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The Festival dei 2Mondi now meets the world of schools every year, calling young people to the rediscovery of a cultural identity closely connected to the birth and development of the event. The initiatives proposed to the city's primary and secondary school children and young people have been structured according to age groups: the "The festival is us" project, theater education courses, school-to-work alternation and promotions on performances dedicated to young people.

The festival is us, in its eighth edition, is a project aimed to at all elementary school pupils in the area and is also intended to be an opportunity to rediscover the city through stories and memories, documents and archival material, but above all an opportunity for the young people who participate to visit the city with different eyes: squares that become stages, secret places from discover, churches dedicated to the performing arts, everyday places that become special, historic monuments transformed at the hands of artists, dark cellars as precious ateliers.

In previous editions there have been different themes: Knowledge of_ The Festival Professions _to make people reflect on how the different roles of those who have worked for the Festival have evolved, consolidating over the years, or transforming and giving rise to new skills and professionalism; the memory of Spoleto on the 50th anniversary of Sculptures in the City, the historic exhibition of contemporary art that in 1962 saw the City of Spoleto transformed into a "Museum City." The discovery of the Theater, the theme chosen for the last two editions, unveiled to young people the secrets and hidden corners of two of Spoleto's symbolic theaters, the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti and the Teatro Romano, in a journey that took them to back in time to learn, while having fun, the history of these places, to learn about their architecture and structure, to reconstruct the history of the Festival through the places in the city in which, from more than half a century, the event takes place.

The workshops, all having a predominantly playful approach, take the form of a game thus increasing the children's knowledge, enabling the development of perceptual skills, imagination, creativity and helping them to communicate, express themselves and become familiar with the theater, its parts and its history.

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The works (graphic material, audiovisual, musical, photographic, artifact) tell the Spoleto Festival in the contemporary perception of pupils: the idea is to collect feelings, emotions, reflections on the Festival through the eyes of children and young people, as part of a dedicated educational project to capture the identity elements of relationship between the territory and the event.