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.

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.

The first weekend of the Maltese leg of the Art Explora festival, on March 23 and 24, will launch the "Ocean Weekends". In Malta, these two days of programming will be organized in collaboration with the Malta Biennale and curators Sofia Baldi Pighi, Emma Mattei and Andrew Borg Wirth, in partnership with the French Embassy in Valletta. The Ocean Weekend in Valletta will invite the public to a series of round tables, film screenings and inspiring talks, bringing together key speakers from the worlds of art and science around the issue of the oceans' climate emergency.