INVISIBILE — Gita #4

We're taking a barchino to Isola delle Rose (Sacca Sessola), an island Venetians had shared for generations, where a luxury hotel now stands. 

The park, however, is public land, although fewer and fewer people are aware of that. We're going to remind them and us all. We will land, stay, reclaim our right by spending time and doing poetry.

We will be joined by poet Wissal Houbabi, who will guide a listening of Aïta — Moroccan sung poetry about love and resistance. We will learn about Nairiya, a woman who, allegedly, watched the French march into her village and marked with henna every man who turned away from the fight.

We'll also talk about food, about “schisce” abd about what we carry and what we leave behind. Words will take shape, their final form unknown until 19 September in Campo San Lorenzo.

Curated by Bogiaisso (Niccolò Moronato and Alice Jasmine Crippa) with Orchestras of AWEdacity (Kayla Archer), in collaboration with Fie a Manetta.

To take part in the July 14 gita, you must complete your Fie a Manetta registration by July 9, as this is the only way to be properly insured. Otherwise, we'll have to reassign your spot.

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Niccolò Moronato is a visual artist, researcher and translator. Since 2022 they have worked with the fishing community of Chioggia through Bogiaisso, the collective SONAI and Trattoria Guaiana.

Alice Jasmine Crippa is a cultural researcher, co-founder and experience director of Bogiaisso. Since 2023 they have worked with the community of fishers, artisans and hands-on practitioners in Chioggia, curating and co-creating community artistic productions.

Kayla Archer (Barbados) is a writer and researcher based in Mexico City. She is drawn to what Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite described as "the submarine unity" of the Caribbean-Latin American region. Together with seven oceanic citizens (Barbados, UK, USA, Germany, Turkey, Italy) she founded Orchestras of AWEdacity, a poetry and performance collective that since 2024 has developed a collective writing methodology inspired by Caribbean Calypso. Each member writes through a sobriquet — an alter ego of the deep that defines their political commitment to the fluid, supranational territory of the ocean.

Fie a Manetta is the first motor-boat school run by women and open to everyone. Theory and practical courses to learn how to navigate the lagoon and Venice's canals, sustainable navigation and slow barchino.