Title
Pollicino
Main organization
C.A.T. Cooperativa Sociale
Partners/Supporters
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Sponsor/Funds programme
Funded over the years by UFM Ser.T. B of ASL 10 in Florence, Center for Minority Justice in Florence, foundation Monte dei Paschi di Siena, foundation Autostrade, Tuscany region.
Target
minors inside IPM Meucci in Florence
Objectives
Rap music lab aimed at providing minors with expressive and relational skills in detention.
Operational context
IPM Firenze
Main activities
The operators supported the juveniles in a work of rethinking of their own life experiences through the writing of lyrics that were played and recorded. The project produced three hip-hop music CDs written and played by the boys in the institute, “Room XXVI” in 2009, “Ke ne sai” in 2011 e “Senza Ali” in 2013.
The last CD “Senza ali” (No wings) contains a selection of the 17 best tracks featured with boys between 2011 and 2012. It's a cd that brings out the stories of these guys out of prison. Because the jail is a black hole, a place removed by conscience. "No Wings" is a record with their stories, love and anger stories , childhood denied, photographs of two worlds, the one on the street and the jail, which few really know. They are real, instant stories, talked about with the raw language of the road, the language and the dialect of origin.
"Keep it Real!", Rappers say. This is "real" and without censures.
Duration
from 2007 to 2013 (24 month)
Attachments
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