implementation, organization and integrated management to Ati Doc Servizi soc. coop., Pooya srl ​​and Password srl for a total amount of just over 80 thousand euros.

“Upward” is the title of the winning project, which, in line with tradition and with the sentiment of the faithful, intends to highlight the idea of ​​hope, transmitted by Saint Nicholas, as an impulse towards a better future, achievable from a new perspective. The celebration will remember the need to face the challenges that our time requires, an incitement to return to having a higher hope than everyday life, divisions and disappointments. Symbolically, looking upwards means returning to believing in a common, universal hope that transcends and cancels differences and wars; it means going back to believing in great impulses, in higher ideals of love.

«Bitonto will also be there in the San Nicola 2024 procession – comments the mayor Francesco Paolo Ricci -. Hope will be the theme around which the party will revolve. A daily hope to build a better future, a universal hope that eliminates differences and conflicts. All this, of course, in the name and sign of Saint Nicholas. Best wishes to Raffaello for good work from the entire Bitonto community. We are certain that, with his art and his abilities, he will be able to amaze and excite us.”