All set for the Pompei Street Festival: on the opening night, works in the excavations by 4 street artists.
The second edition of the Pompei Street Festival, an event organized by the Municipality of Pompeii in collaboration with Art and Change Impresa Sociale and the participation of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, will start tomorrow, Thursday 22 September. The event, scheduled from 22 to 24 September, includes four sections dedicated to art: music, street art, cinema and photography, with particular attention to themes that animate its contents such as legality, precarious work, social interaction, environmental protection and urban redevelopment. But which also has the objective of developing tourist and socio-economic growth in the city of Pompeii.
It will start right from the Excavations where four street artists will create works inside the Archaeological Park of the Pompeii Excavations, in the wake of the new protocol signed between the Municipality and the Park Management. Ancient Pompeii, natural home of bas-reliefs, paintings and graffiti, will thus find, through the modern works of four street artists, a common thread that not even the centuries have been able to interrupt with a time jump of over 2000 years. The Argentine Max Bagnasco, in the access avenue of the Pompeii Excavations, the Canadian Ben Johnston, the Dutch Gomad and the Iranian Run, in via dell'Abbondanza inside the excavations, will thus have the arduous task of creating their works in the well-known archaeological site.
To testify to the value of the project, two important presences at the Scavi on the opening day: that of the mayor Carmine Lo Sapio and the director of the Park Gabriel Zuchtriegel who, accompanied by the creator and producer of the event Nello Petrucci, will follow the artists' performances.
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Art is therefore used as a tool for change, raising awareness and making everyone aware of the potential of every popular artistic movement, and street art in particular, to stimulate a desire for improvement and reflection. The festival aims to raise awareness among younger generations about environmental and social issues by using painting, music, film, and photography as tools to interact with the local social fabric, opening new avenues for change.
The second edition of the Pompei Street Festival will be divided into four sections: cinema, curated by director Andrea Valentino, with an international competition dedicated to short films and documentaries; music, with the Dj Set on the street by Daddy G of Massive Attack, Paolo Polcari of Almamegretta, Filo Q and the concert of the Neapolitan musical group La Maschera; art, with the participation of 32 street artists from 23 nations and 5 continents, who will also create 21 urban redevelopment works and live shows; photography, a section curated by Fabrizio Scomparin, with an exhibition dedicated to wars in the world through the shots of photojournalists and workshops with 3 of the best photographers in Campania.
Meetings, debates and thematic workshops will complete the busy calendar of the event that actively involves young students from schools of all levels in the city on the themes of sociality-archaeology-art/urban art. While for cinema the guidelines of the themes of the short and documentary competition will be Legality, on the anniversary of the 30th year of the Capaci and via d'Amelio massacres (1992), and Precarious Work given the difficult moment in the world of work and its access for young people.
The street, therefore, becomes a starting point for the Festival, encouraging the public to connect with art, but also to raise awareness among citizens through a number of events. Among these are TreeNation - Plant a Tree, with a gazebo to raise environmental awareness; La Parola del Cuore, with a gazebo for collecting students' artwork; Plastic Free, an environmental education seminar; and, last but not least, Street Haart, a checkpoint offering free HIV testing.
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