Activites in Italy

Panel’s meetings

Title: “The story of things; projects of alternative production as encounter among cultures”

Other organizations involved: Cooperativa Equazione, Bottega del Mondo Domus Aequa

Facilitators: Andrea Ciantar, with the collaboration of Cinzia Coccia, Mariarita Peca, Flavia Adami, Luca Del Ferraro.

Programme: Also things have their own story. If everyday objects could speak, they could tell a lot on our and others’ cultures which – through these objects – we came to meet; on the mechanisms of production which often cause injustices and intercultural conflicts…We will try, during the meeting, to enter the stories of some special objects in order to know projects of alternative production and of fair trade. Moreover, we propone to participants to bring their own objects telling their respective stories…
The meeting is realized within the framework of the project “Stories of a Possible Europe”, Panels of citizens working on the theme of cultural dialogue through story telling methods, (Europe for Citizens Programme - European Union); www.possible-europe.eu
Dates and places:
• 19th May 2009, Tuesday 19th May, 17,30, store of fair trade by CAE, Town of Alternative Economy, LARGO Dino Frisullo.
• 30th May 2009, Palace Englefield, via Quattro Novembre 157, 00187, Rome.
Title: “Within the stories’ theatre”

Facilitators: Andrea Ciantar, with the collaboration of Tonino Tosto, Roberta De Thomasis, Flavia Adami.

Programme: In our current times we have been assisting to the diffusion, in the different social fields, of an interest towards the knowledge and the awareness of the individual and common memories, which are considered an important patrimony for the development of the human and civic awareness of a community, but opportunity of knowledge and encounter among different cultures as well.
This fact is particularly important in contemporary Europe, so that it can really be useful to create more and more opportunities of narration and diffusion of the stories of European citizens. During the meeting we will treat this topic in theoretical terms as well as through video-narrations, moments of performance, readings and small proposals of autobiographical writing and telling.

Dates and places:

• Saturday, 9th May 2009, 15:00 – 18:00. Meeting place: Palace Englefield, via Quattro Novembre 157, 00187, Rome.
Title: Stories in circle: paths of social animation through stories. Narration as form of encounter among cultures.
Facilitators: Andrea Ciantar with the collaboration of Roberta De Thomasis, Flavia Adami, Mariarita Peca.
Programme: Telling and listening is the main form to share and to create knowledge. We could say that we live within the stories…among all stories met everyday, there are some ones which propose us critical interpretations of the reality, the creation of “other possible worlds”. The meeting is aimed at exploring the social use of storytelling, which is here considered a tool of participation and intercultural dialogue.
Dates and places:

• 10th June 2009, Palace Englefield, via Quattro Novembre 157, 00187, Rome.

Title: Women’s (and men’s…) stories
Facilitators: Andrea Ciantar in collaboration with di Mariarita Peca.
Other organizations involved: "Commitee Women Distric100celle and Neighbourhood".
Programme: Autobiographical workshop on experiences of gender dialogue, paths of women and men to re-write and transform the gender identity, finding new forms of co-existence.
Dates and places:

• Sunday, 10th May, 17:00-20:00, "Women Bar" Social Laboratory District 100celle - Viale della primavera 319b, Rome

Title: The meeting with the other one …

Facilitators: Andrea Ciantar, in collaboration with Roberta De Thomasis, Flavia Adami, Mariarita Peca.

Programme: The meeting with the other one is, first of all, the meeting with the representative of a different culture. The scenario can be represented by a travel or by everyday life in relation to friendship, love, job, paths which come to meet casually or intentionally. In this scenario diversity solicits us and let us image different lives from ours. We can reflect ourselves in others’ lives and can see what is generally given for implicit, realizing that we have different possibilities, each one with its positive and negative aspects.
Dates and places:

• 27th April, Library Giordano Bruno, Rome.

Title: The meeting with the other one …

Programme: Traveling is coming out of the ordinary life and it opens to the possibility of knowing other cultures, other people and worlds, other stories: we'll tell and write trip's stories, particularly those which have been the occasion for an intercultural meeting.

Dates and places:
• 21 of November 2009, Palace Englefield, via Quattro Novembre 157, 00187, Rome.
Competition activities
Program: selection of the stories which participate in the European competition, following the established criteria: significance of the stories for the completion themes; narrative quality.
Work group: Dora Lisa Mercurio, Simona Bianconi, Maria Teresa Palumbo, Iole di Cristofalo, Andrea Ciantar.

Dates and places:
• 13th, 14th, 18th January, Head office, Palace Englefield, via Quattro Novembre 157, 00187, Rome.

Transnational meeting
The first transnational meeting, 4th and 5th of April, included an autobiographical workshop on intercultural dialogue.
Stories of travelling and migration. Traveling is coming out of the ordinary and open to the possibility of knowing other cultures, other people and world, other stories: we'll tell and write trip's stories, particularly those that have been the occasion for an intercultural meeting.
Final event
January 22nd -2010
“Sala delle Bandiere”, European Parliament.
- Meeting of project organizations and participants
- Panel’s narration activities
January 23rd- 2010
Final event - Sala Polifunzionale” della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri.
Interventions of the European Parliament representatives, Mrs. Silvia Costa
Culture and Education Commission of the European Parliament