Having activated a series of Animation Cinema Workshops in Italian language was very important for the linguistic continuity of Italian children or children of Italians living in Hamburg.
After the last Workshop here in Hamburg, I found myself making many reflections on the meaning of this work, especially from the pedagogical and training point of view, retracing the steps of a journey that takes place in parallel on two culturally very different territories. geographically very distant: the Sicilian and the German. We started working with laboratories in Sicily, where we still very timidly find cultural situations in which to enter the laboratories, we did it and we continue to do so in the face of a thousand difficulties of various kinds.
In Germany, where this type of activity is widespread, the "Animation Cinema Workshop in Italian" represents a real novelty due to the fact that it takes place in Italian.
The animation cinema workshop in Italian has become for many children and parents an important appointment in Hamburg not only for the characteristics of the laboratory, which through the magic of animation allows objects, stories and characters to come to life, but also for the fact that the children who participate have the opportunity to work in Italian, tell stories in Italian while keeping the language active and having the opportunity to confront themselves with other children who, like them, are children of foreign cultures that have met and continue to meet .
Working in Italian also allows children to learn stories from authors such as Mario Lodi or Gianni Rodari or German authors translated into Italian, which helps children develop more and more ability to tell in the language inherited from their parents and to interpret the texts in two languages .
In this sense, the "nursery rhyme of colors" was very significant and symbolic in this last May Workshop, in which the meeting and mixing of different colors gave birth to new colors and shapes ...
