Presentation of the graphic novel "Figli della foresta"

Collaboration between  BLIFF and The Recovery Plan

SMS Rifredi, Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 303, 50134 Firenze FI

Written by Igiaba Scego and illustrated by Chiara Abastianotti, in conversation with Shannice Alogaga.

Two children torn from their land and a story that has remained on the fringes of memory for too long.

"Figli della foresta" reconstructs a true story of Italian colonialism: Tukuba and Makunka, renamed and dehumanized, brought to Europe and reduced to “objects of study” by nineteenth-century science.

A story that crosses cities, gazes, and violations, finally restoring dignity to two erased lives.

Chiara and Igiaba will lead participants in creating a short comic story exploring the theme of eradication.

Chiara Abastanotti will facilitate the hands-on workshop, beginning with a game of identification and guiding participants toward creating a very short illustrated story.

Workshop: Maximum 15 participants

Imagine you are a tree, growing in a dense forest surrounded by friends, care, and affection. Then, one day, your roots are torn from the ground. After a very long journey, you find yourself planted in a pot inside a house in the city. People touch you, hang things on your branches, and prune them just as you were about to bloom with your most beautiful flowers.

What do you see? What do you feel? What surrounds you? Are there other plants nearby? 

Tell that story as if you were the main character. Draw it as a short comic.

Vitruvian Man: Raziel Perin in Conversazione con Justin Randolph Thompson

06/07 at 7:00pm

The Recovery Plan, Via Santa Reparata 19r

This conversation between artist Raziel Perin and The Recovery Plan director Justin Randolph Thompson focuses on Perin’s new research project, Vitruvian Man. Vitruvian Man examines the representation of images of masculinity within familial and cultural contexts, both in Italy and the Dominican Republic. The project is concerned with deconstructing toxic masculinity and exploring its connections to violence, persecution, and transgenerational trauma within the African diaspora and the Dominican Republic. The research project is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture as part of the Italian Council program (14th edition, 2025), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art internationally.

Afrodipendenza Ep. 21 Re-Linking Memory

07/07 at 7-8PM

Fango Radio

 Afrodipendenza is a radio program dedicated to the prospective on cultural history of Afrodescendent people in Italy.

The Fourth edition of Un’Altra Luna, the festival advanced  by The Recovery Plan as a form of self education and  shared responsibility towards cultural memory, turns to the theme of Relinking Memory as an invitation to critique as a form of self awareness and collective recovery, questioning established narratives and opening spaces for stories that have remained at the margins.

Focusing on contemporary culture and historical narration as a form of projecting towards the future, the program is created as a collaboration between The Recovery Plan and Igiaba Scego as a media outlet that emerges amongst a deafening silence. Readings, oral history, research , artist conversations as well as sound and music connected to the work of The Recovery Plan come together in this bi monthly program. Afrodipendenza draws its name from notions of independence and dependence in relation to Black history self-empowerment and exploitation.

Artists talk with Gideon Appah

Moderated by Janine Gaëlle Dieudji

In collaboration with Tyburn Foundation and Civitella Ranieri

08/07 7-8pm

The Recovery Plan, Via Santa Reparata 19r

This talk by artist and Tyburn Foundation Fellow at Civitella Ranieri Gideon Appah is designed to introduce the artist's practice and ongoing research being carried out during his residency in Umbria.  Gideon Appah lives and works in Accra. Drawing on childhood memories, dreams, and West African popular culture, Appah creates jewel-toned paintings that explore personal and collective histories through layered imagery and rich color. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Pace Gallery, Gallery 1957, and the ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is held in collections such as the Pinault Collection in Paris and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

Tour Decoloniale
A collaboration between Radicare and The Recovery Plan

Reservation required with limited space: https://forms.gle/wxrfvFPkuTymii33A

09/07 7-9pm

Meeting place: Piazza Adua

Un’Altra Luna is the festival organized by The Recovery Plan and dedicated to new narratives about the cultures of the African diaspora. It is a space for encounter, research, and reflection on the historical cultural legacy that continues to shape the present.

Within this context, the Tour Decoloniale with Carmela Iziegbe takes place: a participatory project that maps and interprets the traces of Italy’s colonial past in urban spaces, created by Daphné Budasz and Markus Wurzer.

Through the digital materials and the interactive map developed by the project, and drawing on the toolkits created in collaboration with Budasz, we will undertake an actual journey through the city of Florence, exploring places, monuments, and symbols that tell the story of Italian colonialism and its enduring implications in contemporary society.

Donald D presents Rock the House Y'all: My Hip-Hop History through pictures and flyers 1988-2001 Chapter 2

10/07 ore 19

The Recovery Plan, Via Santa Reparata 19r

This exhibition is the second chapter dedicated to the personal archive of hip-hop pioneer Donald-D. Drawing upon photographs, magazine clippings, flyers, and tour material. This is a journey through the origins of Hip-Hop through the material memories. This exhibition will cover the years 1988 to 2001 when he was a member of Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate through his arrival in Italy. Donald-D is Bronx-born, with his beginnings as a B-boy before emerging as an MC, producer & writer. A member of the Zulu Nation and Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate, he recorded the albums Notorious (Sony) and Let the Horns Blow (Warner Bros.), and contributed to numerous film soundtracks, and tv shows. His career in radio has traveled the globe, The Zulu Beat (W.H.B.I. in New York), The Old School Show (Power 106 in Los Angeles), Joint One(Inter F.M in Japan), Street Team Show (Control Radio in Italy)