The project at a glance
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30 seconds video to get the basics of Polart Circle
20 minutes description of the Polart Circle project
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.
- 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