IN SARDINIA, IN NEW YORK A celebration of Sardinian songs and stories

IN SARDINIA, IN NEW YORK is a celebration of Sardinian songs and stories coming to New York City! Join us on Sunday June 2, 2024 at 4:15 pm for an unforgettable afternoon of music, visual arts and culture from the beautiful island of Sardinia. Immerse yourself in the rich traditions and vibrant history of this unique region through live performances and engaging storytelling! Don't miss this opportunity to experience the magic of Sardinia right here in the heart of New York City!

From the village of Bonorva, in Sardinia, the Paulicu Mossa Choir is an acclaimed polyphonic musical group that presents the art of singing as an embedded part of daily life in local communities. Named after the revered poet Paulicu Mossa, the choir draws from the ancient storytelling and popular traditions on the island. The polyphonic “cantu a tenore” music in Sardinia has been recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Founded in 1997, the Paulicu Mossa Choir presents a vast repertoire that varies within Sardinia.

The Paulicu Mossa Choir is a fundamental artistic element for the cultural season of the MusaMadre project, a global cultural arts incubator in Sardinia. Connecting tradition and innovation, the stirring voices of Bonorva constantly engage with guest artists at the nearby village of Rebeccu, home of the MusaMadre project, and promote the island’s extraordinary history and cultures throughout the world through collaborations of music and beauty of the arts, poetry and storytelling, and community and exchange.

Author of IN SARDINIA: An Unexpected Journey in Italy, Jeff Biggers is an American Book Award-winning historian, journalist and playwright. Author of ten books, his work has appeared on National Public Radio and Public Radio International, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Atlantic Monthly, Huffington Post, Salon, The Nation, Al Jazeera, Brick Magazine (Toronto) and Il Giornale (Italy). As a playwright and performer of monologues, he appears at theatres, festivals, conferences and schools across the US and Italy.

Beyond its fabled beaches, reconsidering how its unique history and ways have shaped Italy and Europe today, Biggers explores how travelers must first understand Sardinia and its ancient and modern history to truly understand the rest of Italy.

“Mr. Biggers is an enthusiastic and erudite guide. Seeking out the past in local lore and in Sardinia’s long and overlooked literary tradition, he returns the island to the center of our imaginative map of the Mediterranean.” — The Wall Street Journal

“In Sardinia is an indispensable and necessary international guide. To discover a Sardinia still little known outside the national borders and to reveal its multiform riches and diversity. It is no coincidence that this opens with the Ogliastra artist Maria Lai and closes with the poet of Desulo, Montanaru, just as it is no coincidence that, in this almost intimate text, the many “Sardignas” are represented through a kaleidoscopic variety of languages and cultures, landscapes and knowledge, sounds, tastes and encounters. In Sardinia is an unmissable journey that starts from an inner story to be shared with the vast world. A journey capable of filling that profound void, which makes that stone thrown into the Mediterranean a teeming patch of land yet to be revealed.” — Paolo Fresu, legendary Sardinian jazz musician and composer