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Greenwich + Docklands International Festival and Spoffin, in association with OutdoorArtsUK join forces to present an online pitching session, featuring British, Dutch and other international artists. GDIF & Spoffin Outdoor Arts Online Pitch will take place on Friday 28th of August.

GDIF & Spoffin Outdoor Arts Online Pitch is a great opportunity to hear about artists’ plans for 2021 and beyond, how to embrace current challenges and how they look further into the future. The pitching sessions offer a unique insight behind the scenes of street theater.

The pitching sessions are moderated by Angus MacKechnie, Executive Director of OutdoorArtsUK, followed by informal networking with the artists in virtual breakout rooms. A downloadable file with all information is available for all projects that are presented. All sessions will be captioned and BSL interpreted.

Register via the link below and receive the ZOOM link.

La Llotja Online is a renovated meeting point for the sector, a virtual marketplace that transcends time and space to offer its services beyond the days of Fira.

At La Llotja Online of FiraTàrrega, you'll find:

•    A directory of professionals in the sector.
•    A catalogue of projects.
•    A calendar of professional activities.
•    Periodic marketing, meeting and learning activities.

Circostrada members have free registration

Registration will be valid until summer 2021, and it will allow you to submit a project, meet professionals from all over the world and participate in the professional gatherings scheduled to take place on 9 and 10 September 2020 an the activities of the Nomadic Circuit of 2021.

Circostrada is now a member of the board of On The Move

We are both happy and proud to be joining the board of On the Move - Cultural Mobility Information Mobility Network - alongside our peers! We are very much looking forward to this new experience and collaboration!

Board members are:

• Marie Fol (individual member) – President
• Bojana Panevska (DutchCulture /TransArtists) – Secretary
• Pavla Petrova (Arts and Theatre Institute) – Administrator
• Yohann Floch (FACE - Fresh Arts Coalition Europe) – Administrator
• Alfiero Zanotto (Nordic Culture Point) – Administrator
• Stéphane Segreto-Aguilar (Circostrada) – Administrator

With 50+ members in over 20 countries across Europe and internationally, On the Move's mission is to encourage and facilitate cross-border mobility and cooperation, contributing to building up a vibrant and shared European cultural space that is strongly connected worldwide.

On the Move aims for:

1. To organise, coordinate and improve a cultural mobility information service that is free, transparent, accurate and user friendly, coming from an increasing number of sources and reaching an ever widening audience. 

2. To promote a concept of mobility that is respectful of social standards and environmental protection and that promotes cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue.

3. To improve the capacity of OTM members and partners to deal with various aspects of cultural mobility, through training sessions, P2P sessions and meetings, where the expertise of each of the members can be shared and further enriched.

Don't miss out on ON THE EDGE - Festival for experimental circus arts in Vienna!

It's Vienna's first festival for experimental circus arts, organised by KreativKultur in close coollaboration with WUK performing arts.

After a first pilot phase in January 2019, the festival will start its first official round from 14th to 21st November 2020 in Vienna (Austria), under the title ON THE EDGE # 10.

With the festival, the aim is to open a space for circus arts that dares to venture into performing arts or visual arts. ON THE EDGE shows works by artists who distance themselves from their own practice, deconstruct it, and rethink the performance space as well as the role of the audience.

The professional activity is maintained online on the 9th and the 10th September 2020

La Llotja Online will be an international event for performing arts professionals, which will include talks, presentations, speed meetings and systems of interpersonal communication, through the use of FiraTàrrega’s professional web app, video conferencing and chat tools. Registration for Circostrada members will be free. We invite you all to join us!!!

The programme Support for Creation will be active throughout 2020 and 2021. 18 creations 
which will receive financial and strategic support from FiraTàrrega and the complicity of circa
forty partners, from Catalonia and abroad, including performance and residency venues, festivals and municipal governments, etc..
 

CAN EVERYBODY HEAR ME?

Circostrada is launching a series of online meetings called: “Can everybody hear me?” [exclusively for Circostrada members]

Since we are all in need of contacts and interactions in these troubled times, we have prepared 4 Zoom meetings to connect, exchange experiences and ideas, and create a space where members can share their most recent news. 

Meetings Calendar:

The meetings will take place every two weeks, on Thursdays, at 2:30 pm (CET), for 90 minutes.

Our first meeting will take place on Thursday May 14th, and for members who could not join us then, you will be able to pop in with the rest of us on:

• Thursday May 28th
• Thursday June 11th 
• Thursday June 25th 

Topics submission & selection:

Since this activity is fully dedicated to Circostrada members, we have opened a call for proposals, in order to let members organisations suggest and present a topic during each session. We thus invite you to send an email to propose the topic you would like to present (stephane.segreto-aguilar@artcena.fr)

Please have in mind that: 

• The first session will not be topic-based and will work more as a wider newsround on sharing recent news (current impacts and future perspectives) and needs you might have that the network could attend to
• The topics for the three other sessions will be selected by the Steering Committee of the network
• The call for proposals will be open throughout the activity so you can send your proposed topics by email at any time. 
• Each Zoom session will deal with a maximum of 3 different topics (around 20 minutes with Q&A for each topic).
• You can also invite an external guest to speak and share a testimony/experience if you feel it’s relevant.

Working language of the sessions: 

• “Can everybody hear me?” 1: English (May 14th) 
• “Can everybody hear me?” 2: English (May 28th)
• “Can everybody hear me?” 3: English (June 11th)
• “Can everybody hear me?” 4: French  (June 25th) 

Guidebook for members: 

Last but not least, in order to enhance this Zoom experience, we propose you a little homemade guidebook called “The 10 Golden Rules for the Perfect Zoomer”.... enjoy it!  

Looking forward to meeting you online!

[French version below]

Dear all, 

We are happy to inform you that registrations to the CS LAB#5 webinar, scheduled on June 3-4 and 5 and co-organised by XTRAX are open!

• Initially imagined as a real seminar to take place in Manchester, the CS LAB has shifted its original format to accommodate the circumstances dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic and redesigned around the topic “Leadership in times of crisis”. The event has now taken the shape of an e-learning and information sharing experience, allowing the network to trial an exciting new online format for the first time.
• The purpose of this CS LAB will be to question how, we can support our teams in these unprecedented times, while at the same time using it as an opportunity to question our practice and explore ways to instigate lasting change in our organisations and the wider sector. 
• It will combine 3 online keynote sessions open to the wider audience, followed by 3 practical sessions in small groups specifically reserved for Circostrada members and XTRAX guests.
• Throughout the LAB, we will have the chance to host the following speakers: Vicki Amedume (Artistic Director and Founder of Upswing), Hilary Carty (MBA CCMI), Michael Hoar (Independent Consultant) and Bettina Linstrum (ArtsAgenda).

You can find HERE preliminary programme.

Register now by filling the ONLINE FORM. 

Registration deadline: May 28 (midnight, CET)

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Cher.e.s tou.te.s, 

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que les inscriptions pour le webinaire CS LAB#5, qui se tiendra les 3, 4 et 5 juin prochain, co-organisé avec XTRAX, sont ouvertes ! 

• Le CS LAB, imaginé initiallement en présentiel à Manchester (RU) a revu son format originel afin de s’adapter aux circonstances dictées par la pandémie de COVID-19. Il a donc été repensé et redessiné autour du thème du « Leadership en temps de crise » et prendra la forme d’un partage d’expériences et d’informations en ligne : l’occasion pour le réseau de tester un nouveau format digital pour la toute première fois !   
• L’objectif de ce LAB sera de se questionner sur comment soutenir nos équipes en cette période inédite, et de se saisir de cette opportunité pour questionner nos pratiques et explorer de nouvelles manières d’initier des changements durables au sein de nos organisations et de nos secteurs en général. 
• Il combinera 3 conférences thématiques, ouvertes à toutes et à tous, suivies de 3 sessions pratiques en petits groupes, exclusivement réservées aux membres du réseau ainsi qu’à des invité.e.s choisi.e.s par XTRAX. 
• Pendant ces trois jours, nous aurons la chance d'être accompagné par les intervenant.e.s suivant.e.s : Vicki Amedume (Directrice artistique et fondatrice de Upswing), Hilary Carty (MBA CCMI), Michael Hoar (Consultant indépendant) and Bettina Linstrum (ArtsAgenda).

Retrouvez ICI le programme préliminaire.

Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant en remplissant le FORMULAIRE EN LIGNE.

Date limite d’inscription : 28 mai (minuit, GMT + 1)

The 2020 edition of Imaginarius - International Street Theatre Festival has been cancelled

The City Council of Santa Maria da Feira will go ahead  with the cancellation of what is the largest street arts festival in the Portugal, and which would take place between 28 and 31 May in the historic centre of the city and other public facilities, following the state of calamity that is being experienced in the country and the world, due to the new coronavirus.
 
The 20th edition of Imaginarius will take place in May next year, 2021. Santa Maria da Feira will then once again turn into a giant stage that will host Portuguese and international artists and companies, surprising its audiences with the most current, enticing and provocative street arts.

Outdoor arts plan for 2020

Outdoor Arts Portugal platform, promoted by Bússola, is planning a set of decentralized actions for the year 2020, with the participation of several national and international partners, aiming strategic goals of promoting contemporary dramaturgies and developing opportunities for the creation and international dissemination of the Portuguese circus and street arts.

During the year, two new structuring projects for the platform will begin: the training sessions and the Outdoor Arts Talks, informal moments of debate and sharing, taking place in a complementary plan to festivals of reference, partners of the project. In 2020, the conversation route will pass through Paisagens Efémeras (May, Famalicão), Vaudeville Rendez-Vous (July, Famalicão), M.A.R. – Mostra de Artes de Rua (September, Sines) and Mostra Estufa (November, Porto), with themes appropriate to the particular context of each event and target audiences. The year closes with LEME CIRCUS FORUM, in Ílhavo, on 4 December 2020.

La Strada Winter is the winter edition of the festival taking place every June in Brescia (Italy). It is organised by C.L.A.P.Spettacolodalvivo in cooperation with the Municipality of Brescia and it involves a month of shows, performances events focusing on contemporary circus, dance, theatre and music.

This year's edition is scheduled from 22 November to 22 December 2019.

On the agenda:

• 10 performances
• 1 photo exhibition
• More than 20 artists on stage, coming from 4 different countries
• Magic, clowning, acrobatics, juggling, comic moments are ready to be spread in the historic centre of the city, for tout public!