Rua dos Sapateiros e Salão Brazil
STREET APPLIED THEATRE and INTERNATIONAL ARTISTIC SEMINAR
This play is part of the project LINHAS CRUZADAS, that brings together four cultural associations from Coimbra – O Teatrão, Jazz ao Centro Clube (JACC), Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (CAPC) e Casa da Esquina – and promotes activities for all this diferent areas, in order to offer the Coimbra’s public a new space for criation, experimentation and arts development.
Assistent Director
João Santos
Cast
Classes d’O TEATRÃO, Bando à Parte
Coimbra joins North and South Europe with a seminar "Community Intervention in Urban Areas" organized by The Theatrão together with four European partners. The international seminar counts, in addition to the Theater, with European structures linked to artistic education and work with young people and will take place from next Saturday, June 28, until July 3 in Coimbra.
The initiative brings to the city about 40 young people who will discuss with artists, politicians and researchers and propose strategies of intervention and transformation of degraded urban areas.
From Italy comes a group that collaborates with the Theater since 2010 AMAT-Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali, cultural programmers of various Italian theaters, as explained at a press conference held this morning at the Municipal Theater Office, Cláudia Pato de Carvalho, a Element of the direction of The Theater.
From Austria comes an organization Szente Bunte Whane, responsible for holding one of the festivals for youth in the city of Horn. From Belgium of the city of Antwerp, comes the Hetpaleis group. From Amsterdam Holland arrives Theatermijn, a group that reflects on the divisions that exist between "the districts of a big city".
The students of the Pedagogical project of the Crossed Lines called cbr: Lines Art Lab will represent Portugal in the international seminar.
We remind you that this is a multidisciplinary artistic training project for young adolescents with a course already started in the artistic activity and was one of the 17 selected nationally for the Partis program of the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Isabel Craveiro, from the Direction of The Theatrical reveals that the space worked by the project was Rua dos Sapateiros and the connection with the Brazil Hall.
The participant in the project cbr: Lines Art Lab, Rita Sousa, explained what she discovered about "the centennial house" through Mr. Vilão, a Caravela shoe worker licensed in "street" by the University of Coimbra.
The work of the meeting aims at the end to construct the document "Youth Policies for Urban Spaces" to be presented to local and European political entities.
For the construction of the document, during the seminar there will be moments of reflection with experts, politicians, artists and academicians that include names such as MEP Marisa Matias, Judge Álvaro Laborinho Lúcio, Councilwoman of Coimbra City Council, Carina Gomes or Ivo Santos of the State Department of Sports and Youth.
The Seminar is funded by the Youth in Action Program.