THINK LOCAL CREATE GLOBAL

CONNECTING NETWORKS

Wed. 2 Mar., 10.00 – 12.30 / V.O.C. (Vrijzinnig Punt), Albrecht Rodenbachstraat 18 / symposium in English / free

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
10.00      KEYNOTE by Gerhard Verfaillie: ‘International, immerse sustainably’
10.20      How can networks respond to the many challenges of working internationally?

• Assitej International
  Members of the executive committee of Assitej International on the importance of international networking within the organisation and the benefits of this internationalisation.
   
• Reazione a catena / Chain reaction
  Cristina Cazzola, artistic director of Segni d’Infanzia
  
  With project partners: SEGNI New Generations Festival (Segni d’infanzia), ASSITEJ Italia, KIDS (Factory Compagnia Transadriatica), Visioni di futuro, Visioni di teatro (La Baracca), Trallallero (Teatroalquadrato),  I Teatri del Mondo (La Gru), Teatro fra le Generazioni (Giallo Mare Minimal Teatro)
   
• Kapilar
  Bebe de Soares, Germany / Latin America
  
  Kapilar is a platform that wants to stimulate cooperation in innovative international projects through collaboration, production and projects. Bebe also leads the Amazonas Network.
   
• PUSH+
  Creative Europe project that focusses on three themes: Home, Failure & Different Bodies. They organise artistic exchanges, residencies and showings.

11.30      interactive discussion

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Think local create global is a project in which we research the possibilities of transcontinental artistic cooperation, during five years.

European companies are increasingly finding their way to other continents. However, export is still the main goal: the exotic and adventurous elements have a certain attractiveness. But how can we create an intercultural added value for both parties? How can we bring different cultures, artistic visions and aesthetics together into a new vision?

In 2017, we explored China (Forinna Chen & Tony Reekie), Chile and Brazil (Bebe de Soares & Andrea Perez de Castro), Thailand (Adjima Na Patalung), Egypt (Mohamed El Ghawy) and Nigeria (Jerry Adesewo).

In 2018, we focused on India (Ruchira Das), Tunis (Ben Abdelssalem Walid), Brazil (Karen Acioly) and Chile (Pilar Santelices) and on the artists themselves (Alvaro Morales, Edurne Rankin Garcia and Andrea Jabor).

In 2019, we organised the first artistic exchange around puppet and object theatre with Silencio Blanco (Chile), Hop Signor (Greece) and Flemish artists Lize Pede, Dries De Win and Sven Ronsijn. We’ve also focused on Southern America with key-notes of Bebe de Soares, Gerhard Verfaillie and Pilar Santelices.

In 2020, the artists from the Chilean company La Llave Maestra and Flemish artists Elke Van der Kelen, Naomi Kerkhove en Yentl De Werdt entered into artistic dialogue. The intent was to explore each other’s artistic language in an intercontinental and cultural diverse context. We also organised a symposium on durability in an international context.

This last part of Think local create global will be an artistic dialogue between five artists and Akram Khan Company. A dialogue between East and West, between tradition and the contemporary, between theatre and dance.