The meaning of the name 
"O'SCIA '" takes its name from the words with which you greet the people of Lampedusa. The term literally means "my Wind", "My breath" and is the most intense and affectionate greeting that we can exchange. Greetings extraordinarily vital that communicates passion, strength, energy. 
Breath and breath and soul motor of life, a bit 'as the music - when he gives the best of himself - can make us discover or rediscover the most intimate and precious things and the high value of our being with and for others. But "O'SCIA '" is also "Smells, sounds, colors, art dating" an acronym that encompasses the sense of a project that was created to promote the integration of ethnic groups, cultures and faiths, through' meeting, the exchange and the mutual gift of the most high and deep ethnic groups, cultures and faiths have been able to produce and they know and are able to offer: the priceless heritage of their thoughts, words, sounds, signs, shapes, pictures, stories . Meetings of art, then, in the knowledge that nothing more than art is able to bring man to man and help him to grasp the meaning, reasons, instances and the value of experience and the presence of . X EDITION - CIAO'SCIA '2012 27-28 - September 29, 2012  Lampedusa, Guitgia beach  Claudio Baglioni: CiaO'Scia '
Three days of meetings and music for ten years O'scia ' An outstanding tenth edition, which will end with three days (27, 28 and 29 September next) meetings and great live music on the beach of Guitgia in Lampedusa, to celebrate ten years of O'Scia ', the festival of arts and music - designed and built by Claudio Baglioni and the Foundation O'Scia '- dedicated to the theme of cultural integration and the image of one of the most fascinating areas of the' whole of the Mediterranean: the Pelagie archipelago. Participating Artists Early evening                                       Second evening                               Third evening O'Scia 'ninth edition 2011  Lampedusa 27 - 28-29 - 30 September to 1 October 
The 2011 edition of O'scia '- the festival of arts and music dedicated to cultural integration - it is held, as tradition - to Lampedusa Pelagie Islands, from Tuesday 27 September to Saturday, October 1, 2011. 
This was announced by the Foundation O'scia ', which, despite having announced the end of the event in 2010, collects the pressing invitation of large sectors of public opinion, in the light of events that occurred, and is preparing to organize the ninth event of a 'international initiative, the only 
of its kind, boasting the participation and the testimony of three hundred Italian and foreign artists. 
"This year-said Claudio Baglioni, creator and promoter of the event - it will be an issue if possible even more passionate and intense, with which we will try to emphasize the hospitality to refugees, 
gratitude to the rescuers and solidarity to the islanders, who live 
one of the most difficult hours of their difficult history, including the chronic neglect 
the past, the dramatic threat of war in Libya and the crisis 
prevailing in the only sector on which the fragile island economy: tourism. "
"We hope - said Baglioni - that the appeal of the artists and the public 
reaches its destination and that the European and Italian they do not turn the other 
part, but do their duty because this area and throughout the Mediterranean 
rediscover the peace and serenity necessary to cultivate the meeting 
and not a clash between civilizations, as the only way to guarantee 
a future of growth and development for all. "