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Circus for Climate

SLLC Rigas cirks ·Latvia

€232k
Grant awarded
Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Cultural Cooperation
Programme
1 March 2022
Signed

About this project

<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif">This project explores the collective force of multidisciplinary approach to arts education and activism. We will bring together an international team from Latvia and Norway from fields of contemporary circus and dance, comics, innovative technology and experts of ecology and sustainability to collaborate together and work with youngsters across Latvia around the topic of art activism for sustainability. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif">During the project we will create 6 laboratories/ workshops during which artists, experts, local professionals from rural areas and youngsters will work together to learn about climate change, sustainability, arts activism and explore artistic methods (circus, movement and comic books) in expressing their concerns and issues that they feel strongly about. The content that will be created during these laboratories will then be used as a source of inspiration for a comic book and a site-specific circus performance involving circus artists from Latvia and Norway. </span></span></p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The project donor partner Acting for Climate has been involved in this project since the project writing process and has been contributing to all the main project activities (laboratories, workshops, and residencies) by taking the lead and being the artists and directors of the final performance DANDELION. The partner not only shared their knowledge and values on sustainability and art activism with the youngsters but also with Latvian artists involved in the project. Working together as a team and sharing responsibilities, both partners have learned and grown through different challenges and problem-solving situations. With this collaboration, both sides have strengthened their relationship and will keep contact for future projects or performances.

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