To not forget, to stop the shame of many, too many
migrants swallowed by the waters of the Mediterranean, as well as those,
anonymous, who - every day - cross our borders. People looking for 'only' a
better life, fleeing from wars, disasters, or poverty…
The project Memento Mari (and this blog) intends at
least to give them back their dignity. Learning to know and recognize them
through their stories, hopes, desires, their dreams, we will help to create a
new Europe, open to dialogue and reception.
Memento
Mari is a manifesto for action addressed to all those who
believe that it is possible, useful, and necessary to use culture as a key to
open minds and hearts. To shake-off indifference. Memento Mari intends making visible how migrations can play a
positive role in the development of a new European Union, more based on
solidarity and finally able to get out of the most serious socio-economic
crisis in its history.
Memento
Mari was launched in Italy in 2011-2012 as a reaction /
reflection following the landing of thousands of refugees and migrants from
North Africa, inflamed by the Arab Springs. Later, in 2013, some
artists of our improvised music association InAudible / I * M have relaunched
the project in Belgium, to coincide with the 2014 European elections.
It's true: today the almost daily tragedies on the
borders of Europe (from Lampedusa to Ceuta and Melilla, from Lesvos to Bulgaria...)
are often in the headlines of newspapers and television, the debate on social
networks is more and more intense and the 'immigration dossier' finally plays a
great importance on the political agenda in Europe and outside of Europe...
However, we think that it would be necessary to do more and better. And that is
why we are re-launching Memento Mari
and this new blog.
It is a platform open to the contributions of artists and cultural
professionals and practitioners active in various disciplines (music, theater,
dance, film, photography, literature...) where the free improvisation plays an
important role and with good reason. Through the art workshops, meetings,
interviews, flash-mob, concerts, etc. we meet (among others) migrants - just
arrived or long-standing - refugees, asylum seekers and working with them, we
dialogue, we do not stop to reflecting on the past, present and future of each
of us and of the different communities.
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