On 18 October 2025, the streets of Tor Pignattara, one of Rome’s most vibrant and multicultural neighbourhoods, will be filled with music, colour and words.
As part of the Hip Hop Cine Festival, the A Sud network and partners of the European project Soundroutes will present the Roman Local Hub with a large public jam entitled “Hip Hop as Intangible Cultural Heritage” — a celebration of hip hop as living and community cultural heritage.
The initiative is part of Soundroutes’ Italian programme, which brings together emerging artists and professionals from the hip hop scene on a European journey of training, creation and social justice.
After experiences in Rome, Palermo, Catania and L’Aquila, the project returns to the capital to share the fruits of months of workshops, exchanges and collective growth.
During the day, the public will be able to participate in live graffiti painting, DJ sets, open mics and cyphers open to all, in an intergenerational dialogue between artists, local young people and enthusiasts.
The event aims to recognise and promote hip hop as a living culture capable of promoting participation, inclusion and social transformation.
‘Recognising hip hop as intangible heritage means recognising the political and collective value of grassroots cultures,’ explain A Sud. ‘It is a language that crosses borders, unites generations and tells stories of justice, memory and belonging.’
With this jam, Soundroutes wants to reaffirm the idea that urban culture is not consumption, but community.
A living heritage, in constant motion, born on the streets and returning to the streets.
📅 18 October 2025
📍 Tor Pignattara, Rome
🕓 Hip Hop Cine Festival – Jam “Hip Hop as Intangible Cultural Heritage”
With A Sud and the partners of the European project Soundroutes
