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

For the full program and to register for events, visit the official Chora & Will Days website.

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 first confirmed guests are: Francesca Mannocchi, Marco Damilano, Paolo Giordano, 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, and Novara: Silvia Salis, Giacomo Possamai, and Alessandro Canelli. 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. This first preview offers only a glimpse of a wide-ranging, dynamic program. New names will continue to be added, making this first edition a unique event on the Italian cultural scene. THEMES AND FORMATS The central theme of the festival will be time, explored through a variety of formats: talks, readings, live podcasts, storytelling, interviews, workshops, and performances. Among the first confirmed sessions: - Time, Wars, People. The time of regimes, wars, global shifts, and the people who live through them. With Cecilia Sala and Simone Pieranni. - How a Photograph Sounds: Sebastião Salgado. Time, humanity, the earth, and the gaze of a great master, told through images and music. With Mario Calabresi. - The Time of Our Bodies. Living with a chronic illness: suspended between waiting, desires, and lives out of sync. With Simone Pieranni and Francesca Mannocchi. - Will Makers Presents: Life’s Time and Its End. An activist and a priest: two perspectives on the end of life. With Marco Cappato and Father Carmine Arice. - Altre/Storie Americane - live podcast. Trump’s America in a new time: what has happened since January, and what might still happen. With Mario Calabresi, Monica Maggioni, and Marco Bardazzi. - Love Beyond Time. Apps, generational struggles, looming wars, and relationships caught in the middle. Spoiler: they’re not doing well. With Valeria Montebello and Piuttosto Che. - Infinite Scrolling presents Tintoria: Creator Masterclass. The remarkable story of a podcast that made it big. With Andrea Girolami, Daniele Tinti, and Stefano Rapone. - Closer Live: The Time of Politics. How Italian politics has evolved across three Republics. With Carlo Notarpietro and Marco Damilano. 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. ACCESS AND REGISTRATION The official festival website, days.chorawill.com, is now live, with updated information on the program, venues, and participation details. Tickets are already available through the site. The Days Pass costs €49 and includes: - Access to all daytime sessions over the three days, starting with the Chora & Will Days Opening on Friday, September 26; - A welcome kit with exclusive Chora & Will-inspired merchandise; - Special access to Road to Chora & Will Days, a series of three digital events between July and September featuring some of the festival’s main guests. In the coming weeks, tickets for the individual sessions (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) will be made available.