What is cav_a ?
This is a cultural exchange programme devised to share, understand and create awareness of contemporary creative performing arts practices in Catalonia, and in return learn about such practices in each host country we visit. By encouraging international cooperation between independent cultural research centres in the field of multidisciplinary arts, we hope to increase cultural perspectives and propagate new forms of creative expression.

Why?
The programme aims to stimulate creativity by basing artistic development on exchange and knowledge, bringing Catalan contemporary performing arts creativity onto the international arena, and transcending frontiers.

To this end we want to work with other, like-minded centres in direct collaborations on productions, as well as engaging in one-to-one exchanges between artists, cultural organisations, and even cities. Using performances, workshops and training, we will create a channel of information between artists, creators and arts professionals, moving them out of isolation and into the wider community, helping them to meet the changing social, political and professional challenges that face the artist as citizen.

Who is it for?
It will allow artists from Catalonia to show their work and their creative processes to the different communities that welcome them, sharing knowledge and interests with local artists and audiences, while opening the way for artists from our host countries to make the reciprocal journey to Barcelona, nourishing local contemporary performing arts with international programming, meetings and debates.

Ultimately our goal is to facilitate opportunities for artists of all nationalities to show their work to a wider audience, and to help them develop their relationship with the audience, making it a two-way process with a free flow of opinions that can lead to the creation of new languages of expression and the development of new ways of seeing and understanding contemporary stage arts.

Where?
It has Europe as its first target. But why stop there? The world is out there…

Past editions:

Catalan artists visiting Slovenian artists. Ljubljana, Desembre 2011 (Glej Theatre). →

Catalan artists visiting Croatian artists. Rijeka, Desembre 2012 (HKD). →

Catalan artists visiting French artists. Saint Ouen/París. Juny/Desembre 2013 (Mains d'Oeuvres).→
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Since March 2011, ODC Ensemble has been based at their own venue, Vyrsodepseio, the biggest tannery of the Balkans in the 19th century. The company transformed it into a multi-stage, versatile space for contemporary performing art located in the post-industrial undeveloped area of Votanikos, in the center of Athens. The volunteers will have the opportunity to be a part of this ongoing creative space.

Vyrsodepseio is a grass root project and a vibrant cultural cell that helps drastically to the growth of innovative, hybrid art. Vyrsodepseio is an experiment on how to produce art in “difficult times”, an evolving project of synergies and co-operations.

While planning a rich weekly program, it is also a virtual platform of networking between artists and activists, international organizations and individual artists. It offers to artists, companies, etc. A space where they can rehearse, organize workshop, build and show their play and performances in order to help the young Greek contemporary creation.

Through the seminars, educational programs and residencies of artist with participants from all Europe, Vyrsodepseio is fully engaged in the intercultural dialogue through art. Since its creation, the Vyrsodepseio has received between its walls artists in residencies, workshops, master-classes, seminars and educational programs in order to participate to the ongoing education of artists and cultural actors throughout Greece, Europe and Euro-Mediterranean area.

Vyrsodepseio is also member of the International Network Trans Europe Halles.

www.vyrsodepseio.com →

Antic Teatre is one of the reference points for cutting-edge independent performance arts. Antic Teatre - Espai de Creació is an independent Cultural and Social centre based in a cultural heritage building, dating from 1650, in the very heart of Barcelona, in the Sant Pere neighbourhood of the city’s Gothic Quarter.

It is a resource centre for mulitdisciplinary arts focusing on research, innovation and the development of new languages in performance.

We are THE ONLY VENUE IN THE CITY WITH REGULAR PROGRAMMING (365 days a year) based entirely on research.

Our MISSION is to support and encourage professional artists who avoid established techniques and repetition of methodologies in their experimentation, creation, production, exhibition, promotion and dissemination endeavours, by freeing them from market pressures and demands and so boosting innovation and risk.

We are members of the international network Trans Europe Halles, an European based network of cultural centres initiated by citizens and artists.

www.anticteatre.com →