Eastern Daze #54 with Symposium Musicum 04.12.2023

Symposium Musicum is an attempt at intercultural dialogue. It was released as an LP by mappa in May 2023, but it should also be seen as a tool for creating conditions for a Slovak-Romani encounter. We want this podcast to play a similar role.

In fact, it's a performative experiment in which the sound creates a potential for dialogue through the process of listening. Symposium Musicum emerged from the 2019 edition of the UM UM community festival of contemporary theatre and art, unique in this region and a source of inspiration for new artistic projects to come.

These ideas of community and activism framed the Symposium Musicum experiment in the activation of a process aimed at opening spaces of interaction between local communities, ethnic groups and artists. Based on the e...

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