Stories of prisoners and redemption: the Gazale brothers present their book in Ploaghe

On Wednesday 7 August, at 9pm, at the amphitheater of the Convent in Ploaghe, as part of the Candelieri and Ferragosto Ploaghese events, an event of great social interest will be held with the presentation of the volume "Freely at the theatre, life paths between archive papers and penal colonies", just published by Carlo Delfino Editore, edited by the two brothers Vittorio and Alessandro Gazale, the first director of the Asinara National Park, and former director of the Porto Conte Park, and the second teacher, actor and director.

The meeting, moderated by Giovanni Salis, in addition to the authors, will see the participation of the mayor of Ploaghe Carlo Sotgiu for institutional greetings and of Antonello Pilo who will present various volunteering experiences in prison. An evening dedicated to the themes of prison between images and testimonies which will recall over 10 years of activities carried out by a group of inmates a little inside and a little outside and which sees the centrality of the educational area of the Sassari prison with the coordination of the head of the educational area Ilenia Troffa and the involvement of the Alghero prison. We will talk about the experience of studying the old archives of the former penal colonies of Tramariglio and the island of Asinara, through the activation of dozens of work grants which involved around fifty prisoners.

The start of a theater company born within the prison facility which involved around twenty actors in first writing a script and then staging it. The recitation recalls the archival work, fully documented in the volume. All the activity is also included within the proposals of the "Beyond the walls" association, which groups together and legitimizes the volunteers who work inside the prison. All the work carried out is dedicated to the memory of the director of the prison of San Sebastiano and Bancali Patrizia Incollu, who recently passed away during the course of her service, who followed and encouraged the project from the first archival studies up to the theatrical performances.