BUSTO ARSIZIO – A calendar of 130 events in 38 locations in the city, from the center to the neighborhoods. It’s the calendar of Bust Summer 2024, the now traditional program of events that have animated the city in the summer months for more than thirty years. As always around the “must” bustocco on shopping Thursdays in the center. “But not just Thursday and not just downtownan offer that fills the whole week, with Thursday remaining the focus” assures the deputy mayor and councilor for culture Manuela Maffioli. Thursday 27 June, big news, there will be «the first White Night of Busto”, announces the president of the Central Traders Committee Sarah Leoni: «Party, music and entertainment for young people and families and dinner in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. Until midnight: it will be a white Cinderella night…”.
The calendar
From June to September a review full of initiativescoordinated by the municipal administration, in partnership with Ascom, City Center Merchants CommitteeDistrict of Commerce, Sacconago Traders Association and with 42 associations overall involved. A calendar that promises the deputy mayor Manuela Maffioli who with her culture department directs BA Estate, «it will satisfy all tastes and all ages». Scheduled approximately 130 events in 38 different locationsincluding squares, streets, churches and theatres, in addition to cultural and sporting initiatives, music and entertainment evenings, social and educational events, institutional events, which will be carried out with the collaboration and essential involvement of associations and bodies. Always with the support of historic sponsor, Paglini Storealongside the administration for thirty years.
The pride of traders
«For the first time so complete and widespread throughout the city» he reveals the president of Ascom Rudy Collini about the 2024 calendar, retracing the history of Busto Estate from launching Thursdays downtown in ’93 to the birth of the Commerce District in 2010, with the «public and private sector together for more complex and structured initiatives». A synergy that today has generated «the added value of a truly united and aggregated city in promoting itself at 360 degrees”. Sarah Leoni of the CCCC, at her first Summer BA as president, talks about «virtuous ecosystem of relationships» which as a result will confirm «Thursday evenings in the center as a historic appointment with shops open and various activities from the center to the San Michele district”.
Center but also neighborhoods
BA Estate will come to life starting from the first week of June: culture on the shields, with events dedicated to literature on Tuesday in the Library, music on Friday and the cinema on Saturday, according to the scheme already tested in recent years with the BA Cultura review for the summer. But events will touch music, dance, shows, literature, cinema, young people, community, sociality, sport and shoppingas reported in the brochure distributed month by month in the city (in paper and digital versions). Neighborhoods are also protagonists. Not only with the traditional patronal festivals, but also with ad hoc events. For example Saturday 29 June in the arena in via Salgari (already called “buca”) at Redentore Baby Dance and Karaoke with Duomania, while on Sunday 28 July the “Courtyard Stories” festival will stop in Borsanoin the courtyard of the Casa della Salute in via San Pietro.
Not just culture and shopping
The other departments are also on the front line, in addition to that of culture and economic development. «It is important that for some years the department of social services has been fully included in the Busto Estate program – he underlines the councilor for social inclusion Paola Reguzzoni – the goal is together do good and bring together in the city. Playful moments with LumaMore insights related to disability and Alzheimer’s and foster care, moments related to music with Diego Barbati and food with social lunches and dinners, then Hearts in the Square in September which we won’t “spoil”. All thanks to the volunteers who work hard in the city”.
«Lots of sporting events in the calendar, all beautiful for me – the sports councilor Maurizio Artusa – Busto confirms itself as a city of sport every year.” Among the initiatives planned, on Saturday 1st June the first Cesare Vago fencing memorial, on Saturday 22nd June the first edition of the Tre Valli Varesine by handbikeSaturday 29 June the inauguration of the renovated basketball court in the Verri park to the Holy Apostles and between 6 and 14 July the third edition of Busto Arsizio Sport which will bring the playing fields to the city center squares under the aegis of Giuditta Lualdi’s Cuore Pieno association.
The youth policy department of Daniela Cerana inserts two BA Trainspotting events into the calendar, but above all «the big news of 2024, which is the student festival at MalpensaFiere on 1 and 2 Junegiving students the opportunity to meet, listen to speakers on issues of interest to young people, playing sports, musical activities, contests and in-depth analysis on the topics of work and also politics”.
