There are not just bars and silences in the places where the boys who have made a mistake. There are also those who, with obstinacy, invite them to write, tell, get on a stage. To transform the wound into voice, the fault in possibilities. From 6 to 10 May in Pontremoli (MS) returns Curae Festivalthe first festival in Italy dedicated to theater, juvenile justice and reparative justice. Directed by Paolo Billi, Federica Brunelli And Lisa Mazonireaches his this year Third edition With a powerful and necessary title: “Scars”.
The Festival is promoted by the Department for Juvenile Justice and Community and involves 15 criminal institutes for minorseducational communities, schools and universities from all over Italy. A widespread construction site in which, alongside shows, meetings, books and installations, they are above all the young people in charge of the services of child justice to become protagonists. To write, reflect, confront each other.
Already on May 5, thanks to a streaming event from Puntozero Beccaria Theater of Milanthe boys of the fifteen IPMs will read the texts born in the writing workshops on the theme “scars”. Together, at a distance but in mutual listening, they will try to weave a national dialogue between young people often separated by difficult stories but united by desire – or by the need – to tell each other.
Two national debuts produced by the workshops conducted inside and outside the IPMs. The first is Stigma/youdirected by Paolo Billi and played by the girls of the IPM of Pontremoli and by high school students. The show was born from the words written together and from suggestions taken from The scarlet letter by Hawthorne. On stage from 6 to 10 May at the Orario Nostra Donna, he will be replicated for schools and citizenship.
The second debut is “Cicatrici. Reading and music”directed by Lello Tedeschi. On the stage of the Teatro della Rosa, on May 8, children of the IPMs will go up, young people from the external criminal area and students of the Bishop’s high school of Pontremoli. The texts will be accompanied by original music born in the rap workshops inside the institutes. Here the theater meets the rhythm of the suburbs, the written word becomes a voice and body.
In addition to the scene, the Festival offers four moments of reflection. From the Dialogue between the philosopher Miguel Benasayag and Valeria Cantoniat the round tables between IPM directors, directors and operators of juvenile justice, until the meeting “The boys question the scars”, where young people involved in reparative justice programs ask questions to magistrates, writers and artists. A overturned dynamic, in which the boys are made to speak.
The “reparative dialogues” They are the live and injured heart of the Festival. On 7 and 9 May, boys and girls followed by juvenile justice, community guests such as Kayros in Milan or of the Minori Polo Ulysse center of Trezzano, will confront university students, mediators, educators. In a suspended and protected time, they will try to appoint the pain and listen to that of others. To imagine repair roads. “Talking about scars – explain the organizers – means recognizing that the damage has been there, but also that there can be care, transformation, shared responsibilities”.
Alongside the “inner” events, there is no shortage of public events. The festival spreads through the streets of Pontremoli with the“History of scar” installation of the Dike Cooperative, the Poetic performance by Ivan Tresoldi “The great white page” on the Cresa bridge, and the book presentations The girls of Pontremoli by Mario Abrate e Metamorphosis beyond the walledited by Billi and Brunelli.
Curae Festival is a network project that combines theatrical realities, social cooperatives, public bodies and associations from all over Italy. Among the partners: Teatro del Pratello in Bologna, Puntozero and Cooperative Dike Cooperative of Milan, Giro Teatro di Potenza, Theater and Society of Turin, Teatri di Bari, CCO Rome and many others.
All events are free – except the show Stigma/you – And to participate it is necessary to register via email ([email protected]) or telephone (3331739550). More info on www.teatrodelpratello.it.
