The Melting Plot project in Turin
Today and tomorrow (12th and 13th of April), six of the nine artists —three writers, three musicians and three visual artists— selected from Vienna, Madrid and Turin will be creating their first performing story in Le Founderie Limone
Since the early morning, Turin has become the first European stage for the first Melting Plot creative challenge. This evening, Abraham Boba (musician), Marta Pastorino (writer) and Michaela Schwentner (visual artist) as well as tomorrow evening Max Carletti (musician), Sandra Gugic (writer) and Maya Watanabe (visual artist) will perform a story through a reading accompanied by a combination of live music and images in Le Founderie Limone, an old artisanal foundry of bronze, aluminum and cast iron that became, in the early nineties, an «arts factory» for the production of theater performances thanks to its relationship with Teatro Stabile di Torino.
The Melting Plot project is a cultural European initiative proposed and organized by Escuela de Escritores (Madrid), Scuola Holden (Turin) and Schule für dichtung (Vienna) along with the support of the EACWP and the Culture Program of the European Union. As it has been conceived, the project encourages the exchange of different fields of artistic creativity and cultural identities. For this reason, the performances resulting from each event will be created mainly by improvisation, after a moment of discussion and comparison between the artists. Freedom of action will mind the constraints of reciprocal respect and understanding for the artistic work created by each artist in order to favor the final outcome presented. All the performances will be held in the writers’ mother language and subtitled in the local language for the audience.

The artists will have together a full city experience by walking around, getting to know each other, enjoying and discovering streets, sights, parks, markets, squares, corners, bars and bridges. Nevertheless, each city not only will host the different groups of artists but will be also the inspiring wellspring of the final artworks. In order words, Turin, Vienna and Madrid will be told in a melting plot key. Each city will be recreated by blending literature, music and images. The project will take place in Vienna on the 23rd of May in the Palais Kabelwerk and on the 27th and 28th of June in Matadero Madrid.
All the participants involved in the development process of the project are young and talented artists, coming from different countries. In fact, Melting Plot as a multidisciplinary initiative has aimed to both discover new talents and create a web of artistic collaborations.
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The six artists in Turin
12th of April


MARTA PASTORINO. WRITER born in Genoa in 1978. She lives and works in Turin where she collaborate with the Scuola Holden for workshop of creative writing and storytelling. In February 2013 she published her first novel, “Il Primo gesto”. She published several short stories in different anthologies (“Nuovi Argomenti”, 2012, Sole 24 ore , 2012; “Terre di Mezzo”, 2009; “Meridiano Zero”, 2004; “Effetti collaterali”, Meridiano zero, 2006). She also worked for theatre with the company “blucin Que”, writing for them the play APEREGINA (Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Torino 2010). She worked for the contemporary art museum “Fondazione Merz”.

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13th of April


SANDRA GUGIC. WRITER born 1976 in Vienna, has Serbian roots but grew up in Austria. Playwright, screenwriter, prose writer, poet and graphic designer. Studied creative writing at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, at the German Literature Institute’s Creative Writing Program in Leipzig (Germany) and at the Vienna Poetry School. Awards include the Literature Award for Writing Between Cultures of the Edition EXIL (Vienna) in 2008 and a scholarship at the Festival of German Literature/Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2009. Winner of the Open Mike Berlin 2012 (literary competition for young German-speaking writers). Numerous publications in literary magazines (including Volltext, kolik and Lichtungen) and anthologies. As a playwright, she was invited to work at Austrian and German theaters such as the Vienna Volkstheater, Garage X, Schauspielhaus Essen, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, and the Centraltheater Leipzig. In 2012, her latest play Die Totalvernutzung der Welt (“The Total Exploitation of the World“) was shown at the Authors Competition at Schauspielhaus Essen (Germany).

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