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Multicultural and creative workshops with the Cultural Library
18 July @ 10:00 – 18:00
📍 Cascia, Piazzale della Pace 🕤 Hours 10:00/13:00 – 16:00/18:00 🎟️ Free entry
👩🎨 Cultural Library is an intercultural initiative created by Ars mundi Aps that promotes dialogue between cultures through art workshops, performances, storytelling and participatory activities.
People from different backgrounds share knowledge, daily rituals, music, crafts and traditions, creating a space for encounter based on listening and co-creation.
| TIME | WORKSHOP |
| 10:00/11:00 | 🎨 Harmony and Chaos, a New Balance, My Own An art therapy workshop based on collage, inviting participants to reflect on the tensions between order and disorder in everyday life. Through creativity, each participant will be able to explore new possibilities for personal balance. |
| 10:00/11:00 | 🫘 Coffee Mundi A sensory journey into the world of speciality coffee. Through aromas, flavours and stories, the workshop offers the opportunity to explore coffee as cultural heritage, a social experience and a practice of mindfulness. |
| 10:00/11:00 | 🫂 Encounters in Motion What happens when we connect with others through our bodies? Through movement, play and listening to one another, this workshop offers an experience of self-discovery and discovery of others, emphasising non-verbal communication and relational creativity. |
| 11:00/12:00 | 🏔️Pachamama, map of the soul Inspired by the Kichwa tradition of Ecuador, a creative workshop to draw your inner map through painting. |
| 11:00/12:00 | 🥃 Jars – Glass Suitcases A storytelling workshop that uses food, scents and memories as narrative tools. Through the sharing of personal stories, participants explore the link between memory, belonging and culture. |
| 12:00/13:00 | 🖌️ Ancient Signs, New Voices An experiential workshop dedicated to calligraphy and symbols from Taiwanese tradition. Through movement, mark-making and artistic experimentation, participants will discover how writing can be transformed into images, expression and personal narratives. |
| 12:00/13:00 | 🪆 MatrioskArt – A World Inside A creative experience inspired by the tradition of matryoshka dolls, a symbol of identity, belonging and the meeting of cultures. Through colours, decorations and personal symbols, each participant will create their own matryoshka, telling their own story, sharing their roots and the values they hold dear. A participatory art workshop that celebrates diversity as a source of richness and promotes dialogue, mutual understanding and the building of a culture of peace. |
| 15:00/18:00 | 🏳️🌈 Faces of Peace: creative upcycling workshop This workshop will be a moment of reflection, in which to look at oneself without judgement, but with love. Giving a second life to so many materials will symbolise our care for the planet that sustains us. Many faces, close to one another, which only together create the symbol of peace, represent the deep bond that unites all peoples within a single human identity. |
| 16:00/17:00 | 🧵 Through the Weaves of Fabric A participatory workshop weaving together autobiographical storytelling, fabrics, images and movement. Inspired by Iranian tradition, it invites participants to reflect on themes of identity, memory and the connections between people. |
| 16:00/17:00 | 🫖 Scents of the East An immersive experience introducing participants to Taiwanese tea culture through rituals, gestures and mindful tasting. An invitation to slow down, listen and share a moment of intercultural exchange. |
| 17:00/18:00 | 🎤 Intercultural networking / informal space An informal space for meeting, exchanging ideas and sharing, where participants from different countries can get to know one another and tell their stories through what best represents them: a personal talent, a story, a piece of music, a dance, a recipe, a symbolic object or a tradition from their own country. An open and convivial occasion to celebrate cultural diversity, forge new connections and discover how much each person can contribute to building a shared experience. |
