Workshop Sottobanco with Tea Andreoletti

Workshop
SOTTOBANCO
Self-managed school of sex and relationship education

A project by Festival ORLANDO, conceived and delivered by Tea Andreoletti in collaboration with Mauro Fapanni

Venue, dates and times:
11 March, 4.00–6.00 pm > MAT – Sala Legrenzi, Via Clara Maffei 3, Clusone
25 March, 4.00–6.00 pm > MAT – Sala Legrenzi, Via Clara Maffei 3, Clusone
15 April, 4.00–6.00 pm > MAT – Sala Legrenzi, Via Clara Maffei 3, Clusone
27 April, 4.00–6.00 pm > Piazza della Libertà, Bergamo

For the past three years, Festival ORLANDO has welcomed a fictional institution: after Un’Anagrafe Fantastica in 2024 and the Ministero del Fallimento in 2025, this year the artist Tea Andreoletti was commissioned to create a new imaginary institution, which has taken shape as Sottobanco.

At a time when schools struggle to remain free spaces capable of educating for relationships, the project imagines that, under the desk, practices of care, exercises in empathy and tools for consent might circulate.

Sottobanco is a pathway for young people aged between sixteen and eighteen from the Alta Valle Seriana and Romano di Lombardia. Through dialogue and contemporary artistic practices, participants explore feelings, emotions, relationships, body, identity and pleasure, leading to the shared creation of a participatory performance to be presented during Festival ORLANDO in Bergamo. The project unfolds within a safe, free and non-judgemental space, born from the urgency of caring for relationships in a present marked by violence and inequality.

The project is supported by Oxfam Italia and the European Union through the Connecting Spheres call. Delivered in collaboration with Cooperativa Sociale Itaca and Cap24020 ETS, with the patronage of the Municipality of Clusone.

INFO
Are you aged between 16 and 18, living in the Alta Val Seriana, and would you like to take part? Register by 9 March via the dedicated link.

Participation is free, and a free shuttle service from Clusone will be provided for the meetings in Bergamo. The performance will take place in Bergamo on 9 and 10 May. For further information, please call +39 320 7720646.

TEA ANDREOLETTI
Tea Andreoletti works with performance, participatory choreography, long-term processes and practices of collective memory to activate forms of co-responsibility and to experiment with collective processes.

Since 2020, the themes of her research have stemmed from the socio-political context of the Alta Valle Seriana, where she lives.

She has presented her work at festivals such as Baltic Circle, ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, Periferico and Barents Spektakel.