MICROCOSMI began as a personal journey that, starting with a creative spark, traverses the microcosm of each person’s life to arrive at writing: through the thematic and emotional impulses provided by Firenza Guidi, participants are encouraged to find their own inner, original and sometimes unheard voice. This is why openness is the founding principle of MICROCOSMI: openness to anyone who wants to write, even if they have never written before.
Openness to exploring multiple writing styles, from monologue to fiction, from poetry to rap, from stream of consciousness to documentary text, from short story to drama; openness to a new and different path, detached from the fixed rules of theoretical methodology, to find in practice an immediate and spontaneous way to words that are a transcription of each person’s most authentic and individual sound. The intensive format of MICROCOSMI, which takes place over ten hours in a single day, aims to create an experience that maintains the same vital energy for a long time and enhances participants’ awareness and textual exploration through a full immersion in the world of writing.
The first session of the creative writing workshop will culminate at the Frantoio on Sunday 16 October at 9.30 pm, during the regular evening event entitled MICROFONI APERTI, an initiative designed to give a voice to those who love to write, where participants and anyone else can read their creative pieces to an audience of listeners.
MICROCOSMI unfolds over three intensive sessions that form a structured programme, taking place over three days: 16 October and 4 December 2011, and 22 January 2012. The workshop is open to all, and registration is open until 6 pm on Saturday 15 October.
Firenza Guidi conceived the first creative writing workshop in 2001. A director, author and director of Elan Frantoio, she has for years been producing theatre productions and films inspired by events, memories and phenomena linked to both the local and universal spheres. Elan Frantoio’s activities are guided by the philosophy of staging new plays: new because the texts and stage designs are unpublished, or new because they are by contemporary authors never before performed in our country.
The next event, on 23 October 2011, is the national premiere of BAGLADY, a monologue performed by Laura Bencini and directed by Firenza Guidi, based on the play by Frank McGuinness, a contemporary Irish author never before translated in Italy. BAGLADY will continue Firenza Guidi’s exploration of madness as a vehicle for memories and a window through which to observe the language of reality beyond conventions.