Babel TV

Babel – All the Colours of Italy – was established on 8 November 2010 as the first television channel wholly dedicated to “new Italians”, providing an open platform for the stories, habits, customs and identity of foreigners living in Italy. At the same time, Babel is a guide directed at foreigners where they can learn the language, legislation and the best ways to live and work in Italy. Babel has something for everybody: those who have been in Italy only a short while, those that have already become “new Italians” as well as those who always were Italian but also for those who want to know more about immigration and watch programmes that are different from the rest. Babel is a channel of universal interest, it offers a news segment, weekly appointments on the culture of non-Italian communities, a documentary series and TV series premiers with Italian subtitles and fiction-documentaries.

Babel is also an online community (www.babel.tv) of people sharing their ideas, thoughts, useful contributions to everyday life and who participate in the making of the TV programmes with their comments and video contributions.

Babel – all the colours of Italy – was an exclusive Sky broadcast between 2010 and 2014 on Channel 141. In 2011 it was awarded the Hotbird Award for best European satellite channel in the Culture & Education category.

Between 2011 and 2014, Alessandra Galletta wrote and produced original formats for the channel’s start-up beside a series of monographic documentaries on international artists (Thomas Saraceno, Adrian Paci, H.H. Lim, Fratelli Campana...) and 54-minute specials on Art Biennials the world over, as for example Venice, Shanghai and Istanbul.

LaGalla23 original formats produced for Babel are:

Voi Siete Qui (You are here)
The public meeting points chosen by foreign communities in Milan, Rome and Turin for their leisure time.

L'altra Economia (The Other Economy)
Weekly programme of news and financial advice directed at small enterprises or as a guide for the enthusiastic business entrepreneurship of new Italian citizens.

Lo Voglio Così (This is how I want it)
Imelda – a domestic worker from the Philippines – offers some precious housekeeping tips. Matrimony Each episode tells a love story that has blossomed in Italy between people of different nationalities and ended in marriage.

Lontano da Casa (Far from Home)
Great and small stories of immigration and the thousand tricks to overcome homesickness. Adrian Paci vol.1 and vol.2 Adrian Paci, contemporary artist of Albanian descent, tells his story in two episodes.