CREATIVE EUROPE COOPERATION WEBINAR 2023
Open Street aisbl organizes a two-day webinar on Wednesday 25th and Friday 27th January 2023. The meeting will be aimed 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 February 23th, 2023.
Open Street is a performing arts network that embraces Europe and has been successful with EU culture tenders countless times. One of its tasks is to bring together organizations from all countries of the continent in the performing arts sector and to foster the creation of new partnerships. That's why the initiative at the end of January is not just a workshop but a cultural cooperation event.
The meeting will take place on Zoom platform. In the two afternoons it will be possible to follow and participate of work in English, Italian and French, thanks to the provision of 3 different audio channels within the platform and the simultaneous translation carried out by professional interpreters.
The European Agenda of Street & Circus Performing Arts Festivals updated month by month
COOPERATION PROJECTS: CALL ONLINE
Published by the Culture Agency of the European Communities the Call of Creative Europe for cooperation projects.
It was published with two months delay the expected 2017 Call about Cooperation Project in the ambit of CREATIVE EUROPE Programme. The deadline for submission of applications is November 23rd. Open Street aisbl is available to help its members for partnerships building and assistance on application dossiers preparation.
>>> COOPERATION
Category 1 -
Small-scale cooperation project
Partnership: at least 1 project leader + 2 partners (3 different countries)
EU co-financing: up to 200,000 euros (up to 60% of total costs).
Duration: up to 48 months
Category 2 -
Large-scale cooperation Project
Partnership: at least 1 project leader + 5 partners (5 different countries).
EU funding: up to € 2,000,000 (up to 50% of total costs).
Duration: up to 48 months
The Nobel Jester left us!
Dario Fo, one of the great actors of world popular theater, passed away at the age of 90 years.
The death of Dario Fo, on October 13th, 2016, is a great loss for the European Popular performing arts. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1997 "because, following the tradition of medieval jesters, he mocks the power, restoring dignity to the oppressed", within him the art of buffoon reached very high levels.
Dario Fo has stimulated the birth and spread of Italian Street Theatre movement. It has often championed the liberalization of urban spaces in Italian cities, and the political sentiment has always been a foundation of his shows.
Open Street support Rhodes-Dodecanese 2021
Rhodes is at the final selection stage for the title of the European Capital of Culture for the year 2021. Its Candidacy titled “Rhodes/Dodecanese 2021: Journey to the Light” was pre-selected last February among 14 Greek cities, and now competes with Kalamata and Ellefsina. The winner will be designated this coming November.
Open Street aisbl has signed an agreement protocol for cooperation in the project, with the Committee chaired by Nikos Chatzipapas, historical member of the network Open Street, director of the INTERNATIONAL STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL in Athens.
CREATIVE EUROPE
Waiting the last call
July 2016 is the month in which the last call of the largest European programme for cultural and creative sector it will be published.
The Creative Europe programme is a 1.46 billion euro programme dedicated to the cultural and creative sector for 2014-2020, it includes two subprogrammes (Culture and MEDIA)
Call issuing: July 2016
Submission deadline: October 2016
Information to applicants: March 2017
>>> COOPERATION
Category 1 -
Small-scale cooperation project
Partnership: at least 1 project leader + 2 partners (3 different countries)
EU co-financing: up to 200,000 euros (up to 60% of total costs).
Duration: up to 48 months
Category 2 -
Large-scale cooperation Project
Partnership: at least 1 project leader + 5 partners (5 different countries).
EU funding: up to € 2,000,000 (up to 50% of total costs).
Duration: up to 48 months
The UK performing arts view on Brexit
Majority of performing arts opinions leaders are Worried about Brexit: 'A huge step backwards for creatives'

The prospect of leaving the EU has been variously described as a “nightmare”, “artistic isolation” and a “huge creative step backwards” by arts leaders surveyed by the Media.
The vast majority of figures contacted from a Gardian Journalists team, and many more responding to a Guardian appeal, said they were against the UK leaving the union for both practical and emotional reasons.
Many voiced fears about barriers to the free movement of labour and the loss of access to EU arts funding.
Alistair Spalding, chief executive of Sadler’s Wells theatre in London, one of the UK’s most internationally diverse venues, said he could not think of a single advantage to leaving, but foresaw many problems.
"There is the nightmare of visa and work permit applications that we have to do. It is less complex for countries in the EU but that would all be thrown up in the air… we would have to bring in more staff to deal with it... Honestly, I don’t think people really understand what a nightmare it is. Leaving Europe, for our business, it’s bad".