The Italian Retirees Union of Emilia-Romagna

Tomax Teatro deals with theatrical productions, video production and training. Theater courses in Bologna are divided according to age and individual experiences. For Tomax Teatro, the first objective is to convey the wonder of human exchange through art, by searching for one's roots, beyond social masks, origin, ethnicity and religion.
Tomax Teatro provides a free course of 3 months (12 meetings) for retired people. Through creative writing, the psychological and cognitive aspects of each individual participant are enhanced. Participants learn to “tell” their stories, to transform private life experiences into shared stories. They develop the ability to unravel the skein of confusing memories and to identify the highlights of each story and then translate them first into visual images and then into usable and shareable writing. Through the theater they go on to work on the body, on physicality and on sociality: the creation of the working group is an essential condition for being able to get involved without fear of judgment and to abandon the intimate dimension of writing and arrive at that of the theater.