- Environment
GREEN ETHICS develops cultural initiatives for civic engagement to raise awareness about climate change.
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Alessandro Pontremoli
Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione
Alberto Pagliarino
Maurizio Bertolini
Antonella Delli Gatti, Maurizio Bertolini
Christian Castellano
Barbarakay Cisterna, Diego Garzino, Federica Tripodi, Manuela Pietraforte
Matteo Frau, Matteo Trevisan
Scenografie e installazioni – Maurizio Agostinetto
Costumi – Chiara Agostinetti
Grafica – Davide Pascutti
Technical staff – Claudio Albano
Luigi Piga
L’Acqua è Vita (Water is Life) is a Social and Community Theatre project aimed at elementary school children in Turin, their families and their community, on the theme of environmental resources and the concept of water as life. What is the environment like through the eyes of a child? How can we protect and nurture it? The activities carried out use water as a symbolic and working element. The project involved the creation of Social and Community Theatre workshops in 5 elementary schools, within which work was done on the creation of some theatrical scenes on the theme that will be staged during the community festival open to children, families and citizens on April 9, 2016 at Parco Dora, Michelin Area.
L’acqua è Vita is an example of excellent synergy between the public and private sectors, united to create a cultural event on a major challenge of our time. It was born from the passion of the SCT Centre team, which conceived it, involving the company AQUANOVA, which with great moral sense supported it, endorsing the Social and Community Theatre methodology of the SCT Centre.
The topic is of global and historical significance, as was made clear during the XXI Conference of the Parties, the 2015 UN conference on climate change, during the two weeks of discussions between representatives from 190 countries and in the resulting global agreement. The then French president, François Hollande, in opening the proceedings, stated that “The goal of today’s Conference is peace, because we risk a war over access to water“. The data on access to water were already alarming in those years: 1/6 of the world’s population, about 894 million people, without access to drinking water and a prediction of worsening linked to the constant increase in demand and consumption and the effects of climate change due to which the available per capita water resources in the last 54 years have been reduced by 50%.
The main objective of the project was to involve the entire local community, particularly elementary schools, in a process of reflection on environmental issues and the correct use of water from a sustainability and environmental ethics perspective.
Based on these reflections, the SCT Centre | Unito conceived the L’Acqua è Vita project, made possible thanks to the support of AQUANOVA, and in collaboration with the A Come Ambiente Museum of Turin, Pelagosphera – Cooperative Society of Marine Environment Services, Hydroaid – International Water School for Development, Italian Meteorological Society – Nimbus and Nova Coop.
The project, aimed at elementary school children in Turin, involved interventions in five classes on the theme of environmental resources and the concept of water as life. In particular, each class explored a facet of the main theme:
– Water and life;
– The life of a drop of water in Africa;
– The life of a drop of water in Turin;
– Water and climate change;
– Water consumption and virtual water.
The outcome of the workshops and the contributions of the partners were the actions at the center of the community festival organized on April 9, 2016 with the collaboration of participants and residents of the territory. Children who participated in the workshops shared the stage with actors from the SCT Centre. Guest of the event was Luca Mercalli with his conference written and designed specifically for the occasion and aimed at the young audience.
The L’Acqua è Vita project was made possible thanks to the collaboration with the following partners:
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We conduct planning, research and evaluation, developing performing arts events and workshops that promote cultural and social participation through the Social Community Theatre methodology.
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via Senta, 2
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