Teatri Riflessi is a project that promotes the performing arts, stimulating the development of a dramaturgy capable of capturing the territory‘s needs, hopes, and desires. The ‘dramaturgy of landscape’ hinges on comparing different territories and identities and perceiving culture as the expression and materialisation of diverse historical, cultural, and social processes.
In this vision, artworks are the tokens of the diverse urges originating from the landscape.
Teatri Riflessi wants to lift the curtain on the flowering of such artistic urges, promoting the exchange of ideas, practices, and models and offering professional and emerging artists an unusual stage to connect tradition and innovation.
The project is structured around several actions: performances in both theatrical and unconventional spaces, an international competition focused on the short-performance genre, and activities supporting emerging creativity.
Since its first edition in 2009, Teatri Riflessi has combined the immediacy of contemporary art languages with the narration of the territory, fostering a reflection on the artistic, cultural, and social landscape in unconventional places and spaces.
In 2024, the festival offered 50 free events to 3,000+ spectators:
40 artists from around the world, 30 national and international theatre and festival directors, journalists and critics, 70 local cultural operators, 30 young jurors, 10 European volunteers, and 12 volunteers and interns from the University of Catania and Messina.
Teatri Riflessi has received the EFFE Label, Europe’s quality stamp for remarkable arts festivals showing their engagement in the field of the arts, community involvement and international openness.
EFFE is an initiative of the European Association of Festivals supported by the European Commission and Parliament.
