From Friday 13th to Sunday 15th June, the MAR – Ravenna Art Museum hosts the 4th edition of COCONINO FEST, the festival of the Coconino Press publishing house, celebrating comics in relationship with other languages and forms of expressions, such as music, novels, videos and theatre.
In the year in which Coconino Press celebrates its 25th anniversary, the festival revolves around the word FUTURE and becomes an opportunity to question the future, both of the world we live in and of narration through images, retracing the history of the publishing house, from timeless classics to the future of new talents.
From George Herriman, one of the founding fathers of the Ninth Art with the Krazy Kat strips, to the international masters David B. and Maruo Suehiro, with the participation of many Italian guests: ZUZU, Alessandro Tota, Daniele Kong, Roberto Grossi, Cleo Bissong, Chiara Fazi and others.
The festival will feature a rich programme with exhibitions and a weekend of meetings with the authors protagonists of the exhibitions, other cartoonists and well-known artists who will give life to a series of special events, shows and performances.
Like every year, there will be a big final party on the beach of the Hana-bi in Marina di Ravenna with an explosive party to celebrate 25 years of Coconino Press.
On the occasion of the Festival, from June 14th to 29th the MAR – Ravenna Art Museum will host eight exhibitions grouped under the title Dai classici al futuro, un secolo di fumetti in otto mostre and dedicated to the protagonists of the festival.
For the second year the Coconino Fest will also land at the Classense Library, with an exhibition dedicated to Roberto Grossi‘s La grande rimozione, the best graphic novel of 2024 according to Internazionale, visible until June 28th.
PROGRAMME
Friday 13th June
LA GRANDE RIMOZIONE
Where: Biblioteca Classense (Manica Lunga) – Via Baccarini 3, Ravenna
Time: 3 pm
Opening of the exhibition of plates from the graphic novel by Roberto Grossi.
IL FUTURO CHE NON VOGLIAMO VEDERE
Where: Biblioteca Classense – Via Baccarini 3, Ravenna
Time: 4 pm
Panel discussion with author Roberto Grossi, Andrea Coccia (La Revue – L’informazione a fumetti) and two activists from Fridays for Future Italia. A dialogue on the burning questions concerning the future of all of us and the next generations in the face of global warming and the environmental emergency.
DAI CLASSICI AL FUTURO, UN SECOLO DI FUMETTI IN OTTO MOSTRE
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 6 pm
Opening and visit to the exhibitions dedicated to comics by George Herriman, David B., Maruo Suehiro, ZUZU, Alessandro Tota, Daniele Kong, Cleo Bissong e Chiara Fazi.
GIOCANDO A GATTO E TOPO: KRAZY CAT E LE ORIGINI DEL FUMETTO
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 7.30 pm
Igort recounts the life and works of George Herriman, one of the founding fathers of the Ninth Art. Domenico Procacci speaks.
BESTIE IN FUGA
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 10 pm
Reading from the graphic novel by Daniele Kong, with musical accompaniment and live painting. Music by Lorenzo Tomio.
Saturday 14th June
MASTERCLASS WITH ALESSANDRO TOTA
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 11 am
An author tells his story: The magnificent illusion and other stories.
AVERE UN CORPO DA FANTASCIENZA
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 5 pm
Lorenzo Ghetti and his graphic novel La forma che mi hai dato. The author dialogues with Nicolò Porcelluzzi.
NELLO SPAZIO DI UN RACCONTO
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 6 pm
Bianca Bagnarelli and the comic stories collected in Animali domestici. The author dialogues with Stefano Cipolla.
COSA SOGNANO I RAGAZZI?
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 7 pm
ZUZU dialogues with Fumettibrutti about his new graphic novel Ragazzo. Simonetta Sciandivasci moderates the meeting.
COCONINO KRAZY PARTY
Where: Bagno Hana-bi – viale della Pace 452, Marina di Ravenna
Time: 9.30 pm
DR. Pira presents: La trilogia della Valle Scrivia. To follow: Dj Set Super Relax + Dj residenti, live painting and signacopies by Coconino Fest guests.
Sunday 15th June
MASTERCLASS WITH DAVID B
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 11 am
Stories, ideas and new ways for comics: the author of Il Grande Male about his work with Stefano Ricci.
LE VALLI DELLA MEMORIA
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 4 pm
Pietro Scarnera and his comic strip about the Resistenza a Ravenna. The author dialogues with Davide Reviati. Speakers: Ilaria Bonaccorsi Gardini and Fabio Sbaraglia.
VOCI, CORPI, LIBERTÀ
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 5 pm
Cleo Bissong, author of the graphic novel Ma siamo ancora qui a parlarne?, and Chiara Fazi, co-author with Johnny Mox of the graphic novel Polifonia, dialogue with Nina Terruzzi (Battiti, Radio Tre Rai).
AVE MARIA PIENA DI RABBIA
Where: MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna – via di Roma 13, Ravenna
Time: 6 pm
Reading by Gloria Riggio, guitar accompaniment by Fabio Schember and live painting by Chiara Fazi.
