Hi,
the first French NGO which answered me and accepts to support us.
the association "Europe et Cies"
www.europeetcies.eu/my contact :
Renaud Lescuyer,
Délégué général - Europe & Cies
presentation of this association (from their website) :
The project of Europe & Cies is born from the meeting of european artists from different countries around theatre creations. Those creations, led by the company "Persona", among others, revealed a strong desire to create a dialogue and a reflection on the future of European citizenship through the question of languages and cultures.
In April 2008, on the occasion of the first Meetings of Europe & Cies, we proposed to set up Europe & Cies as a platform aiming to make possible the organisation of regular meetings between European teams, artists and citizens so that they can work together and share their experiences.
The project is thought on the period 2008-2013 and is adressed to artists from the whole European continent.
Philosophy of the project
Our project - through its declensions and its calendar - aims to make easier the travelling of dramatic poems in different European languages by facilitating multilingual theatrical creations.
As we work on the whole European continent, we get linked to European teams and artists, we meet audiences from different linguistic communitues. We inscribe our work and artistic commitment in the project of an open European community, alive and brotherly, based on diversity and the respect of languages and cultures, in particular the minortities' ones.
Europe can grow richer with the experience of live arts teams and creators, who consider the poem and the actor as central to their concerns and to an active reflection on the European City. The theatrical experience is a space connecting reality and imagination, open to dialogue and to the meeting of cultures, which questions the experience of each of us down here. For all those reasons, it has to stay central in a European City under construction..
Europe & Cies' objectives
-To initiate regular Meetings between theatre companies from Europe so as to arouse the sharing of artistic experiences, the exchange of practices and points of view: this invitation is addressed to artistic teams working on live arts (theatre, dance, circus...) with the idea of a shared vision of Europe as a space for expression and a "playground" for the actors- creators of languages.
-To set up a space for work and research gathering artists of different languages and cultures from Europe, so as to help towards the emergence of trans-national projects, built around the meeting of languages, the search on common artistic themes, the exploration of European identity, territories and myths.
-To encourage the circulation of those projects in Europe and their meeting with audiences from different linguistic communities: make the citizen - member of the audience - feel closer to those work processes integrating cultural diversity: residences, writing, translation, publishing...
