• GREECE International Puppet and Mime Festival of Kilkis – http://www.kilkis-festival.gr/festival/index.php?lang=en
• SPAIN Barcelona Cultura – Ajuntament de Barcelona – http://barcelonacultura.bcn.cat/
• MOROCCO Fondation Esprit de Fès – http://www.espritdefes.com/fr/index.php (Festival de la Culture Amazigh)
• FRANCE Association Chèvrefeuille – http://www.chevrefeuille.org/ (Festival Convivencia)
• ALGERIA Aarc – Agence Algérienne pour le Rayonnement Culturel – http://www.aarcalgerie.org/

• 6 July, 2008 – Fez (Morocco) - In cooperation with the “Esprit de Fès” , World Sacred Music,  Foundation (Morocco) and ONG Fawanees (Egypt), the first action about a common work towards the creation of a Euromediterranean Network of Popular Culture, took place in 2008. The Italian Network of Popular Culture participated to  the Festival Amazigh Esprit de Fès, , World Sacred Music,  with the “Canto a tenore Cunsonu Santu Giuanne” coming from Thiesi, Province of Sassari.
• 25, 26 and 27 July , 2008 – International Festival of Popular Orality, Turin - The  edition 2008 of  that Festival was opened by the round table “Mediterranean Orality”: a meeting among local cultures and building of networks, attended by the members of Italian Network, anthropologists, its Scientific Committee and the most important representatives of cultural organisations belonging to the Euro-mediterranean basin. Within the program of the festival a peculiar area has been identified, defined “Mediterranean Orality”, where several groups succeeded on stage , coming from Euro-mediterranean countries: Avinar (Iran), Bouaazza Larbi (Morocco), Ensemble Fawanys (Egypt)
• 24-26 October 2008 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria  – CULTNAT, Cairo (Egypt) - “Oral traditions among the two shores of the Mediterranean:  local cultures and construction of network”  In cooperation with Piedmont Region, Herimed, CULTNAT (Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage-Bibliotheca Alexandrina), Traditional Music of Egypt. In the event “Week of the Italian Language in the world”. From october 24^th to 26^th the Italian Network of Popular Culture, in cooperation with Herimed Association, CULTNAT (supported by  the Egyptian Ministry for Culture) and the local Fawanys association,  organized an international event in Egypt about the popular orality. The initiative, sustained by Piedmont Region, was included in the “Week of the Italian Language in the world” and represented a real summit to lay the foundations  for an effective and far-sighted policy aiming  to save popular culture from extinction. Further to the musical performance “Wake for the earth”, that saw  the cooperation on stage  among Italian and Egyptian traditional musicians, a seminar was held on “Oral traditions among the two shores of the Mediterranean:  local cultures and construction of network”. The representatives of UNESCO, Anna Lindh Foundation, CULTNAT, Festival of Provinces Committee, Piedmont Region and Herimed Association were speakers.

• 5 May 2009- Circolo dei Lettori (Readers’ Club), Turin - The new edition of “Lingua Madre” (Mother tongue) aimed to promote the safeguard of cultural and linguistic differences, the protection of communities and historical and social memories of natives, looking forward for 2009 a geographical exploration of Southern Caucasic area (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan). To that effect, the Italian Network of Popular Culture engaged itself in the development and managing of the meeting-concert with Fakhraddin Gafarov and the turkish traditional music.
• 14 May 2009 – Turin International Book Fair, Lingotto Fiere Exhibition Centre - On may 14^th, at 8 p.m., the Italian Network of Popular Culture presented the performance “Wake for the earth”, a concert where musicians from Piedmont, of new and old generation, met egyptian artists to renew an ancient tradition.
• 26, 27, 28 June 2009 – International Festival of Popular Orality, Turin - The whole Festival opened a door on the migrant communities in Italy and Piedmont Region, that expressed themselves through exhibitions, talk-shows about culinary subjects, introducing meetings and workshops about rituals and tradictions.
• 5 July 2009 – Fès (Morocco) - The cooperation with the Esprit de Fès Foundation has also continued for 2009.: the Fez  Festival of World Sacred Music hosted two concerts of the Italian group “Viulan”, researchers since 30 years and representatives of tradition in the Frignano area, placed  in the Tuscan-Emilian mountains belonging to the Appennine chain.
• 27 november 2009 - Circolo dei Lettori (Readers’ Club), Turin - Within the autumnal edition of “Lingua Madre” (Mother tongue), the Italian Network of Popular Culture presented “All that remains is the voice”. Beyond the linguistic and cultural differences is the tale of stories,  a first attempt to bring together for an evening some historical and recently settled languages ​​ in our region. A little step and a wish for a true civil convivence, that will be reproposed in a more a articulated dimension during the events promoted by “Lingua Madre”  at the 2010 Turin International Book Fair.
• 7 november 2009 – Manresa, Spain – “Mediterra’nia” - The “Fira Mediterrània” Foundation organized from november 5^th to 8^th, the 10^th edition of “Fira Mediterrània”, peculiar for its strong international aspect. During the 3^rd professional Symposium titled “2009-2010-Get together: Fairs and Festivals” held on November 7^th, were hosted 35 operators coming from Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, United Kingdom, as well as the Spanish territories of Catalunya, Valencian Community, Basque Countries, the City of Madrid, Euskadi, giving life to various seminars and round tables. The Italian Network of Popular Culture, in the person of its director Antonio Damasco, was invited to keep a specific report as an example of cultural system, where the local forces of individual territories obtain  by the network a value that individually they could not get, from the point of views of communications, economies of scale, operative qualities, planning capability, national and international level of participation at national and international ranges. On that occasion, in the presence  of Alessandra Giudici, President of the Province of Sassari, has been presented one of the Intangible   Goods recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage, the “Canto a tenore” (Tenor’s chant).

2010

• Euro-mediterranean Table – Site:  Province of Sassari Palace, Angioy Hall. “Towards a Euro-mediterranean network of Popular Culture” - That convention has been an opportunity of comparison among  the main promoters of popular culture coming from the various countries, belonging to the Mediterranean area and a way to keep on the building of an inter-organizational network that aims safeguard, research and promotion of traditional and popular culture in the Euro-mediterranean territories.The efforts are oriented to create conditions by which those cultures can be involved in a system of international networks and can be a resource for sustainable development and to  increase the  value of local cultures.

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 2011

• The tradition  of  bonfires  and  fellowship rites on St. John’s day - Just  to the Fifties the town of Alghero was the scene of important  celebrations during the month of June,   owing  the celebrations of St. John’s day. It was a very old traditional  feast  where ancestral rituals merged with the religious anniversary.With the economic boom years the  celebration lost its importance until it disappeared. Since 2010 the Feast has returned to life and during only one edition has become an event  of strong appeal, able to to involve realities outside the island. The Italian Network of Popular Culture, of which the Province of Sassari is member and promoter, representing also the national vice-presidency and the coordination of the “Euromediterranean work-table”, organizes just for for that renewed rite  a “popular caravan” with the participation of researchers, video makers, performers who belong to the Euromediterranean Network. In this context, the reborned  Feast  does not want to be only a show and celebration but also a period of research and study on local traditions and a chance of meeting with the local communities