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14 October 2026 — 6:30PM
Ground Hall

A Creativity Revival – An Evening Under Other Suns

We all belong to language, and language belongs to us. This evening honours that mutual belonging, however fragile it may sometimes be: it is through words that we find meaning, and through words that we keep making and remaking the world. The evening is guided by the theme of this year’s Revival, Other Suns. The phrase comes from the writer […]

15 October 2026 — 3:15PM
BASE Milano

A Creativity Revival – Can Creativity Change theWorld? Open Conversations on Creativity and Global Challenges

The Pioneers work at the forefront of some of the most pressing global challenges of ourtime, from artificial intelligence and climate emergencies to mental health, democracy, migration, polarisation and conflict. They bring unconventional practices and approaches drawn from theirwork in communities around the world, in a space where critical thinking is welcome. Every conversation is open to the audience, whatever […]

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BASE Milano è un centro culturale ibrido al servizio della città.
Non un museo, non un teatro, non solo uno spazio aggregativo o un ristorante, non un coworking tradizionale, non un locale da ballo.
Siamo tutte queste cose insieme e anche molto altro.

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FAROUT Live Arts Festival 2026: Hello Darkness

FAROUT Live Arts Festival is back: from October 9 to November 22, a month and a half of performances, exhibitions, and encounters. A festival that transforms the stage into an affective ecosystem made of sounds, bodies, and thoughts inhabiting both BASE and the city.

schau/stellen

FAROUT Live Arts Festival
live performance

17 Oct
H20:30 ROOM 1400

This theatre is a morgue. Through the repetition and variation of the bow, the diptych schau/stellen makes gesture the foundation of a choreographic writing that calls into question the scenic space as the fulcrum of an asymmetrical relation of power and interdependence between vision and representation, performer and audience.   This theatre is a morgue.

Canta Fino A?

live performance
music

18 Oct
H20:30 Ground Hall

Canta Fino A is the performative format of the transfeminist collective Canta Fino A Dieci, created to open spaces of representation, collaboration and participation in the contemporary music scene. In this version, the artists take the stage unannounced: the concert builds itself through listening, letting voices, songs and the relationship with the audience take centre stage. By suspending individual identity, […]

PUNTO DE QUIEBRE

FAROUT Live Arts Festival

24 Oct
H21:00 yesROOM

In Spanish, quiebre means rupture, collapse, breakdown. In flamenco, it refers to a sudden fracturing of the body and rhythm: the moment when balance breaks and from that fracture a new intensity is born. With Quiebre, Industria Indipendente continues its research around Don Quixote alongside performer and choreographer Alma Söderberg. The quiebre becomes a space of possibility, where failure is […]

La notte ha la forma del grido di un lupo

FAROUT Live Arts Festival

6 Nov
H20:00 ROOM 2100

A nocturnal encounter, a non-straight temporality that thickens, returns, deviates — lingers, expands, gets lost. Between waking and sleep, fear and desire, stillness and transformation, Calderoni and Caleo sink into the night, a material to inhabit, devour and displace elsewhere.  Accompanying this descent into darkness are the words of Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig from Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary, while the line that gives the research its title comes from Alejandra Pizarnik, an Argentine lesbian poet who died by suicide.  At the deepest point of the night, other cosmologies emerge: packs, hordes, swarms; mares, she-wolves, lionesses, marmots and snakes. Two bodies become many and, as in Wittig and Zeig’s text, entire populations gather. Boundaries become porous, and on bodies always on the verge of falling asleep appear antennae, hair, feathers, paws, claws, scales and mouths.  La notte ha la forma del grido di un lupo withdraws from the urgency to move forward, produce, or get somewhere. Because here, duration is a matter of resistance: to last one moment longer than those who want us dead, to endure one […]

PUFF

live performance

9 Nov
H20:30 ROOM 1400

Movement oscillates between lightness and strength, balance and abandon, moving through rhythms and gestures that evoke Brazilian urban dance. Breath, pauses and the beating of feet become part of the choreography, giving life to a presence in continuous transformation. At the heart of the work emerges the theme of disguise as a practice of transmission: a way of preserving and […]

Sognare, forse dormire — a sleeping performance

live performance

21 — 22 Nov ROOM 1400

A guiding voice and a sound composition gradually lead from wakefulness into sleep, creating the conditions to explore lucid dreaming. During the night, music, sounds and brief appearances by the performer and musicians move through the space discreetly, interweaving with the sleep of those taking part. Small shifts in perception open a simple question: Am I dreaming? Suspended between sleep […]

Toi, moi, Tituba…

live performance

26 Nov
H20:30 ROOM 1400

Starting from the figure of Tituba — the Black woman accused of witchcraft in the Salem trials and protagonist of Maryse Condé’s novel — Dorothée Munyaneza constructs a solo that moves through memory, body and history. Dance, voice and music become instruments for restoring presence to those who have been erased, reduced to silence or excluded from official narratives, exploring […]

YO VOMITO YUAN

FAROUT Live Arts Festival
live performance

1 Dec
H20:30 ROOM 1400

IO VOMITO YUAN is born from the book “YO VOMITO YUE YUAN” written by Yuan as a Master’s thesis. Between narrative writing and critical reflection, the text moves through politics, science fiction, philosophy and questions of gender in a fragmented and visionary language that resists all classification. The performance transforms this writing into voice and body, questioning the condition of […]

KaraOCHE

FAROUT Live Arts Festival
live performance

2 Dec
H21:00 yesROOM

The performance blends the atmosphere of a karaoke bar with surreal elements, creating a space suspended between reality and fiction, where animal stories, human tragedies, and existential questions intertwine. Through singing, dancing, and spoken word, karaoke becomes a place where unauthorized, eccentric, and marginalized voices find legitimacy and space to speak.

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FAROUT Live Arts Festival 2026:
Hello Darkness

Dal 10 settembre al 2 dicembre BASE torna su FAROUT ↗.

Performance. Concerti. Esperienze immersive. Artist internazionali. Tre mesi di appuntamenti dentro e fuori BASE ispirati a Hello Darkness ↗, il tema che accompagna tutta la programmazione annuale. Un invito a sostare nel buio, non per cercare risposte, ma per cambiare prospettiva.

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We Will Design 2027:
DAYDREAMING

È aperta la call di We Will Design 2027 ↗.
Partecipa alla prossima edizione ed esplora Daydreaming.

Candidature entro il 18 dicembre 2026

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QUIET ROOM

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Quiet Room

Un nuovo spazio permanente a BASE, dedicato alla calma, alla cura e al benessere delle persone.

Una “architettura di riparo”, un luogo morbido
e intimo. Per te.

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PUBLIC PROGRAM 2026

SCOPRI HELLO DARKNESS ↗

Talk, performance, assemblee, installazioni, pratiche partecipative e momenti di ascolto. Un calendario che esplora l’oscurità del presente senza cercare soluzioni semplificate, ma aprendo spazi di possibilità.

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FREE PADS IN BURO AND MUSIC ROOMS

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28 May is the International Menstrual Hygiene Day. An awareness-raising event that every year seeks to break the silence and…

BASE becomes a “Punto Viola”

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Starting today, BASE officially joins the network of Punti Viola by DonnexStrada, safe spaces spread across Italy, created to offer…

BASE becomes a center for menstrual health and cyclicality

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Starting in March, BASE will become a center for menstrual health. It will host the Menstrual Health and Cyclicality Help…

Inaugura a BASE la prima Quiet Room di Milano

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Con l’apertura di QUIET ROOM, BASE Milano compie un nuovo passo nel percorso che da anni porta avanti sui temi dell’accessibilità…

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SCOPRI UNDER 30 ↗

Sei troppo giovane, che ne vuoi sapere tu?
A BASE questa frase la ribaltiamo volentieri.

Non chiedere permesso, prenditi il tuo posto.

Sul palco, dietro le quinte, in sala prove e in cabina di regia. Sperimentare e sbagliare è il modo migliore per trasformare un’idea in qualcosa di vero.

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SPAZI DI LAVORO A BASE

VISITA ↗
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Le grandi idee affiorano negli spazi giusti.
Unisciti al nostro.

La Project House è il co–working di BASE pensato per chi vuole lavorare in un ecosistema duraturo. Uffici grandi, energia condivisa, visione indipendente. A BASE c’è spazio per team che crescono e per l’headquarter della tua azienda.

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