The Contest of SEGNI festival
Symbol Animal and contest
Each edtion of the SEGNI Festival has its symbolic animal and a testimonial, an artist who draws the animal. Over the past editions, Dario Moretti’s drawings in the first 6 years have been followed by the work of Dario Fo, Altan, Alessandro Bergonzoni, Giorgia, Licia Colò, Alessandro Sanna, Virgilio Sieni, Vinicio Capossela, Arturo Brachetti, even Giulio Romano up to the scientist Barbara Mazzolai. Since 2023 this job has been given to our audience: young people can apply its own graphic design and the jury chooses the one!
The symbolic animal is the perfect vehicle for conveying content and themes that stimulate creativity and reflection in young audiences. It comes with a Bibliography offering ideas for further reading on the festival topics. More importantly, the symbol animal is connected to a historic Contest where everybody – children, teenagers, families, schools of all kinds and levels – can participate by reinterpreting the image of the animal proposed by the testimonial artist through various artistic or narrative techniques.
The participants’ creations are one of the highlights of the path leading up to the Festival, a way to leave your own mark and be 100% involved.
2024: The Year of the Octopus!
A symbol of adaptability, resilience, sensitivity and intelligence, the Octopus is a dreamer (did you know the octopus dreams in color?) and it is a protagonist of the ecosystem in which it lives.
Let's become the Testimonial Artist of 2024
For the second year in a row, in 2024 the testimonial artist is chosen among the Segni audience community.
This year, the Octopus, the face of the 19th edition, was designed by Nicole Tecchio, a young artist born in 2000 from Monzambano (MN) who participated in the open call for artists last February.
‘I am very happy and grateful to Segni for this opportunity! What I really want to do in life is to be an illustrator for children, so I am honoured that my drawing was chosen for the visual of this edition, also and above all because I share the idea of childhood and the new generations that SEGNI Festival brings forward’.
Nicole Tecchio
The Contest that will change you!
The Festival Contest has always been an activity to be shared with the family and the class. Participating in the Contest is a way to learn how to communicate themes and shape ideas using the different languages of the arts. You can submit a pictorial, plastic, narrative or multimedia work. There are no limits to creativity!
How can you enter?
All ages can participate:
- with classmates
- alone, by involving the family or by getting together with friends to share ideas and each produce a work to enter the competition.
What kind of works can be submitted? Artistic (pictorial or plastic), narrative (short stories, poems) or multimedia (podcasts, videos): there are no limits to creativity!
THE CONTEST IS ACTIVE FROM SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER UNTIL SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER.
What you can win
Each year Segni together with its partners and sponsors provides prizes for the first three winners of the two current categories:
- school category: in which schools of all grades in the province of Mantua participate;
- family category: in which Segni also invites everyone to participate, only adults as well.
FOR SCHOOLS! For the 1st classified: a special event to be realised in class or at school with our Artistic Director.
For the 2nd and 3rd prize-winners Segni d’infanzia will bring to classes a precious selection of books from the Bibliography of the Octopus, realised by Simonetta Bitasi – Lettore Ambulante, Maria Cappelletti – Baratta Library coordinator and Sara Calciolari – Mantova Library Network coordinator and dedicated staff of the Children’s and Young People’s Room.
FOR FAMILIES! A wonderful stay on the Giglio Island (ITALY) and boat trips in the Tuscan Archipelago for the top 3 winners in the Families category! Thanks to MAREGIGLIO
Enter the competition
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FROM SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER UNTIL SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER. Fill in the form below to participate:
