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Nordic Showcase & Drama Forum 4-10 Aug 2008 in Tampere
Mobile.home
ICDE
Janus: Play in Focus
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Transmission 3
Transmission, stages 1 & 2
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Volkstheater Rostock celebrated its Finnish season EinNorden with a theatre week “Terve!” in April 2009
“Finland is not only a country of thousand lakes or the head of the class of Pisa research. It is also a country of theatre worth finding”.
The motto of the whole 2008-2009 season at the Volkstheater Rostock, Germany was ”EinNorden” (Northbound) with the following Finnish plays and one opera: Aki Kaurismäki’s Wie feuere ich meinen Mörder, premiered 16.5.2008; Ilpo Tuomarila’s dramatization of Mikael Niemi’s novel Populärmusik aus Vittula, premiered 11.10.2008; Juha Jokela’s Mobile Horror, premiered 17.10.2008; Katja Krohn’s Der grosse böse Wolf, premiered 28.2.2009; Pirkko Saisio’s Fühllosigkeit, premiered 13.3.2009; Laura Ruohonen’s Insel Yksinen, premiered 27.3.2009; Otso Kautto’s Rettet Mama!, premiered 9.4.2009 and Kaija Saariaho´s opera L'amour de Loin (Die Liebe aus der Ferne), premiered 11.4.2009.
The culmination point was the week in April, 13.-19.4.2009, an entire week full of Finnish theatre. During the week Terve! all productions based on Finnish texts were performed and in addition there were theatre seminars, guest visits and drama readings. Guest performances: Turku City Theatre’s Paniikki (Panik) by Mika Myllyaho, Teatteri Turmio’s Pienin yhteinen jaettava (Der Kleinste Gemeinsame Teiler) by Pirkko Saisio - Mikko Roiha and Objects & Emotions and Hamlet performed by Quo Vadis. As readings will be presented Sofi Oksanen’s Fegefeuer, Anna Krogerus’ Aus Liebe zu Mir, and Paavo Westerberg’s Heim bevor es dunkel wird .
The week was presented with the support of the Finnish Theatre Information Centre, the Finnish Institute in Germany and the Finland’s Embassy in Berlin.
Volkstheater Rostock: www.volkstheater-rostock.de
Nordic Showcase & Drama Forum 4-10 Aug 2008 in Tampere
A total of
165 representatives of Nordic theatre life came together in Tampere
this
August. To read about discussion held during the Nordic Showcase &
Drama Forum, see the links on Nordic Theatre Union webpage: www.nordiskteaterunion.org
Mobile.home – Helsinki 9.-12. November 2006
The Finnish Theatre Information Centre celebrated the “European Year of Workers’ Mobility 2006” by organising an Inter-Sectorial Conference Mobile.home, which included IETM’s Annual Autumn Plenary Meeting with working groups, training sessions, presentations, and information points.
The conference looked at successes and obstacles to the movement of arts and artists across European borders, as guaranteed by the European Union treaties. It looked at the phenomenon of “mobility” from technical, legal, philosophical and artistic perspectives. We learned from the experiences of artists who make their work and lives in different EU countries. We translated ‘mobility’ in its widest senses.
In addition, there was a showcase of Finnish theatre, dance, new circus and contemporary performing arts.
The project and the conference were supported by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Year of Mobility 2006, as well as European cultural foundations and Finnish authorities.
The final project report Arts and Culture Go Mobile! is now available for download as is the Study on Impediments to Mobility in the EU Live Performance Sector and on Possible Solutions by Richard Poláček:
http://www.teatteri.org/mobilehome/web-content/mobile_english/mobileh_info.html
ICDE
Information Centre for Drama in Europe
There are numerous national and international projects dealing with the exchange of contemporary drama throughout Europe. In almost all European countries there are theatres, theatre festivals and organizations that devote themselves to foreign plays and productions, but it is almost impossible to be aware of everything that's going on. Admittedly national databases of dramatists and translations do exist but these are rarely accessible to all.
The Information Centre for Drama in Europe was initiated as a pilot scheme funded by the EU as part of "Culture 2000". The central online portal, playservicece.net, was developed by the Finnish Theatre Information Centre (TINFO); Gate Theatre, London; Maison Antoine Vitez, France; the Theatre Institute Nederland (TIN); and the International Theatre Institute Zentrum Deutschland (ITI-Germany). ICDE and playservice.net is a compilation of information dealing with the exchange and translation of contemporary drama in Europe. The website also acts as a resource for information about plays and translations.
playservice.net consists of two main areas. The first contains information about organizations, theatres and projects connected with contemporary drama from around Europe, including short descriptions and links to the individual sites of the ICDE participants. The site also hosts a search engine for plays and translations. This information is sourced from the partners' individual databases and is made possible by means of a central search engine.
The information available on playservice.net makes it possible for professionals, specialists and the public at large to gain easy access to foreign drama and, thereby, to a wider cultural spectrum. The direct exchange of drama is a first step toward mediation between foreign cultures.JANUS: Play in Focus
The JANUS
Project and The Fence Network are bringing together playwrights and
cultural
operators from over twenty different countries. The aim of the project
is to
promote the publicity and mobility of new drama within the countries of
Europe
as well as to exchange the experiences made with the methods used in
different
countries to develop and support new drama. The Finnish partner of the
project
is the Finnish Theatre Information Center. The project is funded by the
EU
Culture 2000 program and the Finnish Cultural Foundation
The program
of the JANUS Project at the Tampere Theatre Festival includes the open seminar
Play
in Focus, whose participants will discuss contemporary drama and
the
position of playwrights in different countries. As being in Finland,
the
participants are going to focus especially on the Finnish theatre scene
and
playwrights based on the performances shown during the Theatre Festival
and the
perspectives put in by creators. The Play in Focus Seminar is held in
the upper
foyer of the Tampere Theatre from Tuesday to Thursday, 10-12 o’clock.
Entrance
is free.
The JANUS
Project brings four new scenic readings, free of charge, to
the Theatre
Festival, which all four will be seen at the Café Theatre
Kivi. Two will
be performed in English and two in Finnish. The Playwrights are going
to take
part in the working process.
Tue. 9.8., 15-16.30, José Maria Vieira
Mendes (Portugal): 1 Bed Flat (English reading), director: Pauliina
Hulkko.
Wed. 10.8., 12.30-14.00, János Háy
(Hungary): The Stonewatcher (Finnish reading), director Heikki
Kujanpää.
Thu. 11.8., 12.30-14.00, Paul Brodowsky
(Germany): Stadt, Land, Fisch (English reading), director Svetlana
Dimcovic.
Fri. 12.8., 12.30-14.00, Peter Arnott
(Scotland): The Breathing House (Finnish reading)
PLATFORM
A two year project funded from EC Culture 2000 Programme 1.7.2001–30.10.2003. The objective of the project was to promote the movement of new plays across Europe. The German Centre of the ITI co-ordinated the project; the other countries involved were Finland, France, Great Britain, and Luxembourg. In the frame of the project new plays were translated, workshops, seminars, rehearsed readings and finally full productions were organised. Translators' seminars were an essential part of the project.
Transmission
An international action-research project examining the various aspects of an actor’s work. The third stage of ‘Transmission’ is now in action; the first one took place during 1999–2000 and the second one during 2002–2003. The project is carried out by national partners in five European countries: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, the Netherlands and Finland, extended with several European cultural network organisations like ELIA, IETM and EUnetART. The current stage of Transmission is funded partly by EU Commission through Leonardo da Vinci programme and partly by national funding bodies.
The aim of Transmission is to explore innovative ways of increasing the employability and mobility of those working in the performing arts across Europe. This has been done through investigating the artists’ skills and their potential, as well as investigating the market and the possibility of work outside the stage. The focus is particularly on non-governmental organisations and the crossover between private and public funding.The basic idea behind the Transmission project is that so-called third sector areas could have a larger role in offering artistic employment for performing artists. Such new and innovative fields of work for artists could for example be community arts projects, art projects for the health and social services (in e.g. children's homes, prisons, hospitals or working with the disabled or the elderly), museums and the travel industry (so-called travel drama), arts education and the rapidly growing field of business training.
The Finnish Transmission partner organisations for the 2004–2006 period are the Finnish Theatre Information Centre and the Theatre Academy of Finland.
Transmission, stages 1 & 2Transmission was set up as an action research project, funded partly by the EU DGV and partly by national funding bodies.It is carried out by national partners in five European countries: during 1999–2003 the countries were the United Kingdom, Greece, Austria, the Netherlands and Finland.
The aim of Transmission is to explore innovative ways of increasing the employability and mobility of those working in the performing arts across Europe. This has been done through investigating the artists’ skills and their potential, as well as investigating the market and the possibility of work outside the stage. The focus of the Transmission project is particularly on non-governmental organisations and the crossover between private and public funding.
The basic idea behind the Transmission project is that so-called third sector areas could have a larger role in offering artistic employment for performing artists. Such new and innovative fields of work for artists could for example be community arts projects, art projects for the health and social services (in e.g. children's homes, prisons, hospitals or working with the disabled or the elderly), museums and the travel industry (so-called travel drama), arts education and the rapidly growing field of business training.
The Transmission was started by the Royal National Theatre Education and Training Department in 1998. During this pilot project performing artists from all participating countries were interviewed and asked about their experiences. In each country, colloquia took place in which employers, educational institutions, policy makers, representatives of relevant institutions and artists’ unions were involved. Six performing artists from each country participated in an international training course in London, followed by a placement with a different employer in one of the five participating countries.
Following the success of the pilot project further exchange of training and best practice took place including two international seminars in the Netherlands. During 2002–2003 further training took place in all participating countries with the support of the EU Socrates II/Grundtvig-programme. As a result of exchange of practice and models of training in the 5 partner countries a training program was developed with Goldsmith’s College at London University and Theatre School in Amsterdam.
From the beginning of the project the Finnish partners, the Finnish Theatre Information Centre and the Finnish Arts Council, invited other organisations, that would have it in their interests to be involved in Transmission, to form the Finnish partner group. These organisations were the Theatre Academy's Adult Education Unit, the Finnish Actor's Union and the Finnish Theatre Union. Transmission has been put into action by the Theatre Academy’s Adult Education Unit.
Taru
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