Ancona, 23 May 2024 – One hundred guests protagonists of 50 appointments in 4 days (plus three of previews), bro meetings, concerts, dj sets, shows And projections. The seventh is a true blockbuster “UlisseFest – The travel celebration”a traveling event that will take place ad Ancona from 4 to 7 July.
Conceived and organized by EDT publishing housepartner of Lonely Planet for Italy, in collaboration with the Municipality, Ancona Servizi and the Omero Museum, the festival has as its theme “Exploring the unknown”. How they did it Ulysses, Marco Polowho died 700 years ago, and Tiziano Terzaniwho passed away in 2004.
The places and the guests
Will be involved most identifying places in the city, as the Old Portwith the new one Arena on the Seathe Mole and the Muses, but also theatres, squares and streets. The names of almost all the main guests are already known. As Skins (voice of Skunk Anansie), who will perform as a DJ on Saturday 6th at the Arena sul mare; Malika Ayanewho will hold an eagerly awaited concert (same day and place); Vasco Brondi in concert on Thursday 4th, again at the Porto Antico; Job Covattawho will tell ‘his’ Africa on Sunday 7th in Piazza del Papa; Dario Vergassolawho will do the same with his Liguria (same day and place); Valeria Solarinoperformer of a musical reading dedicated to travel poems, again in Piazza del Papa on Sunday.
It’s still: Umberto Galimberti, Federico Rampini, Gianluca Gotto, writer and great expert traveler of Asia, Carla Perrotti, the ‘lady of the deserts’, the first woman to have crossed the Nigerian Téneré alone with the Tuareg, Pietro Del Soldà, philosopher and presenter of Rai Radio3, the ultracyclist Omar Di Felice, Alex Kerr, expert writer on Japan. Without forgetting the previews. On May 31st at the Muse Alessandro D’Avenia, a very successful teacher and writer, will reflect on the importance that travel has in realizing personality.
July 2nd at the Mole Peppe Servillo the journalist and writer will remember Tiziano Terzani with a musical reading inspired by his book “A fortune teller told me”. Unmissable ‘The living room of the world’ And ‘I travel to italy’, true classics of the festival. There is also space for workshops, laboratories, gourmet flavours, urban phototrekking, Japanese calligraphy workshops and a walk between Ancona and Portonovo.
For the Councilor for Major Events Angelo Eliantonio “with the festival Ancona confirms the rediscovery of its vitality and its capacity to welcome, expressed through major events which have been a pleasant novelty for citizens since last year. Thanks to the precious collaboration with Lonely Planet we are able to present a city that has the spaces, resources, creativity and enthusiasm necessary to become an important hub in the national event programming circuit”.
