FuturoPresente 2023 - Italy
FuturoPresente 2023
FuturoPresente, a year of culture for new generations between the Netherlands and Italy!
Theater, cinema, dance, literature: the best of Dutch artistic production for children and adolescents will be staged at the most important Italian festivals. Get ready to discover a program full of public presentations that will involve adults and children, professionals and non-professionals, in the name of fun and cooperation between our two countries.
The campaign image, by Dutch illustrator Xaviera Altena, shows how exchange between cultures is fertile ground for talent, development and inspiration, and that in order to maintain balance, each of us needs the other.
We will warm up our engines in March, with the Children's Book Fair in Bologna and the first events in Bergamo and Brescia, Italian Capital of Culture 2023. Follow us to stay updated!
FuturoPresente is a special initiative of the Embassy and Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Italy and four major Dutch cultural institutions Performing Arts Fund NL Dutch Foundation for Literature Dutch Cultural Participation Fund and SeeNL.
The aim is to introduce the Italian public to the best Dutch artistic productions for children and young adults, strengthening professional networks exchange in the two countries, and to contribute to a more inclusive notion of culture.
The title FuturoPresente intends to underline how the new generations not only present "the future", but how their point of view on the world must be listened to in the present, of which they are fully-fledged citizens. It also draws attention to current urgent issues, at the heart of many planned works, whereby today's actions will have a decisive impact on tomorrow.
The FuturoPresente programme runs throughout 2023 and is driven by thirty top-level Italian festivals and cultural organizations. It offers dance and theater performances, meetings with writers, screenings, workshops, conferences and more: the aim is also to create performative workshops marked by exchanges and connections. Dutch artistic productions for children and young adults are internationally appreciated for their quality, which has nothing to envy to that of conventional productions.
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