TO ICTP Scientists and Staff
        
Subject: Collaboration with Scuola Media Corsi on a video
            to be produced by the School students with ICTP scientists
            and staff.
          
          Dear Scientists and Staff,
          
          In the framework of the institutional outreach activities with
          Trieste schools, ICTP and Scuola Media Corsi are following up
          their fruitful collaboration in staging the plays Nikola
            Tesla, Hypathia, Rossum's Universal Robots,
          and the video Ramanujan by working together again on a
          video project. The video will be shown on 12 April 2018 at the
          ICTP in the Budinich Lecture Hall.
        
This year’s theme will be reality/virtual reality, the
          impacts the digital era has on our present and future lives,
          the potentials and the dangers of technology on humankind in
          general.
        
The video will be based on a script, freely inspired by
          Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and will
          include brief interviews to scientists/staff conducted by the
          students. 
        
Should you be interested in taking part, you may do so by sending us a a written contribution expressing personal ideas regarding a specific theme (the contribution will be included in the script) or you may prefer to take part more actively by being interviewed directly by the students.
 The students and their teachers are visiting the ICTP
            on 21 February  and on this occasion will conduct a
            number of interviews on the spot.  Interviews can be held in
            English or Italian, or your native language, providing an
            English version. 
           
Kindly contact us by 19 April if you are interested: zmakkawi@ictp.it  and
            Valerio Capellini valerio@ictp.it
        
We look forward to your participation!
Best regards,
Zina Makkawi
        
        
N.B Links to previous performances / videos produced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Hypathia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShRrjP6Qe0A (eng. ver.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Bp7KaRBGY (Itl. ver.) R.U.R https://youtu.be/nHF8FHW0sY0 (with English subtitles) https://youtu.be/vTvMFv_ZNkY (with Italian subtitles) Ramanujan http://indico.ictp.it/event/8184/material/video/ (Ramanujan)
-- Zina Makkawi (Ms) Scientific Programmes Office Hosted Activities The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Strada Costiera, 11 34151 Trieste, Italy T +39 040 2240507 F +39 040 224163