No Panic Gallery aims to become cultural focal point in Molise village.The international CVTà street art festival celebrates a decade of regenerating a remote village in Italy's central Molise region every summer with the launch of a gallery on the weekend of 27-28 June.Over the past 10 years, this collaborative initiative - conceived by Rome street artist Alice Pasquini and organised by the CivitArt Cultural Association alongside the local municipality - has engaged more than 50 world-renowned artists. They have produced around 90 site-specific works, transforming the historic village in the Campobasso countryside into an open-air museum that attracts roughly 25,000 annual visitors and revitalises the local economy. No Panic Gallery To secure a permanent base for this evolving contemporary art movement, the festival is launching the No Panic Gallery. Funded through the European Union’s NextGenerationEU PNRR scheme for historic villages, the gallery will operate year-round as a cultural hub, hosting artistic residencies, educational programmes and workshops. The gallery’s inauguration features a group exhibition showcasing original works, installations and pieces created from architectural fragments by returning international artists. Special events Simultaneously, fresh open-air interventions will be painted throughout the village. The opening weekend also marks the launch of CVTÀ STREET FEST - Ten Years of Walls, Stories, and Communities in Civitacampomarano 2016-2025. Published by Drago Publisher, this 144-page visual archive documents the festival's history through testimonies and more than 200 photographs. Bridging street art with music, the celebration includes evening DJ sets by Massive Attack co-founder Daddy G (Grantley Marshall) and hip-hop artist KEEDOMAN. The festival concludes on 28 June with an informal day of guided gallery tours, walks and panel discussions. This programme offers artists, journalists and enthusiasts a collaborative space to explore public art’s power to rejuvenate rural communities. Origins The idea behind the annual street art festival was to breathe new life into the largely abandoned village whose 300 mainly elderly residents embrace the thousands of visitors that arrive each June. The colourful event had a serendipitous beginning: in 2014 Ylenia Carelli, president of Civitacampomarano's cultural organisation, wrote to Alice Pasquini inviting her to paint in the village after seeing a television interview with the artist. What Carelli did not know was that Pasquini's grandfather was actually one of the residents of the village which is located about 180 km from Rome. Pasquini seized the opportunity and so began a journey that has seen Civitacampomara transformed by a succession of well known Italian and international street artists. Photo Biancoshock

The international CVTà street art festival celebrates a decade of regenerating a remote village in Italy's central Molise region every summer with the launch of a gallery on the weekend of 27-28 June. Over the past 10 years, this collaborative initiative - conceived by Rome street artist Alice Pasquini and organised by the CivitArt Cultural Association alongside the local municipality - has engaged more than 50 world-renowned artists. They have produced around 90 site-specific works, transforming the historic village in the Campobasso countryside into an open-air museum that attracts roughly 25,000 annual visitors and revitalises the local economy. To secure a permanent base for this evolving contemporary art movement, the festival is launching the No Panic Gallery. Funded through the European Union’s NextGenerationEU PNRR scheme for historic villages, the gallery will operate year-round as a cultural hub, hosting artistic residencies, educational programmes and workshops. The gallery’s inauguration features a group exhibition showcasing original works, installations and pieces created from architectural fragments by returning international artists. Simultaneously, fresh open-air interventions will be painted throughout the village. The opening weekend also marks the launch of CVTÀ STREET FEST - Ten Years of Walls, Stories, and Communities in Civitacampomarano 2016-2025. Published by Drago Publisher, this 144-page visual archive documents the festival's history through testimonies and more than 200 photographs. Bridging street art with music, the celebration includes evening DJ sets by Massive Attack co-founder Daddy G (Grantley Marshall) and hip-hop artist KEEDOMAN. The festival concludes on 28 June with an informal day of guided gallery tours, walks and panel discussions. This programme offers artists, journalists and enthusiasts a collaborative space to explore public art’s power to rejuvenate rural communities. The idea behind the annual street art festival was to breathe new life into the largely abandoned village whose 300 mainly elderly residents embrace the thousands of visitors that arrive each June. The colourful event had a serendipitous beginning: in 2014 Ylenia Carelli, president of Civitacampomarano's cultural organisation, wrote to Alice Pasquini inviting her to paint in the village after seeing a television interview with the artist. What Carelli did not know was that Pasquini's grandfather was actually one of the residents of the village which is located about 180 km from Rome. Pasquini seized the opportunity and so began a journey that has seen Civitacampomara transformed by a succession of well known Italian and international street artists. Photo Biancoshock