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Il Festival

Il Festival Sabir, evento diffuso, mobile, spazio di riflessioni sulle alternative mediterranee nei luoghi simboli dell’Europa chiusa, approda a Lecce, per la sua quinta edizione, dopo quelle tenutesi a Lampedusa (1-5 ottobre 2014), a Pozzallo (11-15 maggio 2016), a Siracusa (11-14 Maggio 2017) e Palermo (11-14 ottobre2018).

Il Festival è promosso da ARCI insieme a Caritas Italiana, ACLI e CGIL, con la collaborazione di Asgi, A Buon Diritto e Carta di Roma. Il Festival ha il patrocinio di ANCI, Regione Puglia, Unisalento e Comune di Lecce.

Dopo l’esperienza di Lampedusa, Pozzallo, Siracusa e Palermo, Sabir si sposta a Lecce, altro luogo simbolo del bacino mediterraneo. La collocazione temporale – dal 16 al 19 maggio – ci consente un forte richiamo alla riflessione sull’Europa e il suo ruolo nel Mediterraneo. Questa edizione manterrà la stessa formula che ha caratterizzato le precedenti, articolata in incontri internazionali e formazioni, che si alterneranno ad attività culturali, laboratori interattivi, musicali, teatrali, presentazione di libri, creando una dinamicità tale da suscitare l’interesse sia della popolazione locale, che di quella nazionale e di chi, anche dall’estero, ha scelto di partecipare al Festival.

La presenza di numerosi rappresentanti della società civile delle due rive del Mediterraneo e di reti internazionali – Solidar, Migreurop, EuroMedRights, TNI, Attac Francia, Forum Civico Europeo, Attac Internazionale, il progetto Majalat, tra le altre – permetterà di continuare a ragionare sulla necessità urgente di una reale alternativa politica, culturale e sociale nel bacino del Mediterraneo, rimettendo in discussione alcuni pilastri promossi dalle istituzioni di tutta Europa, centrati sul controllo e la criminalizzazione dell’immigrazione, senza alcun interesse per i diritti delle persone e la giustizia sociale.

La novità della quinta edizione del Festival saranno le “lezioni mediterranee” che si svilupperanno come approfondimenti su temi specifici legati al Mediterraneo, la sua storia, le sue tradizioni e la sua cultura. Le lezioni, tenute da esperti e docenti nazionali ed internazionali delle due sponde, faranno da sfondo al Festival, per stimolare la comunità locale e non solo, ad un’ampia riflessione sull’Europa e sul suo ruolo nel Mediterraneo.

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The Festival

The Sabir Festival, a widespread, mobile event, a space for reflection on Mediterranean alternatives in the symbolic places of closed Europe, arrives in Lecce, for its fifth edition, after those held in Lampedusa (1-5 October 2014), in Pozzallo (11 -15 May 2016), in Syracuse (11-14 May 2017) and Palermo (11-14 October2018).

The Festival is promoted by ARCI together with Caritas Italiana, ACLI and CGIL, with the collaboration of Asgi, A Buon Diritto and Carta di Roma. The Festival has the patronage of ANCI, Regione Puglia, Unisalento and Comune di Lecce.

After the experience of Lampedusa, Pozzallo, Syracuse and Palermo, Sabir moved to Lecce, another symbol of the Mediterranean basin. The temporal location - from 16 to 19 May - allows us a strong reminder of the reflection on Europe and its role in the Mediterranean. This edition will maintain the same formula that has characterized the previous ones, divided into international meetings and trainings, which will alternate with cultural activities, interactive laboratories, music, theater, book presentations, creating a dynamism that will arouse the interest of both the local population , than the national one and those who, even from abroad, chose to participate in the Festival.

The presence of numerous representatives of the civil society of the two shores of the Mediterranean and of international networks - Solidar, Migreurop, EuroMedRights, TNI, Attac France, European Civic Forum, Attac International, the Majalat project, among others - will allow to continue to think about urgent need for a real political, cultural and social alternative in the Mediterranean basin, questioning some pillars promoted by institutions across Europe, centered on the control and criminalization of immigration, without any interest in human rights and social justice .

The novelty of the fifth edition of the Festival will be the "Mediterranean lessons" that will be developed as in-depth studies on specific topics related to the Mediterranean, its history, its traditions and its culture. The lessons, held by national and international experts and professors from the two shores, will be the background to the Festival, to stimulate the local community and beyond, to a wide reflection on Europe and its role in the Mediterranean.

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Torna per la quarta edizione Sabir, Festival diffuso delle culture mediterranee: dopo Lampedusa, Pozzallo e Siracusa, saremo a Palermo, nella suggestiva cornice dei Cantieri della Zisa, dall’11 al 14 ottobre prossimi.

Il Festival è promosso dall’Arci nazionale insieme a Caritas Italiana, Acli e Cgil, in collaborazione con A buon diritto, Asgi, Carta di Roma e Ucca e con il patrocinio di Rai, Anci, Comune di Palermo e Palermo capitale della cultura. 

Il tema di questa quarta edizione sarà la libertà di circolazione delle persone, delle idee, delle culture e dei diritti: oltre ai momenti di formazione, rivolti a giornalisti e operatori dell’accoglienza, sono in programma laboratori per i più piccoli, mostre fotografiche, incontri internazionali, concerti, spettacoli teatrali, proiezioni cinematografiche. 

Saranno tanti gli ospiti internazionali che si confronteranno con il pubblico su temi sempre più attuali: dalla criminalizzazione della solidarietà alla derive delle politiche di esternalizzazione, dal ruolo centrale delle città e dei porti solidali alla denuncia del caporalato. 

Nell’ultima edizione ci sono stati oltre 1500 partecipanti, 800 iscritti ai worshop, 50 volontari, 200 studenti presenti alle formazioni e ai laboratori.

Per il programma completo visita il nostro sito: www.festivalsabir.it

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Al via la 5ª edizione del Festival Sabir Eventi a Lecce

Dopo aver fatto tappa in Sicilia per 4 anni: Lampedusa, Pozzallo, Siracusa e Palermo siamo felici di annunciare che la 5ª edizione del Festival Sabir, promosso da Arci, Acli, Caritas, Cgil, si terrà a Lecce, dal 16 al 19 maggio. Sono mesi e mesi che si sta mettendo a punto un programma ricco di eventi e di incontri. 

Un festival che connette cultura e popoli in un’ottica di interazione e di conoscenza e che porterà relatori di tutto il mondo a confrontarsi con l’attuale situazione geopolitica. 

Inoltre avremo seminari e workshop su attività svolte e da proporre, laboratori di attività artistiche e artigianali, teatro, concerti, Università di strada, mostre, formazione per target specifici, per coinvolgere tutta la nostra città in questo respiro internazionale che ben si sposa con la vocazione di una terra protesa nel mediterraneo.

In attesa di pubblicare il programma ufficiale con tutte le numerose iniziative che vedranno Lecce protagonista del Festival dedicato alle culture mediterranee, ringraziamo il Comune di Lecce, la Provincia di Lecce,la Regione Puglia, l’Università del Salento e la Curia di Lecce per l'importante collaborazione nella concessione degli spazi dove si svolgeranno tutti gli eventi del Sabir.

La disponibilità dimostrata e la grande spinta motivazionale che ha visto le nostre istituzioni facilitare il nostro lavoro di ricerca spazi all’interno delle mura urbiche, ci fa immaginare una grande partecipazione di cittadine e cittadini salentini/e. Inoltre abbiamo stipulato un Patto con il Polo Biblio-museale di Lecce per ottimizzare tutte le iniziative culturali che faremo nei luoghi di competenza regionale. 

In particolare vorremmo che questo Festival desse nuovo slancio verso l’utilizzo dei luoghi pubblichi per iniziative culturali e sociali, perché solo frequentandoli i luoghi possono essere salvaguardati da incuria e dimenticanza. 

L’ex Convento dei Teatini, il Convitto Palmieri, il Museo Castromediano, Piazza Duomo, le sale parrocchiali della Curia di Lecce, il Conservatorio di S.Anna, i giardini dell’ex Carlo Pranzo, la sede universitaria “Codacci Pisanelli”, saranno i luoghi principali in cui si svolgeranno le iniziative del Festival, il cuore della nostra città. A breve il programma completo. 

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The Sabir Festival is a popular and mobile event providing input for reflection on Mediterranean alternatives in symbolic places of Europe. After the previous four editions held in Lampedusa (1-5 October 2014), Pozzallo (11-15 May 2016) Syracuse (11-14 May 2017) and Palermo (11- 14 October 2018) Sabir takes place this year in Lecce. It is organized by ARCI together with Caritas Italian Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it

 TRAINING SESSIONS

Legal training organised by Asgi The reform of access to the right of asylum, the closure of the Libyan route and Italian ports: the prospects of opposing the policies of circumvention of the right of asylum adopted by the Italian governments

Module One – Progressive reform of the right of asylum from 2017 onwards: a critical approach to overcoming it Thursday 16 May, 2.30 – 6 pm Venue: Ex Conservatorio di Sant’Anna, Via Santa Maria del Paradiso, 8, 73100 Lecce LE Introduction, moderation and conclusions: Lawyer Marina Angiuli, Asgi - From the so-called Minniti Decree to the so-called Salvini Decree: an overview of a project of progressive erosion of the right of asylum (Lawyer Lorenzo Trucco, Asgi President) - The abrogation of humanitarian protection and the consequent prospect of affirming the constitutional right to asylum (Lawyer Nazzarena Zorzella, Asgi) - The new accelerated procedures as a tool for potential foreclosure of access to the right of asylum: focus on the concept of safe countries of origin (Lawyer Alberto Pasquero, Asgi) - The new discipline of the repeated application: the first applications, the profiles of illegitimacy and the instruments of contrast (Dr. Thomas Santangelo, Asgi)

Module Two – The closure of the Libyan route as part of the European Commission's strategies: the responsibility for the very serious violence suffered by foreigners and the legal instruments to combat it Friday 17 May, 9.30 am – 1.30 pm Venue: Convitto Palmieri Introduction, moderation and conclusion: Lawyer Dario Belluccio, Asgi - Criminal responsibility at national and international level for the violence perpetrated in Libyan prisons (Prof. Luca Masera, Asgi) - Closure of ports and indirect rejections: What role for the European Court of Human Rights? (Prof.ssa Maria Giulia Giuffrè, Asgi) - The EU program for the evacuation of Libyan prisons: analysis of the legal nature of resettlement (Avv. Giulia Crescini, Asgi) - Some strategies of legal contrast of ASGI: from the project Sciabaca with the civil society of North Africa to the project In Limine on the Italian frontier (Lawyer Loredana Leo Asgi and Lawyer Salvatore Fachile, Asgi)

Training session for journalists organized by Carta di Roma Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it

Module One: Media, Migration and Politics: Accuracy and completeness in informing and telling about migration flows inside and outside Europe Thursday 16 May, 2.30 – 6 pm “Carta di Roma” (Charter of Rome) is a legally binding ethical protocol for journalists concerning migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and victims of human trafficking, signed by the Journalists’ Professional Association, FNSI and UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and it will be presented during the training session. The presentation and the following discussion will especially focus on the implementation guidelines of Carta di Roma. These are practical rules about the use of terminology which help us to better understand how to deal with migration and asylum related issues in everyday journalism. The session will be about refugees, news reports, crime, human trafficking etc. Specific data and concrete examples will be presented to talk about challenges and opportunities we face to improve the quality of journalism in our daily work. Trainers -> Emma Barbaro. Journalist, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Terre di frontiera". Maria Cuffaro. Journalist, foreign affairs expert; Piera Francesca Mastantuono. Journalist, collaborating with the Associazione Carta di Roma for which she deals with the management of Italian and European projects; Anna Sfardini. Sociologist, professor at the Catholic University of Milan Giacomo Zandonini. Social and cultural operator, freelance journalist and video-reporter since 2004. Training session for journalists per organized by Carta di Roma

Module 2: Words and Imagins of Migrations: how to build up a correct and accurate report. The "Charter of Rome" is a deontological protocol binding on journalists on migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and victims of trafficking signed by the Order of Journalists, National Federation of Italian Press (FNSI) and UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency), which will be presented during the seminar. The organization of the training has two sections: a "traditional" one in which the Guidelines for the application of the Charter of Rome will be presented and discussed. Practical rules on the use of terms and to understand how best to deal with migration and asylum issues in daily journalistic coverage. The topic of migration will be framed by the dissemination of specific data and concrete examples that are part of the daily work of the editorial offices. The second section takes place in a participative way: participants will be invited to dialogue around some migration issues. In each working group, participants deal with questions and issues related to the migration narrative, focusing in particular on: correctness of language, accuracy of journalistic narrative, use of graphic media and images, "on the side of readers and listeners", how to build a quality narrative on migration and its protagonists. Trainers -> Paola Barretta, Coordinator of the Rome Charter Association; Francesco Bellina, Photographer; Annalisa Camilli, Journalist of the magazine Internazionale; Valerio Cataldi, Journalist, special correspondent of Tg3, since Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it December 2017 President of the Carta di Roma Association; Federico Faloppa, Lecturer at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, Linguist, dealing with media and migration; Antonietta Muscas Podda, Journalist, collaborating in the Press Office of the Puglia Region. Piera Francesca Mastantuono. Journalist, collaborating with the Associazione Carta di Roma.

Training session for workers involved in the reception of migrants and refugees “The Evolution of the Reception System in the Light of the Recent Legislative Changes”, organised by Arci and Caritas Italiana together with Servizio Centrale With the approval of the Security and Immigration Decree and the simultaneous revision of the specifications on the extraordinary reception centres, the entire reception system as we have known it, changes significantly. We are immersed in a phase of indefinite transition due to the lack of a series of implementing decrees that define the complete operation and for this reason it is essential to play an active role by all stakeholders in various capacities to redefine good practices and actions, assuming that it is necessary to do everything possible to continue to ensure quality reception. Module One Thursday 16 May, 2.30 – 6 pm Module Two Friday 17 May, 9.30 am – 1 pm

Training session for social workers Social Service and reception practices. Accompanying, supporting and looking after asylum seekers in reception facilities, organised by CNR-IRPPS Friday 17 May, 9.30 am – 1 pm The seminar is organised to give food for thought to social workers as well as all the workers involved in reception services facing decisions about the integration of asylum seekers they have to deal with (also following the new legal provisions on security matters and the new CAS specifications) Accreditation was requested from the Council of the Order of Social Workers of Puglia. Moderator: Marco Accorinti Presentation, introduction and presentation of the training methodology 1. “Who am I?”: identity and cultural approach to the relationship with asylum seekers, Stefano degli Uberti 2- “I am also a refugee woman”: a personal story about reception process, Fatima 3. “I don’t want to be a racist”: institutional discrimination and ethical dilemma, Elena Spinelli 4. “The rules of the Code of Conduct compels me…”: fulfilment of the professional mandate and taking charge, Urban Northdurfter Guided exchanges of experience among the social workers attending the training. Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it

MEDITERRANEAN LESSONS

Mediterranean history and identity Thursday 16 May, 9 – 11 am Venue: Aula Magna Università. Porta Napoli There is a Mediterranean identity. It has an ancient history and a peculiarity – it is an identity built on continuous mixing and mingling, it is a hybrid identity and history of peoples who arrived in subsequent waves and lived, sailed, traded, fought and migrated on the shores of a sea connecting three continents. It is necessary to find again and give new life to this identity to have a vision for this region. Lecturers: Tahar Lamri (writer, storyteller and journalist)

The Mediterranean: a sea Thursday 16 May, 11 am – 1 pm Venue: Aula Magna Università. Porta Napoli The Mediterranean Sea with its unique characteristics had a fundamental role in the history and civilization built around and on the Mediterranean. Its waters, its ecosystem, its coasts, its climate are in an emergency situation facing a huge risk. Extraordinary commitment is called for to save our sea and thereby ensuring life and prosperity to the peoples living on the seashore. Lecturers: Silvio Greco (biologist, SlowFood Scientific Committee)

Mediterranean travel notes Thursday 16 May, 3 – 5 pm Venue: Chiostro Teatini For thousands of years the Mediterranean environment has been giving infinite food for thought to travellers driven by the need and the desire for moving. Dozens of pictures and stories have been created to tell about departures and homecoming with much empathy using an artistic, literary and audiovisual approach. The aim of the lesson is to select some of the works based on the adventures and vicissitudes of travellers, focusing on their universal content, i.e. the intertwining of different cultures. Lecturers: Stefano Cristante (comic strips), Luca Bandirali (cinema), Fabio Moliterni Externalised borders in the Mediterranean Friday 17 May, 9 – 11 am Venue: Aula Magna Università. Porta Napoli The international relations in the Mediterranean area are changing in terms of national and European border management policies, in terms of relationships of dependency and externalisation of border control and of the asylum given to the countries of the Southern shore. From a European point of view, the main goal of the diplomatic relationships between EU member states and Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it Tunisia and Turkey is to make expulsions easier and stop migrants before reaching the European shores. The consequences are extremely dangerous for both the systematization of international law violations – Geneva Convention, maritime law treaties and Human Rights Convention – and the democracy of the region. Particular attention will be paid to maritime space and to the geography of the construction of borders. Lecturers: Claire Rodier (Gisti/Migreurop) and Lorenzo Pezzani (Forensic Oceonography)

The Mediterranean and Work Friday 17 May, 11 am – 1 pm Venue: Aula Magna Università. Porta Napoli The Mediterranean can become a place for peace-building, prosperity and integration between three continents if work is put at the centre of national and supranational policies, i.e. work with rights and quality following the principles of sustainability and good governance. The trade union is ready to face up to this challenge, calling again for a new era of dialogue and discussion between social partners, institutions and civil society to overcome the emergency and tackle the root causes of forced migration, social injustice, exploitation and corruption. Two leading trade unions coming from both sides of the Mediterranean will have a dialogue about these topics. Speakers: Maurizio Landini SG CGIL, Nourredine Taboubi SG UGTT Tunisia (TBC)

From Barcelona to today: the failure of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Friday 17 May,3 – 5 pm Venue: Aula Magna Università. Porta Napoli In 1995 the European Union created a common policy for the Mediterranean region in Barcelona: the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Today that process has been replaced by the European Neighbourhood Policy, focused on the fight against terrorism and the control of migration. The lecture will explore that story and its evolution, past expectations, the limits and critical points with a view to understanding how it came to such a huge failure. Lecturers: Luciana Castellina (Honorary President of Arci Nazionale and Wadih Al Asmar – President of Euromed Rights Network)

INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS

"Long Way to Freedom". Organised by Arci Nazionale Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it Thursday 16 May,2.30 – 6 pm Venue: Convitto Palmieri Translation in IT, FR and EN The title of the autobiography written by Nelson Mandela – published in 1995 and written during his imprisonment on Robben Island and in other prisons in South Africa – is a good starting point for a discussion about the striving of men and women, but also of whole nations for freedom and democracy. Today, more than ever, there is a close link between the lack of fundamental rights, armed conflicts, climate change, economic impoverishment and forced migration affecting many parts of the world, but it is especially characteristic of the Mediterranean area. This issue will be analysed not with a view to identifying cause and effect relationships, but rather to understanding, despite its complexity, the real circularity which characterizes these different phenomena and spurns us to look for new and radical ideas enabling us to have a system of complex and interconnected answers.

Sanctuary city: bottom-up commitment of local receiving communities experimenting the integration and transformation models of our society Thursday 16 May2.30 – 6 pm Venue: Museo Castro Mediano Translation in IT, FR and EN A meeting point between the experience of cities and local receiving communities in order to build a global reception network. Representatives of French, Spanish and Italian cities and national and international networks have been invited to exchange views on the role of local communities as a bulwark of solidarity and reception principles.

Passports for Reality vol. II Organised by Arci Nazionale Thursday 16 May 2.30 – 4.30 pm Venue: Ex Refettorio Piazza Duomo Translation in IT, FR and EN Following the path set out in the latest edition of Sabir in Palermo, Passports for Reality comes back for the second time. Artists, cultural operators and representatives of international networks will exchange ideas about the artistic and cultural practices rooted in the areas of the Mediterranean, focusing on cooperative and participatory models. There will be room for discussion for residential projects, innovative forms of horizontal teaching methodology and EU artistic production practices. The international independent cultural scene identifies an urgent need to promote access to cultural rights actively across the board. To achieve this goal cultural operators and artists will invent totally new forms of expression to involve all the citizens in this effort. Therefore Passports for Reality can be seen as a tool for building together new types of public awareness and for consolidating critical thought. Among the participants there will be groups of artists and activists coming from different Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it countries of the Mediterranean and representatives of European and Mediterranean cultural networks.

Round Table Discussion–For an integrated reception: AMID, JUMAMAP, NUMERO VERDE RIFUGIATI Organised by Arci Nazionale Thursday 16 May 4.30 – 6.30 pm Venue: Ex Refettorio Piazza Duomo The round table discussion will give an opportunity to present the latest experience and instruments used for an integrated reception of asylum seekers and refugees in Italy and Europe. In particular, Arci, Solidar and DPI will promote NATs (Needs Assesment Tools) to identify the specific needs of disabled people in the framework of the European AMID (Access to the services of disabled migrants) project. There will be a general overview ranging from NATs to an open map of the services available in the area, promoted and built into a network by JUMAMAP, to which more than 1,000 services have joined since it started its activity a year ago. The network is a renewed tool for satisfying the needs of its users. All the services are coordinated by the hotline for asylum seekers and international and humanitarian protection beneficiaries, which will present the latest report about its activities. During the round table discussion two awareness-raising videos will be shown about the access to the services for disabled migrants, made by Arci solidarietà together with Claudio Casale. Speakers (TBC): Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, UNHCR, Solidar, DPI, Médecins du Monde, ANCI

“No Civic space, no democracy – SOLIDAR’s mobilisation for the elections” Organised by Rete Solidar Thursday 16 May 5.30 – 6.30 pm Venue: Convitto Palmieri Translation in IT, FR and EN It is time to review the European project as a really fair and sustainable structure focusing on the protection and welfare of all its citizens. What is at stake is the democratic majority of the European Parliament. The civil society organised all over Europe is ready to fight!

The European Agenda on Migration and the ‘return’ obsession Organised by the EuroMedRights network Friday 17 May 9.30 am – 1 pm Venue: Ex Refettorio The 2015 EU Agenda on Migration was structured around the strengthening of the externalisation process by the EU and its Member States of their migration and border management policies, increasingly involving the outsourcing of asylum, and Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it even stricter entry rules to access the EU including for international protection seekers. Today, it seems that all cooperation axes make reference to the need to achieve “effective return” policies. Based on country-based examples, the panel will gather NGO’s representatives from Albania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain, Greece and Italy as well as former MPs. The new European policy and the related future technical reforms will be presented, as well their consequences on human rights, the right to mobility and the right of asylum.

Three years after the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal. Comparative analysis of the situation in Turkey, Greece and the Balkan route Organised by Caritas Italiana, Acli and Arci Friday 17 May 9.30 am – 1 pm Venue: Sala Duomo Three years after signing the “EU-Turkey Refugee Deal” experts of the region and associations working in Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia will speak about the impact of the agreement in the region and along the Balkan route, where the borders are still theatres of violence and violations of rights. The focus of the meeting will be extended to Adriatic route, which, for years, has seen the refoulement of hundreds of fleeing men and women.

The Root Causes of Migration Organised by Attac International with the support of the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation Friday 17 May 2.30 – 5.30 pm Venue: Convitto Palmieri “Addressing the root causes of migration” is the most widespread political slogan that seems to have a broad consensus. People leaving their homes, heading for the unknown often have strong reasons to do so and they do not often have a real alternative. They usually flee from poverty, hunger, war and climate change, and often they have lost any hope. The causes are deep-rooted and systemic. The aim of this international meeting is to tackle the systemic causes of migration and flight. What role do trade and economic policies play? To what extent do climate change and military conflicts come into the picture?

OUR EUROPE, OUR FUTURE: What vision and project could bring democracy for all and stop the illiberal wave? Contents, politics, resistance and alliances in Europe in this dangerous time Organised by the European Civic Forum Friday 17 May 2.30 – 6 pm Venue: Museo Castro Mediano Translation in IT, FR and EN How can we rebuild trust in democracy and in universal values that much of the European population has lost? How can we recreate a convincing democratic and Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it social project and a new popular emancipation against the illiberal alarm bells? How can we strengthen the effectiveness and the popular credibility of the democratic players while the civic space is being attacked and the traditional forms of representation are in crisis? Contents, policies, practices, resistance and alliances in Europe in this dangerous period.

The border is good business. Investigations into the use of Italian and European funds for externalising border control Organised by Arci Nazionale in the framework of the #externalisationpolicieswatchproject Friday 17 May, 2.30 pm – 6 pm Venue: Duomo Translation in IT, FR and EN The external dimension of migration and asylum is more and more dangerously intertwined with security issues, leading to a logic of exclusion and the strengthening of external borders. Investigative journalism, international associations and researchers will present their investigations into the use of Italian and European funds that end up at the external borders of the European continent to manage migration flows and return policies, thereby converging with the interests of industrial and security lobbies.

Migrants: for migration management beyond the emergency, in a context of respect for human and labour rights Organised by Solidar Task Force, RSMMS, CES, Friday 17 May 2.30 – 6 pm Venue: Convitto Palmieri Translation in IT, FR and EN Dialogue between trade union networks (Africa, Mediterranean and Europe) and civil society for joint actions and proposals after the emergency in the medium and long term: for a welcoming society with rights, work, solidarity and democracy.

Shrinking Space. About the decreasing space of the civil society on both sides of the Mediterranean Organised by the Majalat project, together with the Promoting Committee of Sabir Festival Saturday 18 May, 9.30 am – 1 pm Venue: Sala Duomo Translation in IT, FR and EN In most countries of the Southern shore of the Mediterranean and, increasingly, in those of the Northern shore too, the authorities impose significant restrictions to the freedom of space of civil society. These restrictions take different shapes according to the regulations that threaten the freedom of association, but also by using Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it intimidatory practices, limiting the access of NGOs to funds, controlling the activities of organizations and criminalising solidarity. These excesses have dangerous consequences in terms of increasing corruption, limited freedom of expression, growing insecurity of the most vulnerable populations – including migrants and refugees – and the existence of less and less organizations of the civil society and of human rights advocates. The event will see the participation of three organizations from the Southern shore and three from the Northern shore, victims directly affected by the criminalization of solidarity and by the shrinking space of the civil society.

Presentation of Common Home Saturday 18 May 9.30 am -11.30 pm Venue: Sala Duomo Common Home is the publication of Caritas Italiana on “migration and development” describing a series of goals to achieve if we want to build an inclusive and sustainable society. The topics, including the whole human development, Agenda 2030 and human mobility, will be discussed from a global point of view and their interconnected nature will be treated using an analytical approach. The publication is part of the European MIND project, in which Caritas Italiana works together with Caritas Austria, Caritas Europa and other 9 national Caritas organizations on strategic issues such as the root causes of migration, receiving societies and integration processes.

NOT BY SEA – International Protection and Legal and Safe Access Presentation of the First Report on Human Corridors Friday 18 May 11.30 am – 13.00 pm Venue: Sala Duomo Translation in IT, FR and EN In such an alarming context with growing mobility worldwide legal migration can be a key tool for managing migration flows, starting from the fight against human trafficking and especially reducing the number of deaths at sea. Not by sea has a double goal: 1. it aims at enlisting the instruments Italian institutions, international organizations and associations use in their commitment to implementing programmes about opening legal and safe entry channels, 2. based on figures and a qualitative analysis it wants to tell us about the extraordinary experience about human corridors successfully managed by the Italian Church.

Into Europe Out of Prejudices Organised by Arci Nazionale Saturday 18 May, 9.30 am – 1 pm Venue: Translation in IT, FR and EN Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it This international lecture is the closing event of the Into Europe project, cofinanced by the Europe for Citizens programme of the European Union. The aim of the programme is to foster European citizenship, combat the stigmatisation of migrants and deconstruct the idea about migration promoted by anti-European populist movements and spread through the social media. The growing anti-European feeling is fomented by a vicious cycle of insecurity and fear caused especially by the economic crisis and the so-called 'migration crisis'. The efforts of the EU institutions and democratic civil society organizations to improve dialogue and communication do not seem to be enough to stop this process: social fear and lack of trust in democracy lead many citizens to join anti-European populist, racist and regressive movements. The narrative about Europe proposed by populist movements and the media, as well as the lack of direct connection between the citizens and the EU make it very difficult to reverse this trend. It is crucial to work on this goal today. During the lecture there will be presentations about the activities and results of the project and in particular about the campaign Into Europe, out of prejudice, as well as about the projects and activities of Arci in this field.

The Mediterranean: regional integration and a new partnership to relaunch employment and rights Organised by CGIL Saturday 18 May, 9.30 am – 1 pm Venue: Museo Castro Mediano Translation in IT, FR and EN Without work and rights the Mediterranean region remains a place of expulsion and and a powder keg of radicalization and violence. Starting from the analysis of some studies on employment, from the European Neighbourhood policies, from the state and the difficulties of the regional integration process three representatives of the social parties and civil society will have a debate with a view to identifying common work areas and orientations to be transmitted to national and supranational institutions. Participants: trade unions coming from both sides of the Mediterranean, Solidar and representatives of civil society networks.

Italy/Egypt, the main thrust of rights violations Organised by Arci Nazionale in the framework of the#externalisationpolicieswatch project Saturday 18 May, 2.30 pm – 5.30pm Venue: Ex-Refettorio The meeting will be focused on the relationship between Italy and Egypt in the field of foreign policy and national immigration policy. Despite the far too clear political excesses of the Al-Sisi government – denounced by the European Parliament as well because of human rights violations and the persecution of activists in Egypt some of Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it them even facing death penalty – Italy keeps having preferential trade relationships as well as a readmission agreement with Egypt, which too often considers the Egyptians economic migrants and does not really worry about what might happen to them after their expulsion.

BRIDGES between Senegal and Italy: comparing experience about circular migration Organized by ARCS association Saturday 18 May, 2.30 – 5.30 pm Venue: Convitto Palmieri Translation in IT, FR and EN There will be a discussion about migration, social and economic integration as well as a presentation of Italian and Senegalese best practices, drawing the attention to the positive link between migration and development and to the role played by diasporas as engines of sustainable development. The event will be accompanied by a workshop on migration and international cooperation.

THE GLOBAL CONTEXT: authoritarianism, geopolitics, new phase of globalization Organized by Attac France and Transnational Institute Saturday 18 May, 2.30 – 5.30 pm Venue: Museo Castro Mediano Translation in IT, FR and EN New authoritarianism, new nationalism and the return of borders, the new stage of globalization, new forms of competition and conflict to control markets and resources. United Stated, China, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East: the global context in which Europe is experiencing its dramatic democratic, social and civilization crisis. New resistance and alternatives.

 

For an assistance policy for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees and for a European employment policy with rights for the people in need of help and for men and women workers of this sector Organised by CGIL Saturday 18 May, 2.30 – 5.30 pm Venue: Museo Castro Mediano Translation in IT, FR and EN The aim of the seminar is to promote the skills and professionalism of people involved in reception with an action for the protection of labour rights and for building a European reference framework. Speakers: FP representatives – public-sector employment, FILCAMS – trade, services, CNCA, Solidar and EPSU. Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it

Final assembly for convergence: for a common agenda of networks, movements and social organizations Saturday 18 May, 5.30 – 8.30 pm Venue: Museo Castro Mediano Translation in IT, FR and EN At the end of all the debates and meetings on a variety of issues, the assembly will compare and contrast international, national and local organisations in a debate to coordinate their working programmes and critical issues to make it easier to find common converging actions in the near future. In light of the current difficult situation and the upcoming European elections, we feel the need to strengthen our alliances to speak with a single voice and make it heard stronger.

SHOWS

Thursday 16 May 9.30 pm Symphonic orchestra of Lecce and Salento OLES Venue: Piazza Duomo OLES is a cooperative company orchestra founded with the goal of protecting, enhancing, and modernizing the important musical heritage based on forty years of concerts and operas performed by the orchestra of Lecce (Symphonic Orchestra of the Province of Lecce and Symphonic Orchestra “Tito Schipa”, as it was called before). One of the goals stated in the founding documents of OLES is to promote culture and musical practice in Italy and abroad by creating, managing and organizing symphonic and opera seasons, chamber concerts, music shows and festivals as well as managing theatres and concert rooms, training and promotion.

Friday 17 May 9.30 pm Après La Classe Venue: Piazza Duomo Après La Classe is an Italian ska and electro rock band.

Saturday 18 May 9.30pm Cesare Dell’Anna & Giro di Banda Venue: Piazza Duomo Giro di Banda is the music created in a house without a record player, it is the poetry of gestures learnt without setting foot in a theatre, it is the adaptation of classical music for little bands. Giro di Banda is the band that always reinvents itself and, keeping alive its memories of melodies and emotions it lets itself be contaminated by the sea and the Earth, by different cultures and styles. Giro di Banda is a unique musical experience highlighting the passion for the world of bands, humbleness and reverence for the classical world, the risks in experimenting, the cultural and musical Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it experience of the people of Southern Italy, of all Southern places in the world. Starring Cesare with Giro di Banda

TRESPASSED - by Caritas Nazionale Thursday 16 May A show suspended between the theater, the reportage and the story to help the understanding of what it means to escape from war, poverty and climate change. The narrative cue is a mission, carried out by the authors, on the Balkan route in February 2016 that leads to more general reflections on the causes, numbers and policies of reception and entry into our country and the European Union.

WORKSHOPS

SabirLab1 Workshop of Graphic journalism “Drawing the border” by Gianluca Costantini 16-17-18 May, 11 am – 5 pm This is the fourth Graphic journalism the workshop, a three-day experience of survey and drawing to understand how residential areas can cope with the arrival of migrants and refugees in Italy. Features, procedures and problems of a border territory. The Festival’s meetings, the reports of experts and activists and the interviews with the local citizens will be used by the workshop participants to produce an illustrated report on the 3 days. The work will be shared in the social networks, on Twitter and Facebook. The workshop will take place from the 16 to 18 May from 11 am to 1 pm and from 2 to 5 pm. It is open to everyone for a maximum of 15 participants including some beneficiaries of reception centres. Registration required at laboratori@festivalsabir.it

SabirLab2 Music workshop organised by Stregoni 16-17-18 May 11 am – 5 pm How much do we know about the stories of music brought to our cities by the migrants? Stregoni is an attempt to understand with the language of music what is happening inside and outside the borders of a continent affected by the worst political crisis since the EU was founded. This event is a real music workshop offering a series of concert-workshops both in refugee centres and clubs, trying to tell us what happens every day, not at sea, not on the borders of the desert but in our cities. Starting from the music refugees and asylum seekers listen to on their smartphone Johnny Mox and Above The Tree create loops in real time which are starting points, sound fragments a good base for creating original compositions. "Stregoni’s job is to create an open space for exchange. Right from the start we thought that a traditional band was not enough to represent our intentions Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it therefore we started off by dismantling the barriers of the band. There are no permanent members: in every city where we have been, we played with different people, about 5,000 in two years and a half in Italy and Europe".

CINEMA

WHERE YOU HAVE TO STAY, Daniele Gaglianone, Italy 2018, 98’ Georgia was a secretary. One day she found a ramshackle camp with hundreds of migrants in front of the railway station of her city, Como: she thought she would stop and give them a hand. Lorena, a retired psychotherapist in Pordenone; Elena, who lives in the mountains of the high part of Valsusa and Jessica, a student in Cosenza, are very different women, but all of them had to face marginalization and exclusion, and non of them turned a blind eye on these situations. They stayed there, where they felt they had to stay.

FREE, Michel Toesca, France 2018, 100’ In Val Roia, a valley split between France and Italy, dozens of migrants try to pass the border every day hoping to find a better life. But in this limbo, closed between two states, migration policies make them impossible to enter France. Cédric Herrou, a farmer living in the valley, is a hero for these young migrants: he has been giving shelter to all the young people and families who, having no place to go, get stuck on the border. Thanks to the help of friends and voluntary workers Cédric defies the French institutions courageously.

STYX, Wolfgang Fischer, Germany – Austria 2018, 94’ Rike, fond of sailing, leaves alone from Gibraltar on her very modern sail boat to sail around Ascension Island, a paradise on earth in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. After a storm she finds herself not far from a drifting boat full of people who urgently need help… After repeated “S.O.S” cries the coastguard orders Rike not to interfere with them because she does not have the means to help them, but her sense of responsibility keeps tormenting her. Will she go away knowing that some people are going to lose their life at sea?

The MARKET of the MEDITERRANEAN

Until the beginning of the last century Sabir was the pidgin language spoken by the sailors at the ports of the Mediterranean, which proves the shared roots of our culture with the people who live and lived around the “middle sea”. Among these cultures Festivalsabir.it Info: info@festivalsabir.it there are land and sea products ranging from the olive trees – a tree which represents the Mediterranean better than any other tree, to ‘Alaccia di Lampedusa’ (salted anchovies from Lampedusa), to buckwheat. For the first time Sabir Festival will also see the participation of producers coming from the Southern and Eastern side of the Mediterranean, from Morocco, Algeria, Palestine, Tunisia and Egypt, bringing their sea produce which is often cancelled by a profit-oriented global market, not interested in quality and the dignity of producers. Today the Mediterranean is theatre of a global tragedy, of a promise of development, equality and democracy which has not been kept, what is more, it has almost disappeared from the vision of governments and states. But if people and peoples manage to build relationships and create networks at grassroot levels to give dignity to the land and the sea and the people who make their living from the land and the sea and those who work there the Mediterranean can be again the sea of all, a sea which is a source of life and not of death, a shared space of exchange and common growth. With this goal in mind Sabir 2019, taking place in Lecce from 16 to 19 May, will host for the first time the Market of the Mediterranean, together with the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. Farmers and seamen (i.e. land and sea product producers) coming from the countries of the Mediterranean will arrange a fair of olive oil, wheat, fish and many other products that are part of our hybrid culture.