One Sky One World - Artevento Cervia
World Flying Day for Peace
After the success of the Spring Festival, a new programme of events, exhibitions, meetings and workshops to promote peace, multiculturalism and environmental sustainability.
Artevento celebrates One Sky One World Peace Flight Day, conceived and promoted by the American kite flyer Jane Parker Ambrose following a historic meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev at the Denver Summit on nuclear disarmament in 1985. So many years after that event, the message entrusted to the historic kite remains more relevant than ever.
This event invites the public to become the protagonist of a spectacular collective action, paying homage to the spirit of the world day of kite flying for peace and celebrating it in the town of Romagna, consecrated "capital of art that flies" thanks to the longevity and fame of its historic festival.
From 3rd to 5th October, the programme includes free kite flying on Cervia beach, accompanied by a new exhibition at the Kite Museum dedicated to the latest acquisitions from Japan, scheduled from 3rd to 12th October at the Magazzino del Sale Torre.
The event also includes a rich programme dedicated to peace, solidarity, human rights, sustainability and protection of the planet, and aims to pay tribute to the idea of Europe, adhering to Emergency's R1PUD1A project and preparing the March for Peace in collaboration with the PerugiAssisi Foundation.
The focus of the October event is the concept of art as a tool for transformation, highlighted by the main attraction of this edition: the exclusive presentation, for the first time in Italy, of two kite collections created to pay homage to “the idea of Europe”, namely The Hague AirGallery – presented in the Netherlands in 1987 based on an idea by contemporary kite pioneer Gerard Van Del Loo and art curator Els Lubbers, with 21 kites by Dutch artists – and the European Air Gallery, inspired by it, promoted since 1994 in England by Sunderland City Council and composed of works by 22 artists selected from different countries: large-scale paintings based on the traditional Japanese “edo” model, designed to be admired from a great distance in the sky.
The event will also be enriched by distinguished guests, parades, music and even a solar-powered mobile cinema, Cinema du desert, to share experiences of life, travel and migration.
2025 Programme
Friday 3rd October
From 10:00 to 19:00: exhibition ‘Around the World in 80 Kites’
Magazzino del Sale Torre, Cervia
From 10:00 to 19:00: kite and origami workshops for adults and children
Magazzino del Sale Torre, Cervia
Saturday, 4th October
6:00 p.m.: Peace Parade
Departure from Magazzino del Sale / exhibition entrance – arrival in Piazza Garibaldi via Borgo Marina, Lungomare D'Annunzio Viale Roma
From 7:00 p.m.: Solidarity dinner for the Palestinian people
Piazza Garibaldi, Cervia
Sunday, 5th October
From 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.: One Sky One World – Kite flying for peace
The Kite Museum exhibition
Around the world in 80 kites
Salt Warehouse Tower
3rd to 12th October 2025
Workshops for adults and children
There will be creative and themed workshops for children, dedicated to the right to play, education, and the future, with a special focus on the children of Gaza.
There will also be workshops for adults, organized in collaboration with Polish artist Alicja Szalska and thanks to the support of Righi per Cucire, which will see the creation of an original kite-flag, designed to fly on the beach and to be carried in a parade like a banner during the Perugia-Assisi Peace March, scheduled for October 12.
Workshop information:
- To register for the adult workshops on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th October at the Magazzino del Sale, you must book by writing to info@artevento.com
- To participate in the children's workshops on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th October at the Magazzino del Sale, you must register on the day itself at the entrance to the exhibition halls.
- To participate in the children's workshops on Sunday 5th October at the free beach in Cervia Lungomare Grazia Deledda, you must go to the ARTEVENTO tent.
Coming by campervan?
On this page you will find all the information on where to park
When
from 3rd to 5th October 2025
Opening
see details on page
Event url
http://www.artevento.comFree
Yes
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