Official event
Photo exhibition curated by Salvatore Farina
Friday 13 November · 16:00–24:00
Officina Culturale — Mostra fotografica
Free entry, no booking required, during the square’s opening hours.
Hosted by
Salvatore Farina
Salvatore Farina, essayist, cultural researcher and photographer, has devoted a significant part of his work to the study and promotion of the pastry, gelato and food culture of Sicily. He is the author of numerous books, including Dolcezze di Sicilia. Arte, cultura, storia e tradizioni dei dolci e della pasticceria siciliana, also published in English as Sweet Sensations of Sicily and winner in 2010 of the “Orio Vergani” Prize of the Accademia Italiana della Cucina. He writes for the magazines Pasticceria Internazionale and TuttoGelato published by Chiriotti Editori. He is president of the cultural associations “Duciezio” and “Rosario Assunto”.
Tasty are the festival's credit. Buy them as often as you like from your phone or at one of the tills — then wander among the stands and enjoy your gelato.
One Tasty is worth one euro of gelato. But each package is an offer of its own: the bigger it is, the more tastings we throw in. Keep an eye on the promotions.
At the stand let them scan your Wallet QR code, or read out your Code. The maker reads it, the Tasty move, and the gelato is yours.
The code lives in the bottom bar, under your thumb: keep it ready while you queue.
There are many ways to cross Sherbeth: following your curiosity, letting an ingredient guide you, finding a familiar flavour again. Or taking a new road and seeing where it leads, one taste at a time. That is how «Gelato itineraries» are born: 10 cross-cutting tasting routes, each with 6 stops, weaving together flavours, places and interpretations through affinities and contrasts, new perspectives. Not sure where to start? The “What gelato are you?” quiz suggests yours. Pay with the QR at one of the itinerary’s gelaterias and the passport stamps itself, even for the tastings you had before signing up.
Complete an itinerary, any itinerary: you get a Conetto on us in your Wallet, ready to collect at the counter.
A few minutes after each tasting you can rate that gelato, until 16 November: one vote per gelateria. The votes cast by 15 November decide the People's Choice Award. With 25 votes you become a Grand Juror: the badge shows up in “My festival”.
Every 6 votes a Conetto on us, landing in your Wallet by itself: up to 10 in all.
You can send Tasty to anyone, as many as you like, and receive them from anyone who sends you some. And if you are holding a receipt with Tasty on it, you load it and they land in your wallet: that works even for a receipt you did not buy yourself.
Whatever is left stays where it is, and you can always hand some to whoever is with you.
Tastings, meetings with the master makers, award nights: you look at the programme, book your seat and walk into the event.
The ticket is a QR like the wallet one: show it at the door and you are in.
Who is taking part, which flavours they offer and where in the square their stand is: the map tells you in one tap, and each maker's page tells you the rest.
Favourite the ones you want to taste: you will find them together once you are there.
