'Voices for Freedom – A Song for Amnesty', the historic festival that unites music and human rights, will celebrate Amnesty International's 24th anniversary in its 60th edition
'Voices for Freedom - A Song for Amnesty', will celebrate Amnesty International's 24th anniversary in its 60th edition. It will do so with the delivery of the Amnesty International Italy Award in the Big section to Negramaro, with the finals of the Award in the emerging section and with many guests and collateral initiatives. A broad program that will touch the province of Rovigo for five days: on July 17 Adria and then from July 22 to 25 Rosolina Mare.
The official media partner will be Rai Radio1, which will also offer live broadcasts from the festival.
Guests of “Voices for Freedom” will include Yo Yo Mundi, HER, Vallanzaska, Giulio Wilson, Francesca Incudine, Agnese Valle and the Jonathan Livingston project, while the finals of the Emerging section of the Amnesty Prize will see Aftersat, Blindur, Donix, Innocente, Olivia XX, Ozora, Picciotto and Miriam Ricordi competing. The program will be completed by the film on the 60 years of Amnesty International, aperitifs between music and words and two exhibitions on human rights, while the evenings will be hosted by Savino Zaba and Carmen Formenton.
The underlying theme of the festival will be the sixtieth anniversary of Amnesty International. The human rights organization was born on May 28, 1961 and since then has multiplied its battles against torture and the death penalty and for the social and economic rights of all people. After 60 years of activity and a Nobel Peace Prize, Amnesty International's commitment does not stop, thanks to 12 million supporters, members and activists present in most of the states of the world.
“Everything is ready for a new extraordinary edition of our festival,” says Riccardo Noury, Italian spokesperson for Amnesty International. “As always, we will combine music and rights, remembering this year the twenty years that have passed since the G8 in Genoa and the very serious violations of human rights that were committed in 2001 and the prolonged illegal detention of Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian student at the University of Bologna who has been in prison without trial and without being able to defend himself for almost a year and a half now.”
Two exhibitions will accompany the festival. One will be “60 faces for 60 years”, a collection of portraits, one for each year, from the foundation of the movement to today, created specifically by Gianluca Costantini. The other, entitled “Free Patrick Zaki: prisoner of conscience”, collects the winning posters of the special edition of the international social communication competition “Poster For Tomorrow”.
During the festival, “Stand Up for Victims” will be launched, a project promoted by the NGO COSPE and Amnesty Italy in support of victims of hate crimes.
All events are free to enter with reservations on the website: www.eventbrite.it/o/voci-per-la-liberta-30579724078
The 2021 “Voices for Freedom” calendar will kick off with a preview on Saturday 17 July in Adria in Piazza Cavour, at 21.30:2019 pm. Taking to the stage will be Vallanzaska, a pioneering band of ska-punk in Italy that is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, and Giulio Wilson, winner of the critics' award at Voci per la libertà in 18.30, who recently released his new album “Storie vere tra alberi e gatti”. At XNUMX:XNUMX pm at the Zen Gardens, in collaboration with the REM Association, two books will be presented: “What Egyptian holiday?! Accidental arrest of a singer” with the author Davide Romagnoni (singer of Vallanzaska) and “Why abolish prison. The reasons for «No Prison»” with the author Livio Ferrari.
From Thursday 22nd July to Sunday 25th July, the entertainment arena in Piazzale Europa in Rosolina Mare will host the semi-finals and the final of the Amnesty Emergenti Award together with important guests.
The first evening will be entirely dedicated to Amnesty International. At 21.30:60 pm there will be the screening of “Candle in barbed wire“, a documentary film directed by Fabio Masi on the sixty years of Amnesty International’s battles for the defense of human rights through the words of artists, human rights defenders and historical material. The project “Stand Up for Victims” promoted by the NGO COSPE and Amnesty Italia in support of victims of hate crimes will also be presented to the public. This will be followed by the inauguration of the two exhibitions at the conference center: “60 volti per XNUMX anni” by Gianluca Costantini and “Free Patrick Zaki: prisoner of conscience”, an international competition.
From Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th there will be music with guests, the contest for the emerging section of the Amnesty Award and aperitifs between music and words.
On Friday the guest will be HER, a multifaceted artist, violinist, composer, actress, performer, who last year was the overall winner of the Amnesty International Italy Award in the emerging section. The evening will open with students from the IIS Primo Levi in Badia Polesine who will present the unreleased song “Tutta questa libertà”, linked to the “Jonathan Livingston” project.
Saturday 24 July will be the turn of a historic name in Italian music like Yo Yo Mundi, who recently released a new album, “La Rivoluzione del Battito di Ciglia” and are nominated this year for the Amnesty Big Award with the song “Il silenzio che si sente”. The opening act will be singer-songwriter Francesca Incudine, winner of the Targa Tenco in 2018 for best album in dialect, who will present the song “Zinda”, dedicated to Sabeen Mahmud, a young human rights activist murdered in Pakistan.
The grand finale will then be on Sunday 25 July with the awarding of the Amnesty International Italy Prize in the Big section to Negramaro for the best song on human rights, “Dalle mie parti”, included in their latest album certified Gold Record “Contatto” (Sugar). The opening act will be performed by singer-songwriter Agnese Valle, winner of the Critics' Prize last year and recently released the album “Ristrutturazioni”, which she is taking on tour throughout Italy.
Upon hearing the news of his victory, Giuliano Sangiorgi wanted to thank "all those who fully understood the lyrics of this song and did not fall into the temptation, common to many in these dark times, to tell me: 'you're a singer, sing!'. Yes, I am a singer and I sing what I think and I think what I sing, and when it comes to human rights, there is no silence that can hold up".
As always, the heart of the festival will be the Amnesty International Italy Award in the Emerging section. Eight high-quality artistic projects will compete, each with a song on the theme of human rights. In the first semifinal on Friday, the following will compete: Blindur from Naples with the song “3000x”; Olivia xx from Viterbo with “Solo una figlia”; Miriam Ricordi from Pescara with “Siamo sordi veramente”; Picciotto from Palermo with “Bimbi”; for the second semifinal on Saturday: Aftersat from Naples with the song “Sanpapiè”; Donix from Naples with “Siriana”; Innocente from Lecce with “Tempo binaria”; Ozora from Turin with “Vista mare”.
Sunday 25th will be the turn of the final with the five best artists from the two semi-finals who, in addition to the overall prize for the best song on human rights (which will result in the production of a video clip or single), will compete for: the Critics' Prize, the Popular Jury Prize and the Noise Symphony Music and Indieffusione Prize which includes the distribution and promotion of a single.
Each day will start with an appointment at 18.30:XNUMX pm.
The first three will be aperitifs with music and words at the Chiringuito in Anguriara (on the seafront) to present three books. We start on Thursday 22nd with “I giorni delle cicale” (Apogeo) with the author Francesco Casoni and the musical accompaniment of Enrico Buoso; on Friday 23rd “Web Love Story” (Pendragon) with the author and singer-songwriter Roberta Giallo, who, interviewed by Marco Cavalieri, will also propose some songs; on Saturday 24th it will be the turn of “Francesco De Gregori. The texts. The history of songs” (Giunti) with the author Enrico Deregibus who will converse with Duccio Pasqua, with musical interventions by Marmaja.
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On Sunday 25th the afternoon appointment will be at the Congress Centre in Piazzale Europa, again at 18.30:XNUMX pm, with Giuliano Sangiorgi (leader of Negramaro, winners of the Amnesty International Italy Award, Big Section) and the spokesperson for Amnesty International Italy, Riccardo Noury, who will meet the public and journalists.
Article published on 13 July 2021 - 16:17
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