On Sunday 11 September, all the performances resulting from the participatory writing work stemming from the call Indagine Milano return to the stage of the Teatro Grassi for a single evening. A special marathon evening to discover four outlying districts of the city in four chapters:

• chapter 1 - Sogni Zero | Niguarda | Virginia Landi and Ida Treggiari 

• chapter 2 - Arcipelago | Giambellino | Pablo Tapia Leyton 

• chapter 3 - bioluminescenze | Baggio | Bruna Bonanno and Gianmarco Porru 

• chapter 4 - ZETA 4 | Calvairate | CORPORA Chiara Donadoni, Giulia Sangiorgio and Eliana Rotella

Is there still a place for people that is not subject to market logic? This is the question that lies at the heart of Sogni Zero, a participatory theatre project involving the residents of the Niguarda district in Milan. Sogni Zero sees sleep as a niche of resistance against capital, as it is the only remaining place in human existence that is not exploited for profit. Unconscious dreams are transformed into moments of creativity that are capable, perhaps, of projecting us towards an alternative late-capitalism scenario. Is it possible to restore sleep’s potential for revolution

Arcipelago is the transformation of places of memory, pleasure and congregation that belong to our districts, through a process of mapping that presents them as ecosystems, natural landscapes and possible futures. The work on the district of Giambellino-Lorenteggio is the initial universe of the stories. The first steps are determined by the free participation of five performers; trust, encounter and positivity shape the archipelago.

bioluminescenze is a multimedia tale whose title is based on the chemical phenomenon by which certain organisms in nature, for example fireflies, emit light. The firefly, whose allure has been adopted as the focal point for the stage play and the sets, has also been elected as the symbol of the Baggio district, where the project was created and written. the aim of the study is to extend the visible beyond reality, examining and proposing a feasible representation of the suburbs through the lens of - and from the viewpoint of - fiction.

What do rappers and elderly people have in common? Can these two custodians of memory and the present communicate with each other in some way? What languages, what visions can create a dialogue to express the multitude of cultural and human strata in a district? ZETA 4 is a project that takes the chosen district of Calvairate as a cue for an examination of the relationships and presences that bring life and identity to a specific location. For a number of years, the district has been an important focal point in Milan for rap music, a language that is native to the social fabric of a space, presenting it through contemporary forms of expression.