PORDENONE – Summer in Pordenone has been presented, a highly anticipated event that will be held in the city from 21 June to 15 September 2024. There are as many as 300 events on the calendar, with events spread across the squares, parks, streets of the center and in the neighborhoods, which will also involve libraries, theaters, museums, churches and numerous venues in the city.
Once again Pordenone confirms itself as a first-rate attraction center for events, music, culture and entertainment, as well as a national point of reference for large concerts.
This exhibition was created thanks to the precious collaboration of the FVG Region, Sviluppo and Territory and The Great District and can count on the support of numerous local bodies and partners.
«The Pordenone summer – states the councilor for culture and major events Alberto Parigi – embodies many elements of quality: the great concerts with the stars of the national and international scene (from rock legends to new artists loved by young people), theater for adults and children, cinema under the stars, prestigious music festivals. And then the museum exhibitions and workshops, the unexpected guided tours of Pordenone, the activities in the library, sports in the parks, the Azzurri matches on the giant screen. And so much more”.
«Pordenone is a provincial city with metropolitan dynamics that offers extraordinary opportunities and a huge number of events – underlines the mayor Alessandro Ciriani -. A city that for three months becomes a lively stage itself, involving the historic center and the neighborhoods, Piazza XX Settembre and many other squares, parks and peripheral areas on which we are putting the spotlight and to which we are giving new light. An extraordinary gathering place that aims to satisfy the tastes of a heterogeneous public, which also comes from outside the province and region. An event that can count on a lively citizen associative fabric, on the direction and support of the Municipality of Pordenone, and public and private partners.”
«The calendar of sporting events that will be held during the summer is also very rich – underlines the sports councilor Walter De Bortoli. – Pordenone has an enviable sporting liveliness, which translates the extraordinary activity of hundreds and hundreds of associations active in the city which do not stop even during the summer months but which, instead, love to organize events involving athletes and enthusiasts of all ages. And, in this, Pordenone can only support their enthusiasm and their great results.”
In terms of culture and tourism, Summer in Pordenone represents a great investment for the city, which is repaid by the ever-increasing number of visitors between June and September. In fact, in the summer months of 2023, 138 thousand presences were recorded. To exceed those figures, this year our city goes further and proposes a program worthy of Pordenone being a candidate for capital of culture. We therefore welcome everyone – Pordenone residents, visitors and tourists – and…let the curtain rise!
The event opens on June 21st at 9.30pm with the free concert by Neri per Caso outside the Teatro Verdi.
PLACES
Numerous locations will host the events again this year. Acoustic concerts, cultural shows and singing competitions will be held at the former Convent of San Francesco. The “Young corner” will be held here on 29 and 30 June, a music competition for young emerging groups in our area. At the Verdi Theater and in Piazzetta Pescheria you can attend the Music Nights and Open Jazz, great evenings of theater and music.
In Piazza della Motta there will be a space dedicated to the little ones with Scena bimba, in collaboration with Ortoteatro and the Actor’s Experimental School. This historic setting will also host the regional Youth Folklore Festival. The “A fountain of notes” event will be held in Piazza Risorgimento with evenings dedicated to Neapolitan and Spanish music, Latin jazz and Dire Straits. Piazza XX Settembre becomes Arena Fondazione Friuli, focal point of events in the city centre.
The big screen will be installed here on which we can all watch together the matches that Italy will play at the 2024 European Championships. Magic, folklore and an 80s music concert will also take place in the square. From 21 to 23 June the Piano City Festival will offer free concerts by great internationally renowned pianists such as Edouard Ferlet, Hanna Shybayeva and Uri Caine in Piazzetta San Marco and Piazza XX Settembre. In the piano festival, another 80 concerts will be held in 23 locations in the city, while 11 pianos will be installed throughout the historic center to allow anyone to perform freely.
Lots of music also at Parco San Valentino, a natural setting for the great summer concerts: Rival Sons, Placebo, Alice Cooper and Nightmare Party for the Pordenone Blues Festival and Mr Rain, Kid Jugi, Renga & Nek for Pordenone Live. Also in the park, the San Marco Orchestra will organize numerous wind, brass, trombone concerts and cabaret shows. Then, in the last week of August, Parco IV Novembre will host the 31st edition of Music in Village, an event that this year will bring The Congos, SickTamburo, The Prisoners and Statuto to Pordenone.
THE NEIGHBORHOODS
Summer also comes alive within the neighborhoods. In Torre, between Piazza Lozer, the park and the Castle Arena, there will be guided tours of the neighbourhood, aperitifs with art, the popular aperitif with live music “Torre di Stelle”, visits to the castle and a rich calendar of theater evenings. Music and theater shows for adults and children also in the green area of Largo Cervignano, in the neighborhood of via Pontinia, in the park of Casa Madonna Pellegrina, in the park in via Gemelli, at the San Francesco oratory in via Cappuccini, in the parish courtyard of Vallenoncello, on the churchyard of the church of San Lorenzo in Rorai Grande and of Saints Ilario and Taziano in Torre.
Added to these events are the Festa in Piassa in Villanova, the Sagra di Sant’Agostino in Torre and the Sagra delle Grazie. In short, many opportunities for everyone to get together, in all the neighborhoods of Pordenone.
CULTURE, EXHIBITIONS AND ENTERTAINMENT
In July the long-awaited “Thursdays under the stars” begin again, characterized by art, music and entertainment, with the shops in the center open during the sales period. There will be numerous events dedicated to the little ones in the Civic Library and in the neighborhood libraries. Here there will be book presentations and fun theatrical shows for children, stage readings and theatrical performances for adults, classical concerts and performances by important international orchestras and the Filarmonica city of Pordenone.
There will be numerous exhibitions organized during the summer in Pordenone: in the Bertoia Gallery “30 years of Dedica Festival” and the photographic exhibition “Magnum sul sel di Hollywood”; at the Civic Art Museum the exhibition on Armando Pizzinato in the 20 years since his death and the Mosaic Young Talent with 5 mosaic works portraying 5 famous women of art and entertainment; in the Civic Library the exhibition of vinyl and CD covers “Musica per gli occhi” and the photographic one “Giallo Oro”; at the Archaeological Museum of Torre the photographic exhibition on the Magredi and at PAFF! “Jacovittti as you’ve never seen him before!”. Valuable exhibitions also at the SOMSI and the Sagittaria Gallery.
For outdoor cinema enthusiasts, like every year, Cinema under the Stars will be offered in Largo San Giorgio, a series of 22 of the most significant films of the last season and of world cinema.
NOT TO BE MISSED
There will be many events not to be missed. Any taste? The UAU! review An Urban Arena in the “Francesca Trombino” Garden in via Brusafiera, where again this year films, documentaries and a selection of award-winning film makers will be screened. And again, the Aimiamoci summer workshops at the Media Library in Piazzetta Cavour, the Selvatico Hub Estate in the Garden of Via Selvatico, with concerts, cinema and theater for children organized by the Scuola Sperimentale dell’Actor, as well as various mosaic workshops at the Officina dell’ Art in via Molinari, in collaboration with the Children and Autism Foundation.
Until August 11th, young people aged 15 to 30 from Pordenone and its province will be able to participate in the photographic competition “The time of a photograph”, a contest which aims to make young people explore the concept of time, the relationship between different eras, putting highlighting the experiences and perspectives of different generations. The shots selected by the Jury will then be exhibited in the Bertoia Gallery, in conjunction with the “Magnum on set” exhibition.
SPORT
Summer in Pordenone will also be special in terms of sport. In fact, it resumes the “Sport in the parks” project which aims to involve people and enthusiasts of all ages through free and beneficial activities for mental and physical health. Parco Galvani will be the perfect gym for gymnastics lessons for mothers/infant babies, pilates, postural gymnastics, tabata and even the game of checkers.
Furthermore, it will be possible to take short canoe excursions along a stretch of the Noncello river.
On 22 and 23 June Pordenone will host a hockey tournament; from 5 to 7 July the Italian Baja car race; from 15 to 20 July 6 days of cycling at the Bottecchia velodrome; on 20 and 21 July the Alpe Adria athletics meeting at the Agosti Sports Center; on 28 July the Grand Fund of the Templars; from 22 August to 8 September the football tournament at the Villanova Sports Center; from 23 to 25 August the Italian Field Archery Championships; the 43rd night road cycling race on 28 August; the international athletics meeting on 6 September; from 7 to 8 September the 53rd Venice-Pordenone Motorboat Rally and on 8 September the traditional Pordenone Pedala.
GUIDED TOURS
From July to September it will be possible to take irresistible guided tours of the “Pordenone you don’t expect”. A moonlit walk to discover the San Gottardo crime, a visit to learn all the secrets of the restored bell tower and its historical events, but also many routes to admire the hidden treasures of the Pera and Sbrojavacca palaces, the coats of arms and inscriptions of the ancient insignia of the city and an unusual visit to the ancient hospital of the Battuti.
In short, a summer in Pordenone that aims to satisfy everyone’s tastes.
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