SCT CENTRE | COREP (Coordinator - Italy)

COREP is a non-profit consortium founded in 1987. Its main fields of activities are: specialised and high-level advanced training, innovation support and services for Consortium Members.

In the field of education and training, COREP:

  • organises university masters courses, aimed at young graduates and professionals;
  • proposes life-long education activities to update the skills of professionals and researchers;
  • promotes joint activities between businesses, local Authorities and Universities within the framework of special projects;
  • participates in European projects, both as a partner and as a coordinator.

Within its activity, Corep manages the SCT - Social Community Theatre Centre, born in 2014 in collaboration with University of Turin and Teatro Popolare Europeo. 

SCT Centre sums up different know-hows in scientific, artistic, cultural and management fields. It is based on Italian cultural and artistic heritage made of creativity, research and relationships and focuses on the development of plural communities and inclusive societies.

SCT Centre has an innovative and multidisciplinar methodology created by Alessandro Pontremoli and Alessandra Ghiglione in 2000. Their vision is centered on the efficacy of theatre and performing arts on human development, as they believe art is a tool to increase personal, professional and community well-being. 

Maurizio Bertolini - Creator and project manager of the Project “TIM – Theatre in Mathematics”. Expert of social theatre, creative mathematician, ICT expert. Has a Master Degree in Social and Community Theatre at the University of Turin, in 2006. He works in the Social and Community Theatre Centre as a creator, coordinator, trainer and Social and Community Theatre operator in national and international projects in the field of education, culture, emergency contexts and cooperation. He created Mathemart, a methodology for teaching Mathematics in the Social and Community Theatre, which he experimented in Italy and Europe. He teaches in the course “Educational and Social Theatre” in the Education Department of the University of Turin. He has been technological manager in the european project Caravan Next (Creative Europe), a Social and Community Theatre project with 13 international partners which operated in 16 european countries. He collaborated with the IOM (International Organization for Migration), UNAOC (United Nations Alliance for Civilization), and the NGO CIFA and CCM.

Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione - director and creator of the Social and Community Theatre Centre | University of Turin (SCT Centre | Unito), she is a community theatre expert. Adjunct Professor first in Milan and Brescia, since 2004 at the University of Turin, she is creator, director and project manager of applied research projects, cultural and social projects on performing arts, wellbeing and inclusive societies. She has also worked as dramatist in Narrative Theatre and in Italian Contemporary Theatre. In 2004 she founded Teatro Popolare Europeo -artistic partner of University of Turin – and directed more than 20 professional artistic performances and several community theatre projects in rural and urban areas, hospital and health facilities, gender groups, disabilities groups, etc. Consultant and supervisor of national and international programs about plural communities, human rights and gender issue, audience development and cultural memory, mental health and wellbeing; she is a trainer on capacity building and team building for national and international public and private institutions.
 

Viola Zangirolami - She is a Social and Community Theatre operator, a researcher and an actress, expert in physical theatre and singing. She has a diploma in Performing Arts (Atelier Teatro Fisico, Torino) and vocal coaching (Istituto Mod.A.I., Torino). She has studied with Philip Radice (Le Coq method), Marco Farinella, Oskar Boldre (circle singing). She has acted nationwide as a freelance with the company Chiara e Viola, developing theatre and television shows; with Action Theatre in English, also providing theatre workshops in English; with the musical theatre company BIT, with the direction of Jon Kellam (superdrama technique). Since 2018 she has been working with Social Community Theatre Centre, particularly on the theme of theatre and STEM subjects with the projects TIM and MatemACT, writing and staging the shows Math Scare Boom! and Contaci!, about maths. 
 

Elena Cangemi - She works in the Social and Community Theatre Centre of Turin as a co-trainer, tutor, management support and Social and Community Theatre operator in national and international projects in the field of education and culture. She has a background in language studies, drama in education, language pedagogy and social work.
 

Fabiana Re - She works in the Social Community Theatre Centre of Turin as project assistant and grant writer. She has a background in Cultural Economics and has been trained in the Social and Community Theatre Methodology.