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The Contest of SEGNI festival

2024: The Year of the Octopus!

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.

Discover the Symbolic Animal 2024

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.

Read why we chose the Octopus

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.
Stay tuned to find out who will be the Artist of SEGNI 2024 and the Octopus of the 19th edition of SEGNI New Generations Festival!

The selection is made by the jury composed of artistic director Cristina Cazzola and the TEENs of Segni

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!

STAY TUNED IN THE NEWS SECTION OF THIS WEBSITE TO FIND OUT WHEN THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS STARTING. 

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.

Enter the competition

STAY UPDATED IN THE NEWS SECTION TO FIND OUT WHEN APPLICATION PROCESS IS STARTING














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    Octopus' Bibliography

    Suggest a book for the Bibliography by writing to segreteria@segnidinfanzia.org