ALTERA

description of organisation

Altera APS is a cultural association founded in 2001 from the collaboration of workers, students and teachers of Turin and its nearby areas, with the purpose to understand and critically discuss the political, cultural, artistic and social changes of the society in which we live. Altera is autonomous, democratic, non-party, non-denominational, pluralist and does not pursue profit-making purposes.
The association operates in the sector of cultural promotion, carrying out activities in which citizenry finds spaces of protagonism, promoting every new form of participation and active citizenship of the younger generations and pursuing an ethic of confrontation and respectful coexistence; the association operates throughout all the Piedmont Region.
Since 2006, Altera has been registered in Arci in the Turin Territorial Committee and belongs to the network UCCA (Unione dei Circoli Cinematografici dell’Arci).
Since 2015 Altera joins the newly born network of associations CasArcobaleno, which brings together about 20 associations from Turin engaged in human rights and minorities defense within a cultural space in the Porta Palazzo neighborhood in Turin, near the city center, but strongly characterized by migrant communities.
Since 2016 he has joined ENAR - European Network Against Racism and Arci Servizio Civile, for the realization of Civic Service projects.
Altera implements:
- cinematographic promotion initiatives, often in collaboration with the Turin’s festivals (Torino Film Festival, Lovers Film Festival);
- training activities aimed for high school students and all the other people interested (eg. workshop program IF - Imparare Facendo) on ​​different topics.
The methodologies used by the Altera are formats that include working in groups, aggregation projects, sharing, intergenerational cultural elaboration between adults and young people.
It is also a hosting organization for Civic Service volunteers, university apprentices, students in alternanza scuola/lavoro: these paths contribute to the achievement of the association's aims towards young people who take part in our activities as an opportunity for the promotion of collaborative attitudes among young citizens, since we believe that the attention to the quality of relationships in the working groups and the possibility of personal growth of its members and participants, alongside the concreteness of the actions carried out, is the specificity of belonging to the non-profit.
In particular:
.TFF OFF, from 2011 to today:
an editorial group of university and high school students work together in reviewing TFF films and interviewing directors and actors; in collaboration with the Centro di Cooperazione Culturale, Torino Film Festival, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, UCCA.
.MOVING TFF, from 2012 to today:
itinerant film festival in the city of Turin and in Piedmont. In collaboration with Centro di Cooperazione Culturale, UCCA, Arci Piemonte, Museo Nazionale del Cinema e Torino Film Festival.
.IF - IMPARARE FACENDO, training program on Third Sector professions and in-depth study of topics related to anti-discrimination.
The modules created were:
- communication for the Third Sector: workshop aimed to deepen the topic of communication for the non-profit, in the various areas of the press, social media strategy, and institutional communication;
- photography for the Third Sector: how to document activities with a social impact;
- cultural planning, Summer Schools implemented from 2016 to today, in July at the University of Turin: cycle of practical workshops on the creation and realization of cultural and social promotion events;
- sustainability and fundraising: how to organize structures, activities and projects using different types of financing (calls for tenders, self-financing, fundraising);
- gender intersectionality in the fight against discrimination: training and in-depth analysis on the interconnection of struggles with discrimination.
.TORINO SI SVEGLIA ANTIRAZZISTA, from 2014 to today:
civil society campaign, conceived by the Trepuntozero Association and carried out together with Altera, Giosef Torino and Arcigay Torino, which aims to bring the defense of human rights and the fight against discrimination in the streets and to the people, using channels such as art, beauty, dialogue.

Many of our projects specifically involve: university students, high school students, professional categories (e.g. journalists). However, for cultural promotion initiatives, the public of Altera is generally the population living in the Turin area.