PUSH+ FESTIVALVISITS & -PRESENTATIONS

Festival visits

Showbox, SWOP and Edinburgh International Children’s Festival will each host a Festival Visit to share the learning around the topics and open up further discussion on an international level for artistic peers, industry colleagues and audiences. We will invite ten PUSH+ artists to attend each of these visits to reconnect – with each other, with the partner organizations and with artists taking part in other parts of the project – in response to the strong feedback for this activity in PUSH.

Each visit will include a programme of presentations of work including the PUSH+ Festival presentations, discussions and networking opportunities. These visits will be hosted within the three partner festivals, offering the buzz of an international festival, excellent networking beyond the project and a profile for PUSH+ among the attending local and international delegates. Each festival visit will be attended by 2 artists from each partner country plus members of the Steering Group and the PUSH filmmaker.

Festival presentations

In PUSH+ we wish to increase the risk taken by the project partners and their festivals/venue programmes. This requires our festivals to be at the heart of presenting more of the project to the sector and to the public through curating a programme of works in progress/public interventions with the longer-term aim of partners programming PUSH+ artists’ full productions. This is also a good moment to present project outcomes as it is the point when each festival has the attention of their national press and the maximum number of national/international artists and industry delegates attending.

Each of the three topics will culminate in a festival presentation with opportunities for artists who took part in the LAB to present works in progress/interventions/site-specific performances within a sector-leading festival programme. Each artist invited to present will be given a week in the host country for rehearsals and dramaturgical feedback culminating in the festival presentation. The festival presentations will take place at Showbox Festival (Home), SWOP Festival (Failure) and Edinburgh International Children’s Festival (Different Bodies).

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