We leave today from Arghillà with the Street Educational Sports Festival: “Playing to Grow Together”. In fact, from today to Friday, the Arghillà area will host sports workshops and street education activities that will involve children, teenagers and families. Teachers, educators and experts will discuss the educational value of playing and practicing sports and the often denied right to play sports.
Sport has the power to change the world, it is a fundamental right, it is a powerful tool for strengthening social bonds, solidarity, respect and promoting participation, inclusion and peace. This social and educational dimension of sports practice and gaming are the factors that have characterized – for 80 years – the commitment of the Italian Sports Center and, specifically, the path of participation, inclusion, social development and citizenship of the Csi of Reggio Calabria. On this basis, the idea of the first edition of the international laboratory entitled “Sport for Inclusion and Peace 2024 – In Reggio, the match of Rights, Development and Peace” was born. It is a week – from 2 to 7 April – of activities, focuses, meetings and initiatives which has already involved a significant and dense network of institutions, associations, foundations and has brought in volunteers, instructors, educators, young people and many families of the metropolitan area of Reggio Calabria.
The initiative is also sponsored by Regional Council of Calabriafrom the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabriadal Coniyes Sports and Healthyes Cip Calabria and the CSV dei Due Mari. A network of institutions that further strengthen the idea of educational sport, solidarity and participation promoted in the area by the Csi Reggio Calabria.
The program of the week
If part Today from Arghillà with the Street Educational Sports Festival: “Playing to Grow Together”. In fact, from 2 to 5 April, the Arghillà area will host sports workshops and street education activities that will involve children, teenagers and families. It will be an itinerary, promoted in collaboration with the Community Energies network, and designed to let the youngest people in the area experience, through different sports disciplines, a new model of relationships and a new community space.
Wednesday 3 April from 4.30 pm at the PalacolorCsi in Pellaro, Asd Restart will present the Rhythmic Gymnastics performance “Rhythmic For Peace”, a sporting and cultural journey that will involve girls and instructors, through a discipline with great communicative power. The theme of the afternoon will be the value of peace between peoples.
Thursday 4 April from 9.30 am, the classrooms of the Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences (DiGIES) of the Mediterranean University will host the workshop: “A Sport of Value between Rights and Participation”. Teachers, educators and experts will discuss the educational value of playing and practicing sports and the often denied right to play sports. During the morning, the projects and activities resulting from the Educational Alliances in Sport in Reggio Calabria will also be presented.
Friday 5 April at 5pm, with the International Webinar: “Sport and Human Rights” we will leave the borders of our country. Italian, Slovenian, Argentinian and Indian teachers will try to discuss the very delicate topic of rights, racism, sexism and homophobia in sport. The webinar is promoted in collaboration with the associations: Redht, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny W Krakowie and Mediterranea International Central. Students, teachers and associations from all over the world will participate in the meeting.
Saturday 6 April, the day that celebrates Peace and Development in Sport in the world, a double event. In the morning, Palazzo Zani will host the meeting on Sport, Sustainability and Development from 10am. Teachers, important speakers and local experiences comparing the value and opportunity of giving space to new Sustainable Sports Tourism paths in the Metropolitan area of Reggio Calabria.
From 4pm, however, the PalaMangione Sports Center in Gioia Tauro will host the Sports Meeting of the children of Baskin della Piana, the basketball experience that allows able-bodied and disabled people to play on the same team. The route is guided by the associations Angeli di Pollicino and ASD News Basket Tiger Gioia Tauro.
Sunday 7 April, from 9.30, Piazza Fontana in San Panataleone will be the enchanting starting space of the highly anticipated “Green Diving”, the Wellness Walk between Yoga and Shinrin – Yoku. The Grecanica Area will host an Experiential GeoTourism route through the discovery of the route in the Rocca di Varva area. The initiative is promoted in collaboration with Asd Terra Madre.
The week will end where it started. On Sunday 7 April from 5pm, the Maestrelli Sports Center in Arghillà will host the “Match Day Experience!”, the Youth Peace Trophy. During the afternoon of sport, which will involve teenagers between 12 and 14 years old, there will also be space for workshop activities led by Csi educators: Changing Rooms of Peace, a Role Playing on Rights and Peace.
SPORTS FOR ALL – INCLUSION