Although it is a powerful instrument, CEDAW often remains a mysterious acronym. How can we effectively use it in our daily life, work and activism? How Forum Theatre can be matched with CEDAW to achieve gender equality and strengthen women’s rights? This workshop will offer the opportunity to experience how Forum Theatre can make CEDAW ...
Our Forum Theatre on male identity will be performed in 7 schools in Rome, to involve children and parents in the search for new scripts, new forms of relationships between boys and girls, more open and respectful. This show stages several forms of male violence and invites the audience to try alternatives to violence. These ...
For the 4th year the Ministry of Justice asked us to launch a project with young offenders on gender. The goal is to undo gender and de-construct a culture of transgression, violence and agressivity that often imposes to young males, allowing participants to find out how and where they have build roles that get them ...
Often we end up trapped in rigid and externally imposed roles. We end up playing old scripts that push us into problematic behavior. Where do these roles and scripts come from? How can we change them if they oppress us? When scripts come from social norms, transmitted by family, school and the whole society, we ...
After the forum theatre on male violence and a training for the anti-violence centre practitioners, Parteciparte goes back to Tuscany to keep on working on male violence. This time we will play our forum theatre on masculinity. We will train ourselves to overcome toxic masculinities, build relationships based on freedom, reciprocity and consent. In collaboration ...
CAM Florence was the first Italian organization working with men who perpetrated violence against women. In 2009, after years of patient work with abusers, national and international networks were created with people working with perpetrators, a tough job. How can theatre of the oppressed contribute to this work? Since 2013 Parteciparte has been specializing in ...
In this experiential training we will use collective games and theatre to raise food producers' and consumers' awareness towards environmental issues and towards climate change mitigation. Can collective games and theatre positively impact on producers and consumers' attitudes and motivations towards sustainable choices? An Italian pilot study, run by CREA, will provide first insights about ...
This training on inclusive leadership aims at engaging male political leaders as transformative agents of change for gender equality. Forum theatre allows participants to recognize the impact of gender norms not only on the lives of women but on their own lives as well. How fewer women in politics affect public policies and the economy? ...
A forum theatre workshop aimed at staging and tackling the educational challenges in family and at school. Games, exercises and simple theatrical techniques, accessible to everyone, will allow to stage problematic situations faced by parents, teachers, educators. Together we will start a playful and creative research of possible strategies engaging social workers, educational and health ...
For the fourth year, the Ministry of Justice has asked us to work on scripts that favor gender-related crimes, with Maschile Plurale association. The 36-hours project will allow us to work on toxic identities, on scripts inherited by the family. For those who have acted violence, we will work on the motivation to change, accountability ...
What is masculine and feminine in our bodies? To what extent is this distinction biological or social? If our bodies could freely move in a safe space, what would they say? What gestures and movements would they make? Shadow theatre will allow to gradually discover the essence of our bodies and "highlight" desires and conditionings ...
In these workshops we will explore - in a collective and enjoyable way - the most widespread and common problems of women, within and beyond geographical and cultural origins. Using simple theatrical techniques, the workshops will allow us to tell experiences and emotions with our bodies, without exposing ourselves. No words will be used. We ...
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