Santo Llobell is the poster artist of the sixth edition of Mostra Viva del Mediterrani
The sixth edition of the multidisciplinary Festival Mostra Viva del Mediterrani starts with the presentation of the official poster of this edition, designed by Sento Llobell. In an event organized at the Center del Carme Cultura Contemporània, the organization of the Festival has advanced some of the novelties of this year’s program.
El dibujante e historietista valenciano Sento Llobell ha sido el encargado de «trazar» la imagen que representará la sexta edición de la Mostra Viva del Mediterrani, el festival que convierte València en capital del Mediterráneo durante el mes de octubre. La próxima edición del festival se celebrará del 3 al 21 de octubre y como novedad contará con una disciplina artística más en su programación: la danza.
El equipo que hace posible la Mostra Viva -representado por Vicent Garcés, Maite Ibáñez y Giovanna Ribes- presentó ayer en el Centre del Carme el cartel de la nueva edición junto a Llobell. «Soy un artista de tebeos, así que quería hacer algo que me representara a mí y a todas las facetas de la Mostra Viva», aseguró el dibujante. El cartel está compuesto por nueve «viñetas» inspiradas en els «socarrats», baldosas de barro cocido, comunes en el siglo XV, que albergaban símbolos religiosos y costumbristas en negro, blanco y rojo. En esta ocasión, los «socarrats» de Llobell representan las disciplinas que se encuentran presentes en la Mostra Viva, como la danza, el teatro, la música, la literatura, las artes plásticas o el circo. «Pese a la antiguedad de los ´socarrats´, su estilo siempre me ha parecido muy moderno», destacó Llobell.
Si para el coordinador del Festival Vicent Gregori, “en esta edición se ha reforzado el trabajo de colaboración con entidades y asociaciones
culturales valencianas, que poco a poco están haciendo suya la Mostra Viva”; para Giovanna Ribes, también presidenta de la organización, “La colaboración institucional ha permitido convertir a Valencia durante el mes de octubre en un referente de la cultura mediterránea”. Ribes ha anunciado que el certamen de este año tendrá como lema “Un mar de Culturas”.
Mostra Viva 2018 se celebrará este año entre los días 3 y 21 de octubre y ofrecerá exposiciones, narración oral, arte en la calle, música, actividades escolares y familiares, circo, y l’Encontre d’escriptors además del nuevo ciclo de danza.
El Presidente de honor de la organización Vicent Garcés, ha destacado que con estas seis ediciones, Valencia ha conseguido volver a ser
referente cultural del Mediterráneo. Prueba de ello es el compromiso con la cultura de los países ribereños, y ahora también, en su calidad de ciudad refugio con la llegada del barco Aquarius al puerto que será previsiblemente mañana sábado. Garcés ha dedicado unas emotivas palabras a los refugiados con las que ha arrancado un estruendoso aplauso.
Launching the Euro-Mediterranean Solidarity Movement with persons in exile
With the participation of the Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation (ACM Foundation), based in Valencia, through its Citizen Circles of Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, Lebanon and Palestine.
The Lebanese NGO Amel Association International (Amel) and the French organization Samusocial International (SSI) have launched in Rome on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, the Euro-Mediterranean Solidarity Movement with people in exile. A movement that gather public institutions, civil society entities and experts, and that advocates for a change in current host policies with exiles and refugees. “A call to join forces from values of solidarity, of dignity that represent the future of humanity,” as they have pointed out. The ACM Foundation that advocates citizen resistance to injustices joins this movement of citizen solidarity in the Mediterranean.
The event was held in the Capitol of Rome and has had the support of the city council, with the collaboration of the Cultural Association Laura Lombardo Radice, the French Institute Center St. Louis in Rome, Un Ponte Per, the Xavier Emmanuelli Fund and the ACM Foundation.
The president of the ACM Foundation, Vicent Garcés, has indicated at the opening ceremony that “more than two years ago the city of Valencia and the Valencian Government pledged to welcome hundreds of refugees and the answer of the Sapnish Government was no. Now the answer is positive to open the doors to the “Aquarius” because the there is a change in the State Government. Read the full speech of the president of the FACM, Vicent Garcés.
The Euro-Mediterranean Movement is the crystallization of the recommendations and challenges that have been outlined in two previous seminars in the autumn of 2017, in France and Greece, in which met the key actors on migration issues from the entire Euro-Mediterranean region.
Nikolaos Poutsiakas, regional councilor of Thesalia and member of the FACM Advisory Council, Touria ElOumri, member of the local Commission for the regularization of migration in Casablanca and representative of the ACM Circle of Casablanca, Hassan Balawi, diplomat and representative of the ACM Circle of Palestine; and Esma Kucukalic, journalist and member of the ACM Circle of Valencia participated at the event.
The ACM Foundation prepares a presentation of its initiatives in the European Parliament
The ACM Foundation delegation composed by the president of the FACM, Vicent Garcés, the director, Lola Bañon and the member of the FACM Advisory Council, Geoffroy d’Aspremont have held for four days (from 4 to June 8) a round of meetings and visits with the heads of the main European and Mediterranean institutions in Brussels. The president Garcés has held meetings with the president of the delegation of the European Parliament for relations with the Maghreb, Inés Ayala; as well as with the chief diplomatic officer of the League of Arab States in Brussels, Ambassador Abdelhamid Zehani ; the permanent ambassador of the African Union to the European Unión; Ahmad Awad Sakine, François Massoulié, one of the European Parliament’s foreign policy representatives, and Gudrun Niedorf, foreign relations coordinator of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) by the Committee of the Regions , among others. With the focus on the promotion the citizen participation in peace and stability process in the region, as well as the implementation of lines of collaboration with the African Union, the FACM prepares a presentation of its initiatives in the European Parliament in the coming months.
Launching of the Euro-Mediterranean Movement of Solidarity with people in exile
Social change through theater | ACM Thessaly circle workshop
More than 40 people have participated in the seminar on social theater organized by the ACM circle of Thessaly (Greece), in collaboration with Citizens in Action, and which was given by the playwright Jean-Pierre Besnard, artistic director and pedagogue of “Caravane Théâtre” “from Toulouse.
A workshop held between May 16 and June 1 that resulted in 7 different plays, and a final work dedicated to refugees. The objective of the seminar was to make the participants face the problems derived from the economic crisis in their country, looking for a possible solution in the theatrical expression.
The closing ceremony was attended by the Deputy Mayor of the city of Larisa, as well as by the member of the Advisory Council of the FΑCM, Poutsiakas Nikos, who together with the president of the organization “Citizens in Action”, and the director of the Theater, gave a brief speech and distributed the certificates of the seminar to the participants. The guests actively participated in the “creation” of the interpreted works in which a positive social change was made, for example, in issues such as the fighting violence against women or refugees hosting. Without doubt, it would be interesting to carry out a Mediterranean intercultural action within the framework of this approach.
The ACM Foundation Launchs the book “Nakba, 48 stories of life and resistance in Palestine”, by the Palestinian writer, Salah Jamal
The ACM Foundation in collaboration with Acció Cultural del País Valenciá (ACPV) presented last night in Valencia the novel “Nakba, 48 stories of life and resistance in Palestine”, by the Palestinian writer, Salah Jamal . The event was attended by the author as well as the president of the ACM Foundation, Vicent Garcés, the general secretary of ACPV, Toni Gisbert, the deputy of the Valencian Parliament, Rosa Falastín and the journalist, David Segarra.
Un acto emotivo que, como la obra de Salah Jamal, ha rendido tributo a la memoria histórica del pueblo palestino a través de la memoria personal de su propia familia. “Me niego a olvidar, aunque me lo hayan impuesto -ya ven sin éxito-, porque mi memoria, la memoria de un pueblo garantiza su existencia”, ha señalado el escritor. La diputada, Rosa Falastín señalaba que como Salah, es hija y nieta de aquellos palestinos de la Nakba, que a pesar del destierro “llevamos Palestina en la memoria, en el presente y hasta en mi nombre”.
El presidente de la Fundación ACM, Vicent Garcés insistió en la extrema turbulencia que atraviesa en estos momentos el Mediterráneo. “En todas las políticas que se están haciendo y deshaciendo en la región, cuestión palestina es clave, y de su resolución pacífica depende la estabilidad. Como Fundación ACM llamamos a una resistencia ciudadana que exija a los poderes que desarrolle políticas que garanticen la paz y el progreso en el Mediterráneo”.
La novela de Salah Jamal recoje 48 relatos que ejemplifican una catástrofe, pero que a la vez están impregnados de calor y ternura, incluso con una buena dosis de sátira y humor negro, en un intento de alejarse del drama que supone vivir bajo una ocupación militar permanente, aproximando al lector a unas historias que modificando el escenario de una ocupación militar a buen seguro le podrían ser muy comunes.
Algunas entrevistas en medios de comunicación con motivo del acto de presentación de la novela de Salah Jamal:
Great attendance at the conference on desertification organized by the ACM Circle of Thessaly
Great attendance of the public at the conference on desertification by Dr. Panos Panagos, member of the European Commission, member of the Joint Research Center based in Varese (Italy), and specialist in computer models on erosion, organized by the Circle ACM of Thessaly in collaboration with the organization “Citizens Thessaliens of the World”. The event has had the support of Agrenda Agronews group.