45th edition ARTEVENTO CERVIA

From Thursday 24th April to Sunday 4th May 2025

A spring of magic and fascination on Pinarella beach

11 days of fantasy on Pinarella beach with kites arriving from all over the world.

45TH ARTEVENTO CERVIA

The most comprehensive and longest-running art kite festival in the world returns to Cervia with an edition full of novelties to celebrate its 45th anniversary

From 24th April to 4th May 2025 on the beach at Pinarella di Cervia, over 250 wind artists and international aerobatic flight champions from 50 countries will meet in the Kite Capital to celebrate the world united by a peace project.

More than 200 guests representing 5 continents, excellent interpreters of the different kite practices ready to dye the sky of Cervia with all the colours of the rainbow.

The Festival in this new edition celebrates several anniversaries and welcomes high-level international guests, creating an original itinerary of artistic performances and testimonials that develop into activities and shows suitable for a vast and heterogeneous audience.

A unique festival with an environmental and sustainable ethos that is always focused on social justice and pluralism. Artevento also guarantees inclusivity through accessible, usable spaces and the elimination of physical and cultural barriers.

Indonesia, Guest of Honour

This year, the focus is on delegations from the East with a focus on Indonesia, Guest of Honour of the 45th edition.

The presentation of the traditional kite and the knowledge related to the ancient practice of flying will be accompanied by insights into the folklore and cultural practices of Bali and the other
islands of the archipelago with a special focus on evocative dance theatre performances, characterised by exotic costumes and spiritual and mythological references.

In fact, the highest number of delegations representing the eastern countries in which the ancient tradition of kite flying has reached its greatest expressive richness since the beginning of its history is expected for this anniversary. 

Cambodia, China, Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam will give life to the spectacular collective flight that renews, intact and healthy a message of peace, inclusion, interculturalism, together with a choral appeal to safeguard the environment and biodiversity.

GREAT CELEBRATIONS in the 2025 edition

• 80th anniversary of the Liberation. The theme will also be highlighted by the poppy, the iconic memory flower that will inspire kites, Wind Gardens and children's workshops
• 800th anniversary of St Francis' Canticle of the Creatures, as a hymn to world peace, to nature and people, marking the collaboration with the Fondazione Marcia PerugiAssisi
• 40th anniversary of the song Cervia's Kite by Lucio Dalla, which the Bolognese singer-songwriter dedicated to the event in 1985. For the occasion Artevento reserves a postmark

Many novelties and expected guests

• fisherman Vito Fiorino, rescuer of 47 Eritrean refugees at sea,  and the Orchestra del Mare (Sea Orchestra) by Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori, chosen as the Special Award for Merits of Flight 2025. 
  For the occasion, the docu-film “North of Lampedusa” by Davide Demichelis and Alessandro Rocca, dedicated to Fiorino's gesture and the fate of some of the rescued refugees, will be screened, and space will be reserved for in-depth studies by the NGOs ResQ People Saving People and Mediterranea
• Connor Donar, America's Got Talent finalist, testimonial of the kite as an emblem of psychophysical well-being, integration and freedom,
• Maori delegation from New Zealand. With the disruptive force of the haka and the emotional significance of the waiata chants, the same Maoris honoured on 25 April / Anzac Day are also the best testimonials for raising awareness against migrant discrimination and racial segregation
• the Mutoid with the setting up of the Mutonia Village, the Mutoid Waste Company, with the presentation of the book 'Mutate or die. In viaggio con la Mutoid Waste Company - Travelling with the Mutoid Waste Company' by Rote Zora and the work of artists such as the Canadian Doghead

The Festival of Wonders, with breathtaking shows

Set on a kilometre of perfectly serviced and accessible beach, each day's show includes a rich programme of

• flight of art, ethnic, historical and world kites
• the flight of giants, with a display of 3D air sculptures
• acrobatic displays to the rhythm of music
• Gardens of the Wind, wind installations on the seafront
• educational workshops for children and construction courses
• exhibitions and environmental installations
• Wind Fair, with markets handicrafts and curiosities, games area, food and fish restaurant on the seafront
• night shows, "Bussa il cielo e ascolta il suono - Knock on the Sky and Listen to the Sound" and "The Night of Miracles"
• Cervia's Cup Italian Acrobatic Flying Championships STACK Italy, from 2 to 4 May
• Contamination of the arts, with music, theatre, dance, puppetry and contemporary circus

Commemorative postmark

by Filatelia Poste Italiane

• Monday 21st April
  1st Postmark - dedicated dedicated to Japan in tribute to the twinning between ARTEVENTO and the Kite Museum and the Japan Kite Association and the Tokyo Museum Tako No Hakubutsukan
• Friday 25th April
  2nd Postmark dedicated to 80 years since Liberation
• Thursday 1st May
  3rd Postmark dedicated to the legendary figure of Kintaro, Japanese children's hero, symbol this Festival edition

Events not to be missed

Suitable for spectators of all ages and abilities, every day is free admission.

Every day of the Festival

The Wind Gardens and Wind Fair, from 10 a.m.

By the sea, the walk among the art installations has something magical about it. The largest open-air exhibition of air sculptures and wind installations from around the world to celebrate environmental art and promote wind power as an inexhaustible source of renewable energy.

Sport Kite Show

Exhibition of acrobatic flight performances to the rhythm of music in solo, pair and team.

Friday, 25th April

Flag Ceremony, 11 a.m.

Pinarella Beach, Exhibition Area

Official Opening and presentation of guest delegations and meeting with authorities. Opening of the mosaic flag, composed of the flags representing the128 communities residing in the area with musical accompaniment by the Musical Mente Orchestra.

East meet west One Sky One World, 5:30 p.m.

Collective display and presentation of the works of the eastern delegations thanks to the collaboration of all the other guests: Bali, Cambodia, China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand.

The event is also held on Sunday, April 27th at 4 p.m., Thursday, May 1st at 5 p.m. and Sunday, May 4th at 3:30 p.m.

Saturday 26th April

Special Award for Merit in Flying - Vito Fiorino & the ‘Orchestra del Mare’ by Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori

Spiaggia Pinarella, Performance Area

Vito Fiorino, the fisherman responsible for the rescue of 47 migrants during the tragedy that cost the lives of 368 people in the waters of Lampedusa on 3rd October 2013, recounts that experience accompanied by the notes of the “Orchestra del Mare”, the fleet of musical instruments made from the wood of boats shipwrecked in the Mediterranean Sea and created by the inmates of Milan's Isola prison from an idea of publisher, essayist, poet and editor Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori.

Thursday 1st May

‘Mutate or die.’ ARTEVENTO 4 MUTONIA, 11.00 a.m.

Pinarella Beach, Performance Area

In viaggio con la Mutoid Waste Company, by Rote Zora (Agenda X)

Book presentation and discussion of the concepts of migration and reception, sensitivity and reuse while in the central area kites from the workshop dedicated to Mutonia's cultural resistance fly together with a Sky Gallery organised by the Drachensyndikat.

Circus Contemporary

From 24th to 27th April

‘L'uomo calamita’ by Circo El Grito and Wu Ming

Cervia, Walter Chiari Theatre and Pinarella, Performance Area Stage 1

The work, written and performed by the multidisciplinary performer and playwright Giacomo Costantini, considered one of the pioneers of contemporary circus in Italy, features original music performed live by Fabrizio Cirro Baioni and texts by the Wu Ming 2 collective.

Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd May

Ecosistemiamoci! Sottosopra Arezzo, 5.00 p.m.

Spiaggia Pinarella, Fiera Sud Artevento

Contemporary Circus Show

Evening Events

Saturday 26th April

Knock on the Sky and Listen to the Sound. Night show, 9.00 pm

PINARELLA BEACH - Performance Area

Wednesday 30th April

Artevento Kite Parade, 9.00 pm

CERVIA - from the Magazzino del Sale to Piazza Garibaldi

The overwhelming musical incursion of the colourful ARTEVENTO family spreads the intercultural atmosphere of the festival in the historic centre of Cervia. Special patroness of the evening, Marianne Mirage, who sings peace with the scratchy warmth of her unmistakable soulful timbre.

Saturday 3rd May

The Night of Miracles, 9 p.m.

PINARELLA BEACH - Performance Area

Night-time performance of performative actions and wind art installations, with music by the Fracass&Ganasa Guggen Band arriving from Ticino (Switzerland)

Discover the whole programme on Artevento.com

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Creative Easter - Artevento Preview

Artists between Heaven and Earth
Harmony and Balance

from 19th April to 4th May 2025

Cervia, The Salt Warehouses tower

For the first time in the history of the Festiva, Artevento celebrates the fascination of kite traditions as early as Easter weekend.

At the Magazzini del Sale, the exhibition ‘Artists between Heaven and Earth’ is in fact the preview of the 2025 edition.

There will also be creative workshops with the Masters of the Wind for adults and children with Indonesian Master Kadek Armika.