NARRAZIONEINTERCULTURALE.ORG (Intercultural Storytelling)

Web site of the Intercultural Theatre Storytelling Laboratory

The Idea:

Interculture means confront, exchange and communication among diverse cultures, towards an opened view and a larger dialogue between differences, against each discrimination. However, somehow, privileging interest to origins and traditions of the person that we meet - even if rich and amazing - 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 mistake 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 fundamental value in our life, contradictions are not possible: we are different or equal?

We can't be both, this is our provocation. We ask you to choose. If you believe that we are all the same, this laboratory is not for you. On the contrary, if you think we are all unique, then, maybe, you could agree with this idea: the most powerful, significant and revolutionary way to have an intercultural point of view, in other words, to underline the importance of differences and richness inside our individuality, is to show the diversity of people that often think themselves as equal (not celebrating the equality of strangers...), to tell how much they are interesting to listen when they are speaking about themselves and how all become wonderful if they are so proud to mix each others.

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