{"id":4106,"date":"2025-10-29T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/evento\/grand-festival-afam\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:23:14","slug":"grand-festival-afam","status":"publish","type":"evento","link":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/en\/event\/grand-festival-afam\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Festival AFAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n

On December 5, 2025, in the prestigious setting of MAXXI<\/strong> – National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, the final event of the international contest “Normale \u00e8 straordinario”<\/strong> was held. It was an event that celebrated the path, research and results of a project involving male and female students from the Italian Academies of High Artistic, Musical and Choreographic Education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

A morning dedicated to the finalists<\/strong>and finalists
The day opened with an exclusive moment reserved for the finalists and finalists of the GTA Contest 2025.<\/strong>
The selected girls and boys participated in a masterclass<\/strong> led by Contest Artistic Director Emanuele Cappelli<\/strong> and Contest Chairman Gabriele Mainetti<\/strong> – director, screenwriter, composer and film producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

l Afternoon at MAXXI: speeches and discussion<\/strong>
In the afternoon, the MAXXI auditorium welcomed a series of institutional speeches<\/strong> by Fabio Mongelli<\/strong>, GTA Scientific Coordinator, Emanuele Cappelli<\/strong>, and the Scientific Officers of the partner institutions.
This was followed by a talk<\/strong> by Gabriele Mainetti<\/strong> together with writer and journalist Laura Delli Colli<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

Awards and exhibition
<\/strong>The day ended with the awarding of the 6 winning projects<\/strong> and the opening at the MAXXI Corner of the exhibition of the 48 finalist works<\/strong>, which can be visited free of charge until December 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The works presented-between audiovisual, performing arts, fashion, design and visual arts-told the expressive richness of the new generations <\/strong>and their ability to interpret the theme “Normale \u00e8 straordinario”<\/strong> in original ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through these languages, male and female students reflected on theuniqueness of each individual<\/strong>, transforming everyday normality into an extraordinariness to be told: each moment, each experience, each choice thus became the essence of a deeply personal and, at the same time, universal work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a well-attended and heartfelt event that saw a strong public presence and great involvement from students, confirming the value of a project that focuses on education, creativity and the power of culture <\/strong>as a space for connection and shared growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn about the day’s program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download PDF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

GTA Contest winning projects<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– FIRST PRIZE: The Gaze Of Eve<\/span><\/a> – by Sofiya Arpaci, Xiang Ding, Zoulong Liu, Wenjie Yu (Rufa students)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– HONORABLE MENTION: Hedone<\/span><\/a> – by Maria Christidi (student of Accademia Italiana)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– HONORABLE MENTION: Les m\u00e8res<\/span><\/a> – edited by Lorraina Favaron (Naba Milan student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– HONORABLE MENTION: Mani silenziose di Prato<\/span><\/a> – by Jiayi Gao (Ied Florence student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– HONORABLE MENTION: Endo<\/span><\/a> – by Francesca Morelli (student of Accademia Italiana)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– HONORABLE MENTION: Cronaca Digitale<\/span><\/a> – by Michele Pomponio (Rufa student)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3917,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"package":[],"class_list":["post-4106","evento","type-evento","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evento\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evento"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/evento"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"package","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandtourafam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/package?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}