{"id":2624,"date":"2025-05-29T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wamfestival.com\/wam-festival-2025-could-have\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:32:14","slug":"wam-festival-2025-could-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wamfestival.com\/en\/wam-festival-2025-could-have\/","title":{"rendered":"WAM! Festival 2025 COULD HAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>WAM! Festival from JULY 2 to 6 and JULY 20, 2025<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h4><strong>COULD HAVE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h6><strong><em>Dance, performance, music, talks, philosophy<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Here we are again, after two years. Nothing has changed, everything has changed. <\/p>\n<p>For this edition, we were inspired by the title of a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, and we reflected on our role as cultural operators during and after yet another flood, yet another emergency, ongoing wars.<\/p>\n<p>Chance, luck, who controls it, can it be controlled? How do we manage the present and the future, to what extent do we human beings change the course of events and how? How do we plan a future, when constant upheaval is the only certainty? Luck is a blindfolded goddess, what senses must we cultivate to live in this present?   <\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty has become constant, so we decide to trust and rely on chance, to remain brave and be ready. We organized past editions of WAM! Festival during a health emergency, during a flood. In a state of perpetual resilience, in the presence of chaos, our home is our body and the care of other people\u2019s bodies, our emotions and the attention paid to others.  <\/p>\n<p>What does fate bring us? The answer is what we do, how we respond to what happens to us. Let us think about what a wonder is to Be and let us tell with words and bodies, every possible life, every possible experience. In a wheel of fortune in constant motion, art can save us. It makes us imagine worlds, it makes us feel emotions, it makes us question, it makes us profoundly human.   <\/p>\n<p>Lucidly, with faith and madness, could have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Could have \u2013 Wislawa Szymborska<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Could have<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It could have happened.<br \/>\nIt had to happen.<br \/>\nIt happened earlier. Later.<br \/>\nNearer. Farther off.<br \/>\nIt happened, but not to you.<br \/>\nYou were saved because you were the first.<br \/>\nYou were saved because you were the last.<br \/>\nAlone. With others.<br \/>\nOn the right. The left.<br \/>\nBecause it was raining. Because of the shade.<br \/>\nBecause the day was sunny.<br \/>\nYou were in luck &#8212; there was a forest.<br \/>\nYou were in luck &#8212; there were no trees.<br \/>\nYou were in luck &#8212; a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake,     <\/em><br \/>\n<em>A jamb, a turn, a quarter inch, an instant.<br \/>\nYou were in luck &#8212; just then a straw went floating by.<br \/>\nAs a result, because, although, despite.<br \/>\nWhat would have happened if a hand, a foot,<br \/>\nwithin an inch, a hairsbreadth from<br \/>\nan unfortunate coincidence.<br \/>\nSo you&#8217;re here? Still dizzy from another dodge,<br \/>close shave, reprieve?<br \/>\nOne hole in the net and you slipped through?<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t be more shocked or speechless.<br \/>Listen, how your heart pounds inside me. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wislawa Szymborska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/programma-WAM-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&gt; DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patronage and contribution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comune di Faenza e Unione della Romagna Faentina<\/p>\n<p>Comune di Castel Bolognese<\/p>\n<p>Comune di Brisighella<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With the support of<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regione Emilia-Romagna<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Castellari Notaio<\/p>\n<p>La BCC ravennate, forlivese e Imolese<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical sponsors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Litografia Fabbri<\/p>\n<p>Flatmind<\/p>\n<p>Digialta<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In collaboration with<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gemos<\/p>\n<p>Clan Destino<\/p>\n<p>Tib\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>Associazione Torre di Oriolo<\/p>\n<p>Aula 21<\/p>\n<p>Viaggi Erbacci<\/p>\n<p>Museo Zauli<\/p>\n<p>Museo Malmerendi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAM! 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