Padova Open City
Let’s free ourselves from intolerance and hate on April 25th
Let’s fill the city with life, ideas, and colours!
Many initiatives and various activities will take place in the city throughout the day, from the piazzas to neighborhoods. Casual sports, socializing, gathering, and community-building will be our April 25th, our Liberation Day.
In a context dominated by political forces that use fear, racism, and hate to continue to impose an unjust system, it is important to untangle the thread of memory. We must not only remember what the resistance and the fight against nazifascism looked like in the past, but also what they will look like tomorrow. For us, the Liberation is in the daily acts of those who fight to free themselves from economic exploitation and subaltern conditions, and those who refuse to accept an existence of injustice by creating, instead, daily spaces of a just society for all.
Padova is and will always be a city for everyone.
The Citizen Network against racism and for social inclusion
April 25th Program:
MORNING APPOINTMENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS
Rione Palestro
– 10.30 at the Sports complex on Via Dottesio
Football tournaments with 5 mixed teams followed by a grill-out.
Central Station
“Welcome Lunch” in Piazza Gasparotto starting at 12
For more information: The April 25th Welcome Lunch
Rione Portello
– From 10-13 at the Social lab “La Tana” (Via Marzolo15/E), there will be a social with bread, fruit, and vegetables gathered from the big distribution.
– At 11 in the parco dell’Ex-Macello in Via Cornaro, gardening and social lunch
HAPPENING IN THE AFTERNOON IN PIAZZA DELLE ERBE
At 15, Walks from the neighborhoods to the Festa della rete in Piazza delle Erbe
From 15.30 Happening in Piazza delle Erbe
Open stage with musical performances
Diplomatico e il Collettivo Ninco Nanco (terrorist swing)
Paupers (Dancehall-reggae) – Dj Rino Je Rino (Dj reggae)
Art installations, labs for children, and sport areas
Information gazebos with materials on the various associations and Citizen Network tables
Music and street entertainment
