We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with the students and teachers of Liceo Scientifico Banzi, one of the most progressive and vibrant high schools of Salento, where Free Home has been invited to expand the learning through our artistic approach, and reinforce community ties within the school, the neighborhood and the social fabric of the city.

To reach younger learners in their formative years, to contribute to their curiosity, their personal and collective quests, to collaborate with their teachers in widening the imagination, experimenting with creative ways of knowing, exploring more actively social issues and engaging in embodied practices -is a wonderful new challenge and a great opportunity for our own on-going learning journey!

Thriving to bring together art, pedagogy and community, Free Home goes back to school, reclaiming the learning in both formal and informal environment, questioning issues of emplacement and displacement, spaces of inclusion and exclusion, starting from  our bodies, interrogating our ways of seeing and our privileges.

The program will include  workshops, student -led research and  activities, focus groups with teachers around inclusive, horizontal, and alternative pedagogies, a series of talks and seminars on human and environmental rights, on the production of knowledge in the age of fake news, walks into the city, and a final festival to celebrate our knowledge,

Corpi e anticorpi.

Workshop of dance, theater-movement and somatic practices led by Barbara Toma, dancer, choreographer and pedagogue open to students and young newcomers part of the Sprar, Gruppo Umano Solidarieta’.

How can we boost the immune system in our (social) body?

How can we learn with, within and beyond our differences?

Esplorazioni del reale. 

MUUD, a collective of filmmakers who explore reality through a poetic lens, will lead a workshop on documentary filmmaking to let  stories emerge from the students and their inquiries in the 167 B neighbourhood, where the Banzi High School is located. After an introduction of the audio-visual language, a phase of research and script-writing, the students will produce some video-diaries and share them with the school community.

CORPI& ANTI-CORPI Festival: La festa dei saperi condivisi 

Dec 20-23, 2019

Organized by the Banzis’ students in collaboration with Free Home

Workshops, performances, film screening, food, music, soilidarity xmas (bargain and fair market).

Special guests Chto Delat art collective: premiere of People of Flour, Salt, and Water, a film-process realized during Free Home University Summer Session 2019 in Castiglione d’Otranto.

Screening of A Night in Social Media, followed by discussion with artists and a participatory workshop on technologies and fake news in the age of post-truth.