Teatro La Luna, Cordoba/Argentina

The Teatro La Luna project was founded in 1984 by two women from a poor district in Cordoba, Argentina. Here, the arts are a way for people to connect with life, with each other and to assimilate traumas caused by violence and poverty. This project mainly focuses on the children and youth.The aim is to teach the children and youth artistic skills that lead to self-confidence and enable them to develop a perspective for life. Many street children have found their way out of poverty by that.

Education is the starting point and basis of diminishing poverty. By providing a free public library, by showing educational movies and through a variety of other activities the streets are turned into a classroom. Staging the play sopa, pan y arte, „soup, bread and art“ is one of these activities: soup and other food donated by grocery stores is prepared with the help of the neighbours and distributed after the play.

Theatre play, “Begging for Work“		sopa, pan y arte
Socially critical cinema		Children in a painting class, doing physical exercises
„Some eat, the others watch“		„Homeless children in the countryside for the first time“