BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:"The gift of diversity"\, Intercultural Theatre Storytell ing Festival II Edition - 2008 in Rome\, Italy at Studio Uno Teatro - Eventful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080508T210000 DTEND:20080524T230000 DTSTAMP:20080502T201713Z SUMMARY:"The gift of diversity"\, Intercultural Theatre Storytelling F estival II Edition - 2008 DESCRIPTION:The Intercultural Theatre Storytelling Laboratory\npresent s\n"The gift of diversity" - Intercultural Theatre Storytelling Festiv al\nII Edition - Rome\, May 8-24 2008\n\nThe idea:\nInterculture means confront\, exchange and communication among diverse cultures\, toward s an opened view and a larger dialogue between differences\, against e ach discrimination. However\, somehow\, privileging interest to origin s and traditions of the person that we meet - even if he is rich and a mazing - and that normally we call a stranger\, we may risk to forget his true particularity\, maybe the most important thing: his story and not his country's one\, his experience and not his people's one\, his emotions and feelings\, not his race's one. So\, we can make the mist ake to build a weak and false image\, a masquerade\, where people are just playing roles: the African\, the Chinese\, the Arabian and so on. Words are important and\, when concepts linked to them have a fundame ntal value in our life\, contradictions are not possible. We are diffe rent or equal? We can't be both\, this is our provocation. If you thin k we are all unique\, then\, maybe\, you could agree with the idea beh ind this project: the most powerful\, significant and revolutionary wa y to have an intercultural point of view\, in other words\, to underli ne the importance of differences and richness inside our individuality \, is to show the diversity of people that often think themselves as e qual (not celebrating the equality of strangers...)\, to tell how much they are interesting to listen when they are speaking of themselves a nd how all become wonderful if they are so proud to mix each others.\n \nII Edition:\nIn May 2008 we’ll present the second edition of th is festival. The last year\, the first one was thought to put the base s and this time we whish to show our idea of interculture. Local or fo reign artists\, considering their diversity as a gift\, will tell thei r story with their personal language or dialect. Because Italy and all countries in the world are wonderfully multicultural places even with out immigrants\, which are just other colours to improve the rainbowâ €¦\nAlmost seventy artists and companies\, since North to South\, se nt us their proposals\, convincing us that our point of view is not so crazy. After a hard selection will present nine shows from all Italy. The aim is to create a space where\, thanks to Theatre Storytelling\, interculture will become just culture\, while actors and public will agree that diversity is the first value to celebrate.\n\nThe shows are \, in order of appearance:\n\n- May 8\, 9.00 p.m.: “Scantu[1]†\, by and with Adele Tirante\, “Cosa sono le nuvole” and à ¢Â€ÂœViaggio inverso”\n- May 9\, 9.00 p.m.: "Francesco Pileggi\, the true story of a man of honour[2]"\, by and with Andrea Chianelli\ n- May 10\, 9.00 p.m.: “Calafrica[3]”\, by and with Manuela Valenti\n- May 15\, 9.00 p.m.: “Refugees”\, by and with †œRataplab”\n- May 16\, 9.00 p.m.: “Zagara[4]”\, by and with Maria Cristina Sarò\n- May 17\, 9.00 p.m.: “It’s sp ring”\, by and with Antonio Carletti\n- May 22\, 9.00 p.m.: †œHorrible heritage on the lake[5]”\, by and with “The differ ents\, almost equal but different”\n- May 23\, 9.00 p.m.: “T he town of Punt”\, by and with Elisa Menchicchi\n- May 24\, 9.00 p.m. : “The true story of Jean Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce\, orat or of the human race”\, by and with Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher a nd Cecilia Moreschi\n\n----------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------\n[1] Trad. (Sicilian): Fear\n[2\, 3] Performance in Italian and Calabrian dialect\n[4] Zagara is a flower and the word comes from Arabic language. It means "to shine a white ir idescent light"\n[5] Totally improvised collective storytelling in Rom e and Naples dialects\n\nThe festival will be at the Studio Uno Theatr e (www.studiounoteatro.it)\, in Rome\, Via Carlo della Rocca\, 6.\n\nT he Laboratory:\nThe Intercultural theatre storytelling laboratory is d irected by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher (www.alessandroghebreigziabiher .it)\, with the precious collaboration of Cecilia Moreschi.\n\nInforma tion: Luisa Moreschi \nEmail: lab_interculturale@tiscali.it \nWeb: ht tp://www.narrazioneinterculturale.org LOCATION:Studio Uno Teatro @ Roma, Italy SEQUENCE:1209759433 UID:E0-001-011409829-3 URL:http://eventful.com/E0-001-011409829-3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR