Guided tour of Fabbrica delle “e” and presentation of Pietro Perotti’s book “I cessi di Mirafiori. Azioni e fotografie” di Pietro Perotti

Saturday 3 October, 6 p.m., Libreria Binaria, Via Sestriere, 34

In collaboration with Binaria Centro Commensale and Gruppo Abele.

On Saturday 3 October at 6 p.m., Job Film Days, in collaboration with Binaria Centro Commensale and Gruppo Abele, presents a two-part event: a guided tour of Fabbrica delle “e” and the presentation of Pietro Perotti’s book “I cessi di Mirafiori. Azioni e fotografie”.

The “Fabbrica”, now home to Gruppo Abele, occupies a former industrial building that housed Cimat (Costruzioni Italiane Macchine Attrezzi Torino), part of Fiat’s supply chain, until the mid-1970s. Its interior structures, generous spaces, restored and brightly coloured overhead cranes, and conference rooms all named “officine” or “botteghe” – workshops – provide daily reminders of the building’s origins. The “e” in its name, Italian for “and”, expresses a desire to transform, within these walls, the many – too many – “ors” that divide, label and exclude in everyday life into “ands” that foster encounters, exchanges and paths towards commitment, solidarity and justice.

Pietro Perotti’s book continues this “journey into the factory”. A worker at Fiat Mirafiori in Turin, Perotti began collecting protest slogans and drawings in the factory toilets in 1985. A working-class history written and drawn on the walls of the vast factory’s toilets, told on loose sheets and documented in photographs, is brought together for the first time in this volume.

The author will be present.

Admission: free. to book the tour: 011.537777 – binaria@gruppoabele.org.