BEFORE FESTIVAL, 1—18 OCTOBER

All events will be multi-lingual with simultaneous translation in Italian or English

1—9 OCTOBER
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva and various locations

Workshop
Mittelmeerland Palermo-Tunis
Stephanie Tunka (architect/London), Medine Altiok (architect/Zurich), Ibai Rigby (architecture editor and photographer/Berlin) with guest lecturers Barbara Lino, Valentina Mandalari, Pietro Airoldi, Geraldina Signa.

OPEN CALL

SUNDAY, 17 OCTOBER
10:00— 18:00
(The public is invited to participate. Introduction every 1,5 hours)
Piazza Mediterraneo

Building session and encounter
A Space to Hold →
Lina Issa (artist/Palermo), activist Cheikh Sene (activist/Palermo) in collaboration with Ousman Toury, Talla Kebe, Assan Sene, Magatte Wade, Aliou Mbaaye, Mbaye Fall, Imam Thiam, Amadu Niang, and the public.

OPEN CALL
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MONDAY, 18 OCTOBER
12:00 — 18:00
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Workshop
CurrentSEATHE MINT
With Clelia Bartoli (human rights professor/Palermo), Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson (artists/Palermo and Paris), Grazia Santangelo and Carmela Scalavino (market vendors/Palermo) and Bilel el Mekki (researcher/Tunis). Hosted in cooperation with Artsformation, a research project exploring the intersection between arts, society and technology.

ONGOING, 19—24 OCTOBER

Piazza Mediterraneo

Installation and Public Encounters
A Space to Hold →
Lina Issa (artist/Palermo), activist Cheikh Sene (activist/Palermo) in collaboration with Ousman Toury, Talla Kebe, Assan Sene, Magatte Wade, Aliou Mbaaye, Mbaye Fall, Imam Thiam, Amadu Niang, and the public.

Outdoors of Ecomuseo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva

Photo Installation
DEAL →
Francesco Bellina (photographer/Palermo)

13:15 and 18:30
Surroundings of the Tunisian Mosque

Sound Installation
Emerald City →
Stefania Artusi (artist/Palermo)

TUESDAY, 19 OCTOBER

18:00—18:30
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Performance
The Soft Layer →
Jozef Wouters (scenographer/Brussels) with Gisella Vitrano (actress/Palermo), Erika La Ragione (actress and performer/Palermo), Paolo Mannina (actor/Palermo) and Giuseppe Muscarello (dancer and choreographer/Palermo)

18:30—19:00
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Opening Celebration

19:00—20:00
Outdoors of Ecomuseo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva

Vernissage
DEAL →
Francesco Bellina (photographer/Palermo) in conversation with Izabela Anna Moren (curator and writer/Rome)

21:00
Outdoors of Ecomuseo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva

Concert and DJ Set
Leila Bencharnia

WEDNESDAY, 20 OCTOBER

SYNDICAT!

17:00—18:30
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Talk
Port City: CurrentSea. An Alternative to Currency between Tunis and Palermo →
THE MINT with Clelia Bartoli (human rights professor/Palermo), Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson (artists/Palermo and Paris), Grazia Santangelo and Carmela Scalavino (market vendors/Palermo), Leyla Dakhli (social scientist/Berlin). Opened by sound performance.

SYNDICAT!

18:30—20:00
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Talk
Liquid Territory: Mittelmeerland Atlas → 
Ibai Rigby (architecture editor and photographer/Berlin), Marco Scarpinato (architect/chercheur associé, Palermo/Tunisi), Fanny Bouquerel (cultural operator/researcher, Parigi/Palermo)

PREMIERE

21:00
Santa Maria dello Spasimo

Performance
Our Sea: Choreography for a Woman and a Stone →
Lily Abichahine (human rights lawyer and artist/Beirut)

22:00
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara

Film
The New Gospel →
Milo Rau, presented by Yvan Sagnet
104min, Switzerland

THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER

SYNDICAT!

17:00—18:30
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Talk
Agrinomics: School of Water Scarcity →
Habib Ayeb (founder of OSAE/Tunis), Associazione Aterraterra (Fabio Aranzulla and Luca Cinquemani), Collettivo Epidemia (Enrico Milazzo)

SYNDICAT!

18:30—20:00
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Talk
Port City: Across the Shore – Where Pollution and Migration meet →
With Salvatore La Cagnina (Istituto Sicilia/Palermo), Francesco Bellina (photographer/Palermo), Stefano Liberti (filmmaker and journalist/Rome), Semia Gharbi (activist/Tunis)

20:00—21:15
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Film
Om Layoun
Habib Ayeb (founder of OSAE/Tunis)
82min, Tunisia

Shuttle bus connecting Ecomuseo to Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara

PREMIERE

21:30
Complesso Monumentale di Chiesa Santa Chiara

Dance
Trio. For the Beauty of it →
Monika Gintersdorfer (choreographer/Hamburg) / La Fleur with Ordinateur, Alex Mugler, Carlos Martinez

21:30
Santa Maria dello Spasimo

Performance
Our Sea: Choreography for a Woman and a Stone →
Lily Abichahine (human rights lawyer and artist/Beirut)

FRIDAY, 22 OCTOBER

OPEN CALL
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10:00—12:00
Santa Maria dello Spasimo

Assembly of Solidarity
Citizens’ Assembly Avoiding Climate Catastrophe in Sicily, Italy and Europe → 
European Alternatives & Citizens Take Over Europe

OPEN CALL
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13:30—16:00
Santa Maria dello Spasimo

SYNDICAT!

17:00—18:30
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Talk
Shared History, Shared Future:
Towards a Mediterranean Ensemble →
Ordinateur (dancer/Paris and Abidjan), Selma Ouissi (dancer and choreographer/Tunis), Simone Mannino (director/Palermo), Jamel Madani (actor/Tunis), Andrea Cusumano (former councillor for culture/Palermo)

SYNDICAT!

17:30—20:00
Piazza Mediterraneo

Political Assembly
How to build a space to hold? Solidarity with Campobello →
Lina Issa (artist/Palermo), Cheikh Sene (activist/Palermo and Campobello), Diletta Bellotti (activist and researcher/Rome), Papa Latyr Faye (founder of Casa Sankara/San Severo) and many others. With a musical performance by Ruth Kemna, Cheikh Sene and Amadou Niang

SYNDICAT!

18:30—20:00
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Talk
Shared History, Shared Future:
Decolonization Entity →
Sara Pellegrini (DAAR), Rete Anticoloniale Siciliana (Palermo), Safa Cherif (architect and activist/Tunis)

Shuttle bus connecting Ecomuseo to Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara

20:30
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara

Dance
Trio. For the Beauty of it →
Monika Gintersdorfer (choreographer/Hamburg) / La Fleur with Ordinateur, Alex Mugler, Carlos Martinez

21:30—23:00
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara

SATURDAY, 23 OCTOBER

10:00—15:30
Santa Maria dello Spasimo

11:00—11:30
Outdoors of Ecomuseo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva

Musical Performance
Sirens of Babylon — Frammenti di un Lamento Furioso →
Ruth Kemna (violist/Salzburg and Palermo)

SYNDICAT!

11:30—13:00
Outdoors of Ecomuseo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva

Talk
Shared History, Shared Future: Emerald City: Audible Architecture →
Mustafà Boulaalam (Imam/Palermo), Safa Cherif (architect and activist/Tunis), Stefania Artusi (artist/Palermo), Roberto Albergoni (cultural enterpreneur/Palermo), Paola Nicita (art critic/Palermo)

SYNDICAT!

14:00—15:30
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Talk
Shared History, Shared Future:
Counter-Museum of Individual Liberties →
Dorra Ben Alaya (social psychology researcher/Tunis), Cristina Alga (activist and cultural operator/Palermo), Virginia Fiume (political activist/Brussels), Laura Barreca (art historian/Palermo)

SYNDICAT!

15:30—17:00
Ecomuseo Urbano Mare
Memoria Viva

Prospects for the future
Creating a Transnational Summit: Prospects for the Future →
Team Studio Rizoma, Dream City Biennale, Theater Bremen in conversation with summit participants led by Jan Goossens (artistic director/Tunis and Brussels)

SYNDICAT!

16:00—17:30
Santa Maria dello Spasimo

Talk
Launching the Palermo Climate Declaration →
Open Plenary by the Transnational Citizens’ Assembly. With Marco Cappato (politician/Milano), Patrizia Pozzo (founder of Earth Day Palermo), Virginia Fiume (political activist/Brussels), Seema Syeda (Momentum activist/London)

SYNDICAT!

18:00—20:00
Santa Maria dello Spasimo

Panel
Europe from the outside in: Italy, Tunisia, and the future of our planet →
A meeting between Syndicat!, the Global Parliament of Mayors, and the Assemblies of Solidarity. With Marco Cappato (politician/Milano), Lorenzo Marsili (philosopher/Palermo), Leoluca Orlando (Mayor/Palermo), Seema Syeda (Momentum activist/London). Moderated by Roberta Carlini, journalist and researcher at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, European University Institute.

21:00
Teatro Biondo

Theater
Prometeo: The Blue Kangaroo →
Simone Mannino and Ensemble (Studio) with Jamel Madani, Aymen Mabrouk, Giorgio Coppone, Mariem Sayeh

By invitation → info@studiorizoma.org

SUNDAY, 24 OCTOBER

10:00—18:00
(The public is invited to participate. Introduction every 1,5 hours)
Piazza Mediterraneo

Walk and Encounter
A Space to Hold Pt.2 →
Lina Issa (artist/Palermo), activist Cheikh Sene (activist/Palermo) in collaboration with Ousman Toury, Talla Kebe, Assan Sene, Magatte Wade, Aliou Mbaaye, Mbaye Fall, Imam Thiam, Amadu Niang, and the public.

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