Valletta

An essential aspect of the festival involves the development of workshops centered around the audiovisual experience on board the catamaran. These workshops are designed to address three key themes: cultural diversity, environmental sustainability and gender equality. Suitable for children aged 5 to 11, the activities are inspired by an audiovisual experience highlighting artifacts from the Louvre, encouraging active engagement, conversation and participatory learning.

CAN YOU SEA? Water as a political entity – The land/sea dialectic omnipresent in maritime anthropology. • Colonialism, independence, and development and conservation policies have all disrupted communities inhabiting the maritime space. • The concept of the sea as a human space, marked by cultural diversity, has encountered tenacious resistance. • Access to, ownership of, and protection of the ocean require shifting the dominant Western model of ideas about the sea and opening a middle way – a space for scientific, political, social, and creative reflection.

Marie Helene Pereira is a Curator and cultural practitioner from Dakar, Senegal. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is profoundly interested in the politics of identity and histories of migration.

Emilija Škarnulytė is an artist and filmmaker, born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Working between the documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political. Winner of the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and the Ars Fennica Award 2023, Škarnulytė represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano and was included in the Baltic Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture.