SPOLETO, ITALY
SEPTEMBER, 2021
The Trojan Women Project, in association with LaMaMa Umbria International, will present Birds and a Choir, a musical/theatrical event for Little Amal’s Walk when it passes through Spoleto, Italy on September 14. Little Amal's Walk is a multi-national arts event led by playwright Amir Nazir Zuabi and the Good Chance Theater in England. Over the course of five months, Amal, a 9 foot tall puppet representation of a Syrian child in search of her mother, will walk from the Turkey/Syrian border to Manchester, England. She will be greeted everywhere she goes by local artists and community members.
The birds are ready and waiting for Amal at LaMaMa Umbria International
Workshops with Sara Galassini and Onni Johnson, in partnership Laura Bartolomei, puppet designer; Claudio Scarabottini, arranger, and the Associazione Bisse chorus; SPRAR; and recently re-settled refugees and immigrants; are beginning on September 7.
Summer, 2019
In partnership with La MaMa Umbria, and the SPRAR organization in Spoleto, Foligno, Perugia, and Terni, The Trojan Women Project conducted two full-day workshops with a group of twenty-five men and women coming from 7-10 different countries, including refugees from Africa and Afghanistan now living in Umbria, and community members working with the refugee population in Umbria. Workshops were conducted in Cantiere Oberdan in Spoleto and in the outdoor spaces of La MaMa Umbria.
Workshops were conducted in Italian, giving group members the opportunity to practice their new language skills. Each group member received certificates documenting their newly acquired skills as a way to validate their participation.
