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In dialogo

𝑰𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒐. 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, a project of the Accademia Dimitri, Teatro Zigoia and the Center of Expertise Educational Needs, School and Society (BESS) of DFA/SUPSI, aims to strengthen cultural participation and social cohesion in the area through artistic activity, particularly theater. The project directly involves the population in artistic practice, understood as a tool for transformation and the emergence of new forms of collective identity.
This project is supported by the Nuovo Noi Program of the Federal Commission for Migration, which aims to strengthen cultural participation, social cohesion and the feeling of belonging in Swiss migration society, and by the Cantonal Integration Program (PIC), which aims to promote measures for integration and involvement of the local population.
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In dialogo

Summary

"In Dialogo" is based on the belief that artistic activity can be an essential tool for transformation and community building in a given territory, capable of creating the conditions to let new forms of collective identity emerge. It directly involves groups of people residing in Canton Ticino - specifically in the Onsernone and Centovalli valleys - of different gender, age and origin (indigenous, from other regions of Switzerland, immigrants or with migratory origins).

The approach is based on group work in "laboratories" (or ateliers), understood as collective work spaces open to sharing and experimentation: the conception and implementation of activities based on artistic practices, especially between theater and visual arts, encourage the establishment of deep and spontaneous relationships among the participants, stimulating the attitude of "telling their stories" and cooperating for a common goal. By moving through the valleys and making different groups of people interact in the context of artistic practices, the project proposes an innovative key to access, allowing a real encounter between different positions and cultures, no longer comparing them but translating them, into a real and productive dialogue.

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Events and workshops

The project is spread over 2 years (2023-2024) in different locations in the Centovalli and Onsernone and weaves together two main areas of activities:

  • In the first, a      diffuse review of events open to the public is offered, with the      aim of facilitating exchange and integration between the groups of      participants in the workshops, the communities that inhabit the      territories and those who - for professional, study or tourist reasons -      live these places in a transitory manner. The promotion of coordinated and      synergistic actions and events also provides an opportunity to think about      new relationships between the Centovalli and Onsernone territories, as      well as between urban and peripheral areas. The wide network of partners      developed for the project and the collaboration with entities already      promoting activities aimed at the population will offer privileged access      to the different communities.
  • In the second, theater and art workshops are conducted, customized according to the target audience, to foster the creation of small, internally cohesive working groups among people from different migratory backgrounds and cultural backgrounds, but living in the area of the two valleys, Locarno or more generally in Canton Ticino.



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The project is supported by Banca Raiffeisen Losone Pedemonte Vallemaggia, the Migros Ticino Culture Percentage and the municipalities involved 

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Partners

In collaboration with Onsernone Municipality

  • Pro Onsernone
  • Onsernone ART
  • Friends of Comologno Association
  • Onsernone Family Association
  • Onsernone Social Centre

Centovalli Municipality

  • Pro Centovalli
  • Atelier Teatro Camedo - Centovalli Festival
  • San Donato Regional Elderly Home
  • Casa Tondü di Lionza Foundation
  • Terra Vecchia Foundation

Centovalli and Pedemonte - Onsernonese Museum Pedemonte, Centovalli and Onsernone Primary School ACLI Servizi Ticino (International Workers' Christian Associations) Integration and Voluntary Service of the Swiss Red Cross Sottoceneri Federal Asylum Centre, Pasture Elisa Foundation, Locarno Canton Ticino Cultural Observatory, UAPCD, DECS Institut für Weiterbildung und Beratung, FHNW, Brugg-Windisch Association Documentaire et déployé, Paris

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