Theatre in Palm – Theatre platform for supporting emerging artist cooperation and resilience

We elevate European theatre by supporting emerging artists through international collaboration and cultural exchange

Theatre in Palm project is a first ever Creative Europe platform project for theatre art. It brings together 12 partners from all over Europe to collaborate and co-create in an international and intercultural platform.

Project objectives are to

  • increase the visibility and the circulation of European emerging artists and works outside their own borders
  • increase access to and participation in cultural events and activities, as well as audience engagement and development.
  • support emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create, cooperate, and promote their work.

Project members

Turku UAS is coordinating this massive and intriguing project as a pioneer when it comes to coordinating a Creative Europe platform project in Finland. Other members of the consortium consist of different cultural and theatre organisations from 11 European countries; Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Greece, Belgium, Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria. The members are foundations, theatre companies, institutes, art and production centers etc.

Project activity

During the 3-year duration of the project the group will among other things

  • create an European Theatre co-programming plan for emerging artists recovery and support
  • organize 24 Digital Coffee talks to discuss topical common issues
  • organize 24 emerging artist mobilities and 3 rounds of residencies for emerging artists with the participation 240 artists
  • organize 72 European Theatre labs, two international 3-day Theatre Academies (in Portugal & Sweden) and two festivals (in Ireland and Cyprus)
  • on the final year run a theatre roadshow.

The project will also create a common communication strategy with extensive dissemination plan. As part of the dissemination the project will at the end of the project collect a digital repository of showcases.

Contact Us

  • Teemu Herttua

    Researcher
    +358 50 572 4731
    teemu.herttua@turkuamk.fi

Partners

Intercut Productions, Sweden
Fondazione E35 per la progettazione internazionale, Italy
Smashing Times Theatre company, Ireland
LEMONGRASS COMMUNICATIONS, Spain
JÁIT – international theatre, Portugal
Stichting ZID, Netherlands
CUBE – Greece (?)
European Theatre and Film Institute, Belgium
THOC, Cyprus
Homemade Culture, Romania
Oecon Group, Bulgaria

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