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Lieux Fictifs historical partners’ since 2005, for the European cooperation.
ESTIA cultural association and cooperativa sociale (Milan, Italy)
The ESTIA cultural association started staging plays in Milan Remand Centre in 1992 before extending its theatre
work to the Milan Bollate and Milan Opera prisons. It uses the artistic field at various levels as part of the
inmates’ social reintegration, starting with the educational aspect. The participants begin by choosing either
a technical (lighting, sound or video technician, stagehand for the theatre or cinema etc.) or artistic (movie
or repertory theatre actor, theatre coach or other theatre or video activity) vocation, thus becoming part of the
cooperativa created in 2003. The working group also coordinates theatrical training for people doing cultural
work in zones and with populations that are marginalised and for the ETRE theatrical residence project financed
by the Foundation Cariplo in partnership with the City of Milan, Milan Provincial Authority, Lombardy Regional
Authority, the regional prisons authority, the theatrical sciences department at the University of Milan and the
Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL).This artistic project has achieved a lot since 2007, including the
opening of a theatre open to the public with a full year-long programme and offering the chance, once a year, to
self-produce a show. The association has also developed non-formal, artistic education methods and a novel line
of research and creativity that has taken in a number of artistic languages.
> www.cooperativaestia.org
TransFORMAS (Barcelona, Spain)
Since 2004, this cultural association has been providing theatrical training to people in difficulty in Barcelona as
well as in Europe and South America, using educative programmes in prison environments. TransFORMAS has
put in place training programmes in theatre, photography and film and puppetry in a mixed prison in Barcelona.
TransFORMAS is involved in the European teatroDENTRO project, promoting meetings and exchanges of
methods with other European partners. In 2008, the association became an associate member of the EUROsocial
(Education) consortium and now sends experts to set up training courses combining theatre and education in
the region’s prisons. It works with the ministries of education in Argentina, Paraguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador
and Colombia. Its research focuses on the relationship between stage and audiovisual arts and social transformation
by placing the individual at the centre of its work, with a significant ensuing effect on the community. Its
main project, teatroDENTRO, is a production and distribution space for theatre and film housed in the training
workshop at the Quatre Camins Prison in Barcelona.
> www.transformas.es
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