Città Foresta – Le Cosmicomiche

CAP – Cities Art Projects collaborated on the realisation of workshops curated and realised by Latitudo Art Projects in occasion of the Festival Città Foresta – Le Cosmicomiche, winning project of the Public Call ‘Estate Romana 2023-2024’.

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IL FESTIVAL

Città Foresta – Le Cosmicomiche is a wandering workshop festival that involved five neighbourhoods of the city of Rome between July and October: Labaro, Laurentino, Corviale, Tufello, Trullo. This edition of the Festival is linked to the figure of Italo Calvino, whose birth centenary is to be celebrated, and in particular to the collection of short stories Le Cosmicomiche, written between 1963 and 1964. Several multidisciplinary art workshops were held in each of the different neighborhoods, with the aim of activating new links and synergies between people and the urban area through participatory art practices.

Several activities were designed primarily with children and youth in mind, seeing the participation of artists such as Gaia Scaramella, Iginio De Luca, Luis Do Rosario, Isabella Mancioli, Jacopo Natoli, Danilo Innocenti, Davide D’Angelo aka URKA and the associations Pontedincontro, ViviamolaQ and A.I.Me.F.

The workshops involved various hands-on art techniques including: collective drawing, photography, puppet making, paper mache, percussion, radio workshop, imagination workshop, wooden constructions and nature walks.

In addition, at the end of the journey through the five neighbourhoods, a big Final Event was held on the 14th of October between the spaces of the VIII Lotto and the Polisportiva Trullo. Città Foresta – Le Cosmicomiche’s final event included all the artists and associations who realised the workshops and all the Festival participants from the various neighbourhoods. A day of installations and performances, a collective narration of the process developed during the months of the Festival, which saw a final exhibition of the artworks created during the workshops.