Our Story...
From students to Human Rights Advocators
How we came about
RightsQuake was formed from the master I-contact of University of Bologna in 2021 through the collaboration of the course Professor Annalisa Furia which organized a workshop with the theatre company based in Ravenna, ErosAntEros made of Agata Tomsic [actress and dramaturg] and Davide Sacco [stage director and music designer].
During the workshop Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšic explained us their thought process on their last project, Sconcerto per i Diritti [Disconcert for Rights], which analyses and criticizes the European Charter of Fundamental Rights : indeed as they were preparing the show they realized that many of the idealistic rights presented in the Charter are not respected in reality, so they tried to represent that inconsistency on stage.
After the Workshop, they invited us to create and elaborate our own project: we collectively discussed ideas and decided we wanted to collect stories of people’s daily lives [and their connection with human rights] and….now we are here!
The idea is to make human rights, a generally academic discussion, a debate that is open to people from all walks of life.
We believe that investigating the intersection point between people’s daily lives and human rights violations can be educational for all, both to bureaucratic institutions who design legislation and for the public who is often unheard.
Our Mission & Our Goals
Mission
We work together to create an awareness
Rightsquake is committed to collecting stories from the world and capturing how human rights intersects with the everyday lives of people. It seeks to create opportunities and give voice to different groups of people, coming from different backgrounds, including those whose perspectives are often unnoticed. We want to engage in an active discussion about Human Rights, in which everyone feels welcomed, and everyone is listened to. We advocate to investigate the definition and minimize human rights violations.
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Goals
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RightsQuake unbiasedly pays attention to the collected stories of people’s everyday lives to create awareness and provide education and a sense of security for every life we come across and beyond.
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