The “Doremifasud” music festival is back for its seventh edition, organized bySunugal association: three days of meetings, from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 May, on peace and the environment. With lots of music from the world
From 10 to 12 May, the music festival returns to Milan for its seventh edition.Doremifasud”, organized bySunugal association. Three days of meetings and dialogues on peace and the environment through music, the most universal and understandable language by all, which goes beyond ethnic, religious and ideological differences and contrasts. With a program full of performances and opportunities to meet the artists, the event aims to give space to the unifying action that music itself embodies.
The Festival will be held at CIQ of Milan, that is, the International Neighborhood Center, originally Cascina Casottello: a meeting point in the heart of the Corvetto district, where intercultural and intergenerational exchanges have taken place for years. With dozens of guests from different countries, including Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Palestine, Tunisia, Nigeria, Cameroon, India and Senegal, the first two days of “Doremifasud” will be dedicated to the theme of pace, which in recent months has found itself at the center of many discussions due to the various conflicts underway in many countries around the world. On the third day, however, the focus will be on environmental issue. The Sunugal association and the CIQ are thus committed to giving space to understanding the different situations, with awareness of the complexity that characterizes the many conflicts currently underway.
The Sunugal socio-cultural association has been working on projects for inclusion and dialogue between different realities for 25 years now. It all started with a group of foreign kids – mostly Senegalese – and Italians, who decided to join together to try to connect the two countries, but also help young immigrants maintain ties with their families in Senegal. Sunugal, which in language wolof means “our boat”, it symbolically refers to the desire to walk together and therefore to share one’s journey with others. Operating since the 1990s, the association has grown over time and its members have made it possible, through economic contributions, to create many cultural mediation activities, in particular through workshops, initiatives and events. Furthermore, Sunugal also carries out activities in Senegal, to encourage exchange between countries in the South and North of the world, and to support the socio-economic development of the areas from which most immigrants come.
This year, in particular, the themes of the Festival refer to issues that are not only highly topical, but which truly concern the whole world: the choice to talk about peace and the environment comes from the awareness that wars also directly affect the ecosystem, causing serious pollution and enormous waste of energy, with disastrous repercussions on the populations involved.
Doremifasud 2024 begins on Friday 10 May at 9.00 pm, with Aliou Ndiaye Taxuraan, Senegalese singer and player of my aunt (a stringed instrument widespread in West Africa), which will open all three days. The first evening will be dedicated to the Slavic world, the second to that of the Middle East, while on Sunday, after lunch with the artists, the entire afternoon will be dedicated to music from all over the world. An opportunity to try together, through art, to take a step towards true peace.
Discover the detailed program here Doremifasud