C2C Festivalin the long Art Week weekend from 30 October to 2 November, confirmed for the sold out for the fourth consecutive year, reaching 42,000 participants (compared to 41,000 in the previous edition), with a record international audience share of 40%.
Four days of music, performances, conversations, in venues of Lingotto Fiere, OGR Turin, Teatro Regio in which the daytime format C2C Talks was held, C2C HQ da Combo, to whose programming a day was added, compared to the previous edition, and Le Roia fascinating ballroom in via Stradella 8, where YOUNG SHOWCASE X C2C Festival was held. For the third consecutive year C2C KIDS!a project dedicated to the younger generations, anticipated the XXIII edition at the Fonderie Limone.
C2C Festival welcomed 68 artistscoming from 21 countries, which gave life to 65 shows, of which 21 were Italian exclusives and 7 debuts, in 6 exceptional venues, confirming themselves among the essential events on a global level in the music scene.
“The undoubtedly most complex edition in the history of C2C Festival ends with record numbers: the first without Sergio. After extremely intense, tragic and emotionally heartbreaking months, with everyone's help, we managed to protect the very continuity of the Festival. Now it is more evident than ever how much C2C Festival is a heritage for the city of Turin and for the Piedmontese territory, has become a national excellence and represents a reference, at a European and global level, to be preserved and grown. With all the strength we have in our body we will carry forward what Sergio cared about most of all. C2C Festival will continue to create wonder.” – Guido Savini, Artistic Director of C2C Festival.
C2C Festival returns to Turin in 2026 from Thursday 5 November to Sunday 8 November.
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