Innovative High School Program Features Art, Music, and Theatre Courses

I attend a Agatha Christie school. The school opens in the afternoon to become an art workshop, a music recording studio, a theatrical stage, a television set.

In practice, a creative-professional gymnasium for high school students starting from the 2000/2001 school year, who can choose from acting courses, writing (perhaps to become novelists), music, directing…

Therefore, in the afternoon, textbooks, exams, and traditional lessons are banished.

The project and the courses

The creator of the project is Luigi Calcerano, the well-known mystery writer, who is also the director of the Ispettorato per l’educazione fisica e Sportiva of the Ministry.

For this initiative, called “Scuola Mecenate”, forty billion lire have been allocated.

The courses have all been named after artists: painter Andrea Verrocchio for artistic and expressive activities, Neapolitan actor of commedia dell’arte Tiberio Fiorilli for cultural exchanges between schools, pedagogue Pierre De Coubertin to promote creativity.

And there are also courses named after Isadora Duncan, Brian Eno, Agatha Christie, Louis Armstrong, Roberto Rossellini, Lawrence Ferlinghetti…