MA.MA., tribute to Nelson Mandela 100 years after his birth and to Miriam Makeba 10 years after his death

“Voices of a Dream” is a show of theater, music and dance that pays homage to the figures of Nelson Mandela and Miriam Makeba and acts as a spokesperson for their messages of pacifist activism, respect for human rights, and diffusion of the values ​​of solidarity and hospitality.
The show is part of the activities of a larger project MA.MA. – Tribute to Nelson Mandela 100 years after his birth and Miriam Makeba ten years after her death, the only winner of the MigrArti 2018 call in Campania promoted by MIBACT. The show, conceived and directed by Gigi Di Luca, dramaturgy by Davide Sacco and produced by La Bazzarra, will be staged in the Cortile del Maschio Angioino on July 18th in the program of Estate a Napoli 2018.
Retracing moments in the lives of Nelson Mandela and Miriam Makeba, the show touches on the themes of departure, of the forced abandonment of one's homeland, of exile, of separation from loved ones, of the fear of diversity, of racism, but also of civil commitment, of active citizenship to build a new "community", making itself the spokesperson of the teachings of emblematic figures in the fight for human rights such as Nelson Mandela and Miriam Makeba.
MA.MA. is an artistic project with a strong social value that has the ambitious goal of retracing the path of the two South African leaders and reinforcing their message in this particular historical moment and intends to do this through music, theatre, art, the values ​​of dialogue and diversity understood as wealth and growth.
The course involved more than fifteen artists between Naples and Castelvolturno, including second-generation immigrants and Italian actors who followed with interest the stages of the theater, singing and dance workshop.
The entire format will end in November in Castelvolturno to symbolically and spiritually pay homage to Miriam Makeba ten years after her death. “MA.MA. tells, through the voices of these immigrants, the story of two leaders forced for years not to have relationships with their own people. Those people, today as yesterday at the top of the public debate on the issues of racism and acceptance, celebrate them through the ways of art. MA.MA. also wants to be something more, it wants to talk about the mental cage of racism, the sociological problem that this entails, the fear of the different, all absolutely contemporary and still unresolved issues” (Gigi Di Luca).