Chora & Will Days
Living Time

Waits, surprises, turning points
A new festival to tell the story of a changing world

An event co-produced by Chora & Will Media and OGR Torino

September 26 – 28, 2025 | OGR Torino

Tickets at days.chorawill.com

From September 26 to 28, 2025, OGR Torino will host the debut of Chora & Will Days, the first major festival bringing together the two editorial projects within the Be Water group. Three days of talks, performances, live podcasts, workshops, and conversations will explore the theme of time from multiple perspectives: present time, shaped by polarizations and global transformations; personal time, with its pauses, expectations, and turning points; the time of memory, and reflections on the future; society’s time, in constant evolution.

Chora & Will Days was created to bring to the stage the editorial wealth that Chora and Will build every day on their platforms, inviting journalists, writers, and leading voices from culture and entertainment to take part in a live collective narrative. The festival will also host the new edition of Future4Cities, a format launched three years ago by Will Media together with FROM, dedicated to exploring the challenges and transformations of urban life, with a program focused on the cities of the future.

OGR Torino will be the centerpiece of the event: an iconic venue, a symbol of urban regeneration, innovation, and contemporary culture.

GUESTS
Among the guests are: Vera Gheno, Francesca Mannocchi, Marco Damilano, Paolo Giordano, Lorenzo Pregliasco, Elena Granata, Chiara Gamberale, Valeria Montebello, Pierluca Mariti (Piuttosto Che), Jacopo Veneziani, Paolo Pellegrin, Marco Cappato, Don Carmine Arice, Andrea Girolami, Daniele Tinti, Stefano Rapone, and the mayors of Genoa, Vicenza, Novara and Rome: Silvia Salis, Giacomo Possamai, Alessandro Canelli and Roberto Gualtieri. Joining them, will be Chora and Will’s own editorial voices, including Cecilia Sala, Mario Calabresi, Guido Maria Brera, Riccardo Haupt, Carlo Notarpietro, Camilla Ferrario, Clara Morelli, Sara Poma, and Simone Pieranni.

ACCESS AND REGISTRATION

The festival will be hybrid, with both paid events and free sessions.
- The Full Pass (€49) (which includes access to all stage events – with the exception of the Future4Cities sessions, which require separate registration –, the exclusive digital series Road to Chora&Will Days – a way to get ready alongside some of the most iconic voices from the Chora and Will universe – and the Welcome Kit with official merchandise) is already sold out.
- Single Day Pass (Saturday and/or Sunday - €19): guaranteed access to the panels on the selected day or days.
- Single Day Pass Extra (€29): access to the panels on the selected day + the final online event of Road to Chora&Will Days (with Mario Calabresi, Monday, September 15 at 7 PM) and the Welcome Kit with official merchandise.
The Friday evening play The Seventies: Terror and Rights is also sold out.
As for the Future4Cities stage events, you can still register free of charge for individual sessions, scheduled for Friday morning, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon. Registration is available directly on the Festival’s website at days.chorawill.com/biglietti.

THE PROGRAM

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

- Future4Cities - The city is a team game
9.30 AM - 10.15 AM | Binario 3
With Riccardo Haupt (Chora&Will), Davide Agazzi (FROM), Maurizia Rebola (Direttrice Generale OGR Torino), Anna Maria Poggi (Presidente Fondazione CRT), Presidente Marco Gay (Unione Industriali Torino)
- Future4Cities - Future4Cities Method
10.15 AM - 10.30 AM | Binario 3
With Paolo Bovio (Chora&Will), Stefano Daelli (FROM)
- Future4Cities - The Atlas of Future4Cities
10.30 AM - 1.30 PM | Binario 3
Presentazione dei migliori progetti di innovazione urbana mappati nelle edizioni 2023 e 2024
- Future4Cities - Words to inhabit the city of tomorrow
3.00 PM - 3.30 PM | TBD
With Vera Gheno (linguista e saggista), Paolo Bovio (Chora&Will), Stefano Daelli (FROM)
- Future4Cities - CLOSER LIVE - How to tell the story of a changing city?
3.30 PM - 4.00 PM | Binario 3
With Roberto Gualtieri (Sindaco di Roma), Carlo Notarpietro (Chora&Will)
- Future4Cities - The challenges of cities – Future4Cities Award 2025 /1: Urban Transformations and Local Economic Development
4.00 PM - 4.45 PM | Binario 3
With Camilla Ferrario (Chora&Will), Matteo Brambilla (FROM), Costanza De Stefani (C40 Reinventing Cities), Giulio Buciuni (Trinity Business School Dublin)
- Future4Cities - The game of priorities - Special mayors edition
4.45 PM - 5.15 PM | Binario 3
With Pietro Forti (Chora&Will) and other guests
- Future4Cities - The challenges of cities – Future4Cities Award 2025 /2: Climate Action and Grassroots Projects
5.15 PM - 6.00 PM | Binario 3
With Camilla Ferrario (Chora&Will), Matteo Brambilla (FROM), Livia Shamir (Stefano Boeri Architetti), Flavio Proietti Pantosti (Officine Italia & Reoassunto, Obama Scholar)
- Future4Cities - City LIVE - Inequalities and free spaces
6.00 PM - 6.30 PM | Binario 3
With Elena Granata (Politecnico di Milano, founder Planet B), Paolo Bovio (Chora&Will), Stefano Daelli (FROM)
- Opening event Chora&Will Days
6.30 PM - 7.30 PM | Binario 3

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

- Future4Cities - Discovering the city of the Future
9.30 AM - 1.00 PM | Binario 3
With Valentina Sacchetto (Diskolé APS), Ivano Marchiol (Comune di Udine), Luca Bosonetto (ARCI), Luca Taminim (PoliMi), Giulia Melis (Fondazione LINKS), Alberto Robbiati (Forwardtto), Lucio Beltrami, Ianira Vassallo (PoliTo), Federica Sanchez (Lombardini22), Francesca Berardi (Chora&Will) and other guests
- The time of emergency
9.45 AM - 10.30 AM | Sala Fucine
With Paolo Giordano, Benedetta Tobagi, Pietro Forti, Spokesperson Emergency
- To be announced
10.30 AM - 11.15 AM | Sala Fucine
Event and guests will be announced
- Time in time
11.15 AM - 12.00 PM | Sala Fucine
With Silvia Nucini, Alessandro D’Avenia
- The time of life and its end
12.00 PM - 12.45 PM | Sala Fucine
With Marco Cappato, Don Carmine Arice
- The Garlasco Case: anatomy of a media crime
2.15 PM - 3.00 PM | Sala Fucine
With Pietro Colaprico, Floriana Bulfon, Francesca Milano
- Other American Stories
3.00 PM - 3.45 PM | Sala Fucine
With Mario Calabresi, Monica Maggioni, Marco Bardazzi
- Future4Cities - Notes from the future
3.00 PM - 4.00 PM | Binario 3
With Davide Agazzi (FROM), Tommaso Vitale (Sciences Po Paris) and other guests
- The art of telling other people's lives
3.45 PM - 4.30 PM | Sala Fucine
With Chiara Gambarale, Francesco Zaffarano, Sabrina Tinelli
- Future4Cities - Non-human neighbors
4.00 PM - 4.30 PM | Binario 3
With Leonardo Mazzeo (Chora&Will), Marco Granata (Etologo) and other guests
- Future4Cities - How cities vote
4.30 PM - 5.00 PM | Binario 3
With Lorenzo Pregliasco (YouTrend)
- Love in the time of apocalypse
4.30 PM - 5.00 PM | Sala Fucine
With Valeria Montebello, Piuttosto Che
- Future4Cities - African cities: laboratories of climate justice and integral health
5.00 PM - 5.30 PM | Binario 3
With Giulia Bassetto (Autrice clima), Ferdinando Cotugno (Giornalista) and other guests
- The time of imagination
5.00 PM - 5.45 PM | Sala Fucine
With Paolo Giordano and a special guest
- Future4Cities - Città Live: The revolutions of sharing
5.30 PM - 6.00 PM | Binario 3
With Alessio Raccagna (LIME), Paolo Bovio (Chora&Will), Stefano Daelli (FROM)
- Future4Cities - Living is expensive: European cities and the housing crisis
6.00 PM - 6.30 PM | Binario 3
With Raffaella Saporito (Università Bocconi), Giacomo Ardesio (Housing Europe.eu), Clara Morelli (Chora&Will) and other guests
- Time, wars, people
6.00 PM - 6.45 PM | Sala Fucine
With Cecilia Sala, Simone Pieranni
- Future4Cities - Images of cities and urban regeneration
6.30 PM - 7.00 PM | Binario 3
With Ico Migliore (Migliore+Servetto), Camilla Ferrario (Chora&Will), Spokesperson Urban Vision
- Future4Cities - Mezzo Pieno Live
7.00 PM - 7.30 PM | Binario 3
With Mattia Battagion (Chora&Will) and other guests
- How a photograph sounds - Sebastião Salgado
7.00 PM - 8.00 PM | Sala Fucine
With Mario Calabresi

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

- Seietrenta (at Novetrenta)
9.30 AM - 10.00 AM | Binario 3
With Mario Calabresi, Simone Pieranni, Cecilia Sala and other guests
- They don’t have a friend live
10.15 AM - 11.00 AM | Binario 3
With Luca Bizzarri
- Ask history
11.00 AM - 12.00 PM | Binario 3
With Davide Savelli, Elena Bacchin
- Closer live: The time of politics
12.00 PM - 12.45 PM | Binario 3
With Carlo Notarpietro, Marco Damilano
- The time of bodies
2.15 PM - 3.00 PM | Binario 3
With Francesca Mannocchi, Simone Pieranni
- Infinite Scrolling presents Tintoria - Creator Masterclass
3.00 PM - 3.45 PM | Binario 3
With Andrea Girolami, Daniele Tinti, Stefano Rapone
- Appointment with eternity: the Egyptians and the obsession with staying
3.45 PM - 4.15 PM | Binario 3
With Christian Greco, Davide Savelli, Paolo Bovio
- Globally Live
4.15 PM - 5.00 PM | Binario 3
With Silvia Boccardi, Francesco Rocchetti, Simone Pieranni, Annalisa Camilli
- I’m going to live in... City or Countryside?
5.00 PM - 5.45 PM | Binario 3
With Riccardo Haupt, Maurizio Carucci and other guests
- To be announced
5.45 PM - 6.30 PM | Binario 3
Event and guests will be announced
- Closing event Chora&Will Days
6.30 PM - 7.30 PM | Binario 3

THE THEATER PERFORMANCE
On opening night, the festival will host the return of “The Seventies. Terror and Rights”, after two sold-out shows in Milan. Written and performed by Mario Calabresi with Benedetta Tobagi, Sara Poma, and special guest Marco Damilano, the performance offers an intense, original account of the longest and most controversial decade in Italian republican history, told through the languages of theater, journalism, and podcasting. The OGR Torino performance marks the start of a nationwide tour running throughout 2025.
This event is sold out.

FUTURE4CITIES - THE FESTIVAL WITHIN THE FESTIVAL
As part of Chora & Will Days, the new edition of Future4Cities will take place. Conceived by Will Media and FROM, and co-produced this year with OGR Torino, Future4Cities is the festival dedicated to urban change. Since 2023, it has brought together people and organizations reshaping Italian cities with citizens eager to explore the future of the places we live in. The first two editions drew 4,000 participants, 74 events, 100+ speakers, and mapped over 670 innovative projects.
This year too, Future4Cities will feature talks, workshops, live podcasts, lectures, and urban activations to highlight voices and projects tackling the great challenges of our century of cities: ecological transition, neighborhood life, housing access, public spaces and civic participation, mobility, and regeneration. A program not just open to the city, but co-created with the very people driving its transformation, guided by one key question: What is the future of cities, seen from Torino?
The full program of Future4Cities and the 2025 F4C Award schedule will be available at future4cities.it.

This initiative is made possible thanks to Iren, the Festival’s Main Partner, with the support of Tigotà, Amref Health Africa, Fondazione IU Rusconi Ghigi, Zurich, Emergency, Lime, the City of Cuneo, Lombardini22, Urban Vision, and the Young Entrepreneurs Group of the Turin Industrial Union.