Artistic workshops at the Spazio Donna San Basilio in Rome and the Casa delle Donne in Terni.
THE PROJECT IN DETAIL
Objectives
Offering women of different ages and origins a place for expression and creative research.
Consolidating stable artistic workshops in the two cities as a means for prevention and well being.
Creating opportunities for comparison between the facilitators in order to share practices, reflections and methods.
Document and make replicable this model of intervention via an inter-territorial and collaborative approach.
Beneficiairies
100 girls and women who frequent the Spazio Donna San Basilio in Rome and the Casa delle Donne in Terni.
Activities
A corpi liberi is a project that provides women who risk violence the possibility to experiment different artistic languages. The workshops enable the women to restore an accepting and loving relationship with their bodies, which is a privileged entry point to getting into contact with, expressing and re-elaborating their emotions and experience.
Starting in 2026, the project is expanding to Terni, starting from the consolidation of years of experience gained in Rome and extending artistic practices to a new area and a new community of women in view of reciprocal “contamination” and good practice.
The project foresees the realization of two workshops in improvisational theater (one in Rome and one in Terni) lasting 9 months with weekly meetings that encompass the entire program. Theater is not the final result. The aim is not to develop actors but a means for the participants to discover themselves, increase their self worth and their positive potential.
Along with the theatre workshops, BeFree offers workshops in both cities in different artistic languages to facilitate as much as possible the participation of people who are different in age, culture of origin and individual training: singing and voice (4/6 meetings); creative tailoring (4 meetings); movement and creative expression (3 meetings).
At the end of the artistic activities, work will be shown in public events so as to share with the neighborhood and the city the workshop products and exchange views, and as a way for the two groups of participants to compare for a reciprocal exchange.
