Two Creative Europe large-scale projects receive green light
Pergine Festival confirms its international appeal: in the following years we will be partners of two Creative Europe large-scale projects
SOUTHERN COALITION
Pergine Festival is part of the European cooperation network “Southern Coalition” for artistic development, together with 14 other partners from 10 countries. The first project begins in 2021
Pergine Festival has joined a new European cooperation network, established from the previous Creative EU project ‘A Manual on Work and Happiness’, which focuses on collaboration strategies through new artistic co-productions (to be presented in 9 European countries), transnational mobility, audience development and training for professionals in the cultural field through a series of seminars, workshops and conferences on performing arts, participatory artistic practices, management and cultural mediation, focusing on alternative models that take into account the reality of the peripheries. With a total budget of more than three million euros, the project “Stronger peripheries: a Southern Coalition” has been given the green light by the Creative Europe programme, among the 20 large-scale projects approved throughout Europe.
The initiative is led by the Portuguese theatre network Artemrede and brings together 14 partners * between theatres, cultural and residency centres, festivals, research centres and universities, which represent 10 countries (Portugal, Spain, Republic of Serbia, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Italy and France): they will work together from 2021 onwards. The project brings together organisations that identify themselves with a broad definition of ‘Southern Europe’, all committed to support the involvement of local communities in the arts and investing in transnational cooperation to tackle obstacles in specific contexts.
The Southern Coalition network aims at strengthening international links through cultural projects, cultivating a close dialogue between artists, practitioners and local communities. The project is expected to have an impact on 2,000 professionals, reaching 10,000 people in a wider context.
The project has been developed to implement new opportunities for collaboration, to enhance the skills of artists and professionals in the field of cultural management, to promote the social value of art as well as the importance of inclusive and participatory artistic practices.
The participation of the Festival of Pergine in “Stronger Peripheries” will allow the presentation of performances by Italian artists on a European scale and the involvement of hundreds of professionals in many of the scheduled initiatives.
*(Pergine Spettacolo Aperto; Pogon, Zagabria/Croazia; Centrul Cultural Clujean, Cluj/Romania; Bunker, Ljubljana/Slovenia; Xarxa Transversal, Matarò/ Spagna; ProProgressione, Budapest/ Ungheria; Teatro di Sardegna, Cagliari; ISCTE Istituto Universitario Lisboa, Lisbona/Portogallo; Università di Barcellona/ Spagna; Università di Belgrado / Serbia; L’Arboreto, Mondaino; Occitane en Scene / Francia; PCAI, Piraeus/ Grecia).
InSITU – UNCOMMON SPACES 2020 – 2024
The artists’ vision of public space in a project approved by the European Commission in the framework of the Creative Europe Programme, involving Pergine festival along with several European partners. It will begin in November 2020.
At a time when European societies are undergoing considerable change, art must be at the forefront to offer new perspectives. To rebuild the pact between art and society, more and more artists are leaving conventional spaces to work in and with public space, in direct contact with citizens and inhabitants. The (UN)COMMON SPACES project, within the European platform InSITU, aims to support the growth of this sector on a European scale to reinvent the relationship between the cultural sector and civil society.
INSITU is the European platform dedicated to creation for public space led by Lieux publics – European and national center for artistic creation in public space (France), which since 2003 supports artists working on hybrid creations for unconventional places, thus contributing to the creative transformation of our territories.
Pergine Festival, together with 19 partners and 12 associated partners in Europe and overseas*, will bring together a group of artists and citizens for a new collaborative format, based on everyone’s experience, in the conviction that sharing expertise, artistic vision and plurality of perspectives is today the most important way to ensure that works of art reach an increasingly wide and diverse audience.
In the four-year project tthere will be everal actions. Art workshops, mentorship, co-productions, exchanges between artists related to public space, an internationalization project that focuses on Asia and the USA. But also public development, art training in public space, centrality of the audience. Artists working outside of conventional places, creating for local contexts, involving inhabitants and questioning the challenges of our contemporary societies are at the heart of this project.
4 Italian partners (Indisciplinarte /Terni; Pergine Festival; Teatro di Sardegna and Zona K / Milano) will work in a national network to open a space of action and reflection on creation for public space.