The Program

2026

Schedule

We'll start every morning with a lesson and gathering with Rosa Voto, the lead of the residency, often joined by special guests and friends who will share their experiences and perspectives.

We'll wrap up the morning with a processing circle, allowing plenty of time to talk through what we're learning and experiencing.

After taking a break to eat lunch independently and rest, a good three hours per tradition, we'll regroup in the afternoon for a structured workshop with a local teacher, typically on dance or cultural themes.

Finally, we'll end the evening with a workshop typically anchored in music or drumming.

They will be long, beautiful days! On Friday, you'll get the afternoon and evening off: free to rest, reflect, explore the town, or travel to a nearby attraction such as Lecce or the sea.

Minor changes to the schedule may occur.

Teaching Artists

Musica popolare spans towns, generations, and professions. To engage respectfully and sincerely with these roots, we open our hearts and minds to a range of stories, sounds, perspectives, and interpretations.

Our days will come to life under the guidance of a group of local artists, teachers, and community members. We aim to collaborate across generations, professions, and approaches to share a truly holistic picture of the nuances of the traditions, and relationships to it.

In most cases, teaching artists will teach in their language, Italian, in collaboration with the translation of Rosa Voto to create a unique opportunity to learn locally across language barriers.

We are so grateful for their trust and collaboration, and can’t wait to gather together in Galatina. 🎶

Throughout the spring, we'll be announcing the full lineup!

Ninfa Giannuzzi

Workshop: INCORONATA

The ControPotere of Song

The project was born as a space for research and practice dedicated to the polyphonies of Salento's Griko song, approached with a playful yet responsible approach. A workshop that recognizes a "courtyard identity": intimate and collective, rooted yet open, reaching out to the Mediterranean.

In Salento, ritual and song are places of encounter. They carry within them traces of contamination, exchange, and coexistence between different cultures. This identity is neither closed nor monolithic: it is an identity of transition, which finds meaning precisely in the relationship and dialogue between differences.

A reflection on the power of the voice and song as a social practice.

Questioning song means questioning its origins, its memory, and the way a community recognizes and narrates itself. In traditional societies, song does not coincide with political or economic power, but acts on an equally profound level.

In this sense, singing is a "counterpower": a force capable of transcending conflicts, preserving memories, and giving form to what ordinary language cannot express. It is a collective act that elaborates the present and, through the interplay of voices, continually renews shared identity.

About Ninfa Giannuzzi

Ninfa sings with a full voice, a voice that affects and consoles, that wounds and heals.

Her timbre vibrates with the power of Griko language: not simple belonging, but embodied memory, a language that becomes sound even before words. Languages, traversed by her breath, are not boundaries but living matter; the repertoire becomes a shifting territory, a space of intersection where genres dissolve and recompose. In this tension, the uniqueness of her vocal gesture takes shape.

The Salento "feeling," for her, is not folklore but a primordial experience: a way of being in the world. The act of singing thus becomes a bold act of knowledge, a reversed contamination that moves from interiority toward a shared horizon—from the self to the world.

Her research into traditional music, popular vocals, and the world's sound cultures is not a simple stylistic study, but an exercise in listening and transformation. The deepening of vocal techniques becomes an investigation of the body and breathing; music reveals itself as vision, singing as a practice of awareness: a place where identity is not affirmed, but revealed.

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