Giardini della Rocca, Via Frangipane 6, 9:30 PM.
Tickets available here: https://www.boxol.it/next/it/Entroterre/select-seat/614459/biglietti-poveri-cristi
A refreshment point will be available inside the gardens.
"Poveri Cristi" by and with Ascanio Celestini, with music by Gianluca Casadei, is a theatrical storytelling piece set in a suburban area of Rome that becomes a mirror of many suburbs around the world. Through marginal figures—invisible workers, migrants, and the excluded—the performance brings to life real stories collected over time and reshaped into a choral narrative, transforming them into “contemporary saints,” capable every day of the miracle of remaining in the world.
The work emerges from the encounter between word and music in a continuous improvisational interplay, where the story is rebuilt each night like a living score, in dialogue with the audience and with the language of the marginalized.
Come Acqua 2026
The Come Acqua storytelling festival returns for its third edition, crossing the Bidente Valley along the course of the river—once known as Flumen Acqueductus—which for centuries has nourished lands, communities, and imagination at the foot of the Tuscan-Romagna Apennines.
The preview will take place on August 27 at EXATR Forlì, followed by the main program from September 3 to 6 in the municipalities of Bertinoro, Forlimpopoli, Meldola, Galeata, Cusercoli, and Santa Sofia.
Born in 2023 from the desire to inhabit and enhance the territory through storytelling, Come Acqua is based on a simple yet profound idea: like water, stories flow, cross boundaries, and nourish. From oral tradition to contemporary forms of narration, storytelling is a vital force that builds memory and identity, preserving the connection between people, places, and time.
In 2026, the festival expands its horizon and meets EXTRAterrestre – Narrazioni dell’Altrove, creating an unprecedented collaboration that transforms Come Acqua into a widespread festival dedicated to the art of storytelling. A dialogue between visions that places narrative at its center as an ancestral and necessary practice, capable of reconnecting humanity with the environment and restoring the authentic spirit of places.
Under the artistic direction of Matteo Caccia, together with Vania Vicino and Claudio Angelini, and with the production support of Città di Ebla, the festival becomes an immersive experience among landscapes, communities, and stories: encounters, performances, and dialogues flowing along the river and crossing towns and villages, creating a living and ever-changing narrative geography.
“Assemblies, stories, and narratives that flow and tell us who we are—speaking about us, those around us, the lands we inhabit, and the waters we cross.” (Matteo Caccia)
