The Stage of Legality in juvenile prisons - Cultural permanent presence

Partner: CCO- Crisi Come Opportunità – Sector: Social inclusion – Country: Italy – Place: Airola, (Benevento), Catanzaro, Cagliari e Acireale (Catania) and Rome – Year: 2018-2024 – Project Status: Ongoing – Type: AMI

THE PROJECT IN SUMMARY

Artistic workshops for the young inmates of the juvenile penitentiaries of Airola, Catanzaro, Catania and Acireale (Catania) and Rome.

THE PROJECT IN DETAIL

Objectives

To reinforce the permanent cultural presence in the various territories nationwide, some of which are recently born and need support and continuity to strengthen.
To structure and consolidate the methodology tested over the years through a training of trainers, thus initiating a participatory process of co-design, sharing and exchange.
Enable young people to acquire or rebuild their own dignity and increase self-confidence.

Beneficiairies

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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