Naples brings art to classrooms with "Culture, what class!"

Culture enters Naples schools with a project that combines art, music, cinema, and theater. It's called “Culture, what class!” and transforms classrooms into creative laboratories open to the city. Promoted by City of Naples for the 2025/2026 school year, the program involves 40 institutes and foresees 13 training courses until May 2026. The goal is to bring together students and artistic languages, creating a direct dialogue between young people and protagonists of the Neapolitan cultural world.

What is the heart of the “Culture, what a class!” project?

The project was born to offer students a different educational experience, where knowledge comes through practice and participation. The workshops bring the knowledge into schools. theater, music, cinema, art and museums, offering a dynamic approach to culture. Each course is curated by cultural operators in the area and created in collaboration with exceptional testimonial including Lino Musella, Nunzia Schiano, Aniello Arena, Maurizio Capone, Luciano Melchionna, and Maurizio De Giovanni.
Meeting artists and professionals allows the kids to experiment with the languages ​​of expression and discover how culture can become tool for growth, comparison and active citizenshipThe school thus opens itself to a participatory model, in which creativity is an integral part of the educational process and culture becomes a shared exercise.

How are workshops organized between schools and artists?

The program provides 13 laboratories distributed in 40 schools of Naples, from the historic center to the outskirts. Each project explores a different language, with its own method and a final public presentation.

I theatre workshops There are seven of them, and they address themes such as memory, legality, fairy tales, and conflict. Among the titles: "Let it be the last birthday of war" with Lino Musella, “Sons of millionaire Naples!” dedicated to Eduardo De Filippo, and “Violence-Non-Violence” with Aniello Arena, which intertwines the scenic language with the theme of prison and community.

Two musical workshops — “ConTesti Sonori” with Maurizio Capone and “Class Notes” — unite word and sound to promote inclusion and participation. Three audiovisual paths, such as “REC – Stories, Emotions, Community”, instead introduce children to the languages ​​of cinema and media, stimulating a critical look at the city and at oneself.

What will be the outcomes and public appointments?

The activities will continue until May 2026, when the paths will culminate in events open to the publicEach workshop will find its own form of expression: theatrical performances, concerts, exhibitions, or screenings that will bring the students' work to the public.

The final initiatives, hosted between schools, theaters, museums and urban spaces, represent the conclusion of a collective educational process. Culture, brought to school, thus becomes a living and shared experience, capable of regenerating the bond between school and city. “Cultura, che classe!” is not only an educational project, but a concrete demonstration of how Naples manages to transform education into cultural participation and community.