The end-of-year ceremony took place on Thursday 20 June in the atrium of the Sacred Heart for third-year students. Benjamin Franklin Institute. On stage with their robes, touch and promising smile, our boys made everyone emotional.
After the institutional greetings of the councilor Cristian Farella and the mayor Francesco Ricci, always attentive to the growth of Benjamin Franklin; the mathematics teacher on stage Ricci Antonella took steps to reward the children who, during the school year, distinguished themselves in the logical-arithmetic competition of ‘lazy day‘.
The third graders then tried their hand at the theater of the absurd, an artistic representation that revolves around the philosophical concept of existence and its absurdity. The literature teacher Lara Carbonara he experimented with a rewriting of the famous work Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. Following in the footsteps of the original, the performance unfolded between fast and pressing jokes, poised between the non-sense and the extraordinary. The jokes cleverly reconstructed around a common and recurring condition among adolescents: that of waiting for things to change on their own. Waiting for things to change, however, presupposes a reflection on one’s past.
A greeting, a farewell, a hug, a memory that is imprinted in the memory. We teachers always have the remote hope of having taught kids how to build relationships, of having given them the right tools, of having shown the way, of seeing them go away without being moved. By now they have formed the armor to become knights errant and they no longer have to wait for things to happen, rather they MUST make them happen, to overcome the ‘hedge’ and turn towards infinity. In fact, a tribute to “the infinite” by Giacomo Leopardi, recitation accompanied by the romantic and melancholic notes played by the prof. of music Alberto Iovene.
Accompanying the show was a choreographic performance by the boys from before, who danced to the tune of “Pasolini” (by Selton), a hymn to going against the grain, to looking inside ourselves to create true, lasting, honest relationships. Just like those that are formed on school desks.
Of Lara Carbonara
