The Waldensian Church has decided to train new pastors on the issue of male violence. So they can consciously intervene on the issue in the communities where they work. The training will address the issue of gender stereotypes, abuse of power, psychological violence and other forms of gender-based violence. The goal is to provide tools ...
Parteciparte returns to Bologna to celebrate in the schools the 25th November, the International Day against Violence against Women, staging "My Love - When does a relationship become dangerous?" We will start from this question to run a creative research with boys, girls and teachers on which are the first alarm bells to recognize a ...
Which male and female models are imposed us from birth, or even before? How much do they impact on our behaviors and choices? Can we release from them to fully realize ourselves and live our relationships better? Through games and exercises, accessible to all, we will stage the problematic situations we experience between women and ...
Which are the warning signs that a woman is being mistreated by her partner? How can we help her? Which attitudes are likely to make things worse and which ones can help her to talk about it? We will explore these questions with our forum theatre "Amore mio", on violence in intimate relationships, within the ...
Which words and attitudes can offend non-heterosexual people and force them to be invisible? Can we create a culture where coming out is no longer scary? With this forum theatre show we want to explore these questions and train ourselves to face, in a pleasant way, different situations of lesophophobia, from the most latent to ...
After our show on domestic violence and a training for workers of the anti-violence centre, Parteciparte goes back to Tuscany, in the Alta Val di Cecina, to keep on working on male violence. This time we will bring our show on how to be non-oppressor men, to train us to overcome toxic masculinities, to build ...
After the story of the Baby Gang that upset everybody in Como, we worked with some social services and some of the boys involved in the story too. A nice forum theatre was created and a research on restorative justice was started. How to go beyond punishment and understand what happened? How it happened that ...
Parteciparte will organize a Festival of Collective Arts Contamination of Arts, Pedagogies, practices enabling to create collectivity. The festival will bring together people and techniques that allow to tackle tough oppressions, to overcome injustice and division, to create anew strong communities, united and creative. The Saturday will be dedicated to workshops on relationships, desires and ...
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 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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