Scheduled from 3 to 5 June, the Fundraising Festival returns to Riccione with an edition entitled 'The courage to choose sides'.

On Wednesday 3 June, Bebe Vio is expected in a double appointment at the Palazzo dei Congressi at 2.30 pm and, in the evening, at a public meeting in Piazzale Ceccarini at 9 pm, open to citizens and tourists, with the speech "Il coraggio di scegliere da che parte stare" (The courage to choose sides). The Paralympic foil champion, in dialogue with the founder of the Fundraising Festival Valerio Melandri, represents one of the most authoritative voices on the issues of inclusion and active participation today. In addition to her sporting career, Vio is also deeply involved in the social world through the association art4sport, which she runs together with her parents. The association was set up to promote sport as a means of physical and psychological recovery for children and young people with disabilities and to spread the practice of Paralympic sport.

On Thursday 4 June, again in Piazzale Ceccarini at 9 p.m., Gino Cecchettin, the father of Giulia, the young woman killed in 2023 at the age of 22 by her ex-boyfriend, will be the protagonist of a special event "Stories that change us" open to the whole city. In dialogue with Eleonora Mazzoni, Cecchettin will bring his personal testimony of pain transformed into civil commitment, offering the community a moment of strong symbolic value, in which the city becomes a participant in the power of memory and solidarity.

Closing the festival on Friday 5 June, in the Sala Concordia of the Palazzo dei Congressi at 2.30 p.m., will be Riccione artist Paolo Cevoli, who will be the protagonist of the unprecedented speech "Alle persone, ci devi voler bene" (You must love people, you must love us).
The speech, although addressed to Festival participants, will be open to the public free of charge, confirming the desire to make the Festival a moment of sharing and reflection for all.