Creative Europe Project 2023–2025

CREAtive REsilience shapers
2023/25 Grant Agreement n° 101095029 - CREA-RE

The CREA-RE project wants to create an international and sustainable network of artists, organizations and festivals, offering more opportunities for personal and professional development to young artists with fewer opportunities (mental and physical disabilities, migratory background, geographical obstacles), awareness and public at local level on the importance of social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

This will be achieved by achieving the following specific objectives:

• Co-create and co-produce an inclusive dance-theatre show with artists and artistic directors from the 4 partners.
• Exchange practices and develop action plans to address the weaknesses of associated festivals in terms of social inclusion, environmental sustainability, marketing and promotion, community engagement.

The dance-theatre show is co-produced, with the participation of a transnational team of at least n. 20 artists, among people with disabilities and people with fewer opportunities, through virtual cooperation and n. 4 transnational residences. Action plans are implemented to improve partner festivals in terms of inclusion, marketing, stakeholder engagement and environmental sustainability, and no.1 manual is drawn up with the best practices identified.The co-created and co-produced dance and theater show is effectively filmed and promoted in 4 festivals.

Crea-re Performing Project: "The strenght of Fragility"

The central theme will be "The strenght of Fragility" seen as a force to emerge from one´s own context of social exclusion.

Respective teams will work with specific target groups:

Ijshaamanka (Italy) will work with with physical and cognitive disabilities. Sala Fenix (Spain) with young migrants or with social problems. Aorca (Portugal) with young people without family custody entrusted to public institutions. Saine Ensemble (Finland) with community of artists linked to environmental sustainability.

Follow The Water

Tanssiva Meteoriitti – Dancing Meteorite 2023

Biennale is a multidisciplinary discussion and performance forum combining art and scientific research in Fiskars, Raasepori, from 20 to 31 May 2023.

This week-long event offers discussion, speeches, art exhibition as well as dance - and performance art. The theme for 2023 is lake ecology, the cultural importance of lakes and water as a metaphor for art.

The event will be started off by Digersjön – stage performance, which will lay the foundation for the following discussions between art and science.

Art Matters -discussion forums

Relating to Biennale’s theme, there will be various discussion opportunities as well as speeches from artists and researchers in regard to cultural history, poetry, water ecology, neuroscience, multi-sensory observation and kinaesthetic learning and empathy.

During the Biennale the audience can also visit The Raft of the Medusa, an art installation, which has been created based on Théodore Géricault’s painting and the story behind the artwork. The Raft of the Medusa is part of the visual world of the Grand Lake (Suuri järvi) – Digersjön - stage perfomance.

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Grant Agreement-101095029 — CREA-RE