Every day in school follows a ritual: we wake up together, we share a meal, we participate in collective actions. There are no lessons, but experiences. There are no masters, but sensible guides.
The official language is English, but you don’t need to know it thoroughly: communication is for gestures, looks, vibrations. In a way, Sisters Academy speaks a universal language, that of body and intuition.
Art then becomes a way to redefine the very idea of school: no longer a place of transmission, but of transformation.
In the vision of Sisters Hope, the society of the future will be guided by a new aesthetic sensitivity: not that of ornaments or beauty, but that of living presence, of perceptive awareness. Their work, after all, is a political experiment on the possibility of an education based on care and empathy.
The “sensitive school” is not an unrealistic utopia, but a laboratory to imagine new ways of living the world. In this sense, bringing the project to Sicily — and having it live inside a former orphanage — is a powerful symbolic gesture: it means rewriting the meaning of upbringing and welcoming, transforming a place of discipline into a place of poetic freedom.
Thank you Agrigento Capitale della Cultura 2025
Thank you Sisters Hope
Thank you Gry Worre Hallberg
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