Fuori Asse Festival

Open-air contemporary circus

Fuori Asse Festival is Milan's main event dedicated to contemporary circus. Every September, the Anfiteatro and Parco della Martesana, in the Gorla-Turro district of Municipality 2 of Milan (Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy), become the space for a grand outdoor celebration, where acrobatics, juggling, and physical theater meet live music and conviviality.

A network of communities

The festival is born from the collaboration between Quattrox4 — a center for contemporary circus in Milan — and ETC Cascina Martesana, with the involvement of numerous local associations and community groups. The underlying idea is that of a participatory circus, which enhances the educational and social potential of this art form as an agent capable of connecting people. The program combines high-level international shows, concerts, DJ sets, workshops, and family activities.

Shows, music, and starry sky

Alongside performances by Italian and foreign companies, the festival offers musical evenings, contests for emerging bands, and special moments such as astronomical observation with telescopes. Accessibility is a core value: the entire program is free and open to everyone, in line with the vocation of Parco della Martesana as a public space used by citizens.

A cultural hub for Martesana

Along the Naviglio della Martesana, the festival has become an anticipated event at the end of the Milanese summer, capable of bringing the language of contemporary circus to a wide, intergenerational audience, in an area of the city far from the major entertainment circuits.