20 years of festival, events and special projects about cultural imagery on the body, gender and identity
What’s new?
OPENING OF GENER BENDER 2023
Inaugural speech by the artistic directors Daniele Del Pozzo and Mauro Meneghelli
Tickets and memberships: how to access Gender Bender 2024
The 22st edition of the Gender Bender Festival is just around the corner! Here’s all the info, prices and reductions for the scheduled events!
Call for volunteers 2024
Want to help with the organization of the festival? Join our team of volunteers!
Le Baccanti: free workshop for women over the age of 65
The call for the dance workshop led by Giulio Santolini and Lorenza Guerrini is online. No previous experience required
Gender Bender 2024 iconic moments
Curious about the mood of Gender Bender’s previous edition? Come with us on a throwback to the best moments of the 22nd edition of the festival!
Our projects
Discover Teatro Arcobaleno
Teatro Arcobaleno, the project for children and teenagers that the Gender Bender Festival organizes together with a large network of partners in Italy, is back. For the 2023/2024 school year, the program offers a wide range of free workshops and performance about movement, dance and body practices for students and teachers.
A SPECIAL YEAR
3 workshops and 3 dance shows connect artists and the community of Bologna in a collective project that ran throughout 2023 as part of Portici Festival Festival – Heritage meets creativity. Gender Bender brought the international company Igor x Moreno, the Italian choreographer Daniele Ninarello and the Dutch/German choreographer Patricia Carolin Mai to Bologna for the production of three shows, after a period of co-creation with non-professionals. This is the story of those magical months.
DISCOVER PERFORMING GENDER – DANCING IN YOUR SHOES
Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes is a dance project that aims to develop a link between culture professionals and some local communities through a discussion on gender in the European dance system. The project involves 8 European countries, led by the Gender Bender Festival and Il Cassero LGBTI+ Center.
Past editions
The festival has been held annually in Bologna since 2003 and passes through many places in the city, scheduling events in theatres, cinemas, libraries and auditoriums, clubs and associations, squares and open-air venues.
Our partners
