BOLOGNA – The indie rock band Afterhours on the stage of the sardine on Sunday, January 19, in Bologna. Together with other international artists and local: the singer Vasco Brondi and the bolognese band Rumba De Bodas, between the advances. And then Sandro Ruotolo and the cartoonist & an excl poster. Are only the first names of a long line of artists, chefs and intellectuals that will lengthen the list of those present at the feast of fish. So the movement starts in 2020. And raised, with events disclosed in the Emilia-Romagna region, in view of the vote of the 26th of January, until the grand finale in piazza VIII agosto, seven days after the opening of the polls: a celebration of the national level, having regard to guests.

“we will End where we started. It will be a big feast of art, of thought, of beauty, of which the best antidote to populism,” explains Mattia Santori, soul and voice of sardines. Shooting with the new year of the movement starts from the territories, in particular in the regions where you vote. In Calabria, the event will be in Riace, which is the symbol of hospitality, the 6th of January. In Emilia-Romagna sardines are focusing on Bologna, after having swam with the events disclosed in the Apennines and in the Lower one. First date: Sunday, Castiglione dei Pepoli.

55 coordinators of emilia romagna met between Christmas and new year’s Eve. “In these days of spiritual retreat in the hills – says Santori -” we understand that populism is strong where the company is passive, and abdicates the responsibility of the individual claiming a strong boss. We, on the contrary, we will work in the awaken active citizenship: it is the best way to beat it, is first of all the party, that we will not do, and every political programme”. Then the square of Bologna, where the movement was born on the 14th of November.