content tagged with multicultural creativity ın the mediterranean

Alin, Masha and Nader live in the outskirts of Rome. They have different stories, aspirations, fears and the usual difficulty of being adolescents of foreign origin in a country that refuses its cultural diversity. Claudio Giovannesi deals with all this in his new documentary.

In Spain integration happens through music. In an intercultural society, cultural barriers are broken down. This is the message a punk band from Madrid called Ska P is trying to spread through countless concerts throughout Europe and Latin America.

For more than three years, 1.5 million Palestinians have been living under total blockade imposed by Israel, unable to get out of the coastal enclave and with the borders closed to foreign visitors. Gazan artists are however committed to break the blockade through art, as the first International Video Art Festival held earlier this year attests.

Given the number of its artists, Fanfaraï is a brass band and also a group interpreting a musical range going from jazz to gnawa passing by Raï and salsa.

Having emerged in the suburbs twenty years ago, hip-hop is now part of French cultural heritage. V. Milliot, urban cultures expert discusses the “French Touch” to which she dedicated her thesis.

Boultek, a venue dedicated to alternative culture. The association EAC- L’Boulvart with its eleven years of experience is strengthening its work and embarking on new challenges.

Sophie Bachelier speaks of the profound feelings of loss and emptiness provoked by a journey, often without return. Through photography, she portrays the life of mothers and wives of Senegalese migrants, whose stories she has also filmed.

An ever lasting fighter, Aadel Essaadani is one of the key contributors to cultural life in Casablanca. Through his diverse experiences he has nourished a strong vision of the important role of culture.

A group of associations give a second life to the old Casablanca Abattoirs (Slaughterhouse), transforming it into the first cultural site of the Arab world. Space is given to the young urban cultures.

Nadir Leghrib is a young musician. In the beginning, he became known for the reinterpretations of the grunge group Nirvana. This is where the nickname “Nadir Nirvana” comes from. He then created a new style: the “chaâbi-grunge”.

Reggae artist Enzo Ikah, who rebels against wars and injustices with his music, is becoming the voice of peace and love in Turkey, a country rapidly becoming more multicultural due to immigration.

Musician of fusion par excellence, Kheireddine M’kachiche has juggled with all musical registers to which he was given access: from classical music to the Algerian traditional repertoire, from jazz to rock…