THE RECOVERY PLAN
FOUNDATION
Un’Altra Luna Vol. IV RELINKING MEMORY
The Fourth edition of Un’Altra Luna, the festival advanced by The Recovery Plan as a form of self education and shared responsibility towards cultural memory, turns to the theme of Relinking Memory as an invitation to critique as a form of self awareness and collective recovery, questioning established narratives and opening spaces for stories that have remained at the margins.
SHIK SHAK SHOK
The Recovery Plan, Via Santa Reparata 19r
Hosted by Maria Azab, an Egyptian-born cultural educator and dancer, SHIK SHAK SHOK is an immersive workshop that explores the history, identity, and cultural significance of Egyptian dance. Through storytelling, discussion, archival images and videos, and an interactive dance experience, participants will discover the origins of one of Egypt’s most celebrated art forms and explore how it has been represented, renamed, and understood around the world.
The workshop combines history, cultural discussion, music, movement, and hands-on participation, creating an experience that is educational, interactive, and fun.
Textile Practices and Collective Memory
The Recovery Plan, Via Santa Reparata 19r
In this edition of Fischi per Fiaschi, Sondos Shuaib, a Sudanese architect, designer, and artist, invites us to reflect on textiles as archives of memory, belonging, and identity across time and space. We will examine how woven patterns, ritual cloths, and handmade practices carry ancestral cultural memory, preserving histories while sustaining continuity through rupture, displacement, and diaspora. These textile practices operate as embodied sites where ritual time and ancestral continuity intersect with lived contemporary experience, revealing how cultural heritage persists within shifting historical conditions shaped by political time, marked by conflict, revolution, and ongoing transformation. At the same time, they construct a mobile spatial identity in which belonging is carried and reconfigured through material form across African geographies. Through conversation and collective making, we will ask: “What can textiles remember that words cannot?”
Pan-African Cultural Legacies: Activating the Commons
May 5, Workshop at the African Art in Venice Forum 2026
May 12-June 30, Exhibition at The Recovery Plan
EVENTS
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OUR PLATFORMS
_ Black Archive Alliance
_ Library on Loan
_ YGBI Research Residency
_ E il Clamore è Divenuto Voce
_ The Rediscovery Planet
_ Vulgar Eloquence
_ Di Palo in Frasca
_ Fischi per Fiaschi
_ Repose as Resistance
_ On Being Present
_ Setting the Table
_ Whoever Drinks Black Earns Color
_ Afrodipendenza
_ Black Archive Alliance _ Library on Loan _ YGBI Research Residency _ E il Clamore è Divenuto Voce _ The Rediscovery Planet _ Vulgar Eloquence _ Di Palo in Frasca _ Fischi per Fiaschi _ Repose as Resistance _ On Being Present _ Setting the Table _ Whoever Drinks Black Earns Color _ Afrodipendenza
The Recovery Plan is a space for critical thinking to rectify historical inaccuracy and to recover histories that still await narration.
Designed as a cultural repository for socially engaged education. The center hosts a range of events, seminars, retreats, workshops, and residencies reflecting upon Italy’s historic role as a site for cultural exchange.
The initiative advanced by The Recovery Plan is a rallying of voices aimed at facilitating cross-cultural research and dialogue. The center is run by an Italian non-profit association called Associazione Culturale BHMF with a team of over twenty dedicated volunteers and a committee of five advisors across cultural sectors.
ABOUT US
The Recovery Plan is a research center that fosters transnational exchange around Afrodescendent cultures and peoples employing research, production and documentation in relation to cultural production as a means for examining the history and contemporary legacy of Blackness in a global context.
