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Performing Possibility

Performing Possibility is a European youth project that brought together young people and cultural organisations from Ireland and Italy to reflect on what it means to live in Europe today. Through theatre, digital creativity and shared experience, participants explored ideas of belonging, identity and community across borders. This conversation captures voices from one of the project’s international exchanges in Bologna, bringing together perspectives from Italy, Ireland and Afghanistan. Speaking together are Brenda Musiani (Opera di Padre Marella), Rowan Mohan (YMCA Cork), and Om Hani and Hosna Yalani, two young sisters now living in Italy. Their dialogue reflects the spirit of The Legend of Europa : listening across cultures, sharing lived experiences, and imagining a more inclusive European future. Brenda:  I will start with some questions. What did you expect from the project? What was your idea of the project at the beginning?  Rowan:  I think it was a way of captu...
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The Legend of Europa: a video glimpse of the first step

  A short film by Thomas Briat is now online, offering the first insight into The Legend of Europa, our collaborative theatre project funded by the European Union as part of Creative Europe . This first episode opens a journey that blends epic storytelling with contemporary reflection, bringing viewers to the very roots of European civilization. The video documents the initial stage of the creative process during the first gathering of artists at Sligo’s Factory Performance Space , held from May 12 to 18, 2025. Over seven days, artists from diverse countries and cultural backgrounds came together to share languages, perspectives, and creative practices. They explored classical Greek narratives in relation to contemporary social and political realities, focusing on themes of myth, migration, and the evolving identities of Europe. Through collective exercises, improvisation, and individual presentations inspired by classical art, participants experimented with new forms of storytel...
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Urban Bodies

I pick up the thread of the story from my dear colleague Shadaan Felfeli, who brought us the diary from Sligo . It is now my task to tell you about the second phase of the project , this time “at home,” in Italy , from July 21 to 27, at the Teatro dell’Argine headquarters, the ITC Teatro of San Lazzaro. From the very start, I want to thank the entire staff of Teatro dell’Argine for their extraordinary hospitality and warm welcome. I am Sanam Naderi , Cre-Actor of the Italian group. Meeting the group again after almost two months — since May, when we had parted with great joy in Sligo — and seeing each other once more, full of enthusiasm , in Bologna, was very moving . The absence of the Brazilian actress from the Irish group, Tatiana dos Santos , in this second phase was a hard blow. The long waiting times for the Irish residence permit , which would allow her to leave and re-enter the country without problems, prevented her from being with us in this phase. Her absence — just lik...
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The Myth of Europa, the Myth of Europe

Preparing the Creative Workshop in Bologna curated by Teatro dell’Argine Here in Athens, we do things this way. Our government favours the many instead of the few: that is why it is called a democracy. [...] Our laws provide equal justice for all [...] and poverty is no obstacle [...] We are free to live exactly as we please [...] Our city is open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner. Here in Athens, we do things this way. — Pericles, Speech to the Athenians on Democracy, 431 BCE Europa and Athens The Bologna — more precisely San Lazzaro — session of The Legend of Europa will draw inspiration from the part of the myth that unfolds in and around the city of Athens. King Aegeus has made a terrible pact with another king, Minos: to avoid the destruction of his city, he agrees to send every year seven young men and seven young women to Crete, to be sacrificed to the monster held in the Labyrinth of Knossos — the Minotaur. This creature, called Asterion, is none other than the son ...
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