All-Star Festival

In mid-February the American league stops for a game that doesn't move the standings by an inch, and everyone watches it. They call it the All-Star Game. For one night, players who have been guarding each other since October end up on the same team.

All-Star Festival takes its name from there. Four days at the end of July in which a town of twenty thousand changes its hours: by day the tournaments take over the urban spaces, in the evening the stage hands them to the Italian rap scene. For four days, the ones playing and the ones performing live in the same place.

In the provinces you learn early on a rule nobody says out loud: the things that matter happen elsewhere, and sooner or later you have to go and reach them. We founded Playground partly to check whether it was true. All-Star Festival is the longest answer we've managed to give: a small place producing for itself what it used to go looking for outside.

It lasts four days. For those four days the only thing I ask is that nobody feels like being somewhere else.

Learn more: www.allstarfestival.it