ALDA - Activity Report 2011
8.2 CARAVAN: artists on the road Lead partner: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Fondazione CRT, Torino, Italy Other partners: Bulgaria: ObsinskiTeatarVirazdanje, Sofia; France: ALDA; Denmark: Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium/Odin Teatret, Holstebro; Germany: Projekte, Aktion, Kunst, Theater P.A.K.T eingetragenerVerein, Freiburg; Italy: Movimento delle Associazioni di Volontariato Italiano Onlus, Università di Torino; Poland: Wydzial, SztukPieknychProjektowychWyzseyjSzkoleInformatyki, Lodz, Poland; Slovenia: Association for Culture and Education KIBLA, Maribor; Spain: Teatro Atalaya; Sweden: TeaterSpira, Goteborg Donor: European Commission Timing: May 2011 – May 2014
Activities The whole project builds on the centuries’ long heritage of community theater, as a form of social-cultural intervention. The community theater has been proven as one of the most effective and efficient way to integrate, develop and enhance the relations of a community. Unique theatric form seeing the whole community as the stage where the public is having a role to play, contributing to the performance. The community theater is designed and developed by a team with various competencies in the theater and socialcultural field and a high experience within communication, complex relations and symbolic reconstruction of reality.
Successes Stories The Caravan will make almost 40 stops in 11 countries in Europe, including Western Balkans, staging more than 50 performances completely free to the public. The shows will take place in public places (outside of historic houses, squares, schools, hospitals, railway stations) in order to involve the local population, and in this way help promote participation and confidence building in multicultural communities.
Purposes •• To create experimental and innovative theater and art activities originating from a close contact with local communities and developed on wide participation and interaction with the audience •• To circulate the artistic products in several European countries promoting dialogue and exchange •• To create a network across Europe among cultural professionals and organizations to help improve reciprocal information and communication so as to facilitate transnational mobility of artists and other cultural operators; to provide an opportunity for different regions and local communities to interact and contribute to the promotion of the European Union cultural values, richness and diversity
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The Caravan truck, more than 50 performances across Europe in 11 countries