As every 1st of May for the past 20 years, the Santa Capelina is celebrated in Nice on the Rauba Capeu. Fish soup, hand-made hats and the Santa are its main ingredients. The Batucada play all [...]
The first independent carnival is being prepared in Genoa in different places, La Libera Collina di Castello, CSOA Terra di Nessuno as well as Circo Burrida, with float constructions, [...]
The study of carnivals paves the way to an understanding of the social and political context wherein this festive event takes place. In Nice, a glance at the floats of the 2019 carnival leads the [...]
The 2019 Viareggio’s carnival is characterized by fewer floats directly representing political issues. Bullying, solidarity, women rights, critiques to individualism and social media, (plastic) [...]
Yannick Deubou Sikoué is the delegate of the annual comic festival MBOA BD in Cameroon. This year 2019, the festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, 27.-30. November in Douala and 4.-7. [...]
Monika Salzbrunn was invited Keynote Speaker at the Midterm Conference “Belongings and Borders – Biographies, Mobilities and the Politics of Migration” of the ESA (European [...]
FIBD OFF OFF: The 4th “Prix Couilles au Cul” for exceptional artistic courage went to Jamonyqueso (artist) and Chino with Tenso Tenso (authors) (Equatorial Guinea) for [...]
The ERC-ARTIVISM team went to Marseille to participate in the interdisciplinary meeting “Migrations, nos voix, nos chemins de traverse”, organized by Lucie Bacon, Amandine Desille and Noémie [...]
Extracurricular Conference and Meeting between artists, scientists and activists The ERC ARTIVISM team is participating in a conference of artists, scientists and activists in order [...]
October 9, 2018 PhD student and member of ERC-ARTIVISM team, Federica Moretti presented her research “Mobilizing Creativity. Carnival as political performance and means of expression” at the [...]
