“Festivabìlia Coming Soon” continues on Friday, October 11, at 4.30 PM in Co-Working with the screening of the short film “Come, Come Closer”, featuring Giulia Gussago, dancer, choreographer, teacher of the Feldenkrais® Method, and artistic director of Compagnia Lyria and the Verziano Project.
The project Verziano, launched in 2011 with the aim of raising a comprehensive awareness on the integration between the prison system and civil society, was realized by the Compagnia Lyria in collaboration with the Verziano Correctional Facility, Brescia.
The short film “Come, come closer” showcases the outcome of the contemporary dance and creative writing workshops held at the Verziano correctional facility in 2019. It features featuring eighteen free citizens and nineteen inmates, several of whom were released during the filming. Their images and writings bear witness to the wonderful journey through the diversity of human experience. In the film are also featured, as witnesses, representatives of various institutions, collaborators, friends, and a former inmate who now actively promotes the project at conferences held annually in various schools.
