Zaki, Raizes on tour from Palermo to Bologna

The second hearing in the trial of Patrick Zaki will be held on 28 September. Raizes Teatro, a company for human rights, decides to support the activist by climbing up his boot and staging in some of the main Italian squares “My name is Patrick Zaki – 45 Days” by and with Alessandro Ienzi, winner of the Orestiadi Award and supported by Global Campus of Human Rights, Avant-GardeLawyers, International Human Rights Art Festival. There are four stages: Palermo, Naples, Rome, Bologna. It starts on 28 September at 5.00 pm from Piazza Verdi, in Palermo, with the first performance. Then, aboard a camper, five members of the company, equipped with the necessary equipment, will set sail for Naples, where the next day, at 20.00, in Piazza del Plebiscito, the second peaceful, pacifist and artistic demonstration will take place, as it is in style. and in the company’s cultural advocacy strategy. “During our journey we confronted ourselves and our own lack of participation, we thought we were not doing enough – explains Alessandro Ienzi, founder of Raizes Teatro and protagonist of the performance -. In conjunction with the second hearing we want to support Patrick and make his voice heard, and what better place than the squares? We will start from Palermo and reach Bologna, passing through Naples and Rome, but I have the impression that these are only the first stages of a European tour. Patrick must be freed and with him all innocent people deprived of freedom and rights ”. On September 30, in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, at 8.00 pm, the third stop will be in the Eternal City. On 1 October at 9.00 pm, however, the last and most important stop, in Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Patrick’s adoptive city, where the student detained in Egypt was completing his studies of the Gemma Master, at the Alma Studiorum. Raizes company will stage a short form of “My Name is Patrick Zaki – 45 Days”, a performance in which the young activist is represented by a Joker, a new Prometheus chained and chastised for offering the fire of knowledge to men. ” freedom of expression is a fundamental right and allows us to fully live our soul and our thoughts – adds Ienzi -. Nobody can be deprived of it and moreover on the basis of strategies of terror and oppression. We are close to Patrick as young people, artists, activists and dreamers. Art must take the responsibility to tell what makes us ashamed of human beings and the story that concerns Patrick is one of them.Concurrent with the Italian trip for Patrick Zaki, the Raizes Teatro company is on stage in Barcelona, ​​Saturday 25th. September, at the Ritmo de la vida, a cultural center frequented by avant-garde artistic realities, which requested a repeat following the presentation of the work in the city at the end of August.The company will document the journey and the stages of the show through a diary that will be published daily on the pages of Raizes Teatro and Human Freedom Facebook and instagram. At the end of the trip, a documentary will be presented.