Taormina Asian Fest

Taormina, 4 and 5 July 2026

An event dedicated to contemporary Asian cultures

For two days people will enjoy an experience featuring Asian street food, music, performances, workshops, interactive activities and other moments dedicated to the communities most passionate about Eastern culture.
Content creators, artists and special guests who will enliven the festival with meet & greets, shows and live activities.
The programme includes the K-pop Night on Saturday evening and a final event at the Ancient Theatre on Sunday 5, before the performance of The Nutcracker.

 

MORE INFO

Pietro Gorgone Art Director: 0039 349 5959 101

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

I N T E R N A T I O N A L   M U S I C   F E S T I V A L

Letizia Michelon

Teatro Nazarena (via Fontana Vecchia, 3), Sunday 28th June 2026 @9:15pm

 

Piano solo

Music by L. Van Beethoven

 

TICKETS on italianoperataormina.com

Standard ticket € 30,00
VIP Ticket € 50,00

Children up to six years old can attend for free

Tickets cannot be refunded. It may be possible to exchange them for a different date, subject to availability.

 

MORE INFO

Italian Opera Taormina > www.italianoperataormina.com – info@italianoperataormina.com – T. +39 340 642 6230 – www.facebook.com/italianoperataormina

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

TAOBUK

Taormina International Book Festival

16 Edition

Theme of this year: “Fiducia” (Trust)

Taormina, 18-22 June 2026

 

Such is the alchemy of Taobuk that brings the excellence of literature, the arts and thought to Taormina, a unique place in the world, a crossroads between western and eastern culture.

The Festival, born sixteen years ago, from an intuition of Antonella Ferrara who presides and directs it, embraces the vocation of receiving the “literary sediments” of the city, synthesis of a history that coagulates events, myths, experiences, traditions. Every year, Taobuk chooses a theme around which a calendar of meetings revolve, with the participation of authoritative writers, artists, philosophers and scientists. The kermesse has taken on a multidisciplinary configuration and the programme is embellished with exhibitions, theatre and dance performances, film retrospectives, in evocative locations of which the most representative is the Ancient Theatre, together with palaces, corners and large hotels.

(Source: taobuk.it)

 

Taking trust as a theme means bringing the invisible fabric that sustains every relationship back to the center: the credibility of science, the responsibility of emerging technologies, the vitality of intellectual dialogue, the value of words in storytelling and art.
It means questioning trust in others, in society, in institutions, in time, and in the future.

Over 200 guests from 30 countries will make Taormina the center of multidisciplinary artistic-literary, historical-philosophical, scientific, political, and economic debate.

 

Complete calendar of the festival HERE

(in ENGLISH)

 

 

MORE INFO

www.taobuk.it

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

T A O B U K

BELLESSERE È BENESSERE

Bellessere is well-being

Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, Vico De Spuches, 18-22 June 2026

Opening on Thursay 18 June at 5:00pm

 

The first exhibition dedicated to the theme of the horse in the work of Jean Calogero, an internationally renowned painter from Catania (Sicily) and a central figure in contemporary surrealism.

 

In the work of Jean Calogero, the horse is never just a subject: it is an obsession, an origin, a mirror. Bellessere è Benessere is the first exhibition in the world to explore this theme in the work of the great surrealist painter from Catania, moving between archaic and mythic Sicily and the avant-garde Paris of the art movements.

At the Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, the exhibition curated by Tiziana Rasà opens alongside the catalogue published by Maimone Editore, in a dialogue between criticism, publishing, and cultural institutions.

(Source: taobuk.it)

 

MORE INFO

www.taormina.it/june-18-22-2026-taobuk-taormina-book-festival.html

www.taobuk.it/en/program/opening-of-the-exhibition-bellessere-is-well-being/

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

T A O R M I N A   F I L M   F E S T

Fuze

Ancient Theatre, Sunday 14th June 2026 @ 9:00pm

 

FUZE is 2025 British crime thriller robbery film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Ben Hopkins. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Sam Worthington.

Direction: David Mackenzie
01 Distribution

 

TICKETS on boxol at € 5,00

 

INFO

www.facebook.com/taofilmfest – www.instagram.com/taorminafilmfestofficial

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta