Giorgio Fusco: Being Arbëresh teaches me to love
The indie-folk band SHEGA is preserving and renewing Arbëresh music and culture.
'We maintain an equilibrium between the old, the ethnic and the contemporary.'
'The example of the Arbëresh people shows us that integration in a foreign land is possible, an integration without assimilation.'
SHEGA has recently toured in Germany and Switzerland. Their debut concert in Prishtina is part of K2.0’s Carnival. Photo credit: Courtesy of SHEGA.
'What is home can change — we are migrants at heart. Six-hundred years ago we left Albania, our motherland, to come here and now we are leaving here too, to go to America, Germany, Switzerland.'
Aulonë Kadriu
Aulonë Kadriu is a journalist, researcher and editor pursuing an MA in journalism at New York University as a Fulbright scholar. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a graduate certificate in women, gender and sexuality. She is a former K2.0 senior editor.
This story was originally written in Albanian.