VARIAZIONI PER AMMUTINAMENTI

september – october – november 2026  

What can a festival become after a 28-year lifespan?
In its 28th edition, the Ammutinamenti festival crosses a threshold of transformation.
This year, the festival takes on a different shape, presenting itself as Variazioni per Ammutinamenti: a change of title and sign that opens up a new phase of its journey.
For us, to embrace the principle of the variations means to work from a matrix, exploring its ramifications, allowing deviations and shifts to happen and welcoming the traces that every change leaves in its making.
This way, the variation becomes a thought able to reinvent the festival, turning it into material to be reworked and generative, process-oriented and fluid action, which relates to the time it traverses and the people who inhabit it.
A movement that has been taking shape over past editions through the experimentation with new meeting formats, the offering of artistic practices open to the community and the expansion of projects dedicated to new generations: a process that is progressively redefining the ways we interact with the area and strengthening the festival’s role as a cultural pillar, capable of taking on new responsibilities within the context in which it operates.
With this year´s edition, we have decided to make this transformation even more visible and tangible, not only through a new visual identity and a revised name, but also expanding its duration.
Indeed the programme runs from September to November fostering an ongoing dialogue with schools – from kindergarten to adolescence – while integrating the professional course dedicated to the new generations of authors.
A new chapter is unfolding, one in which Ammutinamenti embodies the variation as a practice to avoid settling into a fixed and definitive shape, transforming instead into an ongoing process capable of keeping possibilities and unexpected directions open, looking toward the future with the desire to become something else.

Francesca Serena Casadio
Giulia Melandri