02.12.2011
Give your input as performing artist in the Circostrada online survey about the sustainable development of circus/performing arts (Deadline: 15 March 2011)
Circostrada Network is now at work organising the second edition of Fresh Circus, European seminar on the sustainable development of circus arts. After the great success of the first meeting in 2008, they would like to invite you once again to come and discuss the current situation of the sector and to defi ne the necessary conditions for its positive development.
The seminar will be held at the Parc et Grande Halle de la Villette, in the framework of the festival Hautes Tensions and in partnership with the City of Paris, the ONDA and the Institut Français.
To create opportunities for artistic mobility, to bring the performing arts into the digital era, to promote democratic values in and outside of Europe, to facilitate access to culture, to think of new economic models, to increase recognition of the arts within society, to participate in the renewal of public policies – these are but a few of the challenges which the entire cultural sector faces, and each is a subject which can greatly benefit from circus’ innovative contributions.
In addition to being an international meeting, Fresh Circus #2 aims to articulate recommendations – addressed to regional, national and European institutions as well as to civil society – to obtain better recognition of the specific needs and processes of contemporary circus creation.
The programme of Fresh Circus #2 will be online from the 1st of Febuary onwards. You can register for free, but places are limited.
Online campaign in the performing arts
In order to prepare this event to the best of our ability, Circostrada Network launched a large online campaign to collect observations and propositions by artists and operators working in circus – as well as those working across the performing arts.
Artists and companies, circus arts professionals, and more generally those from the performing arts field should send contributions ahead of time in order to share their experiences and difficulties, to make known examples of good practice, and to help formulate concrete propositions that will improve the situation of the sector and reflect how to best position contemporary circus in the face of transnational issues.
The questionnaires, based on the ten themes that are going to be discussed during the Fresh Circus seminar, will be accessible until the 15th March 2012.
For more information about Fresh Circus #2 and its partners, please visit this section.
You can fill in this questionnaire in French or English. If you’d like to prepare your answers before sending them you can download the questionnaire here.
Take part in the call for contributions now!