Magazine Le Cercle, published by Arti e Parole
The inauguration of the travelling project "Dare to say it... Able to do it?" in Paris, created by the association Arti e Parole. Through the combination of architecture and performing arts, artists and citizens of France, Mexico, Germany, Poland and Italy come together for an exchange multidisciplinary creative project and reflection workshops to discuss the topic of "Freedom of imagination / Freedom to act"
The French-Italian association Arti e Parole (Arts and Speech) launches an international exchange programme focusing on a major citizen issue: the speech and its power. During the upcoming two years, the association organises an ambitious cultural project of European and International cooperation around the subject "Dare to say it, be able to do it", with artistic and institutional partners from France, Germany, Poland, Italy and Mexico. The inauguration of the projects is set in Paris, with a first session of workshops spread throughout three days, and a public forum in anticipation of the new issue of the magazine Le Cercle, published by Arti e Parole.
The project's goal is to investigate one of the major questions of society: the power of our imagination and our freedom to act. The matter is discussed through such artistic and civic forms as architecture and performing arts. The former is represented by Mexico, as a recognised reflection of society and innovative art in which Mexico excels in on a worldwide level, while the latter is represented by European countries, where performing arts are used as a tool to denounce flaws of society. These different approaches of art are meant to feed the different points of view on the topic, while also taking the specific contexts of the observed democracies into account.
The project has also a more inspirational goal, as the organisers hope to generate vocations, motivate people into rethinking their way of living, by touching local communities and political institutions. This double ambition is expressed at the very start of the programme, which features a creative process, associating architecture (as the Mexican approach) and performing arts (European approach), which leads to a cycle of 3 multidisciplinary performances. The basis of the creation features 5 writing commissions, whose authors write under the project's main title: "Dare to say it... Able to do it?". Aside from the text, each performance also integrates a musical and cinematographic creation in its production, as well as architecture, used as a central element and innovative technological tool for the stage design. The performances then travel to Mexico, Germany, Poland and Italy, accompanied by an exhibition and "reflection workshops".
The programme of the reflection workshops is meant to evolve along with the organic growth of the creative process. However, all of the five meetings in each city visited by the project will certainly feature workshops on artistic/urbanism practice, interviews with participating artists and lambda citizens, as well as public debates associating artists, urbanists, architects, local representatives and citizens. Each workshop will end with the publication of its synthesis, featuring a "Citizen Manifest" that defines the continuation and developments opportunities meant to be followed by each participating group. A documentary film will also capture the different steps of the project.
The development of the project in each city is coordinated and promoted by a local network of cultural and educational operators, that provide the basis for every event and its continuation. This includes artistic local co-organisers, structures that insure the local creation of the project led by the association Arti e Parole, universities and higher education institutions to host all international workshops, meetings and exchanges, bilingual actors that participate in interpretation workshops and perform in all of the three theatre pieces created, as well as researchers and publishing houses that document and distribute the texts finalising each meeting.
Artists participating in the project: Patrizia Buzzi Barone, writer and stage director (Italy); Ascanio Celestini, writer, actor and director (Italy); Werner Fritsch, poet and writer (Germany); Art Grabov, writer and poet (Poland); Lorna Lawrie, choreographer (France-Argentina); Tomek Jarolim, digital artist (France-Poland); Meir Lobaton, architect (Mexico); Philipp Löhle, writer and stage director (Germany) and Jérémie Rhörer, composer and musician (France).
The project "Dare to say it... Able to do it?" is co-organised by: the Center of Design, Cinema and Television in Mexico, the Mainz State Theater (Germany), the Drama Agency ADIT (Poland) and the Fondazione Teatro Piemonte Europa (Italy)
Associated partners: Centro de las Artes-CENART of Mexico City, the Mexican Institute in Paris, Université Paris 8 - Saint Denis, Université Paris 7 – Diderot, the Riff Arts Project Gallery in Paris, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, Teatr Studio in Warsaw, the Polish Institute in Paris, the Goethe Institute in Paris and the Gabinetto di Vieusseux in Florence
The project is financed by the European Commission.
The mission of French-Italian association Arti e Parole is the creation of unpublished theatrical productions and the promotion of all forms of artistic expression that can be related to and included in scenic representations, including writing, music, stage design, architecture, cinema, visual art, or design. Within its framework, the association’s aim is to build the link between the word in theatre and other art forms, participating in the growth of European culture.
The first set of meetings and workshops inaugurating the "Dare to say it... Able to do it?" project is organised in Paris, at the Goethe Institute. During three days, the participants work around one leading exchange at this first stage of the venture: between Poland and Germany. The thread of speech and its power will be explored through writing sessions with European writers, research laboratories and multidisciplinary creations combining architecture and performing arts.
Artistic laboratories "Dare to say it... Able to do it?" – Poland / Germany takes place on Wednesday the 7-9th of December 2011, from 14:00 to 16:00, at the Goethe Institute.
Free admission, including the first sessions of onstage rehearsals and performances supervised by the association Arti e Parole and the project team.
featuring:
- 7-9 December: Patrizia Buzzi Barone (stage director and writer from Italy)
- 7 December: Philipp Löhle (writer from Germany)
- 8 December: Werner Fritsch (writer from Germany)
- 9 December: Art Grabov (writer from Poland)
Goethe Institut in Paris
17 avenue d’Iéna
75016 Paris
01.44.43.92.30
The second event associated with the launch of the "Dare to say it... Able to do it?" project is a public forum held at the Librairie du Rond-Point in Paris. The meeting reunites the team and the authors of the first phase of the venture, in anticipation of the new issue of the magazine Le Cercle, published by Arti e Parole.
Public forum – magazine Le Cercle takes place on Wednesday the 7th of December 2011, at 17:30, at theLibrairie du Rond-Point
featuring:
- Werner Fritsch (Germany)
- Art Grabov (Poland)
- Philipp Löhle (Germany)
Librairie du Rond-Point
2 bis avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt
75008 Paris
01.44.95.98.22
For more information on the project, the association and its programme, see: www.artieparole.com