The Legend of Europa

  Cre-Actors comes to an end! Words from the project participants, waiting for future adventures to come And so, as every beautiful journey, our Cre-Actors’ project has almost come to its end. The incredible richness not only of the processes and practices shared, but of the participants met and of the partners involved is present and told: first of all in our beautiful ebook (which you can read here https://issuu.com/border-crossings/docs/cre-actors_e-book ); then in the Cre-Actors blog ( https://cre-actors.blogspot.com/ ) and Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/creactorserasmusplus ); and finally on the websites and social media of all the partners. But the way we want to tell you goodbye is through some of the reflections and impressions given at the end of the process by all the participants in their reports and comments (starting from myself): the diversity of perspectives, ideas, backgrounds of this small but great community is what made the process and the project s...

  The Cre-Actors’ e-book is online! After the launch of November 3rd, Cre-Actors’ e-book is online! The e-book explores how devised theatre can and should be made in an ever more intercultural Europe. As well as being a handbook for devising, it also includes responses to workshops and performances, debates and controversies, and an interview with Ariane Mnouchkine. Cre-Actors: Training Intercultural Theatre-Makers for a Diverse Europe E-book edited by Jonathan Meth (The Fence) and Michael Walling (Border Crossings) Co-ordinating Organisation: Border Crossing (Ireland - www.bordercrossings.ie ) Partner Organisations: Teatro dell’Argine (Italy - www.teatrodellargine.org ), Théâtre du Soleil (France - https://theatre-du-soleil.fr/fr/ ), The Fence (Sweden - http://the-fence.net/ ) Associated Partners: Blue Raincoat Company (Ireland), Cantieri Meticci APS (Italy), Kabosh Theatre Company (Northern Ireland), Tallaght Community Arts (Ireland), Riksteatern (Sweden) To watch the presentatio...

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 sugge...

Cre-Actors: working on the ebook The crack Cre-Actors team of 8 drawn from across the 4 partner countries met over 2 days in Stockholm; just as the temperature of the water began to divide the Northern Europeans from their Southern cousins when it came to swimming in one of the glorious lakes which lie 20 minutes from the centre of Sweden’s capital. We came together to mull over plans for the e-book which will serve as the key resource emerging from our Cre-Actors project. This will be a lively, visual, aural and narrative journey for all those interested in how to work collaboratively, interculturally to make theatre across languages, cultures, different organisational shapes and national contexts. As well as the e-book we were also delighted to learn about our Swedish hosts Riksteatern, from Dritëro Kasapi (Artistic Director) and Pratik Virhani (Co-ordinator of International relations). Founded in 1933, Riksteatern is the national touring company covering theatre, dance, ballet, youn...