6.00 pm
Library of Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Palazzo Giustinian Lolin
Santa Croce 2132
Venice
Spreading CreActivity: creativity and empowerment from refugees.
A conference to reflect upon the role of creativity for people who nowadays live as refugees.
Free entrance subject to availability / English-language conference with simultaneous Italian translation
Moderators:
Frances Corner (Warden Goldsmiths, University of London)
Pratap Rughani (Professor at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London)
Speakers:
Lina Abirafeh (Executive Director The Arab Institute for Women)
Sue Clayton (film director, writer, composer)
Carlotta Sami (spokeswoman UNHCR southern Europe )
Helen Storey (social artist and designer, London College of Fashion)
Matteo Ward (founder and CEO of WRÅD)
Talk with Prof. Helen Storey, designer, lecturer and creator of the project Dress For Our Time.
6.00 pm
Palazzo Querini
Calle Lunga San Barnaba
Dorsoduro 2691
To Megálo Navágio (ma cosa abbiamo noi che vi fa tanta paura?), by and with Paolo Ganz.
Reading/show (45 minutes length)
6pm
Palazzo Querini
Venice
Inauguration of "Where is South?", Exhibition of notebooks made by participants of the AtWork Venice workshop organized by the Moleskine Foundation.
AtWork, creative workshop led by Simon Njami for 25 refugees and asylum seekers from the Italian national network of integration projects (SIPROIMI). The workshop is organised by Moleskine Foundation as part of a global itinerant project that this year has the theme ‘Where is South?’ The participants will create personalised Moleskine notebooks that will then be displayed in Palazzo Querini.
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Guided tour with the curators of the exhibition Francesca Giubilei and Luca Berta. Registration is mandatory, please write to
sostenitori@unhcr.it
7.00 PM
Palazzo Querini
Calle Lunga San Barnaba
Dorsoduro 2691
Screening of the 2015 documentary Torn produced by UNHCR and Alessandro Gassmann as part of Venice Art Night; the event is also part of the official calendar of events for World Refugee Day 2019.
Guided tour with the curators of the exhibition Francesca Giubilei and Luca Berta. Registration is mandatory, please write to
sostenitori@unhcr.it
End of art residency programme.
Aula Mario Baratto
Università Ca’ Foscari
Dorsoduro 3246
Waterlines incontra Rothko in Lampedusa, public event with the resident artists Waterlines coordinator for Ca’ Foscari Cristina Fossaluzza, UNHCR spokesperson for Southern Europe Carlotta Sami, writer Helena Janeczek, composer Martin Daske and art historian Michele Nicolaci.
Installation-performance Dress For Our Time with model Bianca Balti and subsequent public display on the island of San Servolo.
Palazzo Rossini
San Marco 4013
ARTconnects, creative workshop led by Salma Zulfiqar on the theme of the Global Compact on Refugees.
Palazzo Querini
Calle Lunga San Barnaba
Dorsoduro 2691
Inauguration of Rothko in Lampedusa (by invitation only).
Palazzo Querini
Calle Lunga San Barnaba
Dorsoduro 2691
Routes of Peace, group artwork with the resident artists led by British artist and activist Salma Zulfiqar.
Associazione Stampa Estera,
Via dell’Umiltà 83/c
Rome
Press conference to present the project.
Majid Adin, Rasha Deeb, Mohamed Keita, Bnar Sardar Sidiq and Hassan Yare arrive in Venice for start of art residency programme
The project Rothko in Lampedusa supports the distribution of Refugee Housing Units, providing safe and dignified housing for refugees. Contribute yourself
