Palermo
Edition 0: October 19—24, 2021
Next edition: Spring 2023

BETWEEN LAND AND SEA is an international encounter and a programme of original artistic and theatrical productions developed and presented between Palermo, Tunis, and Bremen. It creates the first participatory and long-term artistic collaboration between the three port cities, acting as a bridge between Europe and the Maghreb and between the South.

BETWEEN LAND AND SEA è un incontro internazionale e un programma di produzioni artistiche e teatrali originali sviluppato e presentato tra Palermo, Tunisi e Brema. Crea la prima collaborazione artistica partecipativa e a lungo termine tra le tre città portuali, agendo come un ponte tra l'Europa e il Maghreb e tra il Sud e il Nord dell'Europa.

BETWEEN LAND AND SEA engages more than 50 artists, workers, researchers, migrants, fishermen, farmers and citizens from Palermo, Tunis, Bremen, Beirut, New York, Abidjan, Berlin, Hamburg, Brussels, Dakar, Bamako to examine and critically reflect the existing connections between port cities and their intertwined histories, linked by global migration and trade. 

At a historical moment when humanity is facing unprecedented planetary challenges, artists, activists and citizens need to invent new ways to come together across borders and develop transnational and solidarity narratives. Port cities are privileged hubs for the creation of such cross-border networks. BETWEEN LAND AND SEA develops concrete transnational alliances, narratives and practices of solidarity to withstand future crises and disasters, such as desertification, conflicts arising from growing economic inequality, rising sea levels, displacement and global migration.

BETWEEN LAND AND SEA coinvolge più di 50 artisti, lavoratori, ricercatori, migranti, pescatori, agricoltori e cittadini di Palermo, Tunisi, Brema, Beirut, New York, Abidjan, Berlino, Amburgo, Bruxelles, Dakar e Bamako per esaminare le connessioni esistenti tra le città portuali e riflettere criticamente sulle loro storie intrecciate, legate da migrazione e commercio globali.

In un momento storico in cui l'umanità sta affrontando sfide planetarie senza precedenti, artisti, attivisti e cittadini hanno bisogno di inventare nuovi modi per unirsi attraverso i confini e sviluppare narrazioni transnazionali e solidali. Le città portuali sono centri privilegiati per la creazione di queste reti transfrontaliere. BETWEEN LAND AND SEA sviluppa alleanze transnazionali concrete, narrazioni e pratiche di solidarietà per resistere a crisi e disastri futuri quali la desertificazione, i conflitti derivanti dalla crescente disuguaglianza economica, l'innalzamento del livello del mare e la migrazione globale.

04.10.2021 — Stefan Blaeske, chief dramaturg of Theater Bremen, in conversation with the Lebanese artist Lily Abichahine... Read more

03.10.2021 — The Journey is a performance of a ship navigating a GPS content-related route inspired by time, history and current geopolitical data in an area between Italy, Malta, Tunisia, Libya... Read more

01.10.2021 — "This label of "Mediterranean" designates a common culture, a form of cosmopolitan utopia, a little syrupy and often nostalgic, the place of a meeting and a coexistence between peoples and cultures, of a circulation between the West and the East... Read more

ABOUT US

All projects are original productions developed by Studio Rizoma, Dream City Biennale, and Theater Bremen. They will be shown together in a week-long festival in Palermo, Tunis, and Bremen as international premieres.

The projects of BETWEEN LAND AND SEA are financed by Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the Creative Europe program of the European Union, with further support from Allianz Kulturstiftung, Goethe Institut Palermo and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Tunis.

Tutti i lavori sono produzioni originali sviluppate appositamente da Studio Rizoma, Dream City Biennale e Theater Bremen con un lavoro di più anni che ha attraversato e collegato il mediterraneo e l’Europa del nord. I progetti saranno presentati congiuntamente in un festival di una settimana a Palermo in prima internazionale per poi viaggiare a Tunisi e Brema.

I progetti di BETWEEN LAND AND SEA sono finanziati da Kulturstiftung des Bundes e il programma Creative Europe dell’Unione Europea, con ulteriore sostegno da parte di Allianz Kulturstiftung, Goethe-Institut Palermo e Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Tunis.

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