Share Festival postponed

February 17, 2009 10:39 am

This year’s Share Festival in Torino has been postponed. You will have to wait a little longer for this year’s Share Festival in Torino: “Market Forces” has turned out to be the theme of Share 2009 in more ways than we expected. This means that Share will not be held as planned in March 2009 but will now take place at 4th/8th of November 2009.
In recent months we have campaigned untiringly to prevent spending cuts to art and culture due to the economic recession. In the interview published at http://www.interviewingthecrisis.org/?p=32, Simona Lodi soughts to explain what is going on here in Torino. In support of culture and to protest the government’s spending cuts, a demonstration was held in Torino on 14th February. We were making our voices heard together with artists, directors, actors and DJs at Villa Capriglio during “Love Share”. Our efforts are already achieving important results, in the form of greater visibility in the media, sharper attention from institutions, and a broader audience.
The global difficulties of the moment have prompted us to stop and think profoundly. Together with our guest curator Andy Cameron, we have asked ourselves what we really want and do not want to do in the future. This pause for reflection has brought us to the decision to re-design the Share Festival in terms of its contents, and tie the initiative more closely to other events in Torino connected with music, entertainment and drama in the hi-tech field. We also hope to establish a closer dialogue with the local mainstream art system, as we believe that such a dialogue can only strengthen our activities and boost our ability to stage a more creative Share Festival of greater interest and appeal. For these reasons we have decided to postpone the Share Festival to 4th-8th November, 2009 – a month dedicated to contemporary art in Torino – so as to work on refreshing the project and building closer ties with our colleagues from other festivals.
See you soon.