TUESDAY 16 MAY, 6.00 p.m., at the conference room of the ex Conservatorio S. Anna, Via Libertini, 1 in Lecce, there will be the presentation of CREATURE DI SABBIA, an articulated artistic residency project promoted by the Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Heritage Agency, which involves for the first time in Lecce young female artists from the Arab world and numerous local, national and international lecturers and guests on the theme of gender equality and women's violated rights, twelve years after the Arab Spring.
The project, financed by the Apulia Region - Department of Welfare, on the call Puglia Capitale sociale 3.0., is marked by a massive involvement of local and national realities, institutional partners and artists in a dense calendar of meetings, from 23 to 27 May, both educational and dedicated to the artist residency, and collateral events open to the entire community.
The conference will be attended by:
Adriana Poli Bortone: President of the Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Heritage Agency;
Ettore Bambi: Scientific Coordinator of the project;
Andrea Laudisa:Head and curator of the Artist Residence -Associazione Positivo Diretto;
Fabia Anna Cicirillo: Councillor for Education, Culture and Cultural Heritage Municipality of Lecce;
Silvia Miglietta: Councillor for Active Labour Policies, Equal Opportunities, Civil Rights of Lecce;
Brizia Minerva: Polo Bubliomuseale of the Province of Lecce;
Saifeddine Maaroufi: Imam of the Islamic Community of Lecce.
