Today the first operational meeting took place between SCT Centre and the Youth of the Islamic Confederation of Piedmont, with whom the new project Il mondo in una stanza. Viaggio tra giovani culture metropolitane e radici migranti will start – among the winners of the national call ‘Migrarti 2018 – Show’. The project involves the carrying out of a weekly Social Community Theatre workshop with a group of second-generation young people together with their native Italian peers and is aimed at young people between 17 and 30 years old.
The theme of the workshop is “home“. Some homes maintain unchanged the cultural character of origin, others mix it with the local culture or give it those “pop” tints of youth culture that belongs to each new generation, with its forms of communication and its slang. Telling the stories of the houses and those who live in them allows us to tell a part of the world that does not always leak out. At the same time it allows those who live there to rediscover the influence that their origins have on daily habits and to become aware of the home model they want for themselves. From a cultural and social meeting point of view, then, opening the doors of these apartments means fighting isolation, social fragmentation and distrust of some cultures towards others.
The house in the country of origin, the current house, the dreamed house. According to the Social and Community Theatre methodology, we do not start from an already written script, but we build the dramaturgy of the final show from the ideas that each participant in the theatrical journey brings to the attention of the others. In particular, a large part of the contents of the unpublished show will derive from an interview work carried out by the participants, supported by the artists of SCT Centre. The young people will in fact be equipped with the tools (listening and response methods, empathy, ability to deviate the narrative on points of great expressive and theatrical value) to carry out interviews with their families, the families of their peers and their peers themselves. The final artistic event thus intends to enhance in the eyes of the audience (community of citizens of the territory and migrant communities, young people and traders of the neighborhood, families and associations) the individual stories, experiences and culture of migrant communities permanently residing in the Turin area, in particular the Maghreb ones, with particular attention to the Moroccan one.
Image from the March Against All Wars organized by SOU – School of Architecture for Children of Farm Cultural Park,
