Youth Biodiversity Festival

A festival for the new generation

The Youth Biodiversity Festival is an event held in San Giorgio Canavese, a town in the Metropolitan City of Turin, in the heart of the Piedmontese Canavese. Conceived by the well-known RAI television personality Giuseppe "Peppone" Calabrese, the festival focuses on young people—Gen Z and Gen Alpha—challenging them to engage with the major issues of our time: conscious eating, sustainability, biodiversity protection, and the future of food.

An event spread across the square, the House of Biodiversity, and the Castle

The festival animates several symbolic locations in the town: the Youth House of Biodiversity in the historic market area, Piazza Ippolito, and the evocative Castle of San Giorgio Canavese. The festival is part of the broader Three Canavese Lands Reciprocity Festival, which unites the municipalities of San Giorgio Canavese, Agliè, and Castellamonte in a shared project to promote the local territory.

Workshops, talent shows, and meetings

The program alternates between events open to the public and days dedicated to schools. Among the most popular activities are creative workshops, the Lab.Brick space dedicated to building with bricks, the PLAY installation featuring traditional wooden games, and the Talenteen talent show, an open stage for the artistic and musical performances of young people. There are also floral workshops held in celebration of Mother's Day.

• Educational meetings with the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo
• In-depth sessions with Coldiretti Torino and the Slow Food Canavese Convivium
• Meetings with Slow Food Presidia producers
• Film screenings and creative workshops in schools

Communicators and prominent guests

Each edition brings a group of experts to San Giorgio Canavese who know how to speak the language of the younger generation: from food creator Aurora Cavallo (Cooker Girl) to Diabolik illustrator Giulio Giordano, and from Michelin-starred chef Pasquale Laera to artificial intelligence and visual culture expert Silvio Giordano. It is an opportunity to introduce young people from Piedmont and all over Italy to the themes of the land, the landscape, and environmental respect in an engaging and contemporary way.