Programme

Words on Streets is a short film that features five immigrants in Genoa, Italy, w Developed collaboratively with members of migrant communities in Paris, Genoa, and New York, The Speeches Series highlights the power of speech and performance as tools for imagining alternative ways of belonging. ho create manifestos addressing nationality, citizenship, and belonging.

Through a workshop and presentation, Lori Lako engages participants in textile Through this workshop and presentation, Lako creates a space where participants engage with textile-preserving as both a personal and collective act, scanning personal pieces as a reflection on the shifting dynamics of labor, tradition, and identity.

Francesco Berati presents an artistic fashion show that brings attention to the importance of textiles within artistic production.

Through a workshop and presentation, Lori Lako engages participants in textile Through this workshop and presentation, Lako creates a space where participants engage with textile-preserving as both a personal and collective act, scanning personal pieces as a reflection on the shifting dynamics of labor, tradition, and identity.

For this intimate presentation, poet and artist Mimoza combines poetry, music, and translation into a performative moment that blurs the boundaries of language, sound, and temporality.

Besa Mati is the first Albanian female DJ, hailing from Tirana, Albania, with a career spanning over two decades.

Join us for a reading session of the book « Të gjithë duhet të jemi feministë » with Emira Shkurti from UNICEF ! If you’re looking for an answer to the question « what does it mean to be a feminist today ? » the best response can be found in this book which explore this issue in a essayistic manner, reaching the conclusion that gender division has brought negative consequences for both men and women. The reading session is open to everybody and will create a friendly space for discussion and reflexion on feminism and gender.

The three soloists are specialists in their field: Marine Sablonnière for medieval music, Henri Tournier for North Indian music and Isabelle Courroy for pastoral music from the Balkans and Anatolia, deploying the concept of oblique music which brings together music of creation and tradition.

Curated by Albanian filmmaker Iris Elezi, Silent Mediterranean offers a rare cine-concert immersive experience featuring unique hand-tinted silent film travelogues from the Mediterranean region (1910–1927).

Elena Colombi’s sets are geared toward the unexpected. From cosmic psychedelia and pounding jungle to obscure post-punk and spoken word, they swirl through a cerebral world of noise.

Lucky Pierre is an ongoing performance series exploring intimacy, desire, and connection through a persona caught between giving and receiving, exposure and control. Inspired by queer slang, the character embodies duality, both active and passive, performing and being performed upon. Each episode unfolds through poetry, voice, movement, and sound, with a mask and costume serving as transformative tools that conceal and reveal. The work creates a space where personal experience and theatrical expression merge in a continuous negotiation of roles.

The project re-imagines the Mediterranean region through sonic archives, which include sounds, songs, and voices from local musicians, fishermen, and activists.

Edona Vatoci and Viola Recaj come together in a captivating sonic collaboration that merges electronic experimentation with raw, emotive vocals.

This workshop aims to explore the energy, complexity and focus of contemporary dance. Participants will have the opportunity to develop their artistic expression skills and deepen their connection with their bodies and their environment.

Thanks to her voice, to instruments such as the Jew's harp, the tambourine, the guitar, the harmonic flute, but also through the accomplished use of electronic machines, loop stations and others, Rachele Andrioli calls ancestral rituals, which carry the listener to suggestive and colorful elsewhere, where an inventive polyphony seems to spring forth in an unexpected, urgent, alive Salento.