TAM Flowing Forward

A New European Bauhaus satellite event in Morcone

TAM Flowing Forward is the initiative that, in June 2026, integrated Morcone, a village in the Province of Benevento, Campania, into the New European Bauhaus Festival network—a European Commission project showcasing experiences and practices that build more beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive communities. Selected as an official satellite event, the program ran from June 9th to 13th, 2026, translating the core principles of the New European Bauhaus to a local scale: quality of experience, sustainability, inclusion, participation, and the relationship between nature and culture.

Five days of performances, debates, and workshops

More than just a calendar of shows, TAM Flowing Forward was designed as a shared experience: five days to be lived intensely, where the community formed around the TAM project gathered to dedicate ideas and energy to the village's future. Performances, book presentations, theatrical readings, screenings, workshops, and excursions took place in spaces regenerated by the project, with an invitation to young people and residents of all ages to participate actively, from bread-making to setting up and caring for the spaces.

• Daily bread-making demonstrations at the Community Oven, with bread coming out of the oven at 12:00 PM and 6:00 PM.
• The In Rural Residence design residency, featuring an open workshop for a holistic apiary dedicated to bees as guardians of biodiversity.
• Book presentations, a literary contest award ceremony, and evening theatrical readings in the Villa Comunale.
• A concluding workshop on the project's legacy and the MUKRE platform.

The venues: Villa Comunale, Community Oven, Former Vittoria Cinema

The event's geography coincides with the spaces returned to the community by the TAM project. The heart is the Villa Comunale Tommaso Lombardi, with its tree-lined avenues and art installations, where the Parco dello Scoiattolo Chalet hosts the Community Oven, a hybrid shop blending production and social interaction. These are joined by the Former Vittoria Cinema, now an Environmental Cinema and House of the Territory, the Rural Lab in the Loggia Universitas, the Morcone Fair area, and the Radici Vini e Libri wine bar and bookstore.

“TAM, culture is a river”: the project behind the event

TAM is a cultural, social, and economic regeneration project promoted by the Municipality of Morcone as part of the PNRR “Attractiveness of Villages” measure, funded by the European Union through NextGenerationEU and managed by the Ministry of Culture. The acronym encompasses three areas of work: Territory, with the Rural Lab and residencies dedicated to the rural landscape; Art, with TAM Borgo Bottega, the grain supply chain, the Florio Mill, and the community oven; and Memory, with the Atlas of Memory spanning cinema, photography, and theater. Operational partners include Ru.De.Ri, Terzo Paesaggio, Futuridea, RIMA Project, and Culture Attive.

Morcone, the Tammaro, and the Matese

Located at an altitude of about 680 meters, with its profile of terraced houses set against the hillside, Morcone is one of the most recognizable villages in the Alto Tammaro area, about 25 kilometers from Benevento and 70 from Naples. The town overlooks the Matese Park, an ecological and landscape heritage site that TAM Flowing Forward highlighted through excursions and debates: here, the care of the forest, water, and ancient grains is not an abstract theme but a daily practice, now reinterpreted through the new Alto Tammaro Grain Community, which brings together farmers committed to the historical varieties of the Sannio region.

Why it's worth visiting

Those arriving in Morcone during these days will not find a festival to be consumed passively, but an open cultural workshop: you can knead bread, listen to stories, discuss community and circular economy, and walk through the landscape. All events are free and open to the public, a choice consistent with the idea of culture as a common good that flows through the village just as the Tammaro River flows through its valley.