The splendid natural setting of the meadows and woods around the historic Villa Medicea in Coltano (Pisa) returns to host the 110 Hertz Festival, now in its third edition. An event of great appeal, where 113 years ago the Marconi radiotelegraphic station was inaugurated, organised by Binario Vivo in collaboration with Code per Curiosi, Chicchi d'Uva and Proloco Coltano under the patronage of the Municipality of Pisa and the San Rossore Migliarino Massaciuccoli Park.
From Friday 7 July to Sunday 9 July, every afternoon starting at 6 p.m., the Coltano summer will be coloured by a thousand different nuances among live radio broadcasts, talks with great guests, radio workshops, art exhibitions, travelling performances by street artists, theatre shows, concerts, 24 stands including books, handicrafts, associations and a refreshment area with street food.
This year, the Festival will open with a preview on 6 July with free admission: on stage at 9.30 p.m. Populalma and Trillanti, at 8.30 p.m. social dinner in support of the festival.
From 7 July, every evening from 9.45 pm, 110 Hertz will host great world music artists to reaffirm through music the importance of themes such as integration, multicultural exchange and the beauty of being citizens of the world. Christening the stage of the 110 Hertz on Friday 7 July will be the Duo Bucolico, celebrating 17 years of 'illogical avant-garde songwriting' this year. A duo with a unique and unmistakable style: inebriated and ironic, moved by a note of thoughtful and anarchic lightness. On Saturday 8 July, the festival stage will be graced by I Matti delle Giuncaie, a hard folk band, or rather, four madmen who on hot summer nights play all strings for a trip around the world with guitars and mandolin. Grand finale on Sunday 9 July with the Modena City Ramblers, a historic band, thirty years studded with successes, who have always been in love with the music and folk of the Emerald Isle.
The three days will open each afternoon from 6 pm with meetings and talks live from the festival's webradio, organised by the association Code per Curiosi. "Dis-ordered_messages from the Future", this is the title of this edition's programme open to the story of the experiences and instances of the last, "aliens", marginalised by a society that forgets them, and that perhaps it is precisely from their condition of weakness that they can become the bearers of a different idea of humanity, a present and future, and why not, plausible narrative. Through its frequencies, and live, together with the writers, journalists, psychiatrists, lawyers, artists and activists present at the festival, we will tell many stories of fragility, gathering different and non-conformist perspectives. We start on Friday 7 July at 7.15 pm with the presentation of the book "I cura cari" (Einaudi) by Marco Annichiarico within the talk "Chi sono i caregiver? The courage of fragility". To follow from 8.45 to 9.30 p.m. (Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July) Dj Karim_Freedom riders_ Una storia in musica black. Saturday 8 July at 6 p.m. talk "Per il tuo bene: la tutela che imprigiona", with journalist Barbara Pavarotti, Giuseppe Galdi, psychiatrist, Alibes movement, Michele Capano, criminal lawyer and president of the association Dirittiallafollia. At 8.00 p.m., presentation of the docufilm 'La prigionia dei vecchi e degli inutili' (The imprisonment of the old and useless), with a talk by director Roberta Zanzarelli. On Sunday 9 July at 6 p.m. Cristina Galasso presents the book "Il corpo e la radice" (The body and the root) by author and activist Francesca Talozzi, an in-depth discussion on the Moby Prince massacre in Livorno with Attilio Zavatta and the Documenta project. At 6.30 p.m. Ippoasi association, anti-specism and animal liberation. At 7 p.m. talk "Digital didn't kill the (analog) radio stars. Onde medie, cosa sta accadendo in Italia? A deafening silence" with Mirco Roppolo, Radio 3 Network, John Farragher, Claremorris Community Radio, and Filippo Giannetti, professor of telecommunications engineering at the University of Pisa. At 8.30 p.m. Mirco Roppolo vintage radio and DJ. Finale at 9 pm with the performance "Solitones" by Leonello Tarabella, curated by Marconi Labs.
The three-day event will be rich in street art by Chicchi d'Uva, who will also be present as travelling artists and with old-fashioned games, the puppet show by The Gypsy Marionettist, the circus show by Brunitus, and the fire dance by Pyroetnico. A review full of theatre "Con le mani così lievi che sentivo dolore" by Valentina Bischi (7 July at 8 pm), "A volo di uccello" by Teatro delle foreste (8 July at 6 pm) and "Lidia, storia di una masca" by the Salz company (9 July at 7.30 pm). Two art exhibitions will be open to the public for the entire duration of the festival: "Luoghi della natura" ("Places of nature") with the collective exhibition by Alessandra Parravicini, Maria Coviello and Stefano Scorrano, and "Luoghi dell'immaginario" ("Places of the imagination") with the works of Paolo Cioni, Ilenia Rosati and Alessandro Moretti.
New this year are the radio workshops that start on Friday 7 July (4.30-6.30 pm, Villa Medicea, Coltano) with the first course organised by the founder of WeRadio Bologna and historic voice of Radio Città Fujiko 103 Fm, Michele Neri, entitled "Come creare una webradio da zero (o quasi)", a workshop to learn how to build a web radio, succeeding in making it an economically sustainable communication tool.
Saturday 8 July (10.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m. Villa Medicea, Coltano) will be the turn of the experiential workshop by Irish writer and Claremorris Community Radio 94.6 Fm radio presenter John Farragher entitled "Creative Writing and Nature Walk". The walk in Coltano park will be an inner journey "into the mind and the narrating ego". Participants are invited to bring a packed lunch.
Finally, on Sunday 9 July (4-6 pm Villa Medicea, Coltano) Mirco Roppolo, founder and editor of Radio 3 network (Poggibonsi) will hold a workshop entitled "Radio Highlander", a practical demonstration of FM broadcasting through the reconstruction of a small radio studio. Finally, the creative workshop Famiglie on air!, curated by Matteo Frasca of Radio Freccia Azzurra, will give free rein to the unbridled imagination of the little ones.
To register for the workshops fill in the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdP4l22WfAXqgwLBOjx8X6kbB91p2qqkw6kKWjSQkJjH8P7mQ/viewform
Workshop prices: single workshop 20 euro (John Farragher 30 euro), 3 workshops 50 euro. For info (also WhatsApp): 333 7508235; 345 8292156 or write to anna.estdahl@gmail.com.
Festival partners: Arci, Proloco Coltano, Radio 3 Network, Marconi Labs, Claremorris Community, WeRadio, Radio Frecciazzurra and RadioEco.
Sponsors: UniCoop Firenze, Conform training agency, Bertolini Assicurazioni, Paintball Coltano, Libreria Blu Book, Gap Record Store, Camping Le Tamerici.
Festival admission: Friday 7 July 10 euros; Saturday 8 July 10 euros; Sunday 9 July 15 euros; total 3-day Festival 28 euros. Reduced price for children from 5 to 12 years 5 euros.
Online presale at: https://www.ciaotickets.com/it/abbonamenti/abbonamento-3-days-110-hertz-festival-2023
Binario Vivo 2023 membership card required (can be signed at the entrance)
How to reach the festival by public transport: bus line no. 8 to Coltano at 6.00 pm and 8.20 pm. From Coltano to Pisa additional runs at 24 and 24.40.