caARTEiv Festival of Arts

The 2025 edition confirmed the vitality of the caARTEiv Festival of Arts, a cultural event in the Savona hinterland founded in 1998 on the initiative of Simona Bellone. In 2025, the caARTEiv Association again offered competitions in various sections—from poetry to dialect, from short stories to digital works—accompanied by a collective exhibition and a series of artistic events spread throughout the summer season.

An edition that paved the way for the return to origins in 2026, bringing the festival back to the hamlet of Riofreddo, where it all began, and reaffirming the value of a project that has been promoting widespread creativity in the Bormida Valley for over twenty years.

The festival offered the usual competitions in the sections for poetry, haiku, dialect, humorous compositions, short stories, books, and digital works, with a collective exhibition and awards ceremony, as part of a season of artistic events from May to October.