There are four days left until Passaggi Festival and the city is already starting to smell the scent of printed pages. And while anticipation grows in the city for the summer’s event full of events (over 150), all with free entry, with 190 guests distributed across 12 locations, yesterday was the moment to sit around a table with the new mayor of Fano Luca Serfilippi to address the issues of the future. Witness the press. “This is the last edition of an agreement that has linked us with the Municipality of Fano since 2019 – underlined the artistic director Giovanni Belfiori – even if we have been here since 2013. We hope that the positive work that has been carried out in recent years, with a great organizational effort for an event that promotes an entire city through culture, can be continued. After all, Passaggi is a festival that has non-fiction and non-fiction at its heart, but there is a bit of everything inside: from workshops. for children at writing masterclasses”. “The most beautiful thing I have noticed in recent years – replied Mayor Serfilippi, who as a majority regional councilor in the past contributed to ensuring that Passaggi received funds from the Region – is that many volunteers are involved. The added value, however, is the participation of the private sector, because let’s face it, companies and the Chamber of Commerce decide to support an initiative today and tomorrow they liquidate the public administration. In any case, the support of the City of Fano will not be lacking in the future”.
“We believe in it – underlined Fabrizio Schiavoni, general secretary of the Marche Chamber of Commerce – because Passaggi was developed by 4 different mayors, demonstrating that it had no political colour”. “We have no doubts about the renewal of the agreement – concluded the president of the Passaggi Foundation, the former mayor Cesare Carnaroli – the only problem is that we have now exhausted all the spaces in the city and the event continues to grow. We will have to think about putting a platform in the sea”. A playful provocation which could instead find a serious response overlooking the sea with a summer stage, held permanently in Piazzale Simonetti on the Lido, where it is set up and dismantled several times throughout the Fano summer by the association on duty which organizes its event there. event.
Tiziana Petrelli
