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Even though I wasn't present, I'm sure it was an experience worth living. It must have tought everyone present lessons that they are going to rememeber fro all their lives. I wish i was there because that way i could have seen that performance myself and gained the experince that all you did.

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I strongly believe that all people are the same thing and for this reason we should adapt to our way of life and in general to our educational system. This theatrical performance is a very good example and shows of the humanity above of all. Finally we have to remember that we never lose .We win and /or we learn!

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We found the actors' lives very interesting and we were inspired to try as hard as we can to achieve our goals and never gine up. A new life can start under any circumstances if you are willing and tallented, you can be successful!
Ioanna and Antigoni

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Hi, guys! It sounds like "This is my name" was a great experience for you all! It certainly sounds very touching to me and I find your comments and thoughts very impressing, sincere and to the point. Great work, all of you!!!

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THIS IS MY NAME”This is my name" was a performance made from some black boys who represented their life in two different countries. They left Africa for searching a new life because their old life was very poor and in Italy, at the beginning, they found some difficulties because no one accepted them for work. But their fortune was finding this theatrical group with whom they could learn to speak Italian and go to school. So they were trained to express their feelings and act on the stage. They started travelling  in Italy to perform “This is my name” and to meet students. It impressed me because they were very young and they didn’t know how to speak Italian very well but they knew  how to communicate with the public. After what I saw, I wish  them a good new life!

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THIS IS MY NAME”This is my name" was a performance made from some black boys who represented their life in two different countries. They left Africa for searching a new life because their old life was very poor and in Italy, at the beginning, they found some difficulties because no one accepted them for work. But their fortune was finding this theatrical group with whom they could learn to speak Italian and go to school. So they were trained to express their feelings and act on the stage. They started travelling  in Italy to perform “This is my name” and to meet students. It impressed me because they were very young and they didn’t know how to speak Italian very well but they knew  how to communicate with the public. After what I saw, I wish  them a good new life!

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When we went to the theatre, we saw a performance called "This is my name", where some foreign teenagers and men told us their story about their own experience of immigration. They came from villages in war, famine and with a difficult childhood, where the children must do hard works.
They came to Europe hoping for a better world, with the hope to be welcomed and accepted. They told us that the worst thing isn't the travel on the ship, but is the the fact of finding HOSPITALITY. They were not always welcome.
They also said that when they were in their country, they met in groups for talking, dancing, singing and drinking tea; now they meet in a group TO REMEMBER THEIR LAND, their houses, their families and their old life.
At the beginning of the show, they asked us if we were happy, and then they told us thet they were happy because they began a "new life" here: with all their strenght, with drama lessons and a little works. Now they are happy.

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"Have you ever been happy?"
They surprised me with this simple question. I have never thought that someone who had lived the fear, fought against Death could have an energy like theirs. They started talking about what made them happy: love, football, etc.. They showed us how SHARING have saved their life and made them happy. They ran into the desert, crossed the Mediterranean, sailed with a sort of ship and  that after a while...
The atmosphere was incredible, everyone was concentrated on them. In the end we had interviewed the guys. I was surprised because every answer they gave us was positive. I really enjoyed it and I want to say thank you to everyone who contributed and I'd like that everyone started thinking about how to help immigrants, improve integration and cancel racism.

KONE JUNIOR

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This theatrical exhibition is acted  by a group of  Immigrants from Africa who, by telling their stories in Italy, used words and songs in their own language and in Italian; this fact recalled their homeland and  welcomed their new home, as if they said our country was, their “second home”. I felt like  I was part of the performance because I felt the same things when I got in touch with this new society different from my origin (Chinese), although I was born in this country. They made us feel that “I was not alone”, we are a big family, without  distinction of race because we are the same heart to love and live. During the theatrical show, they said a lot of significant sentences which made us reflect on them but it's thanks to them t hat we can open our minds of young generations.

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I think that this performance was very significant for  today's guys (LIKE US!) because it suggests that the world  only one and so the nations are a unique country compared to the world. This show has impressed me when  one man said  this joke “I am a black man, but you were pink when you were you born, when you grew up you were white but if you get burnt you get red, when you are cold you are blue and green and the same when you are sick and so WHO IS THE BLACK MAN NOW?” This show  teaches us that there must be no  racism because we are all  equal.

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The 25th January we saw a show called "This is my name" in the Ponchielli Theatre in Cremona. It was acted by five immigrants who came from different countries of Africa. I was very interested in this show because with jokes, songs and dances they gave us a very significant explanation of their journey to come to Italy. They also told us about DISCRIMINATION and that there are no differentiations between white and black people. I liked it very much because I AM AFRICAN too and it allowed me to reflect and understand a lot of things. I think that also the other classes who came from other schools liked it very much beacuse at the end of the performance they applauded and asked a lot of questions to the African boys.

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What struck me most about the play "This is my name" was the part where they DRANK theTEA. This part has an important significance because with the help of everyone, despite not having anything, you can go on. My understanding was that happiness is the basis of everything and it is more important than materialistic things. In the show there were 5 boys and each of them brought their own stories and songs as a souvenir of their heritage and history.
This experience has shown me why we DON'T HAVE TO JUDGE or discriminate individuals and ACCEPT THEIR DIVERSITY.

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“All life is a life, all life is worth living”. A sentences which remains etched in the minds. This show was represented by immigrans of five different nationalities; they came from Senegal, Costa d’Avorio, Guinea, Mali and Nigeria. These men weren’t real actors and brought on the stage their stories: their travel to Italy, their lives before and after their journey and their dreams.
Their stories filled the stage although the scenography was basic.
I think an important scene was the story about the brewing tea, where the meeting point was a "ghetto" (a place where there is always someone)  and where everyone brings something for the preparation of tea: water, sugar, tea, pennyroyal, so that the contribution of all serve to produce a product of which all can then have a part, even if, as in life, a small drop.

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The performance "This is my name" has been very interesting.
Five African boys told us their experience when they came to Italy.
For me this show made me understand that is very difficult to go away from your own town and leave your own friends and family.
It impressed me that after all these guys who have been forced to leave, through their energy and their hardwork, expressed their HAPPINESS.
They told about a sense of humanity wehich does not consider discriminations and diversity.
They raised many EMOTIONS to the public because  we don't know their culture and how the people have treated them in another territory but we can guess...

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We went to the Ponchielli theatre in our town and we saw "This is my name" a performance about discrimination. It impressed me a lot, but what I can easily remember is a scene in which a guy invited the other guys to drink a tea all together but he said to the guys to bring something to prepare the tea. Everyone brought something for example the sugar, the water , tea, mint ect... It impressed me because no one refused to share something and they were all happy.

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The performance "This is my name" was acted by five foreign immigrants, they were all boys coming from by Senegal, Costa d'Avorio, Mali, Nigeria and Gambia. I was really excited about this occasion !!
They made us understand the big problems they have to face up to in an age in which they are supposed to have fun and enjoy themselves.
The main themes they dealt with were the happiness to leave  war and poverty to find a better world, but at the same time the sadness to leave  their families. They  have expressed their fear of death while being in the waves of the Mediterranean  sea.
This SEA represented for them the desire to escape and the possibility of a new future.

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The day we spent at the theater was very significant. The show has been highly praised because behind it, the "actors", who were immigrants, have worked hard. What they showed us during the show (the songs, the dances, when they are gathered to drink tea), impressed and excited me, because their CUSTOMS are very different from ours. These 5 people, unlike many other immigrants, have been very lucky because now they are safe.

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On 25th January we went to the  Ponchielli theatre to watch the show called “This is my name”. There were 5 actors who left their countries and their family to get something better from their life.  In 2017 for an immigrant   It's really hard, trying to adapt  in a totally different  society.

The performance it really touched me because they tall their storis in this society and what they feel everyday about
DISCRIMINATION .

in today's society, for immigrants, It is often used the expression “black man” but a phrase from them made me think << I am a black man, but you were pink when you were you born, when you grew up you were white but if you get burnt you get red, when you are cold you are blue and green and the same when you are sick and so who is the black man now?>>

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When we went to the theather, we saw a show "This is my name". I was very impressed because in 2017 the discrimination hasn't disappeared.
Many important aspects, highlighted in this show, were the travel difficulties, the abandonment of the homeland and the integration in the new country.
It tuched me a lot because they weren’t afraid to face all of that together.

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On Wednesday, January 25th we went to Ponchielli theatre and we watched "THIS IS MY NAME" and I think these guys were COURAGEOUS because they have approached and faced a substantial and very hard part of their experience: to tell about their life story. During the show many sentences touched me. If we don't judge a book by its cover, why we do it with people?...Many people aren't accustomed to seeing the world in color, we are all equal.
Say no to racism!

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"THIS IS MY NAME"

Ogochukwu Aninye, Djbril Cheickna Dembélé, Ousmane Coulibaly, Ezekiel Ebhodaghe, Lamin Singhateh by using simple theatrical props, they have managed to tell us about everyday living situations.

Although it's 2017, immigrants' integration is still a big issue in our society. The performance  “THIS IS MY NAME”  really stunned me because it showed a completely DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW;  what it is like living in this country for people who weren't born in Italy. Although the players weren’t professional actors they were able to create the perception of what they’ve been going through not even long ago.

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The performance was really GREAT, even if the actors weren't professionals. They managed to make us feel the happiness and the sadness of their trip. They showed what they did and what they felt when they arrived here. At the end they told us "THANK YOU" for all the opportunities we (as a country) gave to them, but I think that WE also we have to say "thank you" TO THEM  because they opened our mind. They taught us that we are all the same...that we all have the same blood.

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This work has represented for me a change from the Italian culture, because the actors have brought their African culture making this nation multiethnic.
The actors showed immigrants' problems and their hardships but also their hapiness. and desire to make jokes which were TYPICALLY AFRICAN. I am African and I can say that our characteristic  is to be happy even if you are poor and  take advantage of all the occasions in which you can share something with the others.
This performance contrasts racism and oppression against the immigrants by enhancing the STRENGHT of African people. They have demonstrated that with the purity of the soul you can fight everything, like Martin Luther King. This experience made me happy to be an African boy !!!

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"WE DON'T WANT YOU, YOU ARE TOO MANY!!"

This is a sentence that immigrants have to hear everyday of their lives: these words contain rage, a little bit of racism, unfounded fear and hatred.

On 25th january, my class and I went to see a perfomance at the Ponchielli Theatre, called "This Is My Name", which talked about diversity, immigrants' problems and what people think about these people, in one word PREJUDICES.  It was made up by immigrant men who have to fight these problems everyday.

I learnt that a lot of people have got SUPERFICIAL OPINIONS about it, about the immigration, because they don't live that on their skin, they don't know how immigrants feel, they don't know how is to be different from everyone, well, for something which you don't have fault, because it isn't something negative, it's just a shade.

Thanks to this show, I managed to live this experience on my skin, I managed to put myself in the shoes of these peole: during the performance i could feel the fear, the insecurity, the feelings of the actors and the pain.

These people showed us their emotions, their stories, their fears and their lives, to make us understand that SOCIAL MEDIA often change reality to make it look like they were the problem, when they don't have any guilt, they left their homeland to look for opportunities.

So, maybe the problem isn't their number, but how we handle them?
Who knows.