Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition is a project created to open a space for dialogue, collaboration, and joint learning, to question and discuss the notions of “south” and “peripheries” from a socio-political and socio-cultural perspective through diverse collaborative artistic strategies capacity-building actions.

The project wants to provide the opportunities to rethink our identities through culture and the empowering confluence of cultural difference, while promoting reflection on prevailing cultural policy models in the South of Europe.

The Southern Coalition is an informal network that gathers eleven arts management organizations and three research institutions from ten European countries. A network that connects locally anchored cultural practices, aiming at overcoming isolation and boosting the skills of artists, cultural professionals, and audiences.

PARTNERS

Artemrede (leader, Portugal), Bunker (Slovenia), Centrul Cultural Clujean (Romania), Consorci Transversal Xarxa d’Activitats Culturals (Spain), Fakultet dramskih umetnosti – University of Arts in Belgrade (Serbia), ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal), L’Arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino (Italy), Occitanie en Scène (France), PCAI Awareness Raising (Greece), Pergine Spettacolo Aperto (Italy), POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth (Croatia), Pro Progressione (Hungary), Teatro di Sardegna (Italy), Universitat de Barcelona (Spain).

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“Stronger Peripheries: building a Southern Coalition in Performing Arts” is a publication that brings together four years of a European project into a single volume.

Inside, articles, artistic insights, poetic visions, academic reflections, and visual essays take readers on a journey through the cultural peripheries of Southern Europe, redefining the notions of “south” and “periphery” while deeply exploring the dynamics and trajectories of performing arts in contemporary societies.

The text is available for everyone: https://tinyurl.com/read-stronger-peripheries

Kepler-452: the Bologna-based company wins the Daily Bread call

At the end of the tandem workshop #3 held in Pergine from 2 to 5 July 2022, the partners of Stronger Peripheries gathered to select, among the five finalists, the artist/company with whom to undertake the annual participatory production on the theme Daily Bread.

Kepler-452 is the italian company selected. The company can now count on production support offered by Pergine Festival, L’arboreto-Teatro Dimora and Pro Progressione, for a total budget of 33,000 euros. Kepler-452 will also participate in four residencies, two research-residences and two creative-residences, located in Pergine Valsugana, Budapest and Mondaino. The new production will debut in Pergine in summer 2023 (13.07.2023), and will then fly to Hungary and other countries in the Stronger Peripheries network.

Kepler-452 is a theatre company founded in 2015 in Bologna by Nicola Borghesi, Enrico Baraldi, Paola Aiello and Roberta Gabriele.
Kepler-452, since its birth, has an ambition, a desire, an urgency: open the doors of theatres, to go out, to observe, through the lens of the stage, what is outside, in the unshakeable conviction that reality has an autonomous dramaturgical force, just waiting to be organised on stage.

Ph Giulia Lenzi