The Cre-Actors’ ebook is ready!

The Cre-Actors’ ebook is ready!
Online launch on November 3rd at 19.00 (CET)

“We only know who we are in exchange with others.”
(Hannah Arendt)

After two years of project, 3 training courses, 5 transnational gatherings of the team leaders, and many more online meetings, CRE-ACTORS’ arrives to its final and maybe most important output: the ebook collecting practices, processes and methodologies of theatre creation in intercultural contexts, that have been shared by the partner companies Théâtre du Soleil (France), Border Crossings (Ireland), Teatro dell’Argine (Italy), with the help and under the look of The Fence (Sweden) network!

The first thought, when you come almost to the end of an important and meaningful project, is going back to its beginning. And our beginning was right during the first Covid-19 rush. As Michael Walling writes in the ebook’s Introduction: “When we first planned our two-year collaboration it was early 2020, and it seemed almost impossible that what we were suggesting would ever happen. Travel, theatre, even physical meetings were all prevented by the need to contain the virus. As the project unfolded, there were constant setbacks as a result of new waves and new lockdowns. […]
But somehow we did it. We met in person and we worked together as living bodies in physical space. We spoke, we sang, we laughed, and in all of these things we celebrated breath. Breath is life. Breath is spirit. In all of the CRE-ACTORS workshops there was a great sense of euphoria, of relief, of freedom and celebration. Creativity, humanity, was no longer confined. Simply to gather came to feel like a revolutionary action.”

The ebook will be presented in detail through an online event on November 3rd, and then made publicly available online, so that all those interested can have a closer look to the processes made and the exchanges realized by artists with a very diverse background and different approaches, all engaged with intercultural creation.

But, if I should choose for you an anticipation of the core of this work, I will quote the ebook summary: 
“These approaches will enable our work to be genuinely inclusive, intercultural and dialogic, as people from different backgrounds learn with and from each other, towards a common good. Theatre is a hugely important starting place for this crucial work: a space of experiment, where societies can think about themselves publicly. It offers a laboratory for approaches to living, education and social interaction that can be adapted and applied more widely to European societies in the future.”

Theatre, society, space, education, experiment, FUTURE.
Join us in the online presentation and then read the book and let us know! 

The online event is open to everybody on Zoom platform here.