ALIG’ART 2012 FESTIVAL – CAGLIARI – 19 TO 28 OCTOBER

The festival, this year in its third year, will be dedicated to Burkinabè statesman Thomas Sankara was assassinated in 1987. Starting with reflections on his actions and the famous speeches, the Festival will explore the difficult issue of change of a social and economic system through a path in order to reach a critical awareness and responsible. Through the recognition of the undeniable wealth of the territory, the corpus of knowledge and traditional knowledge of the Sardinian region, combined with the low population density, the aim is to identify the keys to a possible improvement in the quality of life. It is also believed that these issues must be addressed with the clarity of a project and in depth.
The words of Sankara in fact offer a starting point for the development of a socio-cultural project aimed at the rehabilitation and enhancement of local identities, the sustainable management of material resources and intellectual impoverishment of knowledge and against the loss of individual creative abilities. The environmental, social, re-evaluation of traditional practices, protection of indigenous products and the move towards local consumption pursued in the four years of government Sankara, coincide with some of the key points of the current proposals for change: the virtuous practices promoted by government forward-looking, the movement for the decrease, the transition towns, which, in this view, are one of the possible examples of innovation, technological innovation, which on the proper evaluation of a millenary tradition.

Activities:

Alig’Art Expo – exhibition of art and recycling: Opening Friday, October 19 at 19 @ Ghetto – Closed Sunday 28 hours 13.

Seminars / debates (more details in brochure):

Saturday 20 hours 16 alGhetto – The thought of Sankara: tackling the crisis of culture and system. The movements for change.

Speakers: Mouhamadou Seye and Ahmadou Lamine Gadiaga Association YaKaar, Correggia Marinella, Rome, writer, journalist, activist ecopax, Ellen Bermann, Como, Co-founder of the Transition movement Italy, Giuseppe Garau, Mayor of Sardara, Daniel Tarozzi, Rome, Managing Director of web magazine “The Change”, journalist and documentary filmmaker

Saturday 27ore 16 to Ghetto Art and decrescita.Il role of art and artists in the analysis and resolution of the crisis.

Speakers: Silvia Bordini, Rome, teaches History of Contemporary Art at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Lorenzo Giusti, Florence / Nuoro, director of the MAN Museum in Nuoro, Mary Zygouri, Rome, video artist and performer, Alessandro Carboni, Cagliari, Researcher and multidisciplinary artist, Alessandro Toscano, Turin, Photographer and founder of the Photo ON / OFF

Laboratories:

Saturday 20 (times and locations brochure):

From Map to Subjective Objective Mapping interdisciplinary laboratory Urban exploration – by Alessandro Carboni
Guerrilla Sound System – sound as a platform for communication and relational space – by the collective Todo por Madrid The praxi
Re-Jewelry – Creating jewelry using recycled fabrics – by Paola Riviezzo

Saturday 27 (times and locations brochure):

New life into the cork! – Re-creations cork-by 100% VitaEqua
A black box – the basic course of social survival – by Giulia Ledda
Meanwhile in Alig’Art – Recycle pictures to read the reality – by Banana

Cultural Center The Ghetto
Via Santa Croce, 18
Cagliari

When
From Friday 19 to Sunday, October 28, 2012
Expo open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 to 13:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00 (closed on Monday)

Info and contacts
mail: aligartfestival@gmail.com
mail: info@sustainablehappiness.it
site: www.sustainablehappiness.it

For the Expo, free admission
To take part in the workshops, participation is by reservation