The Sputnik Festival Brings Comics, Music, Cinema and Performance Together in Southern Italy Over August 19th-21st

This sounds rather cool doesn’t it? Check out the full details of this August’s Sputnik Festival in the press release below. SPUTNIK FESTIVAL 12th ED. — PRACTICES OF TERRESTRIAL RESTANZA The village of Pisticci (MT) is transformed into an outpost of cultural research, comics, music and visual arts. August 19 • 20 • 21 2026 Pisticci (Matera) www.sputnikfestival.it | @sputnikfestival | From August 19 to 21 2026 the Sputnik Festival returns, the independent event that for twelve years has transformed the Lucanian village of Pisticci into an open-air laboratory where comics, music, cinema and performance come together in a spirit of celebration and artistic research. Bridging self-production, independent publishing and important Italian and international authors, the Sputnik Festival once again proves to be a unique space in Italy’s cultural scene. THE THEME OF THE 12TH EDITION: PRACTICES OF TERRESTRIAL RESTANZA «Inhabiting is not a neutral fact. Inhabiting is a choice, a practice, a political act». Based on this premise, the twelfth edition questions what it means to stay, live and act in a place without reducing it to mere scenery, folklore or to a resource to be exploited. The theor...