THE SHAKE DOWN
Association New Theatre Institute of Latvia ·Latvia
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The Shake Down is a culture development and artistic exchange project designed to inspire and empower a cohort of young people to work with art, curating and festival making. 10 teenagers, from Norway and Latvia, will participate in a 14 month mentoring that will lead them to co-curating two international performing arts festivals. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The project consists of an online community, formed and maintained by the young people, mentored and inspired by some of the world's leading curators and artists. Online community will meet at least twice a month with workshops and conversations targeting all aspects of festival curation, production, dramaturgy, artist management and design. The online community will lead to two intensive training and exchange periods in each country, with the teens, artist mentors and guest workshops leaders. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The Shake Down festivals will take place within the frame of “Homo Novus” (at least 20% of the overall program) and a stand alone festival at Rosendal Theatre in April of 2023.</span></span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
Even though the cultural differences, different economic and educational backgrounds were some of the greatest challenges during the process, the bilateral partnership made the participants look at themselves from an external perspective, learn to communicate their adherence and values, and find the common and unifying goals, especially regarding inclusivity of vulnerable groups or particular social issues and experiences that teens are facing in both countries. We couldn’t have realised the same shaped project without the strong and equal collaboration that we had. Both NTIL and Rosendal Teater admitted to each other that we think of each other as “extremely brilliant organisation with an enormous competency, vision and drive”.It was a true collaboration. We pulled together where it was needed and equally stretched and challenged each other in ways that really pushed the project to reach its full potential. We reached large audiences, we deeply engaged the teenagers and created artistic projects that would never have happened without the project. All this translates into knowledge and networks that will have wide reaching ripples for both organisations and the field we are a part of .NTIL and Rosendal Teater would gladly continue the collaboration between the two organizations and are keen to search for new possibilities.
Project partners
- Rosendal International Theatre Donor project partner· Norway