An anti-racist festival with an uncompromising stance in favor of freedom of movement. Berlin, 4th – 6th July 

Almost exactly 10 years ago people on the move, many from Syria, started to walk on the highways from Hungary towards Germany. Their direct, spontaneous action forced open the closed internal borders of Fortress Europe.

We remember and take inspiration from that event. Scirocco Festival encourages defiance, it presents practical “toolkit of resistance” to oppose racist and discriminatory procedures inside the border regime, such as camps and deportations.

Scirocco refuses the normalization of violence against people without the “right” papers. It opens a space to envision alternatives radically different to the present where we live, and by doing so it projects a different political horizon. Let’s think together and connect with each other to resist border violence!

And, by the way… you may wonder, why Scirocco? A warm wind blowing from the South in the central Mediterranean sea, facilitating dangerous sea-crossings. And as any wind, it knows no passport!