Un’Altra Luna is a festival dedicated to renewed narrations of people and cultures of African descent and the healing of the moon’s gravitational pull.

Un’Altra Luna is a festival dedicated to renewed narrations of people and cultures of African descent and the healing of the moon’s gravitational pull. Bringing together concerts, talks screenings and workshops, the work is an activation and celebration of the spatial imaginings of The Recovery Plan, its research platforms and the role of a network of young agitators and organizers in advancing the work of the center. Expanding the role and methodology of research and caring for those gestures of sharing, the festival draws upon the gravity exerted by the earth on the moon and vice versa, controlling the shifting of tides of the oceans, as a way of understanding the interdependency of cultural organizers and the active engagement of a public in contributing not only their presence, but their being.

The work of caring for and recovering Black history shines bright as it reflects the light of those engaged in its work just as Erykah Badu sings to us “I shine so bright, 'cause I reflect the light of my sun”. The festival draws its title from a line in the song Leone by Diamante from the soundtrack of the 2016 Tony Saccucci film Il Pugile del Duce dedicated to the life of the Black Italian boxer Leone Jacovacci. Jacovacci changed his name and identity, enacting a form of shape shifting to advance in his craft and being within a society framed by the Fascist Regime in Italy of the 1920’s. This shifting of form, like the renewal of the moon cycle, is a form of self-care and self-narration that this festival intends to celebrate.