In 2003 the Cultural Association "Il Grifo e il Leone" started the restoration and the conversion of a 400 square meter antique basement of the sixteenth century structure of the Ex- Conservatory of San Girolamo, located in the heart of the historical centre of Montepulciano, Siena province (Italy). ilCAntinonearte Teatri, a non conventional theatre and exhibition space, created out of the restored building, opened officially to the public in January 2005. IlCAntinonearte Teatri is a cultural project promoting training, creation,experimentation and production of theatre, dance, music, visual arts works, with a particular attention to contemporary arts and to the creativity of the younger generation.
MOTUS is a no profit Cultural Association developing its activities in the artistic, production, training and didactics areas collaborating, for the last one, especially with schools and Universities.
Based in London since 2001, and in Rio de Janeiro since 2004, ZECORA URA THEATRE is constantly re-defining its approach to cross-artform innovation and multi-cultural dialogue with its renowned collaborators as well as members of the local community.
Bollywood Pictures is a company incorporated in 2004 whose main objective consists in the production of fiction contents. It developed until the present date projects for the cinemas, theater, television and publications in books and magazines.
The Project MIGRANT WOMEN was an idea of the coordinator ilCAntinonearte Teatri in Montepulciano, Siena province; it then was developed with the collaboration of three European coorganisers: Motus (Siena, Italy), Bollywood Pictures (Lisbon, Portugal), Zecora Ura Theatre (London, UK).
The Issues Immigration, integration, intercultural dialogue between a native culture and a different environment. Our choice was to focus on a feminine point of view: a migrant woman's particular perspective of the world in her double condition of minority, in the native culture and in the new country's costumes both as a woman and as a migrant.
In 2003 the Cultural Association "Il Grifo e il Leone" started the restoration and the conversion of a 400 square meter antique basement of the sixteenth century structure of the Ex- Conservatory of San Girolamo, located in the heart of the historical centre of Montepulciano, Siena province (Italy). 
