So Close is a project by Cherimus and Espace Mass’art (Tunis), as part of the Tandem / Shaml – Cultural Managers Exchange program, an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), MitOst (Berlin), Al Mawred Al Thaqafy (Cairo) and Anadolu Kültür (Istanbul), with the support of Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), DOEN Foundation (Netherlands) and Mimeta (Norway).
The name of the project recalls the geographical proximity of the two associations as well as the need to imagine projects together despite the difficulties of exchange between cultural initiatives between the two countries, so close and so far at the same time, separated by a sea that wants to be a limit. impassable rather than a place for discussion and encounter.
The project freely uses artistic and theatrical workshops, music and improvisation to tell new stories that focus on the children of the neighborhood of El Omrane (Tunis) and the children of Perdaxius (Sardinia).
Salah Hammouda, Hatem Boukesra and Sawsan Louati of Mass’Art, together with Matteo Rubbi, Andrea Rossi, Emiliana Sabiu and Carlo Spiga of Cherimus, carried out two weeks of workshops in Tunis (December 2014) and Perdaxius (March 2015). From the Tunis workshops was born an original song created by children and from the collaboration between the musicians Maurizio Marzo and Francesco Medda (Cagliari) and Amin and Aymen Makni (Tunis) entitled Aslema / Beslema. On the other hand, in Sardinia, the Teatro Forum show in Perdaxius was born based on the stories of the young people who participated in the workshops that debuted on March 18, 2015 in the town’s oratory.
The musicians Maurizio Marzo, Francesco Medda, Amin Makni and Aymen Makni created the soundtrack of the show.
