SHOW DATES
Friday 13 and Saturday 14 July 2018
Time: 9:00 PM
Location: Dar Al Hikma Cultural Center, Via Fiocchetto 15, Turin
Free admission
Hamed comes from Marrakesh and gets married. My grandfather, Mohamed, is born. He is a craftsman, he works wood, he makes tables, sofas, chairs. My mother is born, she lives in Richad, she studies. She goes to high school, she gets her diploma, she meets my father because they were cousins. They get married. They come to Italy. I am born.
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In a small town in Umbria called Bastardo, Martino, a farmer, meets Clementina, a farmer. They get married and have 5 children, all farmers. My grandfather marries my grandmother, a farmer. They escape from Umbria and go to Rome to do the job that all Umbrians at the time did in Rome: the doorman of a building. My mother is born who meets my father in Rome. And then I was born.
Il mondo in una stanza. Viaggio tra giovani culture metropolitane e radici migranti (The world in a room. Journey through young metropolitan cultures and migrant roots), among the winners of the national call “Migrarti 2018 – Show”, is a Social and Community Theatre (TSC) project that SCT Centre and Teatro Popolare Europeo have created with the Youth of the Regional Islamic Federation of Piedmont. It sees a group of second-generation kids as protagonists together with their Italian peers in a theatrical workshop conducted by TSC professionals.
The result is the show Ness Ness = 1. Stories of distant roots and metropolitan leaves, created from the ideas that each participant in the theatrical journey brought to the attention of the others. An imaginary patchwork created from the life stories of young people and a real patchwork, built with the white carpets on which the kids painted, wrote and glued objects significant to them.
Genealogies that intertwine and cross the Mediterranean. Ancient rituals and contemporary rites. Stories of ancestors and expectations for the future. To enhance the individual stories, experiences and culture of migrant communities permanently residing in the Turin area, in particular the Moroccan one.
Being ness ness: being a bit and a bit, half and half, being many things and all together in a single identity.
