Highlights

This participatory multi-disciplinary performance on the theme of immigration, porosity and integration, was open to the local community and visitors alike. The public were both spectators and co-creators. An intimate, immersive experience; the audience was enveloped by the human reality of the stories of exile and embodied, for a moment, the heroes, the swimmers and the drowned, the survivors and the disappeared, the hundreds of thousands caught in their movement, suspended outside community and time, within a system that offers uncertainty, anxiety, violence and still, somehow, hope.

Riccardo Cepach, Museo Joyce Trieste’s Director, led the open discussion with a deeply engaged audience during the Nestory symposium in Trieste. The Trieste symposium on the theme of Weight of History actively engaged people of varying ages. The discussion was inspired by Joyce’s book and found themes and resonances which were simultaneously universal, global and local: trade, liberalism, epidemics, peace, language, economics, debt, coexistence, feminism, freedom.

Vilnius City Museum approached their symposium on the theme of Urban renewal and the reinvention of the city through holding a series of walking tours around the city where the various historical and modern neighbourhoods were visited with guides. The Vilnelė River connects different urban Vilnius settings, from post-industrial landscapes to the Old Town. It is a metaphor of the city in perpetual change, a connector of different socio-spatial environments, different scenarios of future development of neighbourhoods.