Together with Lucas Imaging Events and the associations Accademia Corale Stefano Tempia and Filarmonica TRT (Teatro Regio Torino), Cultura e salute aps is working on a new project, Narrazioni Parallele (Parallel Narrations). This project proposes a three-year cultural program structured according to a new format, aimed at engaging an intergenerational audience along two parallel lines: Narration-Participation in Turin’s civic libraries and Narration-Contemporaneity in post-industrial urban spaces.
The project aims to hybridize “classical” music, new languages, and new technologies, giving a voice to young composers under 30-35 through “calls for artists,” allowing them to participate in a journey in which classical music, electronic music, and Artificial Intelligence intermingle, engaging the audience in a democratic way.
The first director involves the Cultura e salute aps association with the chamber groups of the TRT Philharmonic, the Tempia choral ensemble and the Tempia-Convitto Umberto I children’s choir in concerts that are characterized by the involvement of the audience.
The intergenerational audience engagement program is developing within the ecosystem of the city’s Civic Libraries (Italo Calvino, Villa Amoretti, Tesoriera, Cascina Marchesa, etc.). Audiences are invited to express the feelings aroused by the performances through a dialogue between audio narrations, literature, and the visual arts: these words and emotions will become part of the program’s performances.
The Scientific Committee of Cultura e Salute aps will evaluate and monitor the benefits of participating in the cultural program, measuring the activities’ impact on health (and therefore on society) (WHO 2019 Health Evidence Network Synthesis Report 67).
Culture generates well-being, encourages active aging, and encourages youth participation in social life. One of the goals of the festival, divided into 2-3 autumn events per year, is to build a bridge between seniors and younger generations through the enjoyment of free classical music outside of the traditional venues of Turin’s city center. This gives the public the opportunity to interact, stimulating collective intelligence in the search for a shared meaning of the work through the dialogue between sound, literary, and visual arts narratives.
Audience interaction is facilitated by reading literary passages that inspired the musical compositions proposed in the concert programs, sharing the emotions aroused by listening and thanks to the co-creation process, with the “Song writing” technique, led by singer Arianna Gallo.
