Hands-on seminar

A seminar-workshop that explores how art, in its performative and figurative shapes, can become a tool for community activation, through languages and devices capable of generating dialogue, reflection and shared transformation. The meeting represents an opportunity for those who work daily in community contexts to get informed, acquire tools, experiment with methodologies and engage with innovative practices to make social and cultural processes more participatory and inclusive.

Acting the Community

Together with Stalker Teatro, we will address methodologies, objectives and strategies to develop artistic interventions that emerge from the territory and translate into concrete transformations.The journey is structured between theory and practice: from defining project objectives to fundamental questions to ask, from possible types of experimentation to constructive dialogue with different stakeholders (administrations, associations, citizens). A collective reflection on how theater becomes a tool for social and cultural mediation.

The theoretical dimension will take shape through two artistic devices by Stalker Teatro - "Encounters" and "The Chairs" - which will translate content into direct experience, allowing participants to experience firsthand the mechanisms of community activation.

Reflecting the Community

Together with the Education Department of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, we will follow the path through which contemporary art, both in its creative and exhibition expression, questions what contemporaneity means in relation to social context, reflects the present and experiments with new practices of dialogue. Between conservation, dissemination and activation of participation, building community always requires new tools. Contemporary art is a binding agent and a concrete device to activate and make territorial actions more participatory, because it unites the social and the cultural. It does so directly with its own language or it does so in counterpoint to the performative one, as in the Metropolitan Art project. 

With aluminium cords we will write the keywords that emerge from dialogue between participants, to reflect and activate processes supporting young people and communities.

Who is it for?

The meeting is open to all professional operators working in community contexts: artists, pedagogists, cultural mediators, facilitators, local administrators, social workers, urban planners, social architects, participatory process facilitators, territorial educators, cultural community managers. Ideal for those who want to start, deepen or compare their professional journey in the field of community theater.

Photo credits: Giorgio Sottile

Who leads?

Stefano Bosco - Born in Turin in 1971, he graduated in Engineering between the Politecnico di Torino and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He attended the Scuola Civica Musicale in Turin, trained in Paris at the Académie Européenne – Théâtre Corporel Magenia and studied Theatre Studies at the University of Malta. Since 2000 he has been one of the central figures of Stalker Teatro, a historic Turin-based innovative theater company, as producer and performer, bringing the company's productions to festivals and theaters in over 20 countries in Europe and beyond. Since 2013 he has been the company's organizational director and designer, overseeing the artistic and cultural programming of Officine CAOS, a creative and multidisciplinary hub in the northern outskirts of Turin. Since 2022 he has been an adjunct university lecturer at the University of Turin, where he teaches courses in "Movement Languages", "Semiotics of Movement" and recently "Performing Arts"

Paola Zanini -  Since 2022 she has been Head of the Education Department at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1990 she graduated as Master of Painting from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin with a thesis on the educational function of the Museum, developed through an experimental experience with the Education Department with which she has since begun active collaboration as Cultural Project Manager. She has always been involved in research and training, conception and development of educational projects, team building and networking, overseeing collaborations with national and international Institutions. She has participated in numerous conferences and meetings at Museums and Institutions, Academies and Universities, notably being selected by Harvard University among the best practices in art education, deploying educational, formative, experimental and research potential starting from the work of the Museum's artists, always with interdisciplinary and transcultural approaches. A key role of opening and connection to the Museum's external world, always in close relationship with its territory of belonging. She has been Ambassador of Michelangelo Pistoletto's Third Paradise since 2005, bringing the symbolic sign to the world.