{"id":25581,"date":"2025-09-03T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/?page_id=25581"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:43:45","slug":"migrantour-malta-out-stories-out-streets-new-narratives-of-belonging","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/migrantour-malta-out-stories-out-streets-new-narratives-of-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrantour Malta. \u201cOut stories, out streets. New narratives of belonging\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 25<sup>th<\/sup> of July 2025, GMD and its intercultural companions took part in an event held by the council of Gzira in the main city square. \u00a0The intercultural Orrajt Migrantour workshop \u201cOut stories, out streets. New narratives of belonging\u201d was organized in the framework of the initiative \u201cMighn Pjazza tal Pjazza &#8211; From Square to Square\u201d, aiming to transform public squares into vibrant hubs of cultural and artistic activity. On this occasion, Gzira square was animated with standing panels displaying images and stories of the people of Malta. It also included a space dedicated to the display of creative handmade works, crafted by a Maltese artist.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the cultural event, Orrajt Migrantour intercultural companions gathered with an eclectic and interested public to discuss topics like \u201chome\u201d, \u201cinterpersonal and intercultural relationships\u201d and \u201cfriendships\u201d, and about \u201cthe Mediterranean\u201d as a crossroads and a place of connection. \u00a0In particular, the public was asked reflective questions such as \u201cWhat is home for you?\u201d \u201cWhat is home for people who have emigrated?\u201d \u201cWhat is home for the people in Malta?\u201d Or \u201cWho are you friends?\u201d \u201cWho is part of your support network when you \u2018far from home\u2019?\u201d Finally, we asked: \u201cwhat does the word <em>Mediterranean<\/em> inspire in you?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These themes were then explored through a series of workshops and activities that brought together people from different walks of life. For example, when discussing the Mediterranean, one of the intercultural companions invited the audience to listen to a poem celebrating it and then to draw what the Mediterranean evoked for them. When the theme was friendship, other companions shared typical foods from their home countries as a gesture of sharing and affection, something they do with their old and new friends and they offered them to the workshop\u2019s participants.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, inspired to the idea of connections between locals and non-locals, continued with performances of singing and dancing by artists who were delighted to share their art with a wider audience. Initiatives, like this one, once again show that there is a lot of beauty we, locals or newcomers, can share with others, while exchanging creative and inspiring ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Federica Pettinato, Orrajt Migrantour Malta intercultural companion \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25th of July 2025, GMD and its intercultural companions took part in an event held by the council of Gzira in the main city square. \u00a0The intercultural Orrajt Migrantour workshop \u201cOut stories, out streets. New narratives of belonging\u201d was organized in the framework of the initiative \u201cMighn Pjazza tal Pjazza &#8211; From Square to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25585,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,529,80],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25590,"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25581\/revisions\/25590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migrantour.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}