In Diversity Onlus

National Network
Italie
Address

corso del popolo 117
30172 Venice
Italie

Telephone
3470986606
E-Mail
info@fortinfest.org
E-Mail (2)
inndiversity@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1999
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Environment/Sustainable development
  4. Gender
  5. Heritage
  6. Human rights
  7. International/Cultural relations
  8. Research
  9. Youth and education
General Information
In Diversity Onlus is a organisation born in 1999 as Alif Onlus, a religious organisation that was promoting the making of a Mosque in Venice, once realised the objective the organisation changed its aims to promote the opening of a experimental centre of intercultural dialogue, in 2016 we opened up the range of the organisation aims and we starting the realization of FORT in FEST. FORT in FEST is a festival and a platform for the expression of cultural diversity and the intercultural dialogue, in a open process of community building. It take places in former military sites surrounding Venice, symbolic places that could help to deconstruct the concept of the enemy and the stranger giving an opportunity to meet and discover the diversity of cultures present in the metropolis of Venice, the causes of migrations, the driving forces of climatic changes and the impacts on local communities and indigenous people, the interdependences of the global-local life styles and system of agriculture and the global struggle for food sovereignty of the grassroots peasant movements La Via Campesina.
Mission and Objectives

In Diversity ONLUS operates to sustain and valorise diversity, social justice through cultural activities and innovative services to solve difficult situations of social and psycho physical diseases such as loneliness disabilities and poverty with experimental methods such as paths of art therapy, theatre of the oppressed, intercultural theatre and the promotion of communitarian ecologically sustainable life styles. From 2016 organiser of the Fort in Fest: festival of cultural diversity inclusion through arts for social change http://www.fortinfest.org/
 
The research in the long run aims to let the cultural minorities  present in Veneto express and have room to carry out their programmation on self organisation principles, letting new indipendent performers to emerge.
*Promotion and sustain the artistic realitiies present on the territory and in the fortresses strenghtening their notority and specificity.
*Activation of processes of care and attention on the nowadays abandoned former military sites starting new processes and youngers protagonism in solidarity.
* Pursuing an idea of open and caring society to the topics of natural biodiversity and welcoming the cultural human and natural diversities.
*Awarness and sensibilisation about the performative culture as an happening and a moment of social intercultural confrontation.
* to favour the access to culture in the most peripheric areas of the metropolitan city.
*to favour the intergenerational trasmission of active citizenship’ competences necessary to guarantee the fruition of historical and artistic places.
* to favour the emersion of indipendent artistic production and social innovation competences as catalysers of processes of societal change.
*to offer the opportunity of augmenting the consciousness and deepen the information about topics of global and local relevance, that causes the change of our society composition.
*to offer the opportunity of augmenting the consciousness and deepen the information about topics of global and local relevance, that causes the change of our society composition. 
• Intervene on the phenomenon of social marginalisation, or the lack of familiar network and assistance networks tht affect the most fragile subjects. To reweave the plot of social bounds at the neighborhood and metropolitan scale.
• Incentivate the access of youngers to the traditional jobs and to the principles and techniques that favour the increase of biodiversity
• Opening of new spaces of sperimentation and cultural production in network, for instance by opening neighborhood’s center where it will be possible to work in multidisciplinar sense to the construction of new meaning of active inclusive citizenship and reflect on the cultural evolution in the contemporary metropolis.
• Participatory planning and programming Pianificazione e programmazione  towards the creation of a solidarity creative cultural district. The network collaboration will help in thelong period to realise the scenario of a evolute cultural district, to valorise the cultural excellence , and lead to the creation of new forms of community entrepreneurships, to valorise territories throughout te promotion of sustainable cultural turism and the realisation of a integrated and shared landscape project between different subject
 
 
 

Main Projects / Activities

FORT in FEST is a festival and a platform for the expression of cultural diversity and the intercultural dialogue, in a open process of community building. It take places in former military sites surrounding Venice, symbolic places that could help to deconstruct the concept of the enemy and the stranger giving an opportunity to meet and discover the diversity of cultures present in the metropolis of Venice, the causes of migrations, the driving forces of climatic changes and the impacts on local communities and indigenous people, the interdependences of the global-local life styles and system of agriculture and the global struggle for food sovereignty of the grassroots peasant movements La Via Campesina.
 
 

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

 
We like to think globally and act locally promoting process of cultural evolution at the small scale, we are actually dealing with the promotion of social inclusion of cultural diversity in territories that resist to the transformation of our societies in a multicultural way, promoting intercultural dialogue and knowledge of the rich variety of communities present in the metropolitan area of Venice. In this light to develop international ties in between the countries of emigration and immigration and their interdependencies is of extreme relevance

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We would like to work on the Euro Mediterranean relationships in order to develop project of cooperation and intercultural dialogue. We are based in Venice a cities with an acient cultures that was shaped by the contaminations with diverse civilizations in millenia of history, we would like to valorize this heritage of peace and diversity.

Contact (1) Full Name
Alessandra Manzini
Job Title
project manager, environmental and cultural planner
Head of the organisation
Alessandra Manzini
Contact (2) Full Name
Marianna Biadene
Job Title (2)
Art Director, artist, India-Italia intercultural dialogue