To whom it may concern. Denmark, 11/05/17. INVITATION TO: LET S MEET AND SHARE - Formats of Caravan Next

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1 To whom it may concern Denmark, 11/05/17 INVITATION TO: LET S MEET AND SHARE - Formats of Caravan Next Location: Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium Odin Teatret Address: Særkærparken Holstebro DK Space: Red Room Date: 16th June 2017 Time: Fee: Free Sign up: [place2book] Let s Meet and Share - Formats of Caravan Next is a one-day meeting during the Holstebro Festuge (10-18 June), which creates an opportunity for sharing, debating and inspiring, out of our experience with different ways of engaging spectators and developing new festival formats, in the first phase of the Caravan Next. Caravan Next is a large-scale Social Community Theatre (SCT) collaborative project connecting professional artists with communities and local citizens in a network of theatre organisations and cultural institutions. Caravan Next consists of 13 partners from 11 European countries, which will promote theatre and art events throughout Europe, from September 2015 till the begining of Let s Meet and Share - Formats of Caravan Next will give a small glimpse of concrete results of different ways of working with communities on a european level. Each case will give insights on why, with whom and how they did it. Look at it as a small toolbox you can use afterwards. The cases presented, don t represent all the events of Caravan Next 25 small and 5 large festival formats. Caravan Next is focused on bringing SCT events to cities and villages in a way to rethink them as broad open air venues, local art squares connected at European level (GLOCAL level) where citizens, professionals and artists can give life to their own community theatrical events. In addition to the meeting Let s Meet and Share - Formats of Caravan Next, we also invite you to experience a performance with more then 70 horses by the sea

2 and a barter in a fishing village. Use this sole opportunnity to meet all the european partners in the Caravan Next project: Association des Agences de la Democratie Locale (ALDA), France Bürgerstiftung Rohrmeisterei Schwerte (ROHRMEISTEREI), Germany Centro de Arte y Producciones Teatrales SL (ATALAYA/TNT), Spain Farm in the Cave (FARM IN THE CAVE) Czech Republic Kulturno Izobrazevalno Drustvo Kibla (KIBLA), Slovenia Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium - Odin Teatret (ODIN TEATRET), Denmark Omma Studio Private Non Profit Company (OMMA), Greece Social Community Theatre Centre, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (UNITO/SCT), Italy Società Consortile per Azioni OGR-CRT (OGR-CRT), Italy Stichting ZID (ZID THEATRE), The Netherlands Stowarzyszenie Edukacyjno - Spoleczno - Kulturalne (TEATR BRAMA), Poland Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece Truc Sphérique/Stanica (TRUC SPHÉRIQUE), Slovakia See the full program for Holstebro Festuge here and give us a like at With kind regards Per Kap Bech Jensen Project manager Caravan Next

3 PROGRAM Registration Lunch Opening by Per Kap Bech Jensen (Caravan Next Manager) and Alberto Pagliarino (Caravan Next Artistic Coordinator) A Way to Address Communities by Alessandra Ghiglione (Caravan Next Methodological Supervisor) Case 1: Truc Sphérique, Slovakia Q & A case Case 2: The Lab Station (Forsøgsstationen), Denmark Q & A case Let s talk and have coffee Case 3: Bürgerstiftung Rohrmeisterei Schwerte, Germany Q & A case Case 4: Omma Studio Theatre, Greece Q & A case Dialogue and sum up Transfer to Husby and networking in the bus Animaglyphe - with Thèâtre du Centaure (France) at the shore of the sea in Husby Transfer to Thorsminde and networking in the bus Picnic Theatrum Nauticum - directed by Kai Bredholdt of Odin Teatret Transfer to Holstebro Program done

4 About the Keynotes: Truc Sphérique, Slovakia Truc Sphérique the non-governmental organisation for contemporary arts and culture in Zilina, Slovakia opened Stanica in Stanica is a platform for information, research, and realisation of experimental art, cultural and community projects and international and inter-sector communication. An example of this is the Kinobus: a cultural barter and social community event. The Kinobus project is focused on the re-vitalization of the village cinema houses in various regions of Slovakia. The Lab Station (Forsøgsstationen), Denmark The Lab Station aims to encourage research, development and training in professional performance art in Denmark. The Lab Station is established in the antique cinema Boulevard, where they offer ongoing training programmes, develop research projects, organise workshops and have a library of books and films on theatre and art. The Lab Station wish to be a platform for performing artists to experiment with their craft through co-operations and mutual exchange. Bürgerstiftung Rohrmeisterei Schwerte, Germany Rohrmeisterei s key activity is maintaining a big former industry fabric hall and crossfinancing culture with culinary and gastronomy, hosting cultural and artistic events and producing sociocultural projects. Rohrmeisterei works closely together with local artists, like the theatre group of the artistic director Christoph Falke. Management and artistic know-how work hand in hand in this collaboration for socio-cultural and social community theatre projects. Christoph Falke and his group have conducted in the last years several temporary and permanent projects in the frame of community theatre. Omma Studio Theatre, Greece Omma Theatre proposes new theatrical codes to the spectators and explores how the theatre can operate in today s world, searching and testing the acceptable principles of theatre. Omma calls the way they do theatre for space theatre, because they are trying to change space and time with their presence. They try to achieve this by applying specific principles based on physical actions. Omma makes street theatre and perform in non-theatrical spaces, in old storehouses, abandoned buildings, old schools, in Greece and abroad.

5 Caravan NEXT strategic and specific objectives are consistent with the objectives and priorities of the Culture Sub-programme of the Creative Europe Programme. Caravan Next Strategic Objectives 1. International System: developing an Integrated European SCT System for the international exchange of cultural products and professionals, in a durable and sustainable way, promoting collaboration among artists and professionals of SCT in the international arena, with a particular attention to all European areas. 2. Audience Development: consolidate the methodology of the European SCT in order to achieve innovative and transferable format of audience development, with a particular attention to the involvement of new audiences in the cultural field. 3. Digital Technologies: developing the integration between Digital Technologies and SCT methodology to facilitate an audience development process, innovate the artistic events and enhance the interaction between local and international levels. 4. Create Europe: to promote a participatory and proactive cultural reflection on the theme of "being a European citizen". Caravan Next Specific Objectives - Promotion of community cultural empowerment with a particular attention to the involvement of new groups of the population. - To implement and consolidate, through dedicated paths, the skills of professionals on topics of the audience development and use of digital technologies in the cultural field. - To implement and consolidate through dedicated paths, the skills of audience on topics of the languages of performing arts and use of digital technologies in the cultural field. - Development of tools in the field of new technologies relevant to the work of audience development, cultural planning, construction and consolidation of networks and international exchange. - Creation of a European "Business model of SCT, by "business model" meaning a system of equitable opportunities to help the SCT grow in Europe and give equal opportunities to exchange to all partners of each country.