CARAVAN. Artists on the Road

CARAVAN. Artists on the Road
Community Theater in places of crises & renascence

1. Summary
Europe is facing an era of crises and transformations, in general and not only in the economic field, which generates profound repercussions on society.
The “CARAVAN. Artists on the Road” Project (hereinafter referred to as the “CARAVAN Project” or the “Project”) originates from this context and intends to build up the theme of “Reviving from Crises” by means of cultural interventions and artistic performances. In particular, the Project will promote dialogues among those places in Europe which are hit by crises but, along with loss and pains, have developed rich experiences of solidarity, hence hope of “renascence”, from inside of the community. The artistic-creative activities of the Project will give prominence to the value of such places and contribute to them more visibility, thus render such places a model of civilization and culture at European level.
In this regard, Community Theatre is one of the most effective and efficient ways to integrate, develop and enhance the relations among the members of a community.
The CARAVAN Project is an international cultural cooperation project based on interventions of Community Theatre. It pursues the mission of boosting the cultural and social empowerment of local communities in some symbolic places of crises.
The Project will select four “places of crises and renascence” located in four different countries to carry out social-cultural interventions. In the first phase, four big events of Community Theatre will take place in the aforesaid four “places of crises and renascence”, whilst in the second phase four itinerant theatre productions will be created and circulated throughout Europe. A multimedia equipped Caravan Theatre will be developed and utilized during the entire implementation of the Project.
The Project is divided into two macro areas: (1) performative area, including all of the artistic-creative and implementing activities of the Project, and (2) disseminative area, comprising publications, seminars, workshops and all other efforts to spread the results of the Project.

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L’itinerario
Over 40 stops in 11 European countries with more than 50 performances are completely free. 4 Community Theater events describe places and experiences of crisis and rebirth from the corners of Europe: in each of them a group of artists and professionals will create extraordinary events and an original theatrical production which will be staged in the journey of the Caravan.

The host cities & 4 MAIN EVENTS OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY THEATRE ARE:
TURIN (Italy) to represent the South of Europe
SEVILLA (Spain) to represent the West of Europe
HÖLSTEBRO (Denmark) to represent the North of Europe
SOFIA (Bulgaria) to represent the East of Europe

Italy – France – Spain – Belgium – Holland – Sweden – Denmark – Germany – Poland – Slovakia – Hungary – Romania – Bulgaria – Slovenia

Partners

The partnership responsible for the final implementation of project activities is composed of 11 organizations from 9 European countries.

Original core charge of the project and identification of the transnational partnership:

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Torino (CRT Foundation) is the project leader and coordinator of the project. The Foundation takes care of all the administrative, operational and project management CARAVAN.

Always been strongly committed to the cultural area through the provision of funding in this area in Piedmont, CRT Foundation has recently decided to participate in European competitions, including primarily under the Culture Programme.

Master in Social and Community Theatre of the Faculty of Education – DAMS University of Turin is responsible for overseeing the project and artistic and methodical monitoring of the performance achieved in all activities.

European Partners

Project initiated by CRT Foundation and the Master in Social and Community Theatre of the University of Turin is supported by a transnational and multidisciplinary partnerships from 9 European countries, characterizes heterogeneity both in terms of both the geographical origin of the cultural organizations involved:

International Centre for Theatre Research | Atalaya-TNT (Spain)
Theatre Spira (Sweden)
Nordic Theatre Laboratory / Odin Teatret (Denmark)
Projects, Action, Art, Theater P.A.K.T. registered association (Germany)
Faculty of Fine Arts School of Computer Design Wyzsej (Poland)
Movements of Voluntary Associations Italian Onlus (Italy)
Association of Local Democrazy Agencies (France)
Association for Culture and Education KIBLA (Slovenia)
Municipal Theatre “Vazrajdane” (Bulgaria)

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