New Roots: Migrants meet Communities through culture, agriculture and food The aim of our project is to create a multi-cultural garden and festival in Milan where all the diversity can coexist in a place of participation. Culture will be used to activate a socio-cultural transformation and a reflective/participatory processes, empowering migrant communities as co-creators of a sustainable social innovation movement. Tandem Europe 2017-18 Community development Migration/refugees Rural development Milan Sofia Community arts Education Festival Land art Public Space Artist in Residence Co-creation Story-telling Workshop Concert Performance Workshop Bistra Ivanova Multi Kulti Collective Sofia, Bulgaria Multi Kulti Collective has been working on community development, civic participation, solidarity, integration of migrants and refugees and human rights since 2011. It operates both on grass-root and policy level and develops its social enterprise. It is based in Sofia but in 2015 it grew to a social franchise in the 6 biggest Bulgarian cities. bistra@multikulti.bg Sara Filippelli CasciNet Milan, Italy CasciNet is an Agrohub, a hybrid system made up of an association of over 1000 members + a Non Profit agricultural society that cultivates - in organic - more than 9 hectares of land, in Milan. CasciNet holds a thirty-year concession for Cascina Sant'Ambrogio, a historic building owned by Milan municipality - Â with 13 projects that develop public services! filippelli.sara@gmail.com The connection "New Roots: Migrants meet Communities through culture, agriculture and food": a connection between Sofia (Bulgaria) & Milan (Italy) The process Available downloads NR_Locandina_Loghi.jpg Shared stories