Training Course for Educators
The training course will bring together five educators from each of the following countries: Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Portugal.
The main focus of the training will be the CiMov methodology, developed by CINEMA VEKKIO (CVK). Participants will be introduced to its core techniques, tools, and approaches designed to actively engage young people in expressing their needs, raising questions, and identifying shared solutions at the local level.
Throughout the training, educators will gain in-depth practical experience with the methodology and explore how to effectively replicate and adapt it within their own local contexts when working with young people.
Objectives:
- To adopt the CiMov methodology, enabling young people to express their needs and questions and collaboratively identify shared solutions.
- To train participants on the informed and correct use of social media, navigating today’s difficulties with online disinformation.
- To acquire basic podcast-making skills.
- To transfer this knowledge to young people.
CULTURA IN MOVIMENTO – CULTURE IN MOTION
ARCI CINEMA VEKKIO APS
Culture in Motion aims to circulate cultural content in rural and/or urban peripheral settings through audiovisual installations, events, and performances. A traveling van and cultural educators-mediators “move toward,” “meet” children, youth, and adults in an area, involving them in planning and organizing cultural activities on topics of interest to them and in significant locations chosen by them. The approach that is intended to be promoted is therefore participatory, inclusive, and bottom-up. It is intended to apply the concept of street education to culture, that is, to bring cultural work back among the people, to re-literate us socially, make us aware of our condition, help us understand problems, and develop actions and values.
What Culture in Motion proposes:
- A traveling van
– The tool that allows us to reach territories is a van that contains inside it all the necessary for conducting cultural activities (books, films, audio speakers, tarpaulin and video projector, mobile radio station, …). The van does not carry pre-packaged culture but can be considered an “antenna” that intercepts the needs of a territory and provides tools for “creating” cultural activities.
- The involvement of local promoters
– A group of young people and adults will be the promoters of an inquiry into their local area, aimed at investigating what the sense of community is today and defining the fundamental issues that touch people’s lives, issues on which the entire community will be brought to reflect through cultural activity.
– The children, also understood as active members of a community, will be involved in a series of workshops aimed at reflecting on the collective and aggregative spaces of their own territory and on the choice of the physical location to which to take the van and thus the final event.
- Cultural activities in the area
– The whole community gathers in the square to take part in various organized cultural activities, activities for children and adults. The event is together restitution of the journey made with the “local promoters,” cultural proposal, and community celebration. Cultural activities may range from book or comic book presentations to concerts, from theater performances to animated readings and readings, and from film or documentary screenings to exhibitions.
The training will take place in Corneliano d’Alba, Province of Cuneo, Italy, near Turin. On the evening of 4th May, there will be a guided tour of the Cinema Vekkio facility. The training sessions will be held on 5th May and the morning of 6th May, with participant departures later on the same day.
A toolkit for educators will be developed (by all partners together) after the conclusion of this activity, containing all techniques, tools and thoughts developed during this training.
Dates: 4-6 May 2026
Organizer: CIRCOLO CINEMA VEKKIO
For more information, please refer to the infokit.
🟣 Accommodation and transportation will be fully arranged and booked by the organizers, Circolo Cinema Vekkio, at the beginning of March.
Apply until 23 February 2026
Cultural Objects
The goal of Culture in Motion is to involve boys and girls from a given area in a playful inquiry that highlights the characteristics, dynamics, relationships, and problems of that area, through the eyes of those who live it daily.
The themes that emerge from the inquiry, the stories that the boys tell, are translated into a cultural key, not only through the organization of a public, community event but also through the creation of a cultural and artistic object.
Rap – Video – BookTrailer – Comics – Theater – Kamishibai – WebCast- Visual Arts are the techniques that after a brief and initial technical training allow us to dissect and elaborate on the themes that emerge from the stories and inquiry. Writing a rap text, a small video, making a comic strip and a theatrical flash mob are the practical forms of returning the issues that emerged during the final public event.
Art and Culture have the function of first emancipation “from below” from the knots and possible problems that emerged in the research phase and serve to produce an imaginary of real and factual change, to be acted upon in the Community and collectively.
What are these objects? They are community cultural products, created by the youth of a certain territory to highlight characteristics, dynamics, relationships, and problems of that territory, through the eyes of those who live it daily. In a nutshell, they are the practical forms of returning the issues that have emerged during the various paths taken by the Van.