YOUTH FEST - XIII EDIZIONE

DOMINIO PUBBLICO presents YOUTH FEST 2026 - XIII EDITION SOURCES. Dominio Pubblico - Youth Fest at Teatro India from June 23 to June 28, 2026. A week of theater, dance, performing arts, urban arts, music, cinema, visual arts, comics, and digital arts featuring artists strictly under 25. The Sources are veins of water that push until they find an opening, glimmers that precede dawn when darkness is about to end, emerging artists seeking the surface. We give voice and space to those who emerge by breaking through rock. Every source begins with a small crack.

PROGRAM:

We begin on June 23 with the visual arts exhibition COORDINATES OF THE GAZE created in artistic coordination with Marta Di Meglio / UP Urban Factory, and the presentation of the book THE END OF (MY) WORLD produced by six emerging comic artists (Andrea Brumat - Coso - Miriam Pancaldi - Mattia Pelusi - Pitaf - Sara Martina) under the supervision of Stefano Piccoli, director of the independent comic festival ARF! Festival, which since 2015 has attracted dozens of publishers, hundreds of authors, and thousands of enthusiasts united in the sign of the "ninth art." Following this, BeiRicordi Teatro, starting from the imagery of the Roaring Twenties of the twentieth century, presents MICROTHEATER. Whispering Twenties, an innovative micro-theater format specifically created for the Festival through Rooms A, B, and Ocean featuring Maria Vittoria Argenti, Andrea Carrieri, Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi, Diego Frisina, Roberta Infantino, Angelica Isenarda Proietti, Claudia Marsicano, and directed by Silvia Ignoto and Emma Quartullo, exploring the 2020s of our century: not roaring, but whispering. In conclusion, the music of tigernap, a musical project revolving around indie/jazz/folk genres.

On Wednesday, June 24, cinema becomes the protagonist with CURRENTS - SHORT FILM REVIEW curated by Dominio Pubblico in collaboration with 24 Frame at the Secondo, a competition organized by the Valdiserri/Di Caro Family and Controchiave, Girogirocorto Film Festival, IISS Cine TV Roberto Rossellini, which will conclude with a live performance by Gyoza, an emerging pop-rock group formed in 2025, made up of five young men with strong artistic identities.

On June 25, there will be a focus on urban and performing arts with ONE SUNDAY MORNING by Yeva Sai and Matteo Marongiu, a performance veiled in melancholy and suspended in time that combines character exploration, miming, and humor with a reflection on consumption, and CONTACT, a delicate yet impactful performance by Federica Dauri, Hanna Schaich, Luca Della Corte, and Alain Nouchy, selected from the Dossier Generazione Risonanze 2026, exploring intimacy through the love story of two men, one of whom experiences a disability resulting from a spinal stroke.

In the same evening, the contemporary dramaturgy of the duo Perillo-Scarcella is expressed in HOW TO BE A BETTER PERSON, a show that investigates our distressing and schizophrenic way of living: between competitions, commitment, disappointments, and the breaking of the fourth wall. Finally, the melodies of Livrea, a singer-songwriter influenced by psychedelic patterns, jazz, and songwriting.

More pages of new dramaturgy follow on June 26 with SEG MEN TAR SI - Dis-integration of the human by Chiara Arrigoni, a text that won the National Dramaturgy Award Omissis 2025, which will be performed with Stefano Carenza, Silvia Di Cesare, Ion Donà, and Pasquale Montemurro, directed by Ivonne Capece, and SALMONI by binario 1 to tell how changes impact the friendships with which we grew up. Next is the dance performance INSTRUCTIONS UNCLEAR by Fabio Bergaglio, Finalist for the Twain 2025 Award, a manifesto against coherence, a clumsy scream of a generation that grew up with the internet, promises, and illusions, and the music of AI Girlfriend, a punk rock project with folk nuances.

On June 27, there will be a dance performance LUMII by Francesca Gianelli, a solo attempting to launch itself into the world, and KONPIRA FUNE FUNE by Anna Pesetti exploring the relationship between two male bodies, where structure becomes a means to traverse distances, contacts, and possibilities. Still in the performing arts, poet and actress Martina Bernocchi presents DOG SEES GOD IN THE MIRROR, an opportunity to look at the world from below, featuring monologues and slam poetry from one of the most interesting voices of Generation Z; and VENICE VANisHING by Magalì Mariani featuring Venice as the protagonist: its lagoon is poisoned, the sea is rising, the land is sinking, and the last tide is coming. Finally, the company Complesso Polar presents I AM INVISIBLE, a multidisciplinary show where music, performance, and live drawing come together in the setting of the Arena of Teatro India. The programming on June 28 is rich with the interactive digital performance USER CONFESSION by Francesca Savoretti, where the spectator-user is confronted with the isolation and hyperconnection of everyday life, and PRIMI TEMPI - DANCE STUDY REVIEW, a showcase created in co-programming with Fuori Programma, an international contemporary dance festival that renews collaboration with Dominio Pubblico to support emerging choreographers: Ingresso Libero by Alice D’Urso, Lupo di mare by Emilia Quiñones, and Muga by Francesco Paolino. Three authorial perspectives, three poetic voices that tell us something about tomorrow, committed to supporting the freshness of the languages of new generations. Then there will be theater with AGE IS A FEELING by Haley McGee, winner of the Fringe First and nominated for the Olivier, previously sold out at London’s Soho Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe, in Italy with direction by Marcello Cotugno, author, actor, and director of over 70 shows. In conclusion, the live performance by Sueth Greco, a multifaceted DJ and musician in the Arena of the Teatro India.

Throughout the festival, in the Foyer of Sala Oceano, the exhibition COORDINATES OF THE GAZE will be visible, curated by Dominio Pubblico in collaboration with Marta Di Meglio / UP Urban Prospective Factory featuring works by Margherita Cerioni - Flavia De Muro / SIAE Per Chi Crea - Sofia Giacomello - Giovanni Golfieri, Liceo Antonio Labriola / Award “What Would Pasolini Say Today?” - Daniele Morales - Serena Osma - Giulia Parisi - Giulia Pietrapertosa - Chiara Ricci: a reflection on the position of bodies in the world. Not only as a physical presence in space but as a point from which every gaze originates. Among the works on display is the project The Backs Are the Walls of the Cities curated by Flavia De Muro, winner of the SIAE - Per Chi Crea “New Works” call, an investigation into queer bodies in urban space realized with 10 LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Free copies of the book THE END OF (MY) WORLD, a collective comic published under the supervision of Stefano Piccoli, director of ARF! Festival, with artistic contributions from Andrea Brumat - Coso - Miriam Pancaldi - Mattia Pelusi - Pitaf - Sara Martina, will also be distributed throughout the Festival.

Dominio Pubblico is a cultural training and active involvement project aimed at young people under 25, who experiment as spectators, promoters, and organizers of Dominio Pubblico – Youth Fest, a multidisciplinary festival hosted at Teatro India thanks to collaboration with the Teatro di Roma Foundation. The heart of the project is the DAP – Directed Artistic Participation, a group of girls and boys under 25 who, alongside tutors and industry experts, independently manage all aspects of the festival: from artistic selection to communication, from promotion to production. Founded and directed by Tiziano Panici, Dominio Pubblico is supported by national and local institutions. Among the connected projects, MA®T – Millennials A®t Work, dedicated to urban regeneration through street art, and since 2023, the Festival delle Passeggiate, curated by Panici himself with singer-songwriter and poet Giulia Ananìa, aimed at enhancing the outskirts of the Capital through music, poetry, and live performances.
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