Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

Crossing Paths is a project dedicated to youngsters, to the themes of poverty, social inclusion and interculture, and to the possible role of theatre and the arts as tools for personal growth, against social disease, apt to foster social inclusion.
THE THEMES AND THE CROSSING PATHS
Crossing Paths interweaves questions and issues that Teatro dell’Argine and its partners are dealing since years:
// theatre as a tool for growth, communication and intercultural dialogue addressed to the young;
// poverty and social exclusion (theme of the Europen Year 2010);
// interculture;
// active exchanges of artistic methods and practises with companies and theatres all over Europe;
// networking with organizations, institutions, associations dealing with educational and social matters, both on a local and on an international level;
// interweaving different knowledges and practices: artists, educators, philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, pedagogists mixing up their work and enriching it thanks to reciprocal thinking and knowledges.
MAIN ACTIONS:
1. Creating 3 theatre workshops and shows with 3 groups of youngters (12-21 years old) in the 3 partner countries, with active exchange of artistic methods and practises, with performances in the 3 countries and at the Festival of Schools at ITC Teatro (Bologna);
2. Organising a conference on the themes of the project (Bologna, May 21st 2011)
3. Creating a network of associations, cooperatives, schools, universities, institutions, ngos, intercultural or social centres, theatre companies, artists or just individuals dealing with educational or social or artistic issues or works.
4. The final event: Award Winning Ceremony of the Italian Festival and Danish Show The Inverted” about social exclusion.