PROJECTS / LIVING BETTER

LIVING BETTER is a project dedicated to implementing strategies for the inclusiveness of the weaker segments of society. Starting from the fragilities of the migrant population regarding equal access to services, rights and opportunities, the project has developed several areas of intervention to meet the fragilities of all citizens, to find systemic and sustainable answers and to raise awareness of the culture of inclusiveness.



BILOURA is part of the network that created the project, within which it deals - in a cross-disciplinary manner with other partners - with relationship care and cultural impact.
In the first year and a half of the project BILOURA was involved in a territorial team building activity for the network, conducted through relational aesthetic psychodrama methodologies, in order to root the network of collaborations focusing on the relationships between the partners and the value of the personal input behind the work of each one.
In addition, BILOURA conducted a collective creation process, which led to the production of the video EMPÀTHIA - Città Immaginaria: an experiment in changing the narrative of inclusivity in the territory of Canavese, to bring to a wide and varied audience a stimulus for reflection on what people different in origin, skin colour, age, gender and sexual identity have in common, namely dreams, aspirations. LIVING BETTER aims to build an inclusive community around values and ethics.



The video was created to be used as an awareness-raising tool, by all who work in favour of inclusivity. You can find it at this link and freely show it at your events or use it for your formations:

 LIVING BETTER II

In the second edition of the project, for the years 2024-25, BILOURA continues its commitment to the care of the Network and collaborations, also increasing the internal team building of the partner institutions on the topics of cultural impact and intersectionality.
On the artistic side, it deploys a strategy of active involvement of the people directly affected by the project, namely the population with a migration background. A theatre workshop will involve them, at the same time as the local population, to give them protagonism, positive sociability and a voice on the project's themes: living and working. The result of the workshop will be 7 performances in public spaces in the Canavese region, to give visibility to the project's themes, people and activities, raising the community's awareness of the advantages of a more inclusive society for all.
Subsequently, from the reflections born in the workshop the Performing Arts Collective will produce a performance of LIVING BETTER, to take these important stories around Italy and spread the work done and the visions built together.

More about the LIVING BETTER project can be found here:

www.progettolivingbetter.it

LIVING BETTER is supported by the Foundation Compagnia di San Paolo in the framework of the project Territori Inclusivi (Inclusive Territories), and was developed thanks to a co-creation process promoted by IN.RE.TE Social Services Consortium, which operates in 42 municipalities in the Canavese territory. Various local organisations collaborated in the project: Associazione Mastropietro, Associazione Moabi, Associazione Pubblico-08, Associazione Senza Confini, Commissione Sinodale per la Diaconia, Ivrea Municipality, Cooperativa Orso, Cooperativa Pollicino, Cooperativa Zac!, CPIA TO4 (Centro Provinciale Istruzione Adulti), Croce Rossa Italiana Comitato di Ivrea ODV.