Sakura Festival

"In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers"
Kobayashi Issa

The "Sakura" Festival is inspired by the "hanami" ("gazing at flowers") custom, which is celebrated in Japan in April for the arrival of Spring.

A poetic moment, of rebirth and celebration of nature and mankind, which goes beyond the appearance and that, in the Japanese culture, is a metaphor of samurais' life: "an explosion of colour before nature runs its course..."

Japan has always been topic of curiosity and charm: the Sakura Festival wants to create an active and participating field. For the occasion, a real festival in Rovereto will be the set of the meeting between the Japanese and the Italian cultures and will tell Japan through its many aspects (also the social ones) between modernity and antiquity.

Visitors will discover a new world - and of unexpected complexity - through sounds, sensations, fragrances and flavours to be experienced at conferences, art exhibitions, workshops, shows and music performances. In short, a full-immersion into the multicultural world to bring to life new exchanges and different points of view.

The Sakura Festival will take place on April 17, 18 and 19 in different areas of Rovereto coinciding with the flowering time of cherry blossoms.

WHERE
| Centro Giovani "Smart Lab". Viale Trento 47/49 | MART. Corso Bettini 43
| Impact hub. Via delle Scuole 24
| Circolo Operaio Paganini. Via San G. Bosco 5/7
| Locos Bar. Via Valbusa Grande 7
| Fumetteria Tra le Nuvole. Vicolo Parolari 4a | Serendipity Bistrot. Via Parteli 19a

WHEN & WHAT
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
SMART LAB
- 4pm: opening of the Festival: "IL GIAPPONE E L'ALTRO" ("JAPAN AND THE OTHER"): intercultural and urban meetings and face-offs - curated by Lorenzo Mazzoni (trinity college)
- 5pm: big demonstration of paper-foldings - workshop curated by Mario Gretter, Associazione Le sette pieghe
- 6pm: "Eppure i ciliegi sono in fiore" ("But cherry-trees are in bloom"): talk with Alessandra Pescetta. Showing of the short film "Sakura" - curated by NipPop

BAR PAGANINI
- 7pm: cosplay cocktail with Radio Banda Larga media partner

BAR LOCOS
- 9.30pm: PUGILE music: Enter the void

SATURDAY, APRIL 18
CENTRO GIOVANI SMART LAB
- 10am-3pm: SHIATZU in collaboration with IRTE School
- 3pm: HIKIKOMORI: identity forms of solitary subversion (in collaboration with U.R.L.A. Association and NipPop)
- 10pm: MAMBO MELON CONCERT
- 11pm: IKU SAKAN CONCERT

MART (instructive area)
- 10am-12am: creative writing workshop with Eleonora Sottili (Holden School). Vista con ciliegio in fiore: il Giappone tra immagine, invenzione e racconto (View with cherry-trees in bloom: Japan between image, invention and tale)
- 10am-5pm: modular paper-folding workshop
- 2pm-5pm: KOKEDAMA workshop curated by Associazione Trentino Bonsai (Association Trentino Bonsai)

FUMETTERIA TRA LE NUVOLE
- 5pm: SAKURA POP with the author Ichiguchi Keiko. Cocktail offering and comics at discount prices

SUNDAY, APRIL 19
CENTRO GIOVANI SMART LAB
- 11am: conference "La Stanza dei Ciliegi" ("Cherry-trees' room) with Paola Scrolavezza and NipPop / The Brunch curated by Trento's Noh Theatre
- 1pm: SHIATZU in collaboration with IRTE School
- 4pm: Yoseikan budo / Kratos team
- 9pm: Showing of the film "Lost in Translation"

SERENDIPITY BISTROT
- 6pm: conference "KANAPAI MADE IN ITALY" with Lorenzo Mazzoni

During the Festival you can visit:
| Ayumi Kudo's drawings exhibition "Il segno nel sogno" ("The sign in the dream") at IMPACT HUB (Rovereto)
| Exposition of paper-foldings by Associazione Le sette pieghe (Association The seven folds), Bonsai Exposition curated by Associazione Trentino Bonsai (Association Trentino Bonsai), Yomoyamabanashi's Ritratti fotografici e del Giappone (Photography portraits and of Japan) at Centro giovani Smart Lab

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