gARTen
gARTen – theatre festival in the park
2, 3 and 4 July 2025, from 6 p.m.
The gARTen summer festival returns for its sixth edition, transforming the park into an open-air stage.
Three evenings dedicated to performing arts, including prose, physical theater, dance and music. Young male and female artists enliven every corner of the garden, offering an immersive experience, open to all who want to immerse themselves in a lively summer atmosphere between theater and sociability. Interviews and talks, broadcast live from the live location of Radio Morcote, enrich each evening, offering new looks at the performances.
To make each day of the festival even more enjoyable, the food village welcomes local food trucks, while DJ leMox accompanies us with his music, creating the perfect atmosphere.
The festival takes place in the evocative setting of the Foundation, enhancing its natural and architectural spaces: the park, the inner courtyard garden, the arcade of the 19th-century building, and the square, with the small nymphaeum and the forest as a backdrop.
THE PROGRAM
2 July
The opening night is dedicated to the alumni and alumnae of the Dimitri Theater Academy, who bring to the stage performances with a strong emotional and visual impact.
Through different languages – nonverbal theater, dance, music, acrobatics and juggling – the artists invite us to question our daily lives.
3 July
The second day of the festival is dedicated to the theme of sustainability. Through different artistic perspectives, the scheduled performances offer original insights into an issue that is as complex as it is urgent.
Habitat 28100 is a weaving of stories across a city to rediscover the true meaning of “home.” On stage, Lucilla Giagnoni and more than thirty participants from the theater workshops at Teatro Faraggiana give voice to neighborhoods, courtyards and people, exploring what it really means to inhabit a place, outside and inside.
KollektivARB, with Plant Word, wonders about a new way of perceiving nature: what if we considered plants as our equals? What if humans began to think like plants? A show that opens new perspectives on the plant world and our relationship with it.
An additional performance is in the works.
4 July
The final day features four women artists. Each will lead us into a distinct space and time, each doing so with her own personal poetics.
Annina Mosimann, with Bestiarium, crosses figure theater, performance and visual arts to explore space as a living organism and place of coexistence.
Valeria Girelli brings to the stage I would like to be her, a show-concert that gives voice to six music icons: Nina Simone, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga. Accompanied by live music, she recounts their struggles and dreams with irony and depth, moving between theater-song and stand-up comedy, between myth and reality, discovering the hidden truths behind each legend.
Fanny Déglise & Salomé Coquoz present a physical theater performance entitled Suturer le vide, inspired by the life of Niki de Saint Phalle, exploring the relationship with childhood through an intense, choreographed narrative.