OP INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF POPULAR CULTURE   Turin- from 5th to 8th July 2012 VII Edition

Op International Festival of Popular Orality, is dedicated to the knowledge passing on. The Festival was born to meet the need of finding new models of socialization, expressed by the community we live in. Young generation in particular, pay attention to rites and feasts of past memories. They are at the centre of the reflexion, they don’t try to restore past, and all they want is to look into the future. The 3 OP meetings days, will give us the opportunity to take stock of the situation, control the research projects and the activities realized throughout the year; meet “Masters” and “Witnesses” so that the passing on to the future generations can pass through the performative act, made of improvisation and imitation. It’s also an opportunity to exchange ideas and best practices and bring them back in communes and provinces of our beautiful country.

For the 2012 Edition, we would like make some “best Practices” stories and experiences public. For us the best practices are the most significant experiences or at least those which have created an efficient, innovative and durable practice. A method that can be adopted and be effective in other territories, in similar contexts. Within the scope of the program concept, we would like to know and welcome inside the Festival, the best practices, especially the Euro-Mediterranean zone ones, in specific fields: the housing, the work and the economy.

This year OP will host a large session dedicated to the Euro-Mediterranean area. Before the Charter of Value signature, which will take place in Sassari in June and will celebrate the birth of “Arianna. Euro Mediterranean Network of Culture and Heritage”, OP will give rise to meeting and dialogue capable of promoting the experiences exchange between, mostly, the new generations protagonists of the both Mediterranean shores social life. Indeed we believe that the meeting and the exchange of experiences, projects, and political prospects are privileged ways for surpassing cultural barriers and creating active, conscious and participating citizenship.

Do not miss: Guess who's coming to dinner? comes back in Plaza Carlo Alberto: BOOK NOW! Friday 6th july at 7.00pm  in Plaza Carlo Alberto BOOKING NECESSARY tel 011 4338865 info@reteitalianaculturapopolare.org       Four important meetings about "Knowledge Transmission" Edition 2012 will present to the public some “best pratices” italian and euro-mediterranean in specific fields, we want to tell, in our way, a different idea of community, from some instances that the “Network” has indentified on the territory in the fields of economy, work, social and participation of “common goods”. It's other models, other possibilities which in spite of economic difficulties, seem to be culture of hope holders.      The work instance. Saturday 7 July at 3.30-6.00pm  Common goods and participation policy section. Sunday 8 July at 11.00am -1.00pm  Private and collective spaces section. Sunday 8 July at 3.00-5.30pm Participatory Economy . Sunday 8 July at 3.00-5.30pm The workshop  Workshop: “Arab Spring, beyond twitter” The open capacities of new media in relation to the public sphere constitution and the following possibility of the user active participation in the information construction process. Friday 6 July at 3.30 – 6.00 pm in the Courtyard of Palazzo Carignano In collaboration with Fondazione CRT - Progetto C-Lab    The nights of music and "meeting" in plaza The piedmontese territories receive the Arab Spring voices : Emel Mathlouthi (Tunisia) and the Quintetti di Ottone di Brosso (TO).  For the International Festival of Popular Culture a five brass group parade will get to the stage of Piazza Carignano, open the four festival days on plaza  and welcome the migrant voices of all the people we will know. And we will make way for Emel Mathlouthi, Arab spring witness and voice. Thursday 5 July from 9.30 pm  Piazza Carignano From the worl languages to the languages to save: “Aleksandar Simic & The Seraphim” will meet the Ghetonìa. Aleksandar Simic, serbian musician who has decided to use the artistic work to serve the dialogue between the civilizations. For more than 20 years his music is played all over the world, from the United Nations, to the Vatican, from the White House, to Yad Vashem, and he will meet the Ghetonia always engaged in protecting and defending the minority linguistic griko/salentina, by transmitting it. Friday 6 July at 9.00pm  Piazza Carignano In collaboration with Fondazione CRT - Progetto C-Lab  Sada (Morocco): Arab Spring echos . SADA means “echo” in arab…. For OP the group made up of musicians from all the Mediterranean has realized a project of mediterranean popular melodies, from the Greece and Turkey Ottoman musics, to contemporanean western music, as well as the Arab singing from Egypt and Syria, with a particular interest for the Morocco and the Arab Spring words and musics. Saturday 7 July at 10.30pm Piazza Carignano The poetic improvisation  in plaza: Hip-hoppers and Poets a Braccio from the center of  Italy: two generations of artists improvisers confront each other. Poets a Braccio: Paolo Santini, Alessio Runci, Pietro De Acutis Free Styler: Kiave, Clementino, Noema e Dank Presents: Paolo Apolito, Professore di Antropologia Culturale e membro del Comitato Scientifico della Rete Italiana di Cultura Popolare With the participation of  Davide Ferrario, Omar Pedrini, Niccolò Agliardi, Mastafive Saturday 7 July at 9.00 pm in Piazza Carignano In collaboration with Fondazione CRT - Progetto C-Lab , Hiroshima Mon Amour, il Circuito dei Comuni della Poesia a Braccio della Provincia di Rieti THE OP FOOD POINT The food Orality Piazza Carlo Alberto This year in Piazza Carlo Alberto there will be a space dedicated to The Traditional and Migrant Food, which will allow us to travel within local cultures, where the first contact is often a gastronomic one, and in particular thanks to the street food, informal food which tells us people and territories story. You will have the opportunity to eat on the Festival plaza, EVERY DAYS food not only italian but also migrant, cooked by the "Guess who's coming to dinner?" families.                                                                               The Op Food Point opening time:                      Thursday 5 July: from 7.00pm to 01.00am - Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 July : from noon to 01.00am                                                        All the receipts will be dedicated to the project “Work Grant”

 

 All the other activities are free

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