PROJECT
Recipients: Women victims of trafficking

“I make theatre with, for and about the people that are in the room, expecting to honour this improbable encounter of people that otherwise would have never met”, says Andrea Jiménez García in her notes.
We will get together to raise the questions that cannot be answered with words.
To dare to look at our dreads.
To surrender to tenderness.
To embrace rage.
To name desire.
To make it happen to believe again.
To dare to see and to be seen.
Whatever happens will be the only thing that could have happened. Let’s make it joyous”.

CIDIS OPEN REHEARSAL: 30 NOVEMBER H 8.00 PM
INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE NAPLES – NAPLES
DIRECTION ANDREA JIMÉNEZ GARCÍA AND PINA DI GENNARO
IN COLLABORATION WITH INSTITUTO CERVANTES DE NÁPOLES

ANDREA JIMÉNEZ GARCÍA
Spain
Director, author, actress, and producer, she is the co-artistic director of the Teatro En Vilo company, founded in London in 2012. She has a degree in Law and a postgraduate degree in Performing Arts from the London International School of Performing Arts. She also has extensive experience in the production of shows, tours, and festivals, and in the development of educational and community projects. She has created and directed numerous shows, including the multi-awarded productions Hoy puede ser mi gran noche, Generación Why and Locos de amor. She has given workshops in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Cyprus, India, and Spain, both to professionals in the performing arts, as well as to children, adolescents, adults, and groups at risk of social exclusion.

PINA DI GENNARO
Naples
Pina Di Gennaro trained with the Teatro dell’Anima and Teatro Elicantropo. She is one of the founders of Teatri di Seta and the Anthea School of Art-Therapy. She works in the cultural and sociopedagogical field with workshops aimed at migrants and Italian citizens. In 2022 she was awarded the title of Ambassador of Inclusion by the University Federico II for her work with foreign children in Italy. Since 2015 she has been running workshops at the Spazio Polifunzionale Piazza Forcella and Casa Cidis involving kids in her company. She featured with them the movies La Recita and La Gita. She has been director and playwright of many theatre performances, such as Uccelli bianchi, Uccelli neri; Felicità Nonostante and Antigone.

THE CONTEXT
CIDIS
Cidis is a nonprofit association working on the national and European level to promote a culture of welcoming and building integration, in the belief that participation and equal opportunities for all members of a community are essential conditions for ensuring social cohesion and peaceful coexistence in modern plural and multiethnic societies. The Association encourages cultural diversity as an asset, through actions aimed at reflection and critical reading of the concept of identity, as opposed to discrimination and social marginality. www.cidisonlus.org