ARIA Tramontana is a programme of festivals, multimedia exhibitions and public events. It is a coordinated set of high-profile actions that compensate for a certain ‘local’ bias in the project, through a travelling programme co-organised/produced by the beneficiary partners. The definition of these actions is therefore closely linked to the project’s communication strategy, complementing each other in terms of both content and the media used, with the aim of increasing the project’s visibility.

The aim is also to develop a collective cultural programme that is diversified in terms of audiences, in conjunction with research in the field, artistic creations generated during the project and associated partners.

This programming is divided into four areas:

– Various editions of a Tramontana Festival, to be held in the project’s mountain regions, chronologically in Poland, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Each edition of the festival will be programmed collectively, so as to include artistic proposals from all the project countries/territories, manifestations of their popular cultures as well as contemporary artistic works created during the artist residencies, audiovisual works created by the beneficiary partners themselves, theatre and dance performances, workshops, conferences, etc.

– Collective and itinerant multimedia exhibitions, respectively a) on agropastoralism and transhumance in the mountains of Europe, b) on water cultures in the mountains of Europe and c) on social mobility (particularly Ukrainian) in rural areas and its ethno-sensory aspects, particularly rural landscapes (listening, seeing) and food (taste, smell). These exhibitions will be designed by the beneficiary partners and will be presented in cultural spaces, museums, etc. in the various project areas, with content adapted and translated for each country/region.

– Cycles of diffusion events directed at rural communities. This is the most local component of the programme, but it is a necessary one, because the Tramontana Network has always been committed to returning the results of the project’s research and audiovisual production to the mountain communities themselves, some of which are located in very remote areas.

– Publication of a magazine on the natural and built environment. VIJA (LINE) proposes and seeks cooperation with all the players involved in protecting the environment, in order to inform and guide communities towards a culture of respect for the rural and mountain landscape.