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This year, the Trinacria Arts Festival celebrates a decade of art, community, and connection in Pezzolo. What began ten years ago as a small gathering of artists has grown into a three-day summer tradition that fills the village with performances, workshops, and cultural events. To mark this milestone, the 2026 edition brings together six extraordinary artists from across the world and across disciplines for a festival that honors everything Pezzolo has built while looking ahead to what comes next.
Quest'anno, il Trinacria Arts Festival celebra dieci anni di arte, comunità e connessione a Pezzolo. Quello che dieci anni fa era un piccolo incontro tra artisti è diventato una tradizione estiva di tre giorni che anima il villaggio con spettacoli, laboratori ed eventi culturali. Per celebrare questo traguardo, l'edizione 2026 riunisce sei straordinari artisti da tutto il mondo e da diverse discipline per un festival che rende omaggio a tutto ciò che Pezzolo ha costruito, guardando al tempo stesso al futuro.
Events | Eventi
COMING SOON | PROSSIMAMENTE
The residency artists / Gli artisti in residenza
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Kassy is an Ikebana practitioner trained in the Sogetsu school, holding a teacher’s diploma from Tokyo since 2025. Ikebana is the art of flower arrangement, grounded in attentiveness to line, space, movement, and the relationship between human and non-human life. Kassy's practice centres on live, improvised Ikebana performance, where arranging becomes a way to explore memory, migration, and the everyday gestures through which a place becomes inhabitable. Recent projects include presentations at Southbank Centre, Chisenhale Dance Space, and Hoxton Hall.
Kassy is also a writer and editor with years of experience collaborating with migrant artists, and works as an advocate and facilitator, coordinating initiatives with underrepresented communities to foster inclusive and welcoming spaces. Her approach to community engagement is grounded in both lived experience and academic study, including an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS University of London.
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Gretchen is a storyteller working in comics, writing, curation, and puppetry. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gretchen co-founded Chicago’s Agitator Artist Collective in 2017, and served as Director from 2023 - 2025. She is currently developing the Dinosaur Opera, a multi-chapter puppet saga exploring the deep past and deep future, and how we understand both in the present day. Gretchen believes that stories told in real time, in living environments, are essential for human joy and survival.
She has been in residence at Buinho Fab Lab, Sundance Academy for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts; and Puppet Lab at Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. She received a 3Arts Make A Wave grant; a VIDA: Women in Literary Arts Fellowship; and an Esteemed Artist Grant from Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. She teaches at Chicago’s Saint Xavier University.
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Zoe is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and performer whose work explores movement, audiovisual media, and storytelling to confront the politics of identity, decolonization, and social justice. Central to her performances are elements of dance, sound, and live music, with improvisation playing a key role in creating visceral, spontaneous experiences that engage audiences directly. Her approach is straightforward and accessible, aiming to raise awareness and inspire radical visibility. She combines urban grit with poetic resistance to provoke reflection and challenge societal norms. Her performances foster visibility for marginalized voices and encourage dialogue around collective identity and social transformation. As the creator of the UNLEARN Series, she deconstructs Italian identity from the ground up, returning after 16 years abroad to inspire understanding and cosmic expansion.
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Shelby is a muralist and animator who specializes in creating whimsical, colorful characters. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, she has been working as a public artist in Decatur, Indiana for the past several years. Her work has been shown in the Sioux Falls Sculpture Walk, Midwest Sculpture Initiative, and the Decatur Sculpture Tour, and has been featured in Indianapolis’ Genesis Magazine, Input Fort Wayne Magazine, Visit Fort Wayne, Herron Wearable Art Show, and several exhibitions at ACE 40.8. You can find more of her art on her website shelbynower.com or on her Instagram @shelbynowerart.
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Davide Grosso, aka SINE, is a musician and sound artist whose practice centers on the physical and poetic qualities of sound. Working with raw sonic materials, he treats voices, noises, and field recordings as living matter to be shaped and transformed. His approach, which he describes as “carving sound waves,” is rooted in deep listening: capturing the essence of places and moments, then reframing them into new sonic environments.
Through an alchemy of magnetic tapes, analog synthesizers, and field recordings, SINE creates layered textures, amplified details, and granular atmospheres. His compositions often blur the boundaries between abstraction and memory, inviting listeners into immersive, intimate soundscapes where the materiality of sound takes center stage.
Moving fluidly between radio, theatre, and sound art, he develops performances, compositions, and installations that explore the tension between documentation and transformation. Each project becomes a space for resonance and perception, a dive into a carefully sculpted sonic realm shaped by texture, depth, and subtle shifts.
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Nada is currently in the final year of the undergraduate painting program at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Graduating from the School of Design in Belgrade in 2021 where she was named Student of the Generation. During her studies, she spent one exchange semester at the Academy of Fine Arts in Xi’an, China, where she studied traditional Chinese painting techniques under Professor Liu Xijie (刘西洁).
In her artistic practice, she explores the relationship between space, culture, and everyday practices, focusing on how cultural influences manifest through subtle details of the urban environment. Working with drawing, embroidery, installation, and other multimedia forms, she investigates how nostalgia, tradition, and contemporary reinterpretations shape the sense of identity and belonging.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Serbia and internationally, including exhibitions in Belgrade, Germany, Italy, Latvia, France and Japan. Upcoming projects include solo exhibitions in Novi Sad and Bosilegrad.
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