As the digital age accelerates, the need to ground ourselves with the Earth becomes more pressing. The SONO GAIA project embodies this ethos, bringing together diverse voices and experiences to deepen our connection to the planet. Recently, the project hosted a series of transformative events at the Cascina Municipal Library, drawing participants …
Introducation Newspaper Theatre emerged in the 1960s as part of Augusto Boal’s revolutionary Theatre of the Oppressed, offering a method to challenge censorship and promote public engagement during Brazil’s military dictatorship. By dramatizing real-life news articles and headlines, Boal encouraged audiences to critically examine media narratives, empowering communities to question …
More and more the method of Focusing is nourishing my way of facilitating spaces dedicated to reconnection with self, others and nature/Life, through social arts.. Recently, I offered a workshop about burn out and compassion fatigue in Rome to psychotherapists, combining the gentleness of self-empathy and the radical acceptance of feelings from …
Palestine-Israel: Broken hearts, Open arms…“Combatants for Peace (CfP) is a joint Palestinian-Israeli community working in solidarity to end the occupation, discrimination, and oppression of all people living on this land. Guided by the values of nonviolent resistance, we are showing the world that there is another way.” (https://cfpeace.org/)In partnership with ImaginAction …
My name is Chetna Mehrotra; I am a social artist, a culture practitioner, and an applied theatre practitioner from India. I am the founder-director of Rangbhumi, an applied theatre organisation based in Mumbai. I have been accepted into the Masters Program at the ArtEz University of Arts, Netherlands. I am …
Unlocking the power of imagination and storytelling to promote creativity, listening, sharing, and reconnection. *limited discounted early bird tickets are available. Write to urinoymeir@gmail.com “In the past, I wrote that to be human is to be a theater. I would now like to expand the concept: to be human is …
SEGUE ITALIANO Palestine-Israel: from one story to more than one story, from us vs them to togetherness, from cycle of violence to nonviolence, towards a Collective Liberation A conversation with the two female co-directors of Combatants for Peace Ilaria Olimpico There is no way to peace Peace is the way …
Using AI for Humanizing Humanity In our recent meeting, we discussed how we can use AI tools to advance the goals of humanizing humanity through theater and creative workshops. Our group is exploring how to design plays, images, and interactive experiences using AI in a way that fosters social justice …
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively, a never-ending process. – Johan Galtung — I interviewed Sulaiman Khatib and Chen Alon, co-founders of “Combatants For Peace”, nominated twice for the Nobel Peace prize in 2017 and in 2018. Both times, the nominations were …
Mother Earth Wait. Wait. Don’t leave us alone in a world we have wrecked. A collaboration between Reconectando, ImaginAction and Work That Reconnects Network Reconectando, ImaginAction, and The Work That Reconnects Network collaborated on the 2nd of November, 2023. Ilaria Olimpico, Shyontoni Ghosh, Hector Aristizabal, and Uri Noy Meir, facilitated …