On Saturday 8 June, Italy’s most famous Color Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary at the Sherwood Festival, where all the magic of colored powders began. Special Guests: Pastaboys. Entry to the event for only €1. The organizers: “In these ten years we have colored over 900 thousand people throughout Italy. We are happy to return to the Padua stage, it is precisely here that our adventure began in 2014.” The other dates of the Holi summer tour will soon be available
Holi – the most famous festival of colors in Italy, symbol of joy, love and genuine fun, this year celebrates 10 years of life with the new summer tour “10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY”. A decade full of music and emotions that has conquered over 900 thousand Holi lovers throughout the peninsula, registering sold out at every stop between beaches, parks and cities. We also remember that it is the only and original Holi to have entered cinemas as the protagonist in the film “Forever Young” by director Fausto Brizzi.
After the first stop in the Veronese area last April, the organizational machine is ready to flood the city of Padua with colorful fun. Saturday 8 June Indeed Holi returns to a very special location for the entire team, namely allo Sherwood Festival, in the north parking lot of the Euganeo Stadium. It is a very important stage for the organizers Fabio Lazzari and Marco Bari, because it is the stage where all the magic began. “We are happy to return to the Padua stage, it is precisely here that our great adventure began in 2014 which took us all over Italy. It will be a spectacular stage.”
The formula on Saturday is simple, every hour from 6pm until midnight, after the countdowns from the mainstage the multicolored powders will be thrown into the sky accompanied by lots of music. The special guests of this stage are the Bolognese DJ Pastaboys. The pioneers of DJ style and the Italian underground phenomenon, Dino Angioletti, DJ Uovo and DJ Rame have been working together since 1995 and are united by their great passion for club music with black soul, jazz and latin nuances. Also sharing the stage are the inevitable Holi resident DJs, Andrea Martini, Andrea De Luca and Bruce Blayne and the masters of ceremonies Moova and Mario Scognamiglio. Followed by an afterparty until 2 in the second stage with TrashDance.
Entry to the event for only €1. All the info and updates on the next stages on www.holitour.it.
The fame of the festival is now known to everyone, but few know where this format comes from which inspired the two event managers, Fabio Lazzari from Treviso and Marco Bari from Vicenza. During the Indian festival called “Holi” entire populations of the villages of India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan throw bags of colored powders and water balloons at each other to celebrate rebirth and love and the definitive defeat of evil in favor of good. The anniversary falls in spring and brings universal positive messages of friendship, brotherhood and love.
Lazzari and Bari: “The festival we have created is a vehicle to convey the genuine values of this ancient anniversary and above all to demonstrate the spirit of solidarity that underlies everything and for which we created the festival.” In fact, what distinguishes Holi the Festival of Colors from other formats that imitate it in the wake of the virality of the phenomenon, is the solidarity purpose. Since the festival’s debut, Lazzari and Bari have allocated part of the proceeds to the Forgotten Brothers Foundation which helps hearing-impaired children in a village in India. The Fratelli Dimenticati Foundation is a non-profit organization from Cittadella, in the Padua area, which finances a project in Nandanagar, a village in North-East India where the Ferrando School was established in 2006, an institute which welcomes hearing-impaired children with the aim of intervene early in the diagnosis and treatment of deafness through therapeutic pathways.
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IN-DEPTH SHEETS
HOLI ON TOUR, TEN YEARS TOWARDS ONE MILLION ATTENDANCE
Holi – The Festival of Colors was born a few years ago from the minds of two event managers from Vicenza, Fabio Lazzari and Marco Bari, the first to bring the format to Italy. The Holi on tour is inspired by the traditional Indian festival and mixes it with DJ sets from electronic to rap. There has been a lot of talk about the beginnings of Padua and Vicenza on the web, with photos of the kiss going viral on Facebook and Instagram. Then the format became national. From Macerata to Bologna, passing through Florence and Rome up to Venice and Trieste, it touched all of Italy, from the beaches to the cities. The Festival was also the protagonist of the filming of the film “Forever Young” by director Fausto Brizzi and the phenomenon of the colored selfie was the subject of sociological study. A real trend that has become popular everywhere and which stage after stage has recorded dizzying numbers: in nine editions it has attracted over 900 thousand participants of all ages and cultures. The format consists of throwing colored and scented powders into the air at the end of the countdowns that the vocalists or DJs set from the stage, usually one every hour. And we dance and “color” all together. It is advisable to wear white cotton clothing, the powders are natural and non-toxic, they are composed of talc and corn starch, they do not contain any heavy metals, they are 100% eco friendly and can be purchased within the festival area, in the stands official “Holi”, guarantee of the authenticity of the product. There are no age limits to participate in Holi the festival of colours, it is open to everyone, young and old. The only “rule”: wanting to have fun all together peacefully as the spirit of the Indian festival dictates. Information and contacts: www.holitour.it
THE HISTORY OF HOLI IN INDIA
Holi is among the oldest Hindu celebrations of the spring season and involves thousands of people from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. Known as the festival of colours, joy, love and fun, during the two-day celebrations, entire villages sing and dance, throwing colored powder and water at each other. The festival symbolizes the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring and farewell to winter. But it is also a moment of meeting and pure fun. It’s the day when you forget your pain and forgive. On this occasion, rigid social structures also break down: rich and poor, old and young, men and women celebrate and joke together.
