Bologna: The second appointment of the Migrant Vibrations review

Bologna: The second appointment of the Migrant Vibrations review.

Second appointment of the review Migrant Vibrations 2023 – Stories, underway in Bologna with events until June 29th. A reflection on inclusion and integration through the performing arts in light of the changed human geography of the city fabric, organized by the Asanisimasa Cultural Association with the artistic direction of Fabio Sperandio.

Saturday 20 May Vibrazioni Migranti embraces Resistance in Cyrenaica to propose a day of meetings dedicated to memory and to commemorate the victims of Italian colonialism. The choice of date refers to the most serious war crime of colonialist Italy. On 19 February 1937, in Addis Ababa, an attempt on the life of the viceroy of Ethiopia Rodolfo Graziani failed, and he immediately implemented a repression that caused tens of thousands of victims in a few days. Three months later, General Meletti's troops, under the orders of Graziani, reached Debra Libanòs, the most famous convent-city in Ethiopia, where, between 20 and 29 May, all the deacons, monks and the vice-prior were killed .

The first appointment of the day is at 10.30 in front of the Partisan Shrine in Piazza del Nettuno for an urban trek in search of colonial traces in the city. Among the stops, the Faccia nera palace and the Casa del fascio.

In the afternoon the activities move to Nassau, in Via Dè Griffoni 5/2 Bologna, for three events which, through different narrative languages, tell stories of colonialism.

It begins at 17pm with the vernissage of the exhibition of original plates of the graphic novel, work in progress, Yekatit 12 by Andrea Sestante, born Andrea Lelli. Yekatit 12 – the equivalent of February 19 in the Ethiopian Coptic calendar – tells the story of the 1937 massacre in Addis Ababa in drawings and words. The author, from Modena, born in 1970, graphic designer, illustrator and web design teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, grew up with his grandparents' stories, with their stories that embodied the narratives of opposing ideologies that made the strong man mature interest in the topic of anti-fascism and resistance.

At 18pm, the round table Stories of Colonialism follows, in which Sestante meets Nadia M. Abdelhamid, intercultural mediator, trainer and scholar, Mariana E. Califano, historian and activist of Resistenze in Cirenaica and Matteo Dominioni, scholar of Italian colonialism and author of The collapse of the empire (Laterza, 2008) to talk about the ways of telling stories of Italians in the Horn of Africa.

At 21pm the Bhutan Clan, resident band of Resistenze in Cyrenaica, closes the day with the (anti)Colonial Suite, a melody composed over years of activity on the colonial repressed. The Bhutan Clan is made up of: Jadel Andreetto (vocals), Stefano D'arcangelo (keyboards and electronics), Michela Koukoussis (drums), Bruno Fiorini (guitar), Giroweedz (bass).

All events are free to enter.