ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationships of two festivals with the localities where they are organized and take place. Festivals represent specific moments during which new interactions, relationships, cultures and practices are established. This means that the material and local dimensions where the festival is held are transformed, even if only temporarily, by festivals. The ways festivals articulate their relationships with the local and actual places where they are performed influence the forms through which they can define themselves as public places, both from an aesthetic and a cultural perspective. Therefore, the present chapter aims at tracing the different ways in which these two festivals perform and project local and global dimensions, and, moreover, how these relationships are of relevance for the ways in which festivals relate to a cultural public sphere.
