**IN UPDATE**
Giorni di Tuono festiva returns!
The festival of comics, music and cinema in the sign of Tuono Pettinato, will take place in Pisa from 13 to 15 June 2025. After the great success of the three previous editions, the event organized by the Foundation Tuono Pettinato with the contribution of the Comune di Pisa returns with an even richer program for number of guests and events, all free admission, maintaining solid the character "thunderous", a sneaky and ironic look to decode reality.
This year’s poster was created by Francesca Ghermandi, winner of the Prize Tuono Pettinato 2025, an extraordinary portrait of the dear cartoonist Tuono Pettinato, who died in 2021. The cartoonist from Bologna will be the protagonist with an exhibition of the plates taken from "The mysteries of the Intergalactic Ocean", book winner of the prize Tuono Pettinato, and will present the recent "Santa where are you?" in a meeting on the theme of autobiographies in comics with Alice Milani, author of "Nel paese degli Inuit", and Virginia Tonfoni, co-author with the SnIF Group of the essay "For real. The Italian comic between reality and realism".
EVENT PROGRAMME - FREE ENTRY
FRIDAY 13 JUNE
- noon, Museo della Grafica - "Non è mica la fine del mondo".Inauguration of the exhibition of the original plates of the eponymous comic book by Tuono Pettinato and institutional greetings. Interventions by Lia Remorini, Antonio Mazzeo, Michele Conti, Enrico Fornaroli, Alessandro Tosi, Albertop Rigoni and Francesca Riccioni;
- 6 p.m., La Nunziatina - "Crescere dentro a un fumetto". Conversation with Francesca Ghermandi, Alice Milani, Virginia Tonfoni. Moderated by Francesco Catelani;
- 6.45 p.m., La Nunziatina - "Sì, io l'ho visto!". Presentation of the ibro and meeting with Gian Loreto Carbone, historian sent by "Who has seen it?" , interviewed by Guido Siliotto;
- 7.30 p.m., Cantiere San Bernardo - "Nuovi Codici per la memoria". Meeting on the use of comics to disseminate the values of anti-fascism and the history of partisan resistance with Stefano Pecori and Francesco Catelani, moderated by Virginia Tonfoni;
- 8.30 p.m., Cantiere San Bernardo - "Muri resistenti". Meeting on the ANPI magazine "Patri Indipendente" with Alessandro De Rosa and Natalia Marino;
- 9 p.m., Cantiere San Bernardo - "La crepa", presentation of the graphic novel by Luca Ralli;
- 10 p.m., Cantiere San Bernardo - Micromusic! Mat64 + Pira666 (Doctor Pira) in concert;
SATURDAY 14 JUNE
- noon, Studio Gennai - "I misteri dell'oceano intergalattico" . Opening of the exhibition by Francesca Ghermandi, winner of the Tuono Pettinato 2025 prize;
- 12.30 p.m., Studio Gennai - "Lindy Hop dall'Aldilà". Opening of the exhibition by Eva Daffara, winner of the Tuono Pettinato 2024 Scholarship;
- 5 p.m., Cineclub Arsenale - "L'arte contemporanea a fumetti". Meeting with Paolo Bacilieri, Maicol&Mirco, Sarah Mazzetti and Sakka, in collaboration with Fumetti & Popcorn, moderated by Maurizio Vaccaro;
- 6 p.m., Cineclub Arsenale - "Generazione Fumetto". Preview screening of the film by Omar Rashid and meeting with the director, Maicol&Mirco, Rita Petruccioli and Roberto Recchioni, moderated by Antonio Capellupo;
- 9 p.m., Cineclub Arsenale - "La voce delle sirene". Screening of the animated short by Gianluigi Toccafondo and meeting with the director and musician Marco Molinelli;
- 10 p.m., Cineclub Arsenale - "Per favore non mordermi lo schermo". Meeting on vampires between comics and cinema with Roberto Recchioni author of "Shin Nosferatu", interviewed by Michele Innocenti;
- 10.45 p.m., Cineclub Arsenale - "Maratuona rosso sangue". Live sound of "Nosferatu" by F.W. Murnau, curated by Davide Barbafiera and Tommaso Tanzini, followed by screenings of _"Only lovers survive" by Jim Jarmusch and "Dracula" by T.Browning, K.Freund;
DOMENICA 15 GIUGNO
- 10.30 a.m., Cineclub Arsenale - "Omaggio ai Peanuts", cartoon workshop curated by Francesco Matteuzzi, author of "Funny Things - A striped biography on Charles M. Schulz";
- 6 p.m., La Nunziatina - "Shadowplay".Meeting with Lorenzo Coltellacci and Mattia Tassaro and Holdenaccio. Moderates Guido Siliotto;
- 7 p.m, La Nunziatina - "Charlie Hebdo: la satira a 10 anni da un attentato". Meeting with Valentina De Poli, Daniele Caluri, Maicol&Mirco, Natangelo, Emiliano Pagani, and Vauro, in collaboration with Fumetti & Popcorn;
- 8.30 p.m., Circolo Caracol - "Please, stand up!". Meeting with Giorgia Fumo;
- 10 p.m., Circolo Caracol - "Rombo di tuono ovo" in concert;
THE EXHIBITIONS
- It’s not the end of the world - Museo della Grafica
- The mysteries of the intergalactic ocean - Studio Gennai from 13 to 30 June
- Lindy Hop from the Hereafter - Studio Gennai from 13 to 30 June
- Resistant walls + Antifascism comics - Cantiere San Bernardo from 13 to 15 June
THE FESTIVAL’S VENUES
- Circolo Caracol – Via Carlo Cattaneo 64
- Cantiere San Bernardo – Via Pietro Gori
- La Nunziatina – Via la Nunziatina 11
- Museo della Grafica – Lungarno Galileo Galilei 9
- Studio Gennai – Via Giovanni Bovio 4