NÀRAMI SA MANDRA, MAY 29, 2022
On May 29 at 7 PM, Narami returns, the cultural container of Sa Mandra. The images, music, and words that will narrate the emotions, actions, and stubbornness of those who refuse to be considered a number will do the honors. For some years now, demographic decline and depopulation have been under the magnifying glass of the most varied analyses, whether social, political, technical, or artistic. It was 2018 when Marco Ceraglia with OrdinariMai posed an entire village. In Banari, on an August evening, he gathered all the inhabitants in a square, about six hundred people, women, men, young people, elderly, and children, all with a number, waiting for the fateful click that immortalized them, giving life to the “largest group portrait in the world”. A social, artistic action that attracted so much attention. Side by side, bodies, people, faces, who claimed the right to exist. A trace of this unrepeatable moment remains in a book and in a documentary film that will be screened on the evening of Sunday, May 29. A moment of reflection, of emotion on that phenomenon known as depopulation. The postcards from those who stay for those who travel will illustrate the SardiniaSpopTourism project. A format that six young women, in Sardinia by force or by choice, in full lockdown, after various degree and master’s programs, have developed, analyzing how it is possible to live and enhance the rural areas, the most inland of the island. They have built a network of all those artisanal, commercial, tourist activities that with resistance and tenacity are active in municipalities with fewer than 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 inhabitants.
There will also be the music of the Maria Carta Foundation (the Fantafolk, Vanessa Denanni and Su Concordu de ‘Onne), which with Freemmos has turned the spotlight on the freedom to remain in the territory where one was born, or decided to live, rediscovering the sounds and harmonies that make music, singing, dancing the characterizing and founding elements of a people’s culture. It will be journalist Giacomo Serreli who will dialogue, with lightheartedness and lightness, weaving the threads of a discourse that is now unavoidable. He will reconnect the proposals, stimuli, suggestions, which with the complicity of the ephemeral language typical of art, manages to instill conscience and awareness, much more than many sermons; to reaffirm with conviction that “We are not numbers,” but people with their uniqueness and fullness of living, beyond the numerical density of the population in which one finds themselves living.