Ferrara Buskers Festival

For the fifth year in a row IBO Italia is guest of the Ferrara Buskers Festival for the solidarity. After the 2012 edition, when IBO Italy collaborated to support some villages of Emilia Romagna deeply damaged by the earthquake of 20-29 may 2012; and 2013, when we supported volunteerism and youth mobility, also for 2014 strengths are united to collaborate for the youth volunteering. That's how the project of a new workcamp has raised, with the aim to involve a group of volunteers to support this project. The Ferrara Buskers Festival (www.ferrarabuskers.com), with its 800.000 spectators, is the biggest event in the world dedicated to the street art. It was founded in 1988 with the aim of enhancing the role of street artists and to get to know a city rich in history and charm – objectives which have been fully accomplished. For many spectators from all over Italy and, significantly, even from abroad, the Festival is an exciting tour around the world in search of familiar and exotic sounds; it’s a passionate treasure hunt to discover the most original instruments, the most inspired performances and the most creative costumes. It is, above all, an endless mobile jamboree, that moves in a thousand directions, invading the streets and squares of one of the most beautiful city centers in Italy. The protagonists of the Festival are the buskers themselves; travelling artists who, in their daily activities, try to give some good humour and poetry to passers-by. Since the third edition, every year the festival is dedicated to a guest nation from which a large part of the 20 invited groups come from. In addiction to the invited ones, accredited groups participate at their own expenses and according to the selection they can perform even just for one day. Nobody receives a fee, just the offers that the public drops in their “hat”. The shows follows a daily rotation, so the groups changes their “stage” every day. Since 2011, the Festival organization is involved in the project Ecofestival, to reduce waste to the least and to fix elevated standard about the respect of the environment for events of wide range. Separate collection of paper, plastics and aluminum during the event. Bureau Veritas has certified the results achieved by the project. Furthermore, the Ferrara Buskers Festival wants to be a great moment of solidarity, sustaining the training to the values of volunteering, youth mobility in an intercultural world; the value of an active citizenship, to ideally unite Ferrara to Italy and to the whole world.