The project at a glance
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30 seconds video to get the basics of Polart Circle
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20 minutes description of the Polart Circle project
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Kick off meeting at Public Open University Zagreb, Croatia, Dec. 2016
Polart Circle initiates a partner’s platform at the European scale, associating art companies, scholars, universities, civil society organisations and youth integration organisations.
Activities gathers artist-educators, emerging artists, experts and citizens interested in the relationship between art and politics.
Led on a three year period (2016-2019), the activities consist in workshops, researches, artist residencies, production of Moocs and organization of events.
During this experience, participants collaborate to conceive a methodology formalising the artistic creation process, associating art and politics. Participants then disseminate this methodology throughout Europe: promotion weekends and online publication of video material, like Moocs.
The thematic agenda considers each year as a “season”, throught the angle of one discipline:
- season 1 (2016-2017) – Writing / exploring art and politics through a writing experience
- season 2 (2017-2018) – Staging / exploring art and politics through designing and staging
- season 3 (2018-2019) – Acting / exploring art and politics through characters and performing
More here about the project philosophy.
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- La Transplanisphere (Fr) is a theatre company coordinating the project, based in Paris (France)
- Teatermaskinen (Sue) is a theatre venue based in the swedish countryside
- ExQuorum (Port) is a theatre company based in Evora
- Ortzai Teatro (Spain) is a theatre venue, a school and a company based in Vitoria Gasteiz (Basque country)
- Volcano Theatre (UK) is a theatre venue and a company based in Swansea, Wales.
- The Lithuanian Academy (LT) of Music and Theatre is the National school for arts in Vilnius.
- Public Open University Zabreb (Croatia) is a large university in Zagreb.
- Cittadinanzattiva (Italy) is a major NGO from Roma
- ODC Ensemble / Vyrsodepseio (Greece) is a theatre company from Athens