🇮🇹 VISITING: 29 Oct–1 Nov – General Meeting at SEGNI – New Generations Festival 2025

General Meeting Overview

The General Meeting gathered 35 participants, including 15 teenagers. Among them, 8 participants joined through strategic invitation, and 2 of these actively led co-curatorial workshops addressed to teenagers, as well as to tutors and curators within the ForesTEEN ecosystem.

The meeting took place within the framework of the SEGNI New Generations Festival, organized by Segni d’Infanzia, and unfolded over three days of full festival immersion.
Participants attended theatre performances and engaged in collective reflection through post-show discussion tables and shared reflection circles with teens.

The programme also encouraged informal exchange and relationship-building through participatory workshops and social moments, allowing tutors and teenagers to interact beyond official plenary sessions and fostering a horizontal, collaborative environment.

About the Festival

Founded in 2006 by Segni d’Infanzia, the SEGNI New Generations Festival is a unique international arts event in Italy dedicated to children and teenagers from 18 months to 18 years old.

The festival addresses schools, families, and theatre lovers, bringing together transgenerational and international audiences.
Artists from around the world take part in performances, workshops, art tours, and multidisciplinary projects that combine theatre, music, visual arts, dance, and sculpture, creating an engaging and accessible programme for audiences of all ages and nationalities.

Programme Highlights

Wednesday, 29 October – Arrival Day

• Arrival & hotel check-in – Hotel Mantegna, Mantua
• Dinner – Festival Canteen, Loggia del Grano

Thursday, 30 October

• Welcome ForesTEEN!
• Masterclass “Pasta Madre” – Workshop on Audience Engagement (CNR)
• Teens Exchange & Tutors Exchange
• Teen-led Exhibition: Isaac Julien. All That Changes You (ForesTEEN Edition)
• AperiTEEN Presentation

Friday, 31 October

• Shared Vision sessions: performances and walking shows
• Teen Kitchen Table (TKT) discussion
• Co-curatorial Masterclass “Pasta Madre” – Shared Experiences
• Evening performances and festival dinner

Saturday, 1 November – Departure Day

• Check-out
• Final debrief: “Ciao ForesTEEN!”