PILOT gathering

May 1 to 3, 2026, Priero and Ceva, Italy

La Fiera All'Inverso is a new initiative of La Cascina All’Inverso (IT) and The Offbeat Space (BE), offering open events and gatherings throughout the year, in and around special locations in the South of Piedmonte.

During 2026 we will organise many opportunities for meeting, exchange, work and exploring ways of bringing together the people who make live performance happen - artists, producers, cultural operators, audiences and the communities that host us. Together, we build the environment where we all can genuinely thrive.

La Fiera All'Inverso began in 2025 as a convivial gathering, part family celebration and part professional meeting. It grew out of the belief that the time between performances matters as much as the performances themselves: that sharing a meal, an informal conversation or a work in progress is important.

We bring together the traditions of circus, theatre laboratory, street arts, clown, jazz and folk music. People and traditions that have found ways to create in their own unique and colourful ways.

La Fiera All’Inverso is a collaboration between La Cascina all'Inverso (Ceva, Piedmont) and The Offbeat Space (Belgium).

Together we are building a working network of artists, Italian and international, rooted in a specific place and community but oriented outward. The project also works in close collaboration with the Municipality of Priero and the Zoé in Città festival, and with a broader network of fellow artists and friends...

partners

La Cascina all'Inverso
is a place of creation and promotion of circus arts, clowning, theatre, music and street arts, directed by Lucia Fusina. La Cascina All’Inverso creates spaces where artistic research can remain open, where risk is welcomed, and where collective creation can take place in full freedom. We all share the desire to nurture these conditions.

La Cascina All’Inverso encourages unstructured experimentation, spontaneous collaborations, and artistic research. Because we know that this is needed in our times. Surrounding La Cascina is a strong network that has grown over time through work, creation and friendship. We aim to strengthen what artists are already doing and create new conditions around it. It is a space where resources are shared, where communities are connected and where artists can work on their own terms.

La Cascina all'Inverso

The Offbeat Space
is an independent centre for theatre and stage arts, based in Brussels and founded by Gonzalo Alarcón, Adriana La Selva and Marije Nie. They bring experience across contemporary circus, physical theatre, music, dance and performance. They offer creation labs, gatherings, workshops and trainings, both

Functioning as both a production base and a platform for research, training and artistic exchange, The Offbeat Space supports artists in exploring new performative languages, developing original works and engaging audiences. The collective takes an active role in connecting artists across borders, building a concrete network of people, organisations and places that give body to the development of a more flexible, nomadic and responsive way of working in the field of circus, music, theatre, street arts and performing arts.

The Offbeat Space