[ Festivals in the Past ]
OCT 26 - NOV 30 - 2024
Memento
The primary focus of Memento was on a reflection of global power structures, the alteration of gender roles, an awareness of a world that necessitates acknowledgment of human minorities and environmental protection alike.
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July 20 - 28 - 2024
Beyond What Drifts Us Apart
The Mahalla Festival in Gozo uncovered unseen stories of landscapes surrounding the historic Dwejra Tower in Gozo, Malta. It was a site-specific project which attempts to uncover the less dominant narratives associated with the environments.
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Nov 17 - DEC 10 - 2023
Mahalla Festival 2023
The Mahalla Festival in Malta uncovered unseen stories of landscapes surrounding historic coastal towers.
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SEP 1 - SEP 10 - 2022
Palimpsest
Mahalla Palimpsest focused on cultural diversity and biodiversity. The Palimpsest, implied ambiguity, multilingualism, interdisciplinary, exploration, re-design, interactivity and, above all, togetherness. Mahalla Palimpsest also draws attention to the value of our everyday objects and their recyclability and upcyclability.
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SEP 8 - SEP 25 - 2021
Murmuration
Murmuration established in September 2021 a neighbourhood with various independent art spaces in Kadıköy and Yeldeğirmeni, Istanbul. The global pandemic crisis challenged the ways to practice transnational, but also opened doors to innovations in the field of digital communication.
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DEC 15 - DEC 29 - 2020
The Wandering Tower
The Wandering Tower was presenting several cultural actors in a hybrid environment to cope with the pandemic and to overcome the feeling of immobility.
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MAY - DEC - 2020
COVID-19
The 2020 global crisis and the pandemic gaves us no other option than reinventing the ways we do and think about intercultural communication to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic by using remote tools for the Mahalla Festival 2020.
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NOV 17 - NOV 25 - 2018
Generating New Narratives
The festival in Malta gave the opportunity to update the network of European cultural initiatives working in the field of migration, exile and inclusion. It brought together native communities and newcomers.
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SEP 13 - SEP 27 - 2017
Culture in Transition
The Mahalla Festival 2017 in Istanbul presented 37 cultural initiatives and cultural actors from 16 European countries and from their neighboring countries.
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