Poetic Politician | Press release
May 2, 2024 | The theater and active citizenship project aimed at all secondary schools in Bologna and all interested parties between 14 and 19 years old is restarting.
The project is curated by the Teatro dell'Argine, in collaboration with the Rusconi Ghigi Urban Innovation Foundation, and is co-financed by the European Union - European Structural and Investment Funds National Program Metropolitan Cities and Southern Medium Cities 2021-2027.
Today, Thursday, May 2, the boys and girls who took part in the first stage of the project, together with Teatro dell'Argine and the Rusconi Ghigi Urban Innovation Foundation, told what will be the themes behind the new edition of Politico Poético.
The project starts from five macro themes identified by boys and girls aged 14 to 19 in dedicated focus groups that took place between March and April 2024. Themes, keywords and five recommendations to adults on how to conduct theater and active citizenship workshops in the next school year
.
Politico Poético therefore starts again from the voice of boys and girls, with the aim of building paths based on the needs of today's adolescents and with the intention of giving, through dedicated tools, a response and follow-up to the requests that have emerged and that will emerge.
The project, in this new edition, is proposed for two consecutive school years and involves both the first and second the activation of free theater and active citizenship workshops with a final event. Starting from December 2024, hundreds of teenagers from all schools in Bologna will be called to imagine and tell concrete proposals for their future, based on the themes chosen by their peers in the first stage, proposals that will be presented at a final event in
April 2025.
The course will then be repeated with other boys and girls in the 2025-26 school year in order to give younger people the opportunity to participate.
Among the novelties of this edition, there is also the creation of a community fund for the new generations of €30,000, made available by the Rusconi Ghigi Urban Innovation Foundation. Through the fund, which will be available on an experimental basis from autumn 2024 and repeated in 2025, the proposals by the girls and boys of the city will be concretely financed. In addition, following the indications received from boys and girls during the course, a civic representative body for adolescents will be created, through which the youngest can express their indications on the future
of the city.
Finally, the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the Rusconi Ghigi Urban Innovation Foundation, will carry out research on new forms of youth activism and on the most widespread practices of participation.
This path is an integral part of the Radically Adolescents strategy, with which the municipal administration intends to respond to the numerous requests of the city's girls and boys, for greater civic commitment and leadership, following the new methods of activation and contemporary languages.
For more information on
Politico Poético I edition visit https://www.politicopoetico.it/
Politico Poético II edition click here
Poetic Politics is a project of the Teatro dell'Argine, in collaboration with the Rusconi Ghigi Urban Innovation Foundation, co-financed by the European Union - European Structural and Investment Funds National Program Metropolitan Cities and Southern Medium Cities 2021-2027.
