Artistic workshops for youths detained in the juvenile penitentiaries (IPM) in Airola (BN), Acireale (CT), Catanzaro, Quartucciu (CA), Rome, Treviso and Turin.
THE PROJECT IN DETAIL
Objectives
A continuation of the Permanent Cultural Centers begun in various places nationally, some of which only recently established and in need of support and continuity in order to strengthen. To structure and consolidate a methodology that has been tested over the years by training teachers, thus starting a participatory process of co-planning, sharing and exchange of good practices. To enable youths to acquire or rebuild their dignity and increase their faith in themselves.
Beneficiairies
Artistic language and techniques are an instrument applied in prison to teach team work, but especially to consider individual and collective responsibility regarding mafia logic and culture. CCO has been working in the juvenile penitentiary of Airola, in the province of Benevento, since 2013, carrying out artistic workshops. With AMI support, since 2018 CCO has been offering young prisoners workshops in screenwriting and the writing of rap lyrics aimed at producing short films and theatrical productions chosen by the beneficiaries. Starting in 2020, CCO opened the Airola IPM to the public, organizing the Portami Là Fuori (take me out there) festival between the IPM theater and the city center. It also contributed to the creation of the Teatri e Giustizia Minorile (theater and juvenile justice) national network, collaborating in the organization of the Curae Festival (2024 and 2025 – supported by AMI).
The project has demonstrated a significant capacity for expansion at the national level, with growing recognition on the part of institutions and a great capacity for connecting diverse realities in the territories and sectors to create solid bridges for collaboration. Also supported by AMI, and responding to a specific request on the part of IPM directors, judges and legal professionals, since 2020 CCO has started artistic workshops in new IPM (Catanzaro, Acireale-Catania, Quartucciu-Cagliari, Rome, Turin and Treviso).
In 2025, the project aims to provide continuity to the Permanent Cultural Centers begun in various territories at the national level, and to the group psychological supervision meetings for professionals in order to promote continuous dialogue and exchange among trainers, supported by an outside specialist that can facilitate reflection and comparison.
Finally, support for participation in conferences, meetings, festivals and awards enables the association to widen its network, disseminate its project and increase the possibilities for financing and project development.
Activities
In jail, the language and techniques of the arts are instruments to learn team work and, especially, personal and collective responsibility as regards the mafia. CCO has been working in the Airola juvenile penitentiary in the province of Benevento since 2013, carrying out various artistic workshops. Since 2018, with AMI support, CCO offers the young inmates workshops in script writing and rap musical composition aimed at the production of short films and theater performance on topics chosen with the beneficiaries. Since 2020, CCO decides to open the penitentiary to the local community, organizing a festival inside the beautiful theatre of the prison, thus involving all the citizens of Airola and nearby towns, in collaboration with the Dominio Pubblico In 2022, always with the support of AMI and from an explicit request from the drirectors of the juvenile penitentiaries, judges and law operators CCO starts also music laboratory at the Paternostro in Catanzaro and from 2023 also in Acireale (Catania) and Quartucciu (Cagliari).
During 2024, CCO intends to ensure the continuity and strength of the cultural presence in the various penitentiary, offering supervision and training to all the operators: in Airlola with an weekly laboratory with a senior and junior rapper; In Catanzaro they continue to work on strengthening the local team, while in Quartecciu they are developing a weekly theater and music laboratory with a junior rapper and with a Cada de Dia company actor. In the juvenile penitentiary of Casal del Marmo, sporadic work started in the past is being consolidated, thanks to an authorization to carry out laboratory activities for the next 3 years. In Catania, the workshop is carried out in continuity between the Acireale IPM and boys and girls from the external penal area.
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