THETheater in juvenile prison and its transformative value it is the occasion for three days of busy meetings, shows, previews and presentations. It is the first Curae Festival – dedicated to “Theatre, Mediation and Restorative Justice”. Directed and designed by Paolo Billi (director of Pratello Theater), Federica Bruneli (mediator of the Dike cooperative, Milan) e Lisa Mazoni (Puntozero Association of Milan). Members participate of the National Association of Theaters and Juvenile Justice.
All events are hosted within the Theater of the Rose of Pontremoli (Street Ponte C. Battisti, 2) and in the adjacent ones Theater rooms. The festival brings together registrars and theater operators, boys from juvenile institutions, high school students, mediators, university professors. The event takes place in Pontremoli (Massa Carrara) betweenl 30 March and 1 April 2023.
The Curae Festival
Festival organizers the Pratello Theater in Bologna, the Puntozero Association of Milan, theto Dike cooperative from Milan.
“Time for listening” is the moment that inaugurates the Theater Festival in juvenile prison, Thursday March 30th. A reading/happening Of promotion of the law on the theme of “listening”. Listening to oneself, to others, in nature, with readings of scriptures and poems composed by children and students of juvenile detention centers (IPM) during writing workshops.
A performance by the Teatro del Pratello, in Bologna.
The event, hosted by the rapper Lucarielloby the mediator Daniel Brattoli and by the director Giuseppe Scutella, involves students of Higher Institutes of Lunigiana and in different streaming connections juvenile penal institutions (Bari, Airola, Catanzaro, Bologna, Pontremoli, Milan, Palermo, Cagliari, Acireale and Caltanisetta). A first preparatory moment for a journey of reflection that holds together theatres, magistrates, law experts, minor guests of the IPMs in a restorative perspective. Investigate how victim and perpetrator of a crime can be led beyond the event that set them apart, towards a second chance at life.
The second chance
Lorenzo S, protagonist of the book I was the Milanese, Mondadori. Story of a rebirth
At 18.30 surrounds the festival, the presentation of book I was the Milanese. The story of my mistakes and my rebirth (ed. Mondadori) by Lorenzo S. And Mauro Pescio, in the presence of one of the authors, Mauro Pescio, and the mediator Federica Brunelli. The incredible true story of Lorenzo S, from robber to mediator. (Pontremoli Literary Café, Republic square).
The shows on the bill at the Curae Festival
Friday 31 March the Festival opens with the show Capulets vs Montagues, a possible mediation? AND’ a production of Pointzero in collaboration with the cooperative dike And University of Milan Text and direction by Joseph Scutella. On stage the boysIPM Beccariaboys in charge atMilan Minors Social Service Office who are subject to restrictive measures, at home or in the community, but not in prison, e.ragazzi from the area.
«Capulets vs Montagues, a possible mediation? is our proposal. Inspired by the scenes of Romeo and Juliet, at the center of another Puntozero show. And from the clash and then from the mediation between the two rival families, to tell the path of mediation. The show takes from Shakespeare to Cartabia reform. The reform that devotes great attention to mediation and the instrument of restorative justice” explains Lisa Manzoni actress of the Puntozero company and soul of the Festival.
In the evening it will be time for the debut of Il prejudice sbent over to my noonna, It is a production of Pratello Theater with the girls of the Penal Institute for Minors of Pontremoli and local students. Text and direction by Paolo Billi. show theme, tell an elderly person about the injury by avoiding simple recipes. An investigation that starts from clichés, clichés, common sense, to arrive at the stereotypes of everyday use, which represent the breeding ground.
What does theater in juvenile prison have to do with restorative justice
«The theater in juvenile prison should not be read as a simple recreational experience». Talking is Paolo Billi director of the Teatro del Pratello for 25 years, tra the organizers of the Festival.. It’s much more. «It’s a job, a commitment. Which challenges teens to deal with issues that are critical to teens in general. Listening to others, respect, constancy, precision, being in a repetitive context». Our productions involve both inmates and those in the “external penal area”, i.e. serving their sentences outside prison. Seniors are also involved in the construction of our shows. As can be clearly understood from the title of the show that we bring to the debut. People of a generation that seems to invite conflict with the boys in the juvenile penal area. Disbanded minors against brooding and critical elderly people. Instead it is an opportunity for meeting, for mutual recognition. And this is the first movement necessary to trigger the remedial action, the ability to meet».
What unites theater and mediation
A show by the Puntozero Association of Milan
The round table confirms it Theater and Mediation: listening. They participate scholars, prison theater professionals, young people in charge of Justice or leaving the criminal circuit, who have participated in theatrical projects. It follows Saturday April 1st a dialogue conference by title Mediation and Theatre: perspectives. By comparison young people who have lived the experience of the criminal trial, young people who have been victims of crime, young people who have participated in restorative justice courses or who have not been able or wanted to do so. And boys who have become mediators in their school.
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