Seminaria Sogninterra is a non-profit cultural organization born in 2011 in Maranola, a small medieval village overlooking the Gulf of Gaeta and the Mediterranean Sea. Despite its beauty, this Southern/Central region of Italy is suffering from a wave of depopulation. Seminaria’s goal is to promote contemporary art as an alternative model to enhancing the economic, cultural and social development of local community.

Since 2011, Seminaria has realized many public art projects, educational workshops and the Biennial Environmental Art Festival Seminaria Sogninterra. More than 60 artists have been involved in creating a dialog with the village and its community through site specific projects: videos, sculptures, installations, multimedia, relational or performative works. The audience becomes physically and mentally immersed in a 1km exhibition itinerary that passes through alleys, squares, and public and private spaces. Local citizens and volunteers do the rest by adopting artists and opening their houses to the visitors; their involvement is actually the leading key that helps this independent Biennial Festival to take art outside the museums and galleries and bring it directly to peoples’ lives. Seminaria Festival was honored in Lazio Creativo 2016 as one of the 10 most interesting art projects of Regione Lazio, a large area of Italy that includes the capital, Roma.

Supported by two renowned international partnerships: Fondazione Romaeuropa, the most important Italian festival for art, theatre, dance and contemporary music; and CYFEST Media Art Lab from St. Petersburg, the biggest digital art event held in Russia. New technologies are incorporated thanks to Cyland, to Music Research Center from Rome and Coesum (design, engineering and prototyping italian company).

Seminaria enjoys a wide national and international network: the land art park Nikola Lenivets (Russia), the MoTA Museum of Transitory Art in Ljubljana (Slovenia), the Italian ‘There is no place like home’, Blooming Festival, Maack Kalenarte Open Air Museum of Contemporary Art and SITI, the Italian laboratory of urban/human imagination.