Dear colleagues and attendants to the Migrations/Mediations International Conference,
In compliance with the current developments of the emergency related to the spread of Coronavirus COVID-19, with regret we have to inform you that the “Migrations/Mediations. Promoting intercultural dialogue through media, arts and culture” International Conference scheduled for April, 6-7, 2020 is suspended.
The Conference will be rescheduled for next Autumn, probably in the second half of September. We will let you know the new dates as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this postponement may cause, but your safety and serenity are our main concern. Hopefully everyone will have the opportunity to attend the Conference in Autumn as well.
We are grateful for your understanding and we remain at your disposal for any further information.
We share the new open call of “Atlas of Transitions Biennial | WE THE PEOPLE in Bologna, organised by ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Cantieri Meticci and University of Bologna”
“Imagine a giant urban chorus. Imagine the energy of a common vibration generated by the city’s multitude of voices. Imagine being part of a temporary community aimed at the creation of an extraordinary public event. You would like to participate in the third edition of Atlas of Transitions Biennial | WE THE PEOPLE in Bologna, organised by ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Cantieri Meticci and University of Bologna in June 2020 Here’s an opportunity for you! We are looking for people of all ages and cultural backgrounds, with or without singing skills, music enthusiasts, vocal groups, singers, adventure spirits for Collettivo Amigdala’s new project: MAGNITUDO, a collective act of voicing.A musical score has been composed for the occasion by Meike Clarelli e Davide Fasulo both musiciansfrom Collettivo Amigdala. Thanks to the collaboration with the AfroWomenPoetry project, the score has been created on the words of the Ugandan Poet Carolyne Afroetry, expressly written for the singular and plural voices of Magnitudo. HOW IT WORKS: Starting from April 2020, every week and in distinct areas of the city, three workshop groups will rehearse for the two final performances of the 13th and 14th June 2020, when the groups will join together to create a powerful and subversive collective ritual by occupying public space in Bologna, respectively in the center and in the suburbs. CHECK THE FULL CALENDAR AND REGISTER NOW! for Italian CLICK HERE
Call to participate for max 30 people: Master students, PhD graduates and researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, artists, activists, professionals in NGOs/third sector and cultural organizations, administrators and policy makers.
About the Summer School The summer school offers an interdisciplinary course on international migration, performing arts and public space. The aim of the Summer School is to discuss theoretical frameworks, methodologies and artistic practices focused on the role of performing arts in becoming spaces of resistance, activism and creative intervention in the public space about migration and diversity. Involving world-wide scholars, artists, institutions and collective experiences, the course will offer an overview on the role played by performing arts in developing alternative imageries on migration, spaces of urban participation, collective memory and aesthetics of subversion. Classroom lessons, lessons, good practices presentations, artistic performances, roundtables, open lectures, classroom project works and field works/visits will be offered in this 5-day intensive summer school, for a full-immersion on how creativity and intercultural exchange can sustain more welcoming and inclusive cities.
The classes will be held in English.
Tuition Fees 150 euro, which includes the access to the summer school program + 5 lunches and the welcome cocktail. In specific cases, grants will be available to cover the fee of the summer school, lunches and accommodation.
How to apply Send your CV and a motivation letter (max. 300 words) to: info@atlasoftransitions.euSpecify if you apply for a grant.
The deadline for submitting applications is 29 February 2020. Participants will be informed of acceptance by 22 March 2020.
photo courtesy: Enrico De Stavola from the performance “Unleashing Ghosts from Urban Darkness” by Alessandro Carboni“
Naures Atto
(University of Cambridge), Paola Barretta (Associazione Carta di Roma –
Osservatorio di Pavia), Nadia Bellardi (Community
Media Forum Europe), Nico Carpentier (Charles University – Prague), Sabine Hess
(University of Goettingen), Judith Keilbach (Utrecht University), Pierluigi
Musarò (Alma Mater Università degli studi di Bologna), Tim Prentki (University
of Winchester), Guglielmo Schininà (IOM – UN migration).
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Naures Atto,
University of Cambridge
Laura Corrado, Legal Migration
and Integration Unit in DG HOME – European Commission
In the context of the
migrant and refugee crisis, the EU Member States and the European Union itself
have recently demonstrated sensitivity toward exploring the ways in which media,
the arts and performative practices are able to both facilitate intercultural
dialogue among migrant and host communities – thereby empowering their
participation in social life –, and to promote cultural diversity (different
ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds and heritage) within European
societies. Indeed, different “liberal” and “applied” arts (film, theatre &
performance, photography, crafts, architecture, design, etc.) as well as emerging
cross-media forms (interactive and social media, games, street art, circus and
performative practices, etc.), have a pivotal role to play in this direction. In
a nutshell, “artistic and cultural expressions can help us to communicate with
each other, in an immediate manner, and allow us to understand our similarities
as well our differences, in an area where we must also resolve disputes “ (Report
How culture and the arts can promote intercultural
dialogue in the context of the migratory and refugee crisis, 2017, p. 10).
Despite this high potential for opening new perspectives on EU societies
based on integration and a willingness to engage in dialogue, these guidelines seem
mostly unexplored and little discussed within the academic communities –
primarily focused on the current regime of representation of migrant
people and newcomers. Moreover, it can hardly be disregarded that
a practical implementation of these guidelines faces many difficulties: national cultural policies affect cultural productions by
institutionalizing the process of othering through rhetorical discourses and
hegemonic representations; the projects and practices in this field are often
vital but fragmented and poorly reciprocally connected (also due to their strong
roots in specific areas and territories); the skills and professional figures
associated with these processes are poorly defined and have no particular
training centres; and finally, the evaluation methods of the initiatives are
different and lacking consolidated protocols. The combination of all these
factors produces a fundamental weakness in a sector that in any case, remains
extremely lively and promising.
On this basis, and within the framework of a research program that the UCSC’s Department of Communication Sciences and Performing Arts has been developing over the last two years (Migrations / Mediations. Media and performative arts as tools for the intercultural dialogue: https://www.migrations-mediations.com/), this International Conference intends to gather academic and independent researchers, artists, cultural providers, public and private funders, and policymakers – both at a local and at an international level – with the aims to:
Reflect on the role of media, arts and culture in the management of policies devoted to migration phenomena, also on the basis of an exchange of best and worst practices;
Focus on the ways and the degrees in which media, arts and culture have been considered as critical tools for intercultural dialogue by policymakers, at different levels (local, national, European).
Draw attention to the ways through which artists and cultural providers can create and develop models of action in territories oriented toward bringing host populations into contact with migrants and refugees, as well as to empower newcomers themselves by offering a space for dialogue and a basis for voice-attaining and self-organising;
Empower the professional figure of the cultural provider in contexts of intercultural and shifting societies, by defining its skills, methods of work, and formation paths.
Develop a specific set of tools and a methodology to assess the social, cultural and economic impact of intercultural dialogue activities through arts, media and culture. Along with quantitative indicators of success, such as counting audiences reached or scoring intercultural stakeholders included in the action, it is worthwhile to elaborate new models of evaluation for the measurement and assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of such projects.
On these
bases, we invite abstracts on any of the following topics.*
Practices of
empowerment of intercultural dialogue through media, arts and performative
activities.
Networks (formal and
informal) with publicly-funded cultural organizations, civil society and other
stakeholders.
Employment
opportunities for migrants in cultural and creative industries.
Comparisons between
the approaches of public and private media.
The role of
immigrant/diaspora/minority media.
Participatory media
and arts projects devoted to working directly with refugee and migrant groups
in socially engaged practice.
Audience development
strategies aiming at promoting cultural diversity.
Practices and
experiences in assessing projects in the field of intercultural dialogue
Fundraising creative
projects to support intercultural dialogue and migrants
The formation of
cultural providers and the role of intercultural dialogue professionals in
supporting cultural and artistic projects for the integration of refugees and
migrants.
* Please note,
this is not an exhaustive list of topics, and we will review any abstracts
related to the media and migration/immigration/multiculturalism and related
topics. Especially welcome are submissions rooted in media studies, visual,
performative and cultural studies, critical data studies, postcolonial studies
and from scholars who build bridges between academia, policy, public and
private funding, media system, arts and public debate, and stakeholders’ networks.
The deadline for the submissions is 1 February 2020. Interested contributors should send a 300-500 word abstract and a short biographical note at the following e-mail address: migrations.mediations@unicatt.it. The accepted proposals will be notified by 15 February 2020. The languages of the conference are Italian and English (the latter is preferred).
THURSDAY 21 from 15.30 to 16.30 in Università Cattolica (room SA116 Schuster – Via Sant’Agnese, 2. Milano) Davide Enia open lesson, accompanied by the musician Giulio Brocchieri
The Open Lesson of DAVIDE ENIA, playwright interpreter and director of the show L’Abisso (with which he won the Maschere Award of the Teatro 2019 as best monologue performer) is part of the “Drammaturgie Performative” course of Prof. Laura Peja and it will be Thursday 21 November 2019 at 15.30 classroom SA 116 Schuster
The abyss taken from “Notes for a shipwreck” (Sellerio editore, Premio Mondello 2018) a show by and with Davide Enia music composed and performed by Giulio Barocchieri production Theater of Rome – National Theater, Biondo Theater of Palermo, Lost Academy / Romagna Theaters in collaboration with Arzo International Storytelling Festival organization Luca Marengo
“When I saw the first landing in Lampedusa I was with my father – writes Davide Enia -. Lots of boys and girls came. History was the one that was happening before our eyes. Over the years I have returned to the island, building an ongoing dialogue with direct witnesses: fishermen, Coast Guard personnel, residents, doctors, volunteers and divers “. Their words and, above all, their silences have become a story, a historical testimony and an existential path: “From the recording of their voices – continues Enia – fragments of painful and yet hopeful stories have emerged. Their words opened prospects and hid abysses ». The staging of Davide Enia fuses different theatrical registers and languages: the ancient songs of the fishermen, tuned along the routes between Sicily and Africa, and the Palermo cunto, on the melodies with more voices that intertwine to become prayers full of anger when the sea roars and in the nets, together with the fish, we find the bodies of men, women, children.
Enia is engaged in a long tour with the show, in these days on stage at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan (12-24 November)
Davide Enia Bio
In 2002 he wrote directs and interprets “Italia-Brasile 3 a 2” (Ubu special 2003 award).
In 2003 he won the Tondelli Award at the Riccione Prize with
«Scanna» which debuted with his directing, at the Venice Biennale in 2004.
In 2004 he writes, directs and interprets “Maggio ‘43”
(first prize for best show at the “Moldavian International Teatrul Unui
Actor”).
In 2005 he won the Hystrio Prize and the E.T.I Award as a
dramaturgical novelty. For RaiRadio2 he writes and interprets «Rembò». In 2006
he won the Vittorio Mezzogiorno award and the Gassman Award for best emerging
Italian talent.
In 2007 he writes, directs and interprets “I capitol dell’infanzia”.
The texts are published by Sellerio and Fandango.
In 2009 he won the Special Jury Prize at the Riccione Prize
with “Il cuoco”.
In 2012 he published his first novel, “Così in Terra”
(Baldini and Castoldi Dalai), translated into eighteen languages and
published all over the world.
In 2013 he was Writer in Residency (Nederlands Letterfonds
Dutch Foundation for Literature) in Amsterdam.
In 2014 he published the story along «Uomini e Pecore»
(EDT).
In 2015 he is Writer in Residency (Passaporta) in Brussels.
In 2016 with the French edition of “Così in Terra”,
“Sur cette terre comme au ciel” (Albin Michel) won the Prix du
Premier Roman Etranger and the Prix Brignoles as the best foreign novel of the
year.
In 2017, in April, he directed “L’oca del Cairo”,
an incomplete work by Mozart, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In May he
publishes his second novel, “Appunti per un naufragio” (Sellerio).
In 2017 he wins the Anima Prize for Social.
In 2018 he won the Mondello Award in the Italian Opera
Section.
In October 2018 he will return to the theater with the opera “L’abisso” at the Teatro India in Rome.
With “L’Abisso” Davide Enia won the 2019 Theater Masks Award for Best Performer of Monologue
“An encounter between generations, between genders, between different cultures, each with its crises, efforts, hopes for the family. It is the beginning of a dialogue that has never stopped”. A book of Chiara Giaccardi and Peter Nondi.
MUDEC – Spazio delle Culture – Khaled al-Asaad 6-8 PM Via Tortona, 56 – Milano
“Playing Inclusion. The Performing Arts in the Time of Migrations: Thinking, Creating and Acting Inclusion is a collection of essays written by theatrologists, sociologists, psychologists, artists, performers, social theatre experts and facilitators, who describe and analyse with their different points of view and methodologies some experiences where performative arts and practices enact reflexive, creative and active processes aimed at taking care of the complex migratory phenomenon”.
The research “Migrations-mediations: arts and communication as resources for intercultural dialogue” tackles the different uses of media, theater and performance, art and culture in the management of migratory phenomena and the promotion of intercultural dialogue.
Sabato 7 aprile, è stata inaugurata Cascina Casottello, Centro Internazionale di Quartiere. La cascina è in via Fabio Massimo 19 a Milano dove.
Luogo di importanza storica risalente al 1700, la Cascina Casottello sta vivendo oggi un processo di trasformazione urbana che cerca di coinvolgere il quartiere Porto di Mare / Corvetto della città di Milano.
“L’ Associazione socio-culturale Sunugal e la cooperativa Fate Artigianehanno vinto all’inizio del 2016 il bando pubblico per la ristrutturazione e la rivalorizzazione della Cascina acquisita dal Comune di Milano nel 2013 con lo scopo di avviare un processo di rigenerazione territoriale e architettonica. Il filo conduttore è stimolare un contagio attivo attraverso proposte di carattere creativo, artistico e sociale nel segno di una partecipazione che arricchisca reciprocamente coloro che vivono la città, diversi e uguali nelle loro molteplici sfumature”.
Il progetto vede inoltre il sostegno di Fondazione Cariplo e dell’ 8Xmille della Chiesa Valdese.
La cascina prevede una biblioteca multiculturale, una ludoteca, un sportello CAF, una sala associazioni, laboratori di musica, disegno, teatro.
