from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 June 2025
from 8 pm
Multiple Events
from 8 pm
Tickets to Friends’ returns for its fifth edition at the Piazza sull'Acqua, next to the Tiberius Bridge. Three days dedicated to writing, speaking and sharing, with a programme of meetings, readings and live music.
A contamination of different languages and arts: literature, music, journalism, cinema, philosophy, visual arts will come together to create new forms of storytelling. Once again this year authors, musicians, thinkers and artists from all over Italy will take the stage, with different voices and views of the contemporary world.
Guests of this edition are: Annie Cohen-Solal, Francesco Costa, Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo, Niccolò Fabi, Ginevra, Michela Giraud, Stefano Massini, Stefano Nazzi, Alcide Pierantozzi, Veronica Raimo, Tlon. Artistic director is the writer Marco Missiroli.
‘Tickets to Friends’ is a tribute to Pier Vittorio Tondelli and this year, forty years after the release of his book “Rimini”, it proposes a meeting with writer Enrico Brizzi and actress Tamara Balducci, dedicated to the imagination of the writer from Correggio.
Admission is free and the events will take place in a cosy and participative evening atmosphere.
In case of rain, all meetings will be held at the Galli Theatre.
TUESDAY 17 JUNE
12.00-17.00 - Cinema Fulgor
‘Dostoevsky’
Screening of the Sky Original series conceived, written and directed by the D'Innocenzo Brothers
8.00 p.m. - Piazza sull'Acqua
‘The Voice of Pier Vittorio Tondelli’. Tales and memories by Enrico Brizzi
Readings by Tamara Balducci
9.00 p.m. - Piazza sull'Acqua
‘I mondi e le visioni dei Fratelli D'Innocenzo’
Meeting with the D'Innocenzo Brothers
Moderator: Marco Missiroli
10.00 p.m. - Piazza sull'Acqua
‘La verità fa ridere’
Michela Giraud tells her story to Giada Arena
WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE
8.00 p.m.
‘Femina: la voce che si fa corpo’
Live acoustic performance by Ginevra
9.00 pm - Piazza sull'Acqua
‘Sabbie e sbilanci: crescere in disequilibrio’
Meeting with Veronica Raimo and Alcide Pierantozzi
Moderator: Sabina Minardi
10 pm - Piazza sull'Acqua
‘I fatti, le voci, il tempo’ (Facts, voices, time)
Meeting with Francesco Costa and Stefano Nazzi Moderator: Marco Missiroli
THURSDAY 19 JUNE
5.30pm - Fulgor Cinema
‘Fabi Silvestri Gazzè - Un passo alla volta’.
Screening of the documentary on Fabi, Silvestri and Gazzè
8.00 pm - Piazza sull'Acqua
‘Picasso the stranger: art, power and belonging’.
Lectio by Annie Cohen-Solal
9.00 p.m. - Piazza sull'Acqua
‘Donald: anatomy of an era’.
Stefano Massini in dialogue with Serena Danna
10.00 p.m. - Piazza sull'Acqua
‘La voce e il senso’.
Niccolò Fabi with Maura Gancitano and Andrea Colamedici (Tlon)
Niccolò Fabi, one of the most sensitive and coherent voices in Italian music, meets philosophers Maura Gancitano and Andrea Colamedici, founders of the Tlon cultural project.
Tickets to Friends is a project of Babel Agency for the Municipality of Rimini.