News of april
In May, RACCONTAMI – listening and memories, a new campaign by Lunàdigas, will be launched.
With the film “Lunàdigas, or concerning childfree women“, we began by interviewing childfree women from all over the world, focusing primarily on the age at which these choices are made or the period immediately following, when time still lies entirely ahead yet simultaneously seems to tighten and slip away swiftly, and issues surrounding reproduction are discussed in terms of possibility, renunciation or pressure.
Then came the voices in the languages of Sardinia: with Annotu, we interviewed everyone—women and men of all ages with different stories and experiences—starting from the suspicion that, perhaps, where Italian lacks the words, or they are not enough, mother tongues might say more and better about bodies, relationships and desires.
This project has given rise to the “Succint (n.t. and revealing) glossaries of the body, relationships and desires”, which bring together some two hundred words relating to intimacy, the body and identity in the alloglot languages of Sardinia. The project was launched on 15th April in Alghero and will be presented on 29th April in Cagliari, at the headquarters of the Fondazione di Sardegna.
Meanwhile, we keep working on a new project.
We are entering a stage of life where many choices have already been made, sometimes asserted, sometimes questioned. A time when individual stories intertwine with those of a family, a community, an entire country.
RACCONTAMI (TELLME) stems from this.
From May to December 2026, we are opening a listening space for people over 65, both over the phone and in person, to share memories and life experiences.
These stories will form the basis of a podcast comprising several episodes.
Meanwhile, with the new testimonies added to the Livie Archive this month, we continue to share stories that explore motherhood, family and the expectations that still weigh heavily on people’s lives today.
The testimonies come from very different contexts, from the Pyrenees to Turkey, and highlight common issues, despite the geographical distances: the weight of social conditioning, judgements on individual choices, and the possibility – not always guaranteed – of deciding one’s own life.
In the Stories section, Claudia Mazzilli reads * Ricette di Palestina * by Silvia De Marco (Effequ, 2025), a book which, through traditional Palestinian cuisine, portrays a reality marked by exoduses, returns, borders and restrictions. Within the recipes lies a tangible memory, made up of daily gestures and the passing on of traditions, which continues to circulate even under conditions of severe limitation.
