FSN traveled to Southern Italy to run a music production and sound-art workshop with a group of incarcerated women who worked in the jobs-training and employment program Made in Carcere (“Made in Prison”). In this program women in prison learn to craft bags of all sizes made from recycled materials that might have been originally intended for high end retail. The bags are sold in fancy Milanese boutiques and even in Mario Batali’s Eataly restaurant in New York. The women, who are paid for their work, are from various parts of southern Europe: Albanian, Serbia, Romania, and Lecce itself. The workshops, The workshops, made by possible by SoundRes Festival, culminated with a final performance which included contributions from Bang on a Can percussionist David Cossin, choreographer Barbara Toma and Romanian singer Haiducii.