Three workshops, three refunds, six shows and five “extrafestival” meetings for a total of seventeen appointments they will animate Olmi Square to Matera from Friday 21st to Thursday 27th June 2024 for the ninth edition of Nobody stays outthe festival of theater dedicated to the city and citizens of Matera, conceived and coordinated since 2016 by IAC Integrated Arts Center to create a push for community participation and to generate an improvement in the quality of life and social, cultural and environmental awareness.
“For the first year our Festival will arrive in a truly peripheral neighborhood of Matera” he explains Nadia Casamassima, artistic co-director of IAC, Integrated Arts Center “until last year, in fact, our initiatives crossed the neighborhoods built after the displacement of the Sassi (Piccianello, Serra Friday, Spine Bianche, Agna, La Martella, Lanera), the ” Piazza degli Olmi” around which the related residential complex and neighborhood services are built is located in an area of urban expansion characterized by area plans for economic and popular housing from the 1980s. The area is made up of a peripheral plot without socially significant urban places and we chose it because Uno Resti Fuori has retained over the years, despite the difficulties, the desire to meet people, to go to the squares and create theater there so that everyone can feed on it, even those who don’t usually go to the theatre. Our theater belongs to everyone and speaks to everyone without any distinction, everyone is welcome, especially those who live in the topographical and social suburbs”
Adolescence and accessibility are the watchwords of this festival: from the screening of Futura, a collective investigation to explore the idea of the future of girls and boys between 15 and 20 years old, up to the show Creature Selvagge. The world of tomorrow, passing through the residency of the artists Marial Bajma Riva and Anna Piscopo hosted for 2024 as part of the three-year Humus_Artisti nei territorial project (started in 2022), the festival seeks different languages to communicate with the youngest. Riva and Piscopo will work on the artistic development of the show I am leaving by BAM Teatro, a black comedy about the physical and spiritual immobility of a generation of young people who choose not to become adults due to the absence of desires and the lack of the promise of a future. The boys and girls from Rovereto with whom IAC worked for the production of the show Creature Selvagge will also be in Matera. The world of tomorrow promoted by Oriente e Ovest Festival: a group of boys and girls decide to leave this world that does not correspond to their desires. They set out on a journey in search of a new world to inhabit, to try to be together in a different way: they will encounter difficulties and joyful moments, they will learn to know each other and to value everyone’s little quirks and their own wild creature. They will live unique adventures, experiment with alternative ways of expressing themselves and telling their stories. Will they be able to coexist and not repeat the same mistakes of the old world? Will they be able to create a new world? The young performers will take to the stage on Sunday 23 June while on Saturday 22 they will compete with the young volunteers of the festival to try to definitively avert the extinction of the adolescent species.
Uno Resti Fuori is also a festival attentive to paths that favor artists with disabilities: after having already hosted Al.Di.Qua.Artist (the first Italian association of artists with disabilities), this year it hosts the VersiliaDanza company with the GLITTER Dare laboratory. A word. To the body. to train the public to look at and listen to non-conforming bodies in a new way, and the show I versi delle mani, the first professional project as a dancer for Laura Lucioli, a girl with Down Syndrome who in 2014 began a research journey on movement together to Marta Bellu delving into contemporary dance and tango.
“The 2024 edition of the festival will be a gym in which we will perform exercises to avoid the worst” continues Andrea Santantonio, co-artistic director of the festival and of IAC “that is, we will try to create a moment of fun in which, however, we do not forget what is happening in the world: the exercises to avoid the worst are ritual acts whose aim is to find a moment of deep collective reflection, in which to feel like we are part of a common project and to avoid the birth of new and violent conflicts. These ritual moments will be crossed with performances and theater shows, languages that manage to move our feelings. The vocation of the festival is to be not only a moment of vision but above all a moment of participation, training and growth for the citizens: we like the training to be active protagonists, to build communities together with the artists, because the community can actively and not passively benefit from cultural events”.
The Festival program
While from May 30th a group of very young volunteers was formed to take care of the festival and its audience, responding to the FARE FESTIVAL call, from June 18th to 24th in the rooms of the Istituto Comprensivo D.Bramante Malmand Teatro will dedicate the S-Velarsi laboratory – edited by Ivano Picciallo and Marta Franceschelli – to masks and their evolution in the contemporary world to rediscover the impulses and instincts of the human body and soul that we are often called upon to control: the return to the public is scheduled for Monday 24 June at 7.30pm in the Amphitheater in Piazza degli Olmi.
From 24 to 27 June Daniele Ninarello and Mariella Popolla will be in Matera with the NOBODY NOBODY NOBODY laboratory. It’s ok not to be ok which on Thursday 27th at 7.30pm will bring the participants to Piazza degli Olmi for a collectively danced denunciation in which everyone’s body will give rise to a new language, alive and liberated.
Thursday 27 June at 9.30pm again in Piazza degli Olmi there will be Creaturə, a puppet walk in the city, the final outcome of the Rejoice, everything is still to be invented workshop curated by Sophie Hames: a workshop for the construction and manipulation of puppets which held from 24 to 27 June, in the premises of the Bramante Institute.
The shows in the Amphitheatre
There will instead be six shows hosted in the Amphitheater in Piazza degli Olmi: on Saturday 22 June at 9.30pm we start with ME NE VADO by BAM Teatro, the following day, Sunday 23 June, the show CREATURE WILD will be staged. The world of tomorrow, on Monday 24 June at 9.30pm, two clumsy and idealistic students will be grappling with the discoveries of the independent consciousness of EUREKA’s artificial intelligence! a show by Ultimi Fuochi Teatro. Double appointment on Tuesday 25 June: at 7.30pm with I versi delle mani performance by Versilia Danza which will weave sound textures and dances, while at 9.30pm with Piano B – The revolution of the great dredger – awareness event carried out as part of the project SAI Matera – Mon Cœur de Bois addresses the urgencies of the contemporary world in a show that wishes to open a discussion on the concept of abuse. Wednesday 26 June at 9.30pm will be the time for Kotekino Riff, by and with Andrea Cosentino, special UBU prize winner in 2018, for joyful and nihilistic clowning with no other meaning than playing the game.
Extrafestival
The Extrafestival section begins on Friday 21 June at 7pm in Piazza degli Olmi with the MEET NEET meeting organized as part of the NEET-FLIX project Paths to building the self through others and the arts promoted by the municipal office for Youth Policies of the Municipality of Matera with the support of Anci and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, a moment dedicated to the NEET phenomenon (young people who are not engaged in training or work) and which in Italy have percentages among the highest in Europe; Margherita Di Lucca will be present for Generazione Lucana, Giulio Traietta, representative of the municipality of Matera for youth policies, Mariangela Tantone and Ivan Moliterni for Ombre Meridiane. This will be followed at 9pm by the screening of the documentary Futura, a portrait of the country of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in, their dreams and their expectations between desires and fears.
On Saturday 22 June at 7.30pm the boys and girls who participated in the Wild Creatures project and the IAC FARE FESTIVAL laboratory will meet with the festival community.
On Monday 24 June from 4.00pm to 6.00pm it will be possible to participate in the GLITTER Dare inclusive dance and choreographic research workshop. A word. At the body open to people with and without disabilities, amateurs, professionals, to try to give space to the processes of a body that wants to speak, based on the practice of meeting between people making the difference expressive and generative material.
The contemporary cinema laboratory opens on Wednesday 26 June from 7.00pm to 9.00pm in the classrooms of the D.Bramante Comprehensive Institute. The apocalypse becomes a feeling: cinema (re)looks at us for children aged 14 and up curated by Ombre Meridiane with Ivan Moliterni: the workshop offers a journey through the point of view, the styles, the authors, the obsessions of contemporary cinema in the expression of the end of the world.
The company coop. soc. Centro Arti Integrate has been engaged in the promotion of theatrical culture and events to enhance the territory for more than ten years. In particular, since 2016 it has organized a festival which aims to involve the inhabitants of the peripheral areas of the city of Matera. The Uno Resti Fuori festival was created with the precise aim of bringing important theatrical experiences to places not affected by major events, involving the inhabitants in the planning and implementation of the same.
Over the years, the festival has allowed hundreds of boys and girls, boys and girls, men and women to grow and educate themselves through the medium of theatre, to inhabit the spaces of their city in an active and conscious way. The Uno Resti Fuori festival makes the experience of community theater accessible to grow individually and collectively. At a time when social fragility is very strong, especially in the peripheral areas of the city which are little or not at all crossed by tourist flows and the relative economic wealth, the Tutti Resti Fuori festival connects public space and art. Especially after the years of the pandemic, constantly working with children and girls, IAC felt the strong urgency of transforming squares and streets into places of collective participation.
