The city told by its inhabitants

02/06/2023

The workshops of CORO, the project that aims to tell the story of the city of Novara through the stories of its inhabitants, have begun. The workshops are completely free of charge and involve participants of all ages in a journey in search of the social and urban changes that have taken place in Novara over the last hundred years.

The work began with four meetings in February at the Casa di Giorno Don Aldo Mercoli, where our operators interviewed the guests of the facility about their work experiences and about Novara in the past, its production activities, meeting places and entertainment. We thus collected extraordinary stories, not only of trades that have now disappeared, but also of life experiences, memories, anecdotes and advice on how to approach a world, such as that of work, that does not give discounts.

Now the project continues in workshop form with some thirty citizens and aims to accompany participants in the transformation of their story from narrative to performance, through the main elements of theatre: body, rhythm, voice. In this way, we want to combine theatre with the concept of the 'city', giving its inhabitants the opportunity to tell the story of the area through their own eyes, mending its rifts and acting as a hinge between the past and the future.

The workshops began in mid-March and ended at the end of May, in the renovated space at Via Chinotto 16, on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and on Thursdays with the students of the Istituto Tecnico Industriale Omar and the Liceo Artistico Casorati in the spaces of the Istituto Omar from 3 to 5 p.m.