Domenica 29 The last day of Ostana 2025 Prize opened with an intense and necessary reflection, “Mother Tongues, Women's Rights, and Material Cultures,” a planned meeting with Burkinabé artist Soulama Maténé Martine “Téné Tina”, an awardee for the cerma language....

Saturday 28 After a greeting to Monviso that peeped through a clear, cloudless sky, the morning opened with a talk by Francesca Sammartino, winner of the Historic Minorities in Italy Prize, who recounted the resilience of Croatian-Molisan, Croatian-Molisean, or as...

From June 27-29, the 17th edition of the “Ostana Prize - Writings in Lingua Madre” transformed the small mountain village of Ostana into a world crossroads of cultures, stories and idioms rooted in the land. During these three days, participants from different...

After the fully online editions of 2020 and 2021, the Premio Ostana returns in streaming, offering the public the opportunity to follow the final award ceremony of the XVII edition. The award ceremony marks the climax of three days dedicated to mother tongues,...

by Fredo Valla “Sensa raïtz pas de flors”: verses from the secular and civil Occitan Middle Ages. Of troubadours and trobairitz, poets of a time (certainly distant) no longer overshadowed by the expectation of the end of the world or the sadness of sin carried as a...