Festival Artisti di Strada Ascona 2027 for Street Artists
Know before you apply
- Street performers with hat-passing shows
- Touring artists able to travel to Switzerland
- Performers of parades or moving entertainment
- Each show performed five times over weekend
- Travel reimbursement capped at 500 EUR
- Cabaret proceeds donated to charity
Associazione Manifestazioni Ascona is calling for applications from street artists for the Festival Artisti di Strada Ascona, 14–16 May 2027.
The programme includes 7–8 busking (hat passing) shows, each to be performed 5 times, and a final cabaret, the proceeds of which will be donated to charity.
Artists are expected to arrive on the day of their first performance, 14 May 2027, at Piazza Elvezia, on the Ascona lakefront, where the reception point will be set up. Performances will last a maximum of 25 minutes on Friday and a maximum of 40 minutes on Saturday and Sunday.
The main venues for busking shows, equipped with reserved and well-equipped areas (dressing room, refrigerator, sound system, lighting, chairs, etc.), are mainly the Library and Piazza Elvezia. All materials, including costumes and props, may be stored — before and after performances — in the storage containers on site (unsupervised during the day, locked at night).