Objectives
- Develop and deliver six strands of artistic activity
- Audience development to reach and engage young people as participants, audiences and as contributors to seminars and debates
- Audience development to reach and engage migrants, refugees and recent arrivals, black and multi-ethnic communities, disabled people and those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds
- Raise issues, provoke discussion, stimulate debate and encourage actions addressing better integration of communities
Activities
- Building of a “portfolio” of exciting young artists from each country
- Deliver 4 free access strands of new work – Inside Out Performance (music and dance), Processional Theatre (street theatre), Liberty Art (sculpture, murals and graffiti) and Outside Digital Arts (moving image, projection, digital arts, virtual and alternative reality)
- Delivery of integrated education/training work and a seminars programme
- Delivery of a major Finale LIBERTY Festival
Results
- 60+ strands of LIBERTY (encompassing Inside Out performances, Processional Theatre, Liberty Art, Outdoor Digital Arts, education programmes and seminar series)
- Creation of the shared “portfolio” database of 750 young artists
- Delivery of the 2021 Finale LIBERTY Festival programme
Impact
- Achievement of rich engagement from new audiences that leads to ongoing involvement in cultural activity
- Enhanced career opportunities for many young artists, providing life-changing experiences
- Enhanced community integration and cohesion
- Higher level of constructive debate around key themes and issues of the project, at a local, national and European level
Partners
- ArtReach (Events) Ltd (Coordinator, UK, Leicester)
- ALTONALE GMH (Germany,Hamburg)
- Museo dei Bambini – Explora (Italy, Roma)
- CESIE (Italy, Palermo)
- Teatru National Radu Stanca Sibiu – TNRS (Romania, Sibiu)
- Aalborg Karneval (Danmark, Aalborg)
- CENTAR ZA PROMOCIJU ZDAVNH STILOVA ZIVOTA UDRUZENE – Center E8, for promoting lifestyles (Serbia, Belgrade)
- CNC Danse – Nathalie Cornille Company (France, Wambechies, Lille)
- Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo mladih (Slovenia, Ljubljana)
- Den Selvejende Institution Swinging Europe (Danimark, Herning)
- Trafo House of Contemporary Arts (Hungary, Budapest)
- European Educational Exchanges – Youth for Understanding (Belgium, Brussels)
