October 7, 2019
The event is organized by the Brera Design Disctrict, and incude a talk and the screenig of the documentary Vjesh/Singing, by Rossella Schillaci. The film tells the passage between different generation of women of the repertoire of polyphonic song in the arbëresh villages of S. Costantino and S. Paolo, in Basilicata; beside the presence of the singers, there is the presence of historical recording and old amateur videos embedded in the plot of the story, that focus on daily life, including rituals and religious festivals, a wedding, and accounts of emigrants story.
After the screening, a conversation between the filmmaker and Nicola Scaldaferri, who collaborated for the musical and ethnographic research.