VI SENSO

Approximately 20 youths with psychological problems living on the outskirts of Rome (Torri quarter)

The project is part of the wider interventions for involvement and connection through art for the youths at the Spazio Potenziale ArgoLab2 and living in the territory of the VI Municipality of Rome, focusing on action to both renew the urban peripheries and provide social inclusion. The inclusive artistic workshops at the Spazio Potenziale ArgoLab2 follow the same path: intervening in the psychological distress, fragility and marginalization of young adults with serious psychological issues through meetings involving the scientific aspects and creative/artistic language of artistic disciplines.

The project foresees the realization of two artistic workshops weekly supervised by a health manager who is responsible for Spazio Potenziale and conducted by art teachers with experience in this specific discipline and by psychology technicians.

In the performance and staging strategies (theatre) workshop, themes taken from daily news, music, poems, lived experience and desires are delved into. The workshop is a place where pulling together and imagining become a process for sharing and building story ideas and characters, and provides an opportunity to think about other things in a playful, non-judgmental atmosphere.

In the music and singing workshop, work is conducted on rhythm, listening and sound production, respecting timing, the use of voice and percussion instruments, favoring the didactic aspect of the study of harmony. Music, a spontaneous and universal language, plays a fundamental role in fostering openness to new channels of communication that are useful for the expression of one’s emotional world

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