Country: Italy
Description
of activity:
Name of
partner organization: Tecnopras
s.a.s.
Number
of participants: 11
Target
group: Migrants
Date: 13 December 2014
Location: Association Gli
Argonauti 2000, Rome
Duration: 2 hours
Book
chosen: ‘The joy luck club", Amy Tan (Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with
the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four
Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat
dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and
hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into
tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To
despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong
what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history
continue.)
The book has been indicated by the participants themselves, who agreed on it after some chats on the phone started for the Asian men of the previous meeting. All the participants came to the reading club with the books and an extra copy for the coordinator as Christmas gift. Through this present they wanted to express their appreciation for the whole activity.
After the reading there has been a short session of story telling. Those of the participants feeling to do it told Christmas episodes from their lives in mother countries. One Ukrainian woman sang traditional songs from her village.
After the reading there has been a short session of story telling. Those of the participants feeling to do it told Christmas episodes from their lives in mother countries. One Ukrainian woman sang traditional songs from her village.
Finally, we collected learners' feedbacks on the activity of read-aloud clubs for our evaluation document. Also, being the last meeting before Christmas and end of the year 2014, at the conclusion we had a toast together with the promise to meet again in 2015.
