OPEN STREET EUROPEAN FESTIVALS AGENDA

Given the progressive improvement of pandemic conditions and the loosening of safety rules in many European countries, on May 18th, 2020 Open Street aisbl decided to take a census of the European network of performing arts festivals and launched a European agenda where operators in each country will be able to note down the dates of cancelled / to be confirmed / confirmed festivals. This initiative aims to promote artistic programming and defend the creative chain. Thank you for your contribution.

You can contribute by entering the dates of your international event yourself. If you are an artist and you know all the data of the festivals that host you this year, you can contribute to the Agenda too.

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POETIC INVASION FESTIVAL STARTS

70 companies from 15 countries are in competition in 3 sections of Poetic Invasion Festival (Bremen, Sibiu and Montegranaro). Cooperating countries are the main protagonists of program.

The POETIC INVASION FESTIVAL starts today, 8th June 2018, in the absolutely prestigious frame of the SIBIU INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL. The following weekend, for 3 days the streets and squares of the city of Bremen will be filled with artists and companies from all over the world for the new edition of LA STRADA International Festival.

Finally, from the 22nd to the 30th of June, the third section of the PIC Festival will see the light in Italy, in the small town of Montegranaro, inside the VEREGRASTREET Festival, an event that celebrates its 20th anniversary.

About 70 of the companies that will perform in Sibiu, Bremen and Montegranaro, have signed up to the new platform www.poeticinvasion.eu, implemented by Open Street aisbl, and will be voted from the public. In each of the 3 locations of PIC FESTIVAL, the artistic proposal that will receive the best rating, will have the opportunity to participate in the other festivals of the network.

More informations and updates about the european contest on www.poeticinvasion.eu

OPEN STREET AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
BRUSSELS (23rd May 2018)

City of Certaldo (IT), Open Street aisbl, 7 MEPs, 27 Institution of 5 Countries have been involved in a meeting at European Parliament in Bruxelles for Mysteries & Drolls project presentation

23 May 2018 is an important date for the cultural cooperation project Mysteries and Drolls: in Brussels, at the European Parliament, thanks to the interest of the European Parliamentarian Nicola Danti, together with the Project Leader Municipality of Certaldo and the coordination of Open Stret aisbl, the European cultural cooperation project is presented to the invited European Parlamentarians together with representatives of governmental and cultural institutions from the countries involved. The presentation of the project will be an unrepeatable occasion to emphasize to Parlamentarians invited how culture can play a dominant role in practically all European policies, thus encouraging all Member States and the European Parliament to guarantee a substantial and sustainable increase in the budget assigned to the culture. It is hoped that the presentation of the project could represent a significant event for the future of the European theatre, thanks to which the cultural cooperation promoted by Open Street will be recognized by the governments and institutions of the continent.

The important result achieved will be able to introduce Mysteries and Drolls as an excellent example of cultural co-operation. The project, designed by Open Street aisbl, foresees a framework of research, training and experimentation, in an European and intercultural dimension, on the forms and languages of medieval theatre and jester arts, emphasizing the centrality of the forms of the sacred and the buffoon, which are the very roots of every theatrical form of today and represents a common and shared heritage for the whole continent.

More Information about Project: www.populartheatre.eu

Speech by Alessio Michelotti - Open Street aisbl: Speech Alessio Michelotti 23rd mai 2018

Meeting Agenda: Agenda M&D Meeting, Eu Parliaments

POETIC INVASION Festival
Bremen DE, Sibiu RO, Montegranaro IT (June 2018)

Opportunities for artists and companies from Italy, Belgium, Germany, Romania (Deadline 28th February)

Open Street aisbl in partnership with the VEREGRA STREET International Festival (Montegranaro IT – Project Leader), LA STRADA International Street Performance Festival (Bremen DE) and SIBIU International Theatre Festival, working on POETIC INVASION project for the years 2018-2020, with the contribution of the European Community as part of the CREATIVE EUROPE Program. The project's activity plan focuses on the use of unconventional spaces in the performing arts and includes programming, production and training actions.

MYSTERIES & DROLLS Festival
Belfast - UK (4th-7th May 2018)

Opportunities for artists and companies from Italy, Spain, Poland, Germany (Deadline 18th February)

Open Street aisbl supports the Mysteries & Drolls project, an international cooperation project that sees in partnership the Mercantia Festival (Municipality of Certaldo, Italy, Project Leader), the Festival of Folls (Belfast, UK), the production centers Maracaibo Teatro (Elche, Spain), Proscenium (Gliwice, Poland), Tempus Fugit (Lorrach, Germany). The project is developed for 3 years (from 2018 to 2020), with the contribution of the European Community as part of the CREATIVE EUROPE Program. The activity plan of the project focuses on the relationship between sacred and popular theatre and includes programming, production and training activities.

Creative Europe Cooperation Week-End

BRUXELLES - Ven 10 - Sab 11 Novembre 2017

Open Street aisbl organizes a two-day workshop in Brussels on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th November. The meeting will be organized at the headquarters of association, at Rue Washington 40, aiming to understand all the theoretical and practical aspects of the last Creative Europe Call - Cooperation Projects – in order to prepare good applications by the deadline of January 18, 2018.

An international meeting dedicated to members, unique in its kind, being dedicated specifically to the performing arts world. It is also an opportunity to get acquainted new partners with the same interests or converging interests.

DOWNLOAD THE WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Do not miss this training opportunity, which could revive the European dimension of your activity:

SUBMIT NOW THE PARTICIPATION FORM IN 4 SIMPLE STEPS [DEADLINE 1st November]