La transplanisphère team just got back from Lesbos, Greece where we spent 5 inspiring days working on the workshops aimed for European youth during Theater Makes Politics seminar. *What is Theater Makes Politics? It is the project coordinated by Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik e.V and is meant to create artistic and creative responses on anti-democratic influences in European societies. This year, topics of the workshops were the following: Conspiracy theories and disinformation, Racism and anti-refugees’ rhetoric and Far-right Extremism and religious fundamentalism (Muslim and Christian).The program consisted of 4 training workshops by
We’re tackling chapter 3 of the LeCake Train project: The Shift Project shares with the 7 partners the results of the report Decarbonizing Culture in a European Perspective. Next week, the team heads off to Lesbos Island in Greece to question extremism, fundamentalism and conspiracy theories in a new European workshop ”Theater Makes Politics”. Our residency at the Lycée Schweitzer in Le Raincy (Seine Saint Denis) has led to the opening of an Erasmus project class, on the subject of Consumption in Europe. First workshop day with the students on
The 9th edition of the forum brought together cultural players under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture The “Entreprendre dans la culture” forum was held from 4 to 6 July at the École nationale d’architecture de Paris-Belleville. Among the speakers at the round tables was Bruno Freyssinet, artistic director of La Transplanisphère projects, who took part in a round table organised by the Relais Culture Europe to decipher the Europe Créative programme. He also took part in a second round table led by the Erasmus Agency. He gave the
LeCAKE Train is led by a European consortium from Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. It is already supported by Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships and the Paris Europe Label. The Call to Action selected the project for an action strand in Seine Saint Denis starting in September 2023. Turning knowledge into practical action For the record, LeCAKE Train began in October 2022 with research into ecological benchmarks: ODD, Green deal, Giec, etc. This research led to the design of workshop sequences designed to help people understand these benchmarks and turn them
From 29 July to 5 August 2023, the Europefiction camp will be held in Dortmund at KJT Dortmund. For 8 days, 150 young people will be practising art and theatre together and performing in public. Reminder of the project Every year, several associated European theatres or artistic companies come together in Germany. They come to rethink European identity through artistic projects and exchanges.The Europefiction project is about encounter and dialogue at a time when borders are once again visible and perceptible, and international relations need to find new ways forward.Working together
The next workshop in the Theater Makes Politics project will be held in Lesbos, Greece, from 26 September to 2 October 2023. The partners will present and test the four Theater Makes Politics training workshops and the material developed by the four working groups. Reminder of the project Based on theatrical practices, TMP aims to offer a creative response to religious extremism, populism, racism and conspiracy theories in Europe. The project aims to overcome prejudice and help young people discover the pleasure of sharing, acting and taking action. The project
The project Europefiction Academy ended in June 2023. Thanks to this project, which began in September 2021, ten artistic companies from France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary, Belgium and Germany were able to join forces in this partnership supported by Erasmus+. Several meetings in the different partner countries have been organised to design the 6 methodologies. Reminder of the project Based on Europefiction‘s experience, this project aims to devise six innovative methodologies for conveying the value of a democratic future to young people, using art as a means of expression on
The Oratio mix project addresses the issue of intercultural dialogue in Europe, which is both a priority and a sensitive subject depending on the country concerned. It aims to question relations between Europeans, as well as between Europeans and the rest of the world. The project recognises that European cohesion has been put to the test in recent years by events such as European enlargement, the financial crisis, the migration crisis, terrorism and the health crisis. These periods have often been marked by reactions of rejection, exclusion and nationalist withdrawal.
GRESYS – Green stories from youth to stage is an ERASMUS+ small-scale partnership project in the youth field, run by an Italian and two French cultural organisations: Teatro alla Guilla, La Transplanisphère and ALTER EGO (X).The project started in May 2023 and will finish on 1 August 2024. The project aims to raise young people’s awareness of the objectives of the UN’s Agenda 2030, by highlighting your own ecological experiences and commitments through theatrical narration. Project concept: an ecological approach to theatre Alarmed by reports from institutions about the feeling
From 10 to 15 July 2023, we met in Berlin for the Creative Commune project on the method of citizens’ tribunals on the model of the Russell Tribunal. This model was held in Stockholm in 1967 on the initiative of Bertrand Russell and under the direction of Jean-Paul Sartre to judge the United States for its involvement in the Vietnam War. Reminder of the aim of the Creative Commune project Creative Commune aims to develop practical artistic tools for NGOs and citizen groups in Europe. These tools are based on