The school promotes Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 2010 edition

Also for this new edition, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia dedicates its interest to schools. Therefore, has organized a series of initiatives aimed at the diffusion of theatre culture among the younger generation, through the creation, development and launch of educational projects and competitions dedicated to students of different ages.

By exchanging experiences with other theatre institutions, and in collaboration with local and regional agencies, public and private institutions, cultural operators and associations in the area, the various activities related to the Festival aim to achieve complex and alternative learning paths that can create new opportunities for dialogue and interaction, encouraging the direct and active participation of a wide and differentiated audience in theatre life . This idea is expressed with particular intensity in the three projects in which, this year, students of primary and secondary schools played a key role, together with many professionals who gravitate around the school community: children and adults have the opportunity to experience a journey to discover original and innovative different aspects of theatre production. One way to stimulate their creative abilities and to foster the development of new relationships and networks between realities operating in the area and schools.
Students young and younger, accompanied by their teachers and guided by professionals and experts in the production of a play, may actually face each other, learn new artistic and organizational skills, and develop new methods of expression: the world of theater viewed and experienced from another perspective, concrete image of the multifaceted reality.

The school promotes Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
A contest for students of secondary schools of first and second grade, organized with the support of Naples CIDI (Centre for Democratic Initiative of Teachers) and sponsored by the Regional School Office of Campania, aimed at creating multimedia products and original paperies for the festival valorization.
Students experienced at firsthand how to conceptualize, plan and produce a real campaign to promote a big cultural event. Thanks to the presence of qualified tutors who accompanied them in the various working phases of the project, the students created some accomplished and incisive promotional items: in complete freedom of expression, the boys involved have given free rein to their imagination and have created for Napoli Teatro Festival Italia a small advertising campaign to attract and involve spectators, learning new techniques of teamworking, deepening communication strategies in order to acquire basic skills and abilities in promotional activity.

Theatre Creation Contest
The project involved primary and secondary schools students, and was aimed to the conception and realization of a small theater performance. In collaboration with the Education Department of the City of Naples, the initiative has offered to the students the opportunity to know and experience the complex mechanisms of writing, production and staging of a play. Students were invited to ideate and produce an original play, or freely based on an already existing work, according with the themes of 2010 edition of Napoli Teatro Festival Italia. The active work on the word, the body, gesture and movement has encouraged the boys’ different expressive skills, bringing out their emotions, their feelings and emphasizing their hidden abilities. The theater, seen and experienced as a big game, became space of comparison between adults and children, offering new educational and training possibilities even to the teachers involved in the project.

Fratelli di Storia- Identità/Memorie/Appartenenze (History Brotherhood - Identities / Memories / Memberships)
In cooperation with the Theatre of Rome, this project involved as protagonists two high schools groups of students, one in Naples and one in Rome, faced with the realization of a video enquiry about the issues of memory and national identity, inspired by the work of director Marco Baliani, La Repubblica di un solo giorno, presented in this edition of Napoli Teatro Festival Italia.
The two schools were engaged in a parallel series of educational activities, handled by professionals in the field of video production, called to teach the basic techniques for using a camera and to provide post-production concepts, and an external tutor called to encourage students’ reflections about the issues identified, urging their creativity, help processing the content of their reports. Students, called to interact among them and with the outside world, realized interviews, surveys and researches among classmates and teachers as well as among ordinary people met in the streets of their cities. All collected materials have then been processed and used for the production of two documentaries , ground of interaction and exchange between the schools of both cities.