SOL INVICTUS: Sounds and performances for the winter solstice

Istituto Svizzero celebrates the winter solstice with an exceptional line-up of performances and DJ sets in Palermo, Rome and Milan.

The shortest day of the year: the winter solstice, by convention, is the moment in which, due to the position of the Sun with respect to the equator, the longest night and the shortest day correspond. An astronomical event rich in symbolic meanings—sometimes even controversial—that was celebrated in antiquity by pagan populations before the advent of Christianity: the Romans celebrated Sol Invictus, the Egyptians the birth of Horus, the Greeks worshipped Helios. After the prevailing hours of winter darkness, the Sun seemed to be reborn and became invincible (from Latin Sol Invictus). A time of year that, ancestrally, marks the passage from darkness to light. And it is precisely this hope, this search for light in dark times, to which Istituto Svizzero dedicates these three evenings.

The evenings are organized in collaboration with Officine Bellotti and Fondazione ICA Milano.