by Make a Move | Mar 29, 2019 | Lab 1
After the official launch of the Make a Move project in Rijeka in October 2018. organised by KRILA, on March 27th, in the O’Donoghue Centre (Studio 1), NUI Galway, Galway Theatre Festival organised an official launch of the Make a Move Project where they discovered the artists who will participate on behalf of Galway in ‘Make a Move’ as resident artist and local artists!
This is a significant milestone for Galway Theatre Festival since this is its first European project and they are also the hosts of the 1st Lab that will run from April 25th – May 4th in Galway city and in Áras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oirr and will focus on digital practices. In Galway the project will see artists and audiences from Galway meet, share skills with and experience the work of other artists from around Europe.
Theatre artist James Riordan was unveiled at the launch as the Galway representative in the overall Make a Move project. James will participate in the project’s three creative labs in Galway, Rijeka (Croatia) and Targu-Mures (Romania) in 2019, as part of a core group of 10 European artists. The launch also unveiled the 10 selected artists from Ireland who will participate in the Galway lab at the end of April – they are Anja Kersten, Eileen McClory, John Rogers, Sandra González Bandera, Liza Cox, Conor Geoghegan, Orlaith Ní Chearra, Francesca Castellano, Gráinne O’Carroll and Cathal McGuire.
Speaking about his selection, James Riordan said; “I’m delighted to have been selected on the Make a Move program – this is a really valuable opportunity for me as an artist to develop new European relationships, foster collaborations and push my work as Artistic Director of Brú Theatre forward.”
Speaking at the launch project manager Máiréad Ní Chróinín said, “We are very grateful for the strong support of our co-funders for a project which will help develop strong links between Galway and European artists, allow local artists to develop new skills, and bring new forms of exciting interactive and immersive theatre experiences to audiences in Galway city and county.”
The Make a Move project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the Arts Council, Galway 2020 and Galway City Council.
by Make a Move | Mar 4, 2019 | News
Call for participation in “MAKE A MOVE” – Galway Lab:
Deadline: 22nd March 2019
An Art incubator for contemporary European non-institutionalised and independent theatre
CALLING ALL IRISH AND BRITISH PHYSICAL THEATRE MAKERS!
This call is to participate in the Galway Lab of the ‘Make a Move’ project, from April 27th – May 3rd 2019, in Galway city & county (Inis Oirr).
The call is aimed at all independent theatre makers, be it individual artists or member of collectives (companies), from Ireland and the UK, working in the field of contemporary movement-based theatre practices (such as physical theatre, mime, improvisational theatre and other forms with a strong relation to the body and movement).
Up to 10 artists from Ireland & the UK will be selected through this call, and these artists will join a core group of 10 international artists for the Galway Lab. The Galway Lab will focus on digital practices and skills, and will cover such areas as:
- digital marketing and documentation strategies for independent artists and collectives
- digital strategies for audience development
- using digital tools to network and create with international partners exploring different digital technologies and how they could be applied in
- movement-based practice: e.g. virtual reality and 360 video, sensor technologies, and digital projection
- presentation of scratch works-in-progress as part of the Galway Theatre Festival 2019
The Galway Lab will also allow for exchanges of practice and skills between local, regional, national and international participants. Participants will also explore possibilities to develop international cooperation projects.
The overall ‘Make a Move’ project objective is to contribute to the revitalization of European theatre by mobilizing the unutilized creative and innovative potential of non-institutionalised and independent theatre practices, such as physical theatre, corporeal mime and improvisational theatre.
The strategy to achieve this is to develop and test an innovative incubating environment in which non-institutionalised and independent theatre practitioners will have the opportunity to develop their artistic and professional skills, and grow their production proposals through co-creation processes in collaboration with international and local artists.
The project will cover the travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of the successful applicants to this call.
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Artists from the field of movement-based theatre practices and/or with a strong relation to the body and movement in their artistic practice
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Artists who are Irish or UK residents, working freelance and/or in collectives (companies), based/registered in Ireland or the UK
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Collectives (companies) with eligibility for funding in their country of residence is a requirement
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Very good written and spoken English skills
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Applicants should be over 21 years old
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An interest in being a part of transnational collaboration and co-creation process
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An interest in building capacities in the areas of cultural business and audience development
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A commitment to networking and further developing international cooperation projects
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An interest in working with international artists to share, create and potentially show work within the context of the European Capitals of Culture 2020 (Rijeka and Galway)
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Working in an international context
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Improving professional skills
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Peer learning, education and training
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Improving career opportunities to work internationally
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Accessing new markets, creating network possibilities, building partnerships and contacts
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Reaching new and wider audiences
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This call relates to the ‘Digital Practices’ Lab, which will be held in Galway, Ireland.
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The lab will take place in Galway city and county.
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Artists from this call are invited to attend the Lab from April 27th – May 3rd 2019. These dates exclude travel dates. Please note we will be traveling to Inis Oirr (Galway County) on April 26th, traveling back to Galway City on May 2nd, and working in Galway City on May 3rd).
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All expenses will be covered, including travel, accommodation and subsistence (meals provided or per diem).
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During each Lab, an artist will have the opportunity to collaborate and co-create with nineteen (19) other artists. (10 international artists and 9 other artists from Ireland / UK). The lab will be co-facilitated by Project Artistic Director Ivana Peranic and GTF Project Manager Máiréad Ní Chróinín.
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At each Lab the co-creation activity will culminate in a work-in-progress showings. These will be public events held in different locations in each Art Incubator city, in which participating Make a Move artists will stage performances and interact with the local audience to receive feedback on the work that the artists will be developing in the Labs. As part of the Galway Lab, there will be two work-in-progress showings, first one will take place on Inis Oirr, and the second one will take place in Galway, as part of Galway Theatre Festival.
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Art Incubator participants will be supported in identifying and elaborating new cooperation project ideas.
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Artists will be expected to collaborate in the ‘action research’ element of the project: The ‘Make a Move’ project includes an academic research component that will document and analyse the labs as a model and methodology. Researchers from EU academic institutions (project partners) will be attending each lab as observers and will develop their research in close collaboration and consultation with the artists, through questionnaires and focus groups.
Please apply by filling in the online application form that includes your personal details, short biography, motivation letter, CV(s), reference(s) and links to examples of your work.
The deadline for applications is 12am (midnight) on March 22nd, 2019.
An interim decision will be made based on artistic quality, potentially including follow up interview via Skype.
The applicants will be informed about the final results, including waiting list by March 29th, 2019.
During March-April 2019, the selected Artists will be contracted by the project.
Application documentation:
The pilot execution of the Art Incubator will take place in three consecutive sessions in Galway (Ireland), Rijeka (Croatia) and Târgu-Mureș (Romania) during the course of 2019. The duration of each Art Incubator session/ Labs will be 10 days. The envisaged number of participants is 10 full-time artists that will be selected through a public call. Participants can either be individual independent theatre makers or members of the collective (company) selected to participate. For each session, another 10 participants will be selected, as auditing participants, from the local/regional non-institutionalised and independent theatre community.
Each Lab foresees a co-creation laboratory to enable immediate implementation of newly acquired skills, while benefiting from the interaction and networking with peers, mentors, international audiences and representatives of the respective European Capitals of Culture.
Each Lab will be conducted under a specific topic that is linked both with the curriculum, the specific location and the agenda of each European Culture Capital, illustrating a key element of the non-institutionalised and independent theatre agenda and identity.
Make a Move Art Incubator Galway – Digital Practices
The first session of the Art Incubator will focus on digital practices, both from a business point of view and an artistic point of view. The artistic element of the curriculum in Galway will introduce participants to artists who create work using digital technologies – for example, sensor-based interactions, mixed-reality experiences and virtual reality experiences. Through practical workshops with these artists the practitioners will have the opportunity to experiment with these technologies to understand how they can be incorporated artistically into their own work. This aspect of the curriculum will again draw on the artistic connections established through the Galway 2020’s ‘Windows on the World’ programme, a programme of work specifically oriented towards the creation of artistic work using digital technologies.
The business element of the curriculum in Galway will draw on Galway 2020’s aim to become the first ‘Virtual European Capital of Culture’, and will include workshops and talks with the Galway-based theatre artists and digital media experts on the process of incorporating a digital outreach element in their work. For example, participants will examine practices such as the ‘live streaming’ of theatre performances, and the creation of cross-media platforms that support the creation and dissemination of live performance work. It is also our intention that participants will learn tools and practices that will enable them to incorporate a digital element into the design and dissemination of their own work during the ‘Make a Move’ project, which will also feed into the overall project communication and dissemination activities.
During the Galway session, the participating artists will begin the process of identifying project ideas for follow-up cooperation projects after the conclusion of the Make a Move project. Idea identification, formulation and conservation will be conducted in the context of a series of three workshops – to take place at each Art Incubator session throughout the year 2019 – on project development and project fundraising. Throughout the series, the participants will learn about the topic of cultural funding policies in EU countries, challenges that non-institutional and independent theatre practitioners face in the frame of these policies and identifying ways how to manage those challenges. Recognised experts in the field will lead the workshops.
Make a Move Art Incubator Rijeka – Site-specific theatre and audience outreach
The second session of the Art Incubator will focus on the topic of site-specific theatre and progressive audience outreach practices in theatre, specifically on the topic of public space and urban locations as places for artistic exploration, work and interaction with the audiences. Within artistic elements of the curriculum in Rijeka, public spaces will be explored as site-specific theatre locations, places for artistic interventions, installations, community art works and other possible forms of contemporary theatre and performing arts practices. In collaboration with an expert historian of Rijeka who will lead a study visit of several Rijeka’s locations, and in partnership with cultural experts on audience development, artists will be developing their projects inside the frame of specific locations in Rijeka that have a strong meaning for the community either past, present and/or future. This topic of public space(s) is related to Rijeka 2020 programme that encourages progressive audience development practices by proposing a vision where ”urban areas become spaces where artistic projects are created in collaboration with the local community”. During the Rijeka session, the participating artists will continue the process of new project idea identification, formulation and development initiated at the first fundraising workshop during the Art Incubator session in Galway.
Make a Move Art Incubator Targu – Mures: InsideOut – Positioning non-institutionalised theatre practices in a critical journalistic and business context
The third session of the Art Incubator is dedicated to the topics of communication, business and fundraising skills. Many times artists find it difficult to talk about their work, which sometimes results in interviews or performance presentations filled with platitudes. Considering this, it may be difficult for theatre artists and collectives (companies) to promote their work, to gain finances and further to market the performance for the audience. Therefore this Art Incubator session is dedicated to presenting a multi-perspective approach to talking about the artistic product, considering ways of ‘translating’ the artistic universe into words, using tools from the areas of theatre criticism, journalism and/or aesthetics. At the same time product ‘storytelling’ will be considered from the point of view of many different audiences and assessed from the business and management perspective, accompanied with tips and tricks from cultural management professionals. The Art Incubator session in Targu-Mures will conclude the process of developing the first set of joint follow-up cooperation proposals coming out of the Art Incubator participants projects. The goal is to finish the development of at least 5 cooperation projects, arriving at the stage of having a clearly defined project idea coupled with a business plan for the project idea execution, including potential funding opportunities.
by Make a Move | Feb 15, 2019 | Barcelona Meeting, Target Group Need Identification Report
We are proud to announce the Barcelona Meeting that is going to be held in Sitges, Spain at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona.
This is an opportunity for academic and professional exchange between the project partners, associate partners, and collaborators, as well as with external stakeholders from the local, national and international context.
Barcelona Meeting is a three-day event hosted by IAB (Institute of Arts Barcelona) and divided in the following way:
1. Day One – Symposium with the delivery of the results
The Symposium will present the results of Target Group Need Identification research.
The purpose of the target group needs identification and elaboration is to inform the capacity building exercises envisaged for execution during the Galway, Rijeka, and Targu-Mures labs and to centre on the topics: (1) Artistic Excellence in the field of non-institutionalised and Independent Theatre Practice; (2) Business Model (3) Audience Development.
2. Day Two – Roundtable in the plenum with the discussion of the data delivered in the symposium and discussion of forthcoming strategies
Specific roundtables will be delivered on the topics: Artistic excellence in the field of Non-institutionalised and Independent Theatre Practice; Business Model; Audience Development. The roundtables aim at creating an open and democratic discussion on the target group needs identified in the research and at supporting the development of the co-creation of the lab curricula for the three Art Incubator pilot sessions that will be held in Galway, Rijeka and Targu Mures.
3. Day Three – Organizational meeting about the practical finalization of the strategies and the curricula/programmes to be delivered in Rijeka, Targu- Mures, and Galway
The goal of the third part of the meeting is to practically finalize the forthcoming activities, in terms of academic level, methodologies/strategies, business model, participants, timeframes.
Read more about the details of the Barcelona Meeting, schedule, guests and Target Group Needs Identification Report here!
by Make a Move | Nov 30, 2018 | News
Call for participation in “MAKE A MOVE” project 2019:
Deadline 30th December 2018
An Art incubator for contemporary European non-institutionalised and independent theatre
Posted on 30th November 2018
The incubator is aimed for all independent theatre makers, be it individual artists or collectives (companies), in the field of contemporary movement-based theatre practices (such as physical theatre, mime, improvisational theatre and other forms with a strong relation to the body and movement). We are using the terms “non-institutionalised” or “independent” theatre to refer to practices that take place outside and beyond established institutions or repertory theatres. However, we are aware that this realm of theatre can only be adequately understood and precisely named in the context of each individual European country or region.
The ‘Make a Move’ project objective is to contribute to the revitalization of European theatre by mobilizing the unutilized creative and innovative potential of non-institutionalised and independent theatre practices, such as physical theatre, corporeal mime and improvisational theatre.
The strategy to achieve this is to develop and test an innovative incubating environment in which non-institutionalised and independent theatre practitioners will have the opportunity to develop their artistic and professional skills and grow their production proposals from the stage of creative ideas to different stages of production and promotion. The project will identify at least 5 new cooperation opportunities and initiate applications to sources of funding.
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Mid-career theatre makers with at least 10 years of professional work, be it individual artists, collectives or companies
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Artists from the field of movement-based theatre practices and/or with a strong relation to the body and movement in their artistic practice
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Artists who are European residents, working freelance and/or in collectives (companies), based/registered in Europe
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Collectives (companies) with eligibility for funding in their country of residence is a requirement
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Very good written and spoken English skills
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An interest in being a part of transnational collaboration and co-creation process
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An interest in building capacities in the areas of cultural business and audience development
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A commitment to networking and further developing international cooperation projects
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A commitment to bringing artistic questions, interests or concerns and developing them further inside of the incubator
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An interest in sharing and showing work within the context of the European Capitals of Culture 2020 (Rijeka and Galway)
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Working in an international context
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Improving professional skills
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Peer learning, education and training
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Improving career opportunities to work internationally
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Accessing new markets, creating network possibilities, building partnerships and contacts
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Reaching new and wider audiences
There will be three thematically defined Labs as part of the whole Incubator in three cities
25/04/2019 – 04/05/2019
Galway, Ireland
Digital Practices
10/09/2019 – 19/09/2019
Rijeka, Croatia
Site-specific theatre and audience outreach
09/12/2019 – 18/12/2019
Targu – Mures, Romania
Inside Out – Positioning non-institutionalised theatre practices in a critical journalistic and business context
The dates exclude traveling days.
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The artist or collective will be paid 4.320,00 Euros for participating in all the three Labs.
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All expenses are paid including travel, accommodation and subsistence (or per diem).
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If an individual artist applies, they must attend all the three Labs of the incubator during 2019, in Galway (Ireland), Rijeka (Croatia) and Targu-Mures (Romania).
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If a collective of artists or a company applies, they have an option sending only one artist per Lab (2-3 artists in total for the whole Incubator).
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During each Lab, an artist will have the opportunity to collaborate and co-create with nine (9) other artists in residence and occasionally with some local or regional artists.
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At each Lab the co-creation activity will culminate in a work-in-progress showings. These will be public events held in different locations in each Art Incubator city, in which participating Make a Move artists will stage performances and interact with the local audience to receive feedback on the work that the artists will be developing in the Labs.
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Art Incubator participants will blog about their experience and the artists’ blogs will be available on the project website. The blogs will be part of a reflective process that will allow other external artists and cultural managers to understand the evolution of the artists’ practices through the Labs and the co-creation laboratories, and will include photos, videos, etc.
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Art Incubator participants will be supported in identifying and elaborating new cooperation project ideas.
Please apply by filling in the online application form that includes your personal details, short biography, motivation letter, CV(s), reference(s) and links to examples of your work.
Please make sure you are filling in the right application form since there are two options: one for an individual theatre maker and the other for a collective (company).
The deadline for the application is 30th December 2018 at 5pm (GMT).
An interim decision will be made based on artistic quality, potentially including follow up interview via Skype.
The applicants will be informed about the final results, including waiting list by February 2019.
During February 2019, the selected Artists/Collectives will be contracted by the project.
Application for an individual artist:
Application for a collective:
Application documentation:
For more information email us on info@krila.org (Subject: MAM Call Inquiry)
The pilot execution of the Art Incubator will take place in three consecutive sessions in Galway (Ireland), Rijeka (Croatia) and Târgu-Mureș (Romania) during the course of 2019. The duration of each Art Incubator session/ Labs will be 10 days. The envisaged number of participants is 10 full-time artists that will be selected through a public call. Participants can either be individual independent theatre makers or members of the collective (company) selected to participate. For each session, another 10 participants will be selected, as auditing participants, from the local/regional non-institutionalised and independent theatre community.
Each Lab foresees a co-creation laboratory to enable immediate implementation of newly acquired skills, while benefiting from the interaction and networking with peers, mentors, international audiences and representatives of the respective European Capitals of Culture.
Each Lab will be conducted under a specific topic that is linked both with the curriculum, the specific location and the agenda of each European Culture Capital, illustrating a key element of the non-institutionalised and independent theatre agenda and identity.
Make a Move Art Incubator Galway – Digital Practices
The first session of the Art Incubator will focus on digital practices, both from a business point of view and an artistic point of view. The artistic element of the curriculum in Galway will introduce participants to artists who create work using digital technologies – for example, sensor-based interactions, mixed-reality experiences and virtual reality experiences. Through practical workshops with these artists the practitioners will have the opportunity to experiment with these technologies to understand how they can be incorporated artistically into their own work. This aspect of the curriculum will again draw on the artistic connections established through the Galway 2020’s ‘Windows on the World’ programme, a programme of work specifically oriented towards the creation of artistic work using digital technologies.
The business element of the curriculum in Galway will draw on Galway 2020’s aim to become the first ‘Virtual European Capital of Culture’, and will include workshops and talks with the Galway-based theatre artists and digital media experts on the process of incorporating a digital outreach element in their work. For example, participants will examine practices such as the ‘live streaming’ of theatre performances, and the creation of cross-media platforms that support the creation and dissemination of live performance work. It is also our intention that participants will learn tools and practices that will enable them to incorporate a digital element into the design and dissemination of their own work during the ‘Make a Move’ project, which will also feed into the overall project communication and dissemination activities.
During the Galway session, the participating artists will begin the process of identifying project ideas for follow-up cooperation projects after the conclusion of the Make a Move project. Idea identification, formulation and conservation will be conducted in the context of a series of three workshops – to take place at each Art Incubator session throughout the year 2019 – on project development and project fundraising. Throughout the series, the participants will learn about the topic of cultural funding policies in EU countries, challenges that non-institutional and independent theatre practitioners face in the frame of these policies and identifying ways how to manage those challenges. Recognised experts in the field will lead the workshops.
Make a Move Art Incubator Rijeka – Site-specific theatre and audience outreach
The second session of the Art Incubator will focus on the topic of site-specific theatre and progressive audience outreach practices in theatre, specifically on the topic of public space and urban locations as places for artistic exploration, work and interaction with the audiences. Within artistic elements of the curriculum in Rijeka, public spaces will be explored as site-specific theatre locations, places for artistic interventions, installations, community art works and other possible forms of contemporary theatre and performing arts practices. In collaboration with an expert historian of Rijeka who will lead a study visit of several Rijeka’s locations, and in partnership with cultural experts on audience development, artists will be developing their projects inside the frame of specific locations in Rijeka that have a strong meaning for the community either past, present and/or future. This topic of public space(s) is related to Rijeka 2020 programme that encourages progressive audience development practices by proposing a vision where ”urban areas become spaces where artistic projects are created in collaboration with the local community”. During the Rijeka session, the participating artists will continue the process of new project idea identification, formulation and development initiated at the first fundraising workshop during the Art Incubator session in Galway.
Make a Move Art Incubator Targu – Mures: InsideOut – Positioning non-institutionalised theatre practices in a critical journalistic and business context
The third session of the Art Incubator is dedicated to the topics of communication, business and fundraising skills. Many times artists find it difficult to talk about their work, which sometimes results in interviews or performance presentations filled with platitudes. Considering this, it may be difficult for theatre artists and collectives (companies) to promote their work, to gain finances and further to market the performance for the audience. Therefore this Art Incubator session is dedicated to presenting a multi-perspective approach to talking about the artistic product, considering ways of ‘translating’ the artistic universe into words, using tools from the areas of theatre criticism, journalism and/or aesthetics. At the same time product ‘storytelling’ will be considered from the point of view of many different audiences and assessed from the business and management perspective, accompanied with tips and tricks from cultural management professionals. The Art Incubator session in Targu-Mures will conclude the process of developing the first set of joint follow-up cooperation proposals coming out of the Art Incubator participants projects. The goal is to finish the development of at least 5 cooperation projects, arriving at the stage of having a clearly defined project idea coupled with a business plan for the project idea execution, including potential funding opportunities.
