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Silvia Cerrone
Federica Tripodi, Esther Ruggiero
Esther Ruggiero
Oscar Ferrari, Federica Tripodi
And with: Paola Ballesio, Paola Brignole, Liliana Chiappero, Maria Pia Colafrancesco, Micè Demaria, Caterina Forabosco, Adriana Gandiglio, Cinzia Rita Gaza, Terry Gesess, Lucia Lanino, Anna Martino, Maria Grazia Matta, Agata Milone, Anna Maria Mina, Luisella Morandi, Diana Nicastra, Vilma Raimondi, Cesi Ramella, Franca Scoppa, Giuliana Simonato
Gianfranca Delminio, Veronica Pranio
Esther Ruggiero, Federica Tripodi
Vincenzo Caruso
Francesco Fassone
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The Sopra 60 (Over 60) project – created by SCT Centre, Le Bloomers Club and Turin Civic Libraries with the support of CRT Foundation and Compagnia di San Paolo – involved, in Turin, a group of women in a Social and Community Theater path to discover the meaning of their age, investigating the need to redefine themselves or perhaps not define themselves at all. Old age, youth, maturity are not absolute concepts, they are worlds that are delineated and transformed in their intertwining and confrontation.
“Discoveries and promises do not belong only to youth; old age is not excluded from revelation” – James Hillman
SCT Centre is a partner in the Sopra 60 project along with the Turin Civic Libraries and Le Bloomers Club (lead partner), a non-profit association based in Turin that aims to create opportunities for meeting and cultural enrichment for its members (all over 50 years old), valuing their professional and personal experiences and promoting the growth of a different culture of aging.
The project aimed to develop a different vision of aging and to create a community that recognizes itself in common values, needs, and expectations by working on the theme of the identity of a generation, the baby boomer generation that has had such an impact on changes in lifestyles, using languages that more than others allow people to express themselves and be protagonists. Within the project, which also included themed conferences, reading groups and festive moments aimed at creating interpersonal relationships, SCT Centre created a Social and Community Theater program with a group of women eager to talk about themselves, their age and their need to redefine themselves.
Despite the increase in average life expectancy and the generally better quality of health and social conditions, the perception of aging does not seem to have changed: too often when old age is discussed, it is associated with the concept of “burden” rather than that of “value”. Growing old well is an art and a strategy. It implies the definition, or redefinition, of an identity in a phase of life in which strong roles are lost and the place within society appears more uncertain. It involves, more than any other phase of life, the use of memory, understood as the ability to keep the imagination awake and creatively inhabit the images of one’s own life. To make one’s mind, as J. Hillman writes, “a pension full of guests”. It also involves listening. An art that elderly people can exercise admirably, not being pressed by haste.
The Social and Community Theater workshop conducted by the SCT operator Federica Tripodi with the direction of Esther Ruggiero focuses on these two aspects: memory and listening as a basis for rediscovering oneself and the links with the other, creating wellbeing and, consequently, acting in a perspective of prevention and health. The meetings involved a group of 30 women over 60, members of the Le Bloomers Club Association, and were held weekly. The SCT workshop led to the creation of the theatrical performance La vita che dura (Life that endures).
THE PERFORMANCE LA VITA CHE DURA
Astra Theatre of Torino – November 25 2017, 9:00 PM
Given the themes addressed and considering the positive and innovative outcome of the SCTworkshop experience, the play La vita che dura was considered to be of considerable interest by the Teatro Astra, which belongs to the circuit of Theatres of Cultural Interest, and included in the 2017/2018 season. The debut took place on November 25, 2017, at 9:00 PM.
The play, directed by Esther Ruggiero, involved the members of the workshop alongside actors and actresses. It is an imaginative exploration of life beyond adulthood. As Thomas Stearns Eliot says: “Old men should be explorers”, we are navigators in an ocean of counter-currents, of sudden currents towards undefined, sudden and unexpected archipelagos. Two interpreters – Oscar Ferrari and Federica Tripodi – and a chorus to sing the journey, a dialogue between generations, because old age, youth, maturity, are not absolute concepts, they are worlds that are delineated and transformed in their intertwining and confrontation, in inhabiting together the ocean that contains us.
FESTIVE EVENTS
These occasions provide opportunities for individuals from different generations to meet and engage in dialogue, fostering exchange and strengthening relationships and mutual understanding, in line with the Social and Community Theater methodology.
Three “festive occasions” were organized. The third event, the Sopra60Pride, showcased the artistic talents and abilities of individuals over 60.
The Sopra 60 projectwas carried out thanks to the collaboration with the following partners:
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