Partner: Defence for Children Italia –
Sector: Social inclusion –
Country: Italy –
Place: Genoa and Pontremoli (MC) –
Year: 2024 - 2025 –
Project Status: Ongoing –
Type: AMI
THE PROJECT IN SUMMARY
Rap narrative and writing workshop for youths involved in measures connected with external penal provisions in Genoa, and youths detained at the Istituto Penitenziario Minorile IPM femminile (female juvenile detention facility) in Pontremoli (MC).
THE PROJECT IN DETAIL
Objectives
Promote the participation of young men and women involved with the justice system and at risk of marginalization, reinforcing knowledge in terms of their rights and favoring useful considerations about their own experience.
Reinforcing in the young men and women opportunities for relationships in a space that is perceived as belonging to them, which is a welcoming and trustworthy.
Promoting youthful protagonism through connections with the territory and civil society.
Beneficiairies
Approximately 50 youths involved in measures connected with external penal provisions entrusted to the Genoa USSM, foreign unaccompanied minors from the CPIA Centro Levante in Vico Vegetti in Genoa, young women detained at the IPM female facility in Pontremoli.
Activities
The project proposes a creative pathway for youths involved in penal measures based on narrative via the creation of rap lyrics and a podcast, a method that can prove to be fundamental for acknowledging and re-elaborating one’s own story. Expressing oneself can provide the possibility to understand one’s situation and gain knowledge that can facilitate the construction of a personal life project, putting into practice coherent and sustainable choices. Music and narrative become instruments of communication about events and prospects of the young men and women, instruments that help them consider the aspects and contexts which have led them to their run-in with justice, those things that can be improved about the current experience and that which can help or hinder positive integration into society.
The project foresees the realization of two workshops at the Defence for Children center in Piazza Don Gallo and the Pontremoli juvenile detention facility with activities involving: information about reference points based on rights, using techniques like brainstorming, play, role-play and conversational circles; narration, inviting thought and reflection about one’s own experience; writing, providing technical guidance aimed at helping them put their thoughts into stanzas or songs; listening, in order to analyze technical elements but also the content of different pieces; recording of the pieces created and interviews comprising a podcast, which is then spread on spotify. Opportunities will also be provided to meet hip-hop artists and technical experts, as well as create a plan to launch a crew, with its own image (brand, poster, cover art). At the end, the results of the workshops will be presented to the agencies involved and at the Pontremoli juvenile facility during a final presentation.
