{:en} PRESS RELEASE (11/14/2017)
Saturday, November 18, at Loano registration opens for youth center activities “Invisible Cities”, promoted by YEPP Loano and from the’Department of Social Services of the City of Loano with the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo of Turin and of the “A. De Mari” Foundation of Savona.
The youth center will host courses, workshops e aggregation activities For young people aged 12 to 25.
New this year are the “workshop in the workshop” and the role-playing games which are in addition to the music courses. In addition, during the free use hours, children will be able to choose from some activities such as: Web radio, karaoke, juggling, drumming and creative writing.
I “workshop in the workshop” aim to introduce young people to some craft activities. Two workshops will be offered for this first edition: metal and woodworking to make a small knife and confectionery (ice cream and pastry). Each workshop will include basic and advanced notions of theory and practical activities.
In the area of music, basic courses aimed at the study of instruments will be activated: Bass guitar, drums, electric guitar, keyboards. Ample space will be given to the ensemble music, music workshop in which young people will learn to play in a band.
The design of the courses and workshops involved many associations in the area: Friends of San Lorenzo of Varigotti, Loano's Modern Jazz Dance Academy, the Loanese Music Association, Loano's Popular Ice Cream Shop, the informal group Role Playing.
Le enrollments will take place Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19 e Saturday, November 25 and Sunday, November 26 from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. In the Kursaal Palace.
“The activities that will take place in the youth center," explains Vice Mayor Luca Lettieri - are the result of the participatory planning process that YEPP Loano has carried out by involving local youth. The courses, workshops and openings for free use of the center offer a response to the need expressed by young people for a place of aggregation and training opportunities. Young people can influence the annual choices of activities and can acquire skills in planning and organization. This pathway allows them to build skills useful for the shared management of the Youth Center. For 10 years now at Loano, the city's youth policies have been the result of a process that involves young people and gives them representation and power in choices that affect the youth community. Thanks to this process, the YEPP Loano Association was born, made up of young people who have been formally recognized as having an active role in our city's youth policies.”
The youth center will be open for free use twice a week, on Tuesdays (3 p.m. to 6 p.m.) and Friday afternoons (4 p.m. to 6 p.m.), to offer local youth a meeting place where they can spend their free time. In particular, Fridays will be reserved for the youngest (pre-teens) who will find an educator in the center.
Alongside the courses, in the center “Invisible Cities” will be available to young people, including a study room and a space equipped with table football, comic books and board games. Two rooms evidence will be able to be used for both studying and rehearsing with their band. In the center's spaces will also be organized monthly concerts.
“In the 2018 operational plan of YEPP Loano," says Vice Mayor Luca Lettieri - Also featured this year is the Service Stations which consolidates the network between local agencies and young people. The activities that will involve schools have been designed in collaboration with the Social Services of the Municipality of Loano, the Falcone Institute, the Mazzini Ramella Institute, the Youth Space of the ASL 2 Counseling Center, and the Genovese School of Systemic Counseling il Metalogo. The age groups the project will target will mainly be adolescents and preadolescents.”{:}
