(ANSAmed) - PALERMO, SEPTEMBER 18 - The Festival of Migrant Literature returns to Palermo for its third edition from October 4-8 under the direction of journalist Davide Camarrone.
Some 150 guests are expected to attend the festival that this year focuses on intercultural dialogue, contamination and the migratory nature of literature itself. The programme includes 100 events in over 15 locations around the Sicilian regional capital. On October 3, the day before the official opening, Palermo Mayor Leoluca Orlando will formally rename the road running along the ancient port of La Cala "Lungomare delle migrazioni".
The ceremony marks the 4th anniversary of the Lampedusa migrant shipwreck in which hundreds died, and which prompted the government of Enrico Letta to launch the vast search and rescue operation Mare Nostrum that was subsequently replaced by the EU border agency Frontex's more limited mission Triton. The festival puts at the centre "mobility as a right and dialogue between different faiths … because those who arrive in Palermo are Palermitan," Orlando said.
"Palermo is a city of cultural intersection where fear does not have citizenship," Camarrone added. (ANSAmed).
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