The core activity of the project is a series of workshops with groups of migrants of any definition and provenance held by all the partners in a space of their choice. The work developed during the workshops was modulated depending on the specificity and needs of each reality, and at the same time all workshops shared some general features in terms of cultural aspects, theatre approaches, common working methods. In fact, the project starts from a shared thought concerning the artistic production through theatre with groups of immigrants and residents, with the following objectives:
- Codify this approach in order for it to be shared at a European level, thanks to the cooperation among partners;
- Verify, by the mean of European cooperation, the worth of this approach, putting it into practice in each specific reality and checking it with the living experience of the participants and the local communities;
- Use cooperation and dialogue with various European realities to produce meaningful cultural products, represented by the workshops, the events, and the outputs, allowing a wider diffusion and reproducibility of what was generated.
The transnational cooperation is a core aspect of Crossroads, its backbone, the reason of its own existence. This finds substance in the method of creation of the project’s actions and products, based on a dialogical approach lasting all the project’s phases: from devising the workshops to the remote workshop activities to the transnational events, every step of the project is focused on a constant dialogue.
This will be confirmed during the middle-term transnational event in Palermo, planned for September 2023. During this three-days meeting, the fruit of each workshop will be shown to a local and international audience, giving a practical turn to the dialogical approach of the project. Moreover, since only few of the participants will be able to travel to Palermo, the core of this action will rely again on the dialogue built among the single workshops’ results and among all the participants involved.
- Start: January 2023
- End: June 2023
- Frequency: once a week, Thursday afternoon
- Where: Asinitas intercultural centre
Participants: Italian language school students, refugees and asylum seekers/migrants, non-native Italians and native Italians. Open to all people of all ages and backgrounds. 15/20 participants.
Trainers: Tamara Bartolini and Michele Baronio (artistic directors); Luca Lotano (organisation and workshop tutor); Federica Mezza (workshop tutor and Italian teacher); Maria Rossi (workshop tutor and social operator).
Starting concepts: The human voice. Learning to understand our instrument with people who are learning a new language and taking a time that looks at learning a new language through the body, emotions, something that affects everyone involved. Bringing one’s own voice.
Artistic language: Starting from pedagogical work, research tools are made available that cross different languages: audio (microphones, recordings), images (analogue type work with overhead projectors, various materials and instrumentation). Voice is also the place of memories.
- Start: September 2022
- End: June 2023
- Frequency: once a week, Monday and Thursday afternoon
- Where: Maison Poème
Participants: Groups of Italian migrants in Brussels, second or third generation, locals. Range to 15 to 55 years old. 14-20 participants.
Trainers: Francesco Moraca (body and voice), Serenella Martufi (dramaturgy).
Starting concepts: Starting from dramaturgical exercises inspired by choreographer Simon Vincenzi, Medeber will lead students to composing a collective dramaturgy. Moving forward along the dramaturgical continuum created last year for the performance Vie, this season we shall investigate the dramaturgical possibilities offered by texts. A common text will be developed by piecing together different forms of texts, proposed and written by participants. In particular we would like to investigate the form of the dialogue, opening up the space of this investigation to the formal structure of the dialogue as well as to a wider reflection on the word dialogue, in the social, artistic and political spheres of the contemporary.
Artistic language: Physical theatre, spoken theatre, poetry, oral poetry, collage, creative writing, collective writing.
- Start: January 2023
- End: September 2023
- Frequency: 5 days a month
- Where: Spazio Franco
Participants: Groups of Italian migrants in Brussels, second or third generation, locals. Range to 15 to 55 years old. 14-20 participants.
Trainers: Francesco Moraca (body and voice), Serenella Martufi (dramaturgy).
Starting concepts: Starting from dramaturgical exercises inspired by choreographer Simon Vincenzi, Medeber will lead students to composing a collective dramaturgy. Moving forward along the dramaturgical continuum created last year for the performance Vie, this season we shall investigate the dramaturgical possibilities offered by texts. A common text will be developed by piecing together different forms of texts, proposed and written by participants. In particular we would like to investigate the form of the dialogue, opening up the space of this investigation to the formal structure of the dialogue as well as to a wider reflection on the word dialogue, in the social, artistic and political spheres of the contemporary.
Artistic language: Physical theatre, spoken theatre, poetry, oral poetry, collage, creative writing, collective writing.
- Start: January 2023
- End: June 2023
- Frequency: N/D
- Where: Mill of Pappas (mainly)
Participants: Groups of Italian migrants in Brussels, second or third generation, locals. Range to 15 to 55 years old. 14-20 participants.
Trainers: Francesco Moraca (body and voice), Serenella Martufi (dramaturgy).
Starting concepts: Starting from dramaturgical exercises inspired by choreographer Simon Vincenzi, Medeber will lead students to composing a collective dramaturgy. Moving forward along the dramaturgical continuum created last year for the performance Vie, this season we shall investigate the dramaturgical possibilities offered by texts. A common text will be developed by piecing together different forms of texts, proposed and written by participants. In particular we would like to investigate the form of the dialogue, opening up the space of this investigation to the formal structure of the dialogue as well as to a wider reflection on the word dialogue, in the social, artistic and political spheres of the contemporary.
Artistic language: Physical theatre, spoken theatre, poetry, oral poetry, collage, creative writing, collective writing.
- Start: January 2023
- End: June 2023
- Frequency: Every two weeks
- Where: Willkomen Initiative Falkensee
Participants: refugees and helpers
Trainers: Carlos Manuel Rodrigues do Nascimiento
Starting concepts: It is important to get to know what they can do (abilities, knowledge they bring with them) and to look to the future, because refugees only see the future.
Artistic language: Physical theatre, spoken theatre, poetry, oral poetry, collage, creative writing, collective writing.
