DIG Festival 2024 - «J'accuse» is not only DIG Talks, workshop and cinema. At #DIG2024, there will also be activities “off”, dedicated to the arts with two exclusive concerts and three exhibitions.
As for the music, it starts Friday 20 September at 21 at Baroque Church of St Charles, in the heart of Modena. Two of the most appreciated bands of the Italian underground will perform on stage. James Jonathan Clancy, a Canadian artist “adopted” by Bologna, a leading name on the Italian independent scene of the last twenty years who, after seven years of absence, returned in 2024 with his first solo album, Wasted, his most intimate and critically acclaimed project. Opening the live show will be the eclectic sound of Bono/Burattinithe duo composed of Bologna-based artists Francesca Bono, voice and musician of the indie rock group Ofeliadorme, and Vittoria Burattini, percussionist and drummer of Massimo Volume.
Tickets on presale at DICE for 14 euros HERE.
On Sunday 22 September at 9 p.m., instead, on the stage of the beautiful Church of San Carlo, will be the Texan singer-songwriter Micah P. Hinson, a cult name in the folk and alternative country-rock scene across the Atlantic, to fill with the sacredness of his music a venue unique. Micah P. Hinson's latest album, I Lie To You, released in December 2022 by Ponderosa Music Records, is the result of five days and five nights of recording in a bare-bones room in Irpinia and a crystal-polishing production job by Alessandro Asso Stefana (Pj Harvey, Mike Patton, Vinicio Capossela). Backing them up are Raffaele Tiseo's strings, Zeno De Rossi's drums and Greg Cohen's double bass.
Tickets on presale at DICE for 20 euros HERE.
As for exhibitions, three will be hosted by DIG Festival.
The first, is the personal «Black dogs, dirty hands (a parasol in a cockery)» of Michelangelo Setola. Setola is one of the founding members of the magazine and publishing house Canicola. He has published illustrations and comics in numerous magazines and newspapers in Italy and abroad, including The stranger, International, Reading of Corriere della Sera, Sugo Magazine, Strapazin, Bile Noir, Le Monde diplomatique Germany, Marie Claire. Michelangelo Setola is also the author of the Watchdog of this edition of DIG Festival. The exhibition, hosted by the Complesso San Paolo in the Chiesa e Sala delle Monache, hosts a rich selection of Setola's drawings, for a production spanning more than ten years of his career, divided by technique and chronology. The exhibition will be inaugurated on Thursday 19 September at 5 p.m..
The headquarters of Associazione DIG, Via Santa Chiara 14, Modena, will instead host “In the crosshairs of memory. Portraits of journalists killed in Palestine”.”, the illustrator and cartoonist's personal Gianluca Costantini, which portrayed the journalists killed in the Gaza Strip as of October 2023. Actively collaborating with the CPJ - Committee to Protect Journalists in New York built a visual memorial day by day. The exhibition will be opened on Wednesday 18 September at 6.30 p.m..
Also at the DIG Association headquarters, Via Santa Chiara 14, Modena, it will be possible to admire a selection of the best satirical cartoons collected by the European Cartoon Award, one of the most important illustrated political satire awards in the world. On 21 September, at 10.30 a.m., it will be possible to visit the exhibition with the guidance of the director of the European Cartoon Award Emanuele Del Rosso
