NaDir \ Napoli Direzione Opposta festival IV, from 18th to 22nd July

NaDir Festival IV, for the first time, will be open to two days of social activities for the neighborhood, its residents and all those who want to discover the Polifunzionale di Soccavo and the realities that, during the year, build the social after-school programs of the Historic Center, the network of Social Carnivals from Scampia to Bagnoli and those who create popular sports in the city. These days will precede the usual three days of concerts and music that see on the same stage the best of the Italian scene alongside the Neapolitan one and the emerging artists of our territory.
It starts on Friday 20th July with a day dedicated to the great hip hop from Campania together with Oyoshe and Peppoh, two young rappers who have been well-known for some time and who will open the concert of La Famiglia; twenty years after the historic album 'Quarantunesimo parallelo', the founders of rap in Neapolitan return to the city after years of hiatus for an unmissable concert where Shaone, Dj Simi and Polo will perform live together with a band of exceptional musicians.
Saturday 21st July will be dedicated to rock and alternative. On stage Soviet Soviet, spearheads of Italian post punk/new wave that have been exported all over the world for years, followed by Sula Ventrebianco, a cult band of the Campania rock scene that the NaDir audience has come to know for its devastating live performances. The event closes with A Toys Orchestra, veterans of the alternative and pop rock scene, fresh from the release of their latest album Lub Dub.
It closes on Sunday 22nd July with a big party dedicated to the Soccavo neighbourhood, the Rione Traiano and the whole city, a day with free admission with a free donation whose protagonist will be Enzo Gragnianiello, one of the most authoritative voices of contemporary Neapolitan song and which will close with the first Neapolitan concert by Vale Lambo, one of the most followed and original rappers of the new Neapolitan scene, formerly part of the duo Le Scimmie and recently released his first solo album, 'Angelo'. Each day will open with the performance of a group chosen from those who participated in the independent music festival Gravità Zero, organized by the NaDir Collective at the Scugnizzo Liberato: respectively, the crossover rock of L'Ultima Haine, the psychedelic blues of Babël and the pop of LeVacanze.
During the five days of the festival, the Polifunzionale di Soccavo will host a market area dedicated to self-productions, music and illustration, outdoor screenings, exhibitions, debates and workshops on the hot political topics of the moment, games and activities for the little ones and info points aimed at describing the realities, activities and offers that are proposed from below in the city of Naples and its metropolitan area; in addition to a food & drink area equipped and attentive to the world of local productions and self-productions.
It will also be possible to set up tents and stay overnight in the free camping area, a tree-lined lawn inside the Polifunzionale area; a way of not having to worry about returning home and spending a few more hours at the festival, but also a gesture of symbolic reappropriation of a public space in a suburb often denied to small joys.
A heterogeneous calendar that renews one of the historical challenges of NaDir: to unite the musical world with debates, panels, assemblies, performances, exhibitions, self-productions, everything that concerns culture, aggregation, sociality and happy passions.
A set of moments that will once again be hosted in the setting of Soccavo, a suburban neighborhood that is constantly and inevitably forgotten in everyday life by the institutions and excluded from traditional cultural circuits in an area, that of the enormous structure of the Polifunzionale, which represents an expensive monument to neglect, abandonment and the inability to imagine a future.
Today the Polifunzionale is a place animated by experiences of horizontal management and co-decision by the subjects who live there, after a long struggle in whose path the NaDir / Napoli Direzione Opposta Festival has also been and is being inserted. And, next to the green areas of the Polifunzionale, there is now the Centro Autogestito Piperno 80126, a new liberated space in which a heterogeneous community of inhabitants, students, children, women, elderly, unemployed men and women from Soccavo gathers and manages, actively working not only to report waste and neglect, but intervening directly to build new forms of sociality and aggregation by intervening from the bottom, in a self-financed and rigorously independent manner.