Lottomatica Foundation at BAM Back to the City 2026: The Project for the Beccaria Juvenile Detention Center

The Lottomatica Foundation, established in 2023 as an organization with a significant social impact in the areas of research, community, and the rule of law, on the initiative of the Lottomatica Group, is supportingthe eighth edition of the BAM “Back to the City” festival, organized in Milan by BAM – Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano, a project of Riccardo Catella Foundation, as part of a series of events that, from September 6 to 10, brings Tchaikovsky’s music outside the venues traditionally reserved for classical music.

The Foundation’s support is focused on“Sleeping Beauty – Journeys of Listening, Body, and Creation,”an artistic project created in collaboration with the artists of MoveOn Dance Hub and dedicated to young inmates at the Juvenile Detention Center (IPM) Cesare Beccaria: a series of theater, music, and creative movement workshops inspired by Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty ,” which represents one of the eight stages leading up to the festival and will conclude on Monday, September 7, 2026, at 4:00 p.m., with a public performance scheduled to take place in the institute’s Cortile dell’Aria.

The Lottomatica Foundation and the Art Workshop at the Beccaria Juvenile Detention Center

Lottomatica Foundation supported a project aimed at young inmates at the Beccaria Juvenile Detention Center, designed to develop listening skills, physical expression, and collaboration through theater and movement. The program kicked off on August 31 with a surprise flash mob performed by professional dancers in various wings of the facility, with the goal of engaging the youths and encouraging them to sign up for subsequent activities.

The workshops took place over two days, September 4 and 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., in two parallel sessions with about eight participants each. The workshop on the body and movement, led by choreographers Martina Nadalini and Roberto Carrozzino, was inspired by the concept of a pack: a collective body that highlights the group and transcends the centrality of the individual. In the music workshop, led by sound artist Carlo Gilardi, the teens worked on recording and sampling sounds and musical elements, which were then integrated live into the show’s soundtrack.

The final performance, preceded by a dress rehearsal at 2:30 p.m., brings to the stage the professional dancers of MoveOn Dance Hub —Chiara Andreani, Manuel Forgione, and Marco Mazzei—along with the two groups of young people who participated in the movement and music workshops; the latter created the sound elements for the performance. The event is open, by invitation, to a limited number of outside guests.

Back to the City 2026: Where Does the Project Supported by the Lottomatica Foundation Fit In?

The festival, currently underway in Milan through September 10, will conclude with a grand concert by the Spira Mirabilis Orchestra, expected to draw more than 7,000 people to the lawns of Milan’s Parco della Biblioteca degli Alberi. Before the concert, the festival offers an introductory program spread across eight stops in the city’s neighborhoods, organized in collaboration with associations and social organizations committedto breaking down physical, sensory, and cognitive barriers. The project supported by the Lottomatica Foundation at the IPM Beccaria is part of this initiative, bringing music and theater to a community that is typically excluded from the city’s cultural offerings.

For the Lottomatica Foundation, support for the project stems from a desire to offer young inmates a concrete opportunity for self-expression, to be heard, and to collaborate, making them co-creators of the show’s musical identity.

“Supporting the BAM Back to the City Concert and organizing this initiative at the Cesare Beccaria Juvenile Detention Center was, first and foremost, a moving experience—a journey that was as beautiful as it was rewarding. We met young people who, thanks to art, experienced a real opportunity for hope and self-awareness, becoming active participants in a process of personal growth and rehabilitation. We firmly believe in the educational value of culture, in the power of art as a universal language, and in the profound restorative value of beauty in all its forms , ” said Chiara Pomarici, Secretary General of the Lottomatica Foundation. “The project was the result of a major joint effort, supported by the Department of Juvenile Justice and carried out in collaboration with the Beccaria Administration: from the Director, Eleonora Cinque, to the Commander of the Correctional Police, Iolanda Tortù, and the entire staff, both civilian and law enforcement. In short, the young people had the opportunity to break down social barriers and plant the seeds for future opportunities, including through meaningful dialogue with the local community. Rehabilitation and integration are not abstract concepts. Today we proved this, and we are pleased with the result. “.