Ass. MOVIMENTAZIONI

“Movimentazioni” is a cultural, social promotion oriented no profit association. It was born in 2003, and on April 2006 we opened a little association bookshop, while in 2009 we inaugurated a bigger new center, more suitable for our activities. It’s a bookcafè where several daily activities take place and authors can present their works. The association “Movimentazioni” works in Pescara, a city placed on the coast of the region Abruzzo that is a cultural and commercial focus for all the region. Pescara is for Abruzzo a “bridge-city” among the coastal area, the internal areas (mountains are 50 km far from Pescara), the nearest italian regions (Puglia, Marche, Molise) and european countries at the other side of the see (balkan area). Because of its central and strategic position, Pescara is a dinamic city, ready for the change, the innovation and for commercial, cultural and social exchanges. On our territory there is also the “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University. The schools of architectur, economy, managerial sciencies and foreing languages and literature are in Pescara; the schools of medicine, literature, psychology, geology, pharmacy, social sciencies are in the near city of Chieti. The university gathers a growing number of students coming from all the region and from the near regions. Starting from this analysis we can assert that in the city of Pescara there is a growing visability of youths and an increase of clubs, meeting-places and recreational and cultural initiatives. There is more need of sociality, but often there are only activities of amusement and escapism. Pescara never developed “youth policies” and local managers are used to consider youths only as users or likely voters and not as real protagonist of city life in all his aspects. Our activities focus on: • SOCIAL PROMOTION; • YOUTH AND CITIZENSHIP (democracy, peace, involvement, cooperation, urban cultures and youth languages); • CULTURE (audiovisual, art, cinema, publishing and book, indie music); • COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; • ASSOCIATIVE BOOKSHOP; • CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD (creative and educational workshops, invitation to reading, fairy tales recitals) We also organize training and specializing courses in the areas of our competence: • course in movie projection, • course in organization of events and cultural journalism (without public fund); • course in reading out for the adults; • Promotion and organization of package tours for culture events (exhibitions, concerts, festivals). Our main activities are: • “E-Dotto-officina di creatività” workshops for children to encourage them to read, to respect the environment and to teach them the value of peace through plays and creative activities; • “Etnolab” a project for the spread of African and Balkan cultures ended on June 2010. This project was financed by the action 1.2 of the program “Youth in Action”. • INDIEROCKET FESTIVAL, a festival of indie music that has reached its 8th edition, with the performance of bands from all over the world, such as Australia, Chile, US, UK, France, Slovenia, Spain, Japan, Greece, Germany. • Italian language course for immigrants; • Coordinating, tutoring and realizing of European and national projects.