Borders, Mobility and Cultural Identity
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On Tursday September 19th at 11:00 am the Mahalla festival will continue with artists talks and presentations dedicated to migration, exile, cultural praxis and cultural identity at SALT Galata. Participating artists are Theo Eshetu, Germany/UK, Costa Vece, Switzerland, Iris Andraschek, Hubert Lobnig, Austria, Pınar Öğrenci, Turkey, Omar Berakdar ,Syria, and Glen Calleja, Malta.
At 5:00 pm will be a screening of Insel 36 – Island 36 – by Aslı Özarslan former artist in residence of the program Kulturakademie Tarabya.
At 6:30 theater director Bulbul Nawar, France/Syria, will present the documentary Love Boat, about his last theater play with Syrian migrants in Amman.
After the programm will be a cocktail at SALT Galata.
Foto – Costa Vece
Wandering Tower
The Wandering Tower is the title of a surrealist short story by Sergej Prokofiev from the times of vivid migration movements on the edge of the world wars.
The Festival was quoting the title as a metaphorical frame for Mahalla 2020/2021. The tower of Babel is connected as a motive to the search for the origin of language and the access to the divine.