About

The Italian Fusion Festival is Europe’s largest multidisciplinary Italian arts festival, celebrating the vibrant cultural exchange between Italy and Ireland. The seventh edition took place on 27 November 2024 from 6:30 p.m. at the United Arts Club, Dublin. Over its history, the festival has attracted more than 2,000 paying spectators, hosting six sold-outs in seven editions at venues like The Grand Social, BelloBar, and The Well. The festival has become a cornerstone of multicultural artistic collaboration in Dublin.

The multicultural and multidisciplinary arts festival is organised by Radio Dublino, the Italian-language Radio programme in Ireland, which started in 2013. Founded and directed by Maurizio Pittau, the festival provides a platform for Italian artists in Ireland (musicians, filmmakers, actors, painters, poets, writers, etc.) while spotlighting the creative synergy of bands blending Irish and Italian influences.

The Italian Fusion Festival Festival goals are:

• Highlight emerging trends in Irish music, visual arts, and poetry inspired by the collaboration of Irish and Italian cultures.
• Provide opportunities for live performances, boosting the visibility of Italian artists and mixed Irish-Italian bands.
• To encourage integration and cultural exchanges between Italy and Ireland.
• Showcase and support Italian artists living and working in Ireland.
• Create a platform for artistic innovation, celebrating and advancing multicultural creativity in Dublin.

The Italian Fusion Festival is more than an event; it’s a movement that highlights the beauty of cultural intersection and the creativity born from diversity.

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About the organiser of the Event

Radio Dublino is an Italian radio magazine broadcast live from Dublin since 2013. It is hosted by Community Radios, a not-for-profit cooperative founded by volunteers who manage their programmes autonomously and independently.

The programme, managed by volunteers, addresses the Italian community in Dublin, Irish speakers of Italian, and all residents of Ireland interested in Italian culture, Italian music, and the Italian language.

Radio Dublino was started in October 2013 by Maurizio Pittau. It was created as a place where the audience could feel at home and share views and opinions on Italy and Ireland from an expat’s point of view.

Radio Dublino covers various topics: news from Italy and Ireland, Italian music, information about intercultural events in Dublin, Italian language teaching, social campaigns, live music, video production, and interviews with Italians living in Dublin or Irish speakers of Italian. Since 2023, the radio show has also become a live podcast available on YouTube and all mainstream platforms.

The programme aims are:

• Promote the Italian language, music, art and culture
• Encourage the integration of the Italian community in Dublin/ Ireland and the intercultural dialogue between Italians and Irish people.
• Stimulate Irish speakers of Italian to keep up to date with the Italian language and the civilisation.
• Provide a platform for the presenters and the audience to express their ideas, share projects, or promote events, encouraging active involvement and participation.

More info: www.radiodublino.com