In collaboration with Teatro dell'Ortica and Fondazione Auxilium

2 CFU

Lecturer: Ilaria Piaggesi

Start: Monday 23 February 2026

Calendar: 36 hours of workshop (starting on 23/2 and ending on 13/7) on Mondays from 5pm to 7pm. A further 14 hours to be distributed 8 face-to-face and 6 individual work (three reports)

Where:at Locali Hub Marinelle, Piazza delle Marinelle (between Via Balbi and Via Pre)

Methods: in presence. The workshop has a limited number of participants (maximum 10 students).

To enrol go to the aulaweb https://2025.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=6467 and follow the directions.

The Social Theatre workshop involves the users of the Fondazione Auxilium-Cooperativa il Melograno and the students. It intends to offer students a first experience of social and community theatre techniques and provides a practical course based on body expression, storytelling, the autobiography of the subjects, and taking on the themes of oppression and violence. The workshop is aimed at the creation of a non-predetermined dramaturgy.

Laboratory schedule (at Locali Hub Marinelle, Piazza delle Marinelle)

• 23/2 Monday 5-7pm STUDENTS ONLY
• 9/3 Monday 5-7pm STUDENT GROUP START 
• 16/3 Monday 5-7pm
• 23/3 Monday 5-7pm
• 30/3 Monday 5-7 p.m.
• 13/4 Monday 5-7 p.m.
• 13/4 Monday 5-7 p.m.
• e5ff2fa1012id="e49776458c1fe3e9085f521debc17ce54">20/4 Monday 5-7pm
• 27/4 Monday 5-7pm
• 4/5 Monday 5-7pm
• 11/5 Monday 5-7pm
• 18/5 Monday 5-7pm
• 18/5 Monday 5-7pm
• 25/5 Monday 5-7pm
• 8/6 Monday 5-7pm
• 8/6 Monday 5-7pm
• 15/6 Monday 5-7 p.m.
• 22/6 Monday 5-7 p.m.
• 29/6 Monday 5-7pm
• 6/7 Monday 5-7pm
• 13/7 Monday 5-7pm19

Frontal lecture hours (hub Marinelle) STUDENTS/STUDENTS ONLY

• Monday 16/3 10-12 
• Monday 13/4 hrs 10-12
• Monday 11/5 hrs 10-12 
• Monday 8/6 hrs 10-12

1 CFU

Lecturer: Rajeev Badhan

Start date: March 2026

Calendar:to be determined

Mode: in-person. The course is open to a maximum of 25 students.

To register go to the classroomweb https://2025.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=6467 and follow the directions.

The workshop aims to provide students with an immersive experience in the theoretical knowledge and practical skills fundamental to the structural elements of theatre and performance design, providing key tools for the exploration of innovative and traditional stage construction techniques.

1 CFU 

Lecturer: Pier Maria Bocchi

Start: 18 March 2026

Time and location:5 meetings per week on Wednesdays from 1-4pm, Room 3 (Via Balbi 2)

Mode: in person.  The course is open to a maximum of 25 students.

To register go to the classroomweb https://2025.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=6467 and follow the directions.

The workshop aims to provide students with the necessary and indispensable tools for the correct formulation and communication of critical thinking.

During the lessons the practices of critical writing will be identified and analysed with particular reference to the forms of film criticism.
The students will be offered exercises in the writing, analysis and production of texts that differ in context, function and style (newspapers/magazines/dictionary/on-line).
Particular attention will be paid to the review, the queen form of criticism.

Part of the workshop will be dedicated to the creation of a film review in agreement with CircuitoCinema di Genova.

In collaboration with Teatro Carlo Felice

1 CFU

Lecturer: Luca Rossetto Casel 

Start: 6 March 2026

Time and location: 4 meetings on Fridays from 11am-3pm, classroom 8 (Via Balbi 2)

Mode: in person

To register go to the https://2025.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=6467 and follow the instructions.

The workshop focuses on the presentation of a number of titles from the opera repertoire, analysed and compared in relation to the linguistic and dramaturgical characteristics respectively adopted.
Through the musical reading of the chosen title, the workshop aims to provide an introduction to opera theatre and to develop active and conscious listening.

1 CFU 

Lecturer: Francesco Leprino (for contact: gransole@gransole.net)

Start: 27 February 2026

Time and location: 5 meetings on Fridays from 3pm to 6pm, Classroom 8 (Via Balbi 2)

Mode: in presence.

To register go to the aulaweb https://2025.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=6467 and follow the directions.

The aim of the workshop is to focus on the relationship between visual expressions, which refer to concrete reality, and the ineffable sound of music.

Instruments of the workshop will be musical, filmic and video-art quotations, through which to highlight the effects and affects that these linguistic crossings provoke on perception, reconstructing in a critical manner the creative processes and underlying communicative mechanisms. The aim of the workshop is to acquire a conscious awareness with respect to the fruition of the complex world of audiovisual languages.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Alberto Baschiera

Starting date: 30 March 2026

Time and place: the workshop will take place on Mondays, fortnightly, at the premises of the ICT Area - E-Learning, Multimedia and Web Tools Service - Methods and Contents Sector, piazza di S. Sabina 2 (staircase B, mezzanine floor) (where the Department of Languages is located).Sabina 2 (staircase B, mezzanine floor) (where the Department of Languages is located).

Methods: in presence.

To register go to aulaweb https://2025.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=6467 and follow the directions.

The workshop is part of the broader project Di Genova in Genova. Percorsi d'autore in città (formerly Genova infinita. Percorsi d'autore in città), promoted by the University of Genoa together with the Municipality of Genoa, and constitutes a stage of a broader educational and practical pathway that will see students directly involved in the realisation of various cultural itineraries (literary, cinematographic, musical) dedicated to the city of Genoa.

This course will focus on the preparation of audiovisual and multimedia content for the literary itinerary Genova del mondo, dedicated to the literary accounts of foreign authors on the city of Genoa, training the participants also on the methodological and operational level.

The face-to-face meetings will be used to discuss the issues addressed in the field, providing an opportunity for debate, problem solving exercises and cooperative work applied to a concrete case. This will be followed by a production phase of some visual and audiovisual contents realised in collaboration with the e-learning services office of the University of Genoa.

2 CFUs

Lecturers: Veronica Pesce and Alessandro Ferraro, with the collaboration of Matteo Navone and Giordano Rodda and the support of Eleonora Anselmo

Start: 6 March 2026

Meeting Schedule:

• Friday  6 March 2:30-6pm:30
• Wednesday 25 March 9am-1pm
• Wednesday 8 April 9am-1pm
• Wednesday 28 April 2pm-6:30pm
• last date in May on a date to be agreed: educational outing

Location: UTLC classroom, Via Vivaldi 5, Economics building (Darsena).

Methods: in person.

To register go to the web classroom https://2025.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=6467 and follow the directions.

The workshop is part of the broader project Di Genova in Genova. Percorsi d'autore in città (formerly Genova infinita. Percorsi d'autore in città), promoted by the University of Genoa together with the Municipality of Genoa, and constitutes a stage of a broader educational and practical pathway that will see students directly involved in the realisation of various cultural itineraries (literary, cinematographic, musical) dedicated to the city of Genoa.

This course focuses on the preparation of the contents (textual and iconographic) for the itinerary of literary Genoa, from Dante to the present, training the participants also on the methodological and operational level.

The in-presence meetings will be used to discuss the issues addressed in the field, providing an opportunity for debate, problem solving exercise and cooperative work applied to a concrete case.