ALPHABETS IN EUROPE

Man with accordions

I met Dorota , my Polish partner of this project, a year ago, in Spain, at an international seminar . It was a sensation that was created between us since that time. We kept in touch and after about an year she sent me an email asking me if I wanted to find an Italian partner for the project. Of course I found it and I went in early March in Poland with 4 young Italian members of an association of theater from Turin , Viartisti Theatre . The weather in March is capricious in Poland. Wind was blowing from all the sides , the cold froze and froze the blood. The activities of the project were held at  60 km away from Warsaw, in the city Bursuki , in the middle of a forest like in  a dream in a location decorated with everything. The project partners were youngsters together with their leaders from Italy , Georgia, Tunisia , Ireland and Poland .

The partners in every day , they had to prepare the menu for three meals and present their alphabet in an original way . On the first day were the Irish, the second day Georgia ( group arrived a day late due to the snow that blocked the air traffic to the airport in Minsk) , Tunisia and Italy presented on the third day , and Poland , as host country was the last . There were a total of 27 young people who have seen their lives and that they were able to make friends very quickly , and work together as they knew each other of a lifetime. I've never seen  since I work in European projects  a group so cohesive . It 's interesting to live and work a week in another country , with another young people from different countries and to realize that in reality , they are all perfectly normal beings , they have the same dreams , the same hopes and desires .
Maybe that's why I've always liked to be surrounded by young people who have a contagious enthusiasm . The young Italian  presented an excerpt from the show " Piccirida " in Italian. It was about a young girl who was part of a crime family in southern Italy, and that she died because she did not want to be part of that family , denouncing his brothers and his father. Including abuse of his mother because he had the courage to denounce the family. The story of this young girl went out of Italy, pulling tears of an audience that has heard the emotions conveyed by the four actors , Ivan , Paola , Luca and Francesca, without knowing the meaning of words in Italian .

 What could be more beautiful than to experience the thrill beyond words ? Why the man with the accordion ? Because I met last day of stay in Poland , in the central square in Warsaw. For me, this was the final conclusion of the project "A street actor , a parrot and a barrel organ expressing a perfect harmony between everyday life , past and future, between generations, nations and cultures. "