Konference European Roots and Shoots – Art Moves Cities

European Roots and Shoots – Art Moves Cities
We are happy to invite you for our international conference European Roots and Shoots – Art Moves Cities
in Brussels, Belgium 25 April 2018. This Conference is the first one out of 10 international conferences in
the frame of the European Social Community Theatre Project Caravan Next, co-funded by the Creative
Europe Programme. The conference is organised by the Caravan Next lead partner Nordisk
Teaterlaboratorium – Odin Teatret and hosted by the European Committee of the Regions.
From September 2015 till February 2019 the Caravan Next network of European theatre organisations and
cultural institutions creates Social Community Theatre events in 16 different European countries. The 10
conferences aim on spreading inspiration, tools and knowledge about social community theatre based on
the experiences of the 30 Caravan Next events.
With the conference European Roots and Shoots – Art Moves Cities we invite you to board the Caravan
Next project from various perspectives: from the top of the large collaborative framework to the base of the
working fields. On the list of guest speakers we have Barbara Gessler and Pedro Velázquez from Creative
Europe and Natalie Giorgadze from Culture Action Europe. Together, we present different angles on how
European cultural projects move cities and citizens – in the past, present and future.
The conference is free of charge and is addressed to professionals working with European cultural projects.
Due to space limitations we kindly ask you to register on the link below as soon as possible. In order to
limit food waste, you are requested to inform us if you stay for lunch and cocktail. Due to registration
procedures from CoR all participants must register an ID or passport no., which you will need to show at
your arrival to guarantee the entrance in the building to attend the conference.

Per Kap Bech Jensen, Project Manager Register online here
https://www.place2book.com/en/choose_ticket_sales_workflow?seccode=82eb11e57c
Organiser: Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium – Odin Teatret
Contact: Luciana Bazzo – luciana@odinteatret.dk
With the support of:
CoR – European Committee of the Regions
CDEU – Central Denmark EU Office
Read more about Caravan Next on www.caravanext.eu
Conference: European Roots and Shoots – Art Moves Cities
Date: 25 April 2018
Time: 9.00-17.30
Venue: European Committee of the Regions
Rue Belliard 101, 1040 Brussels, Belgium / Room JDE51
Hosted by
European Roots and Shoots – Art Moves Cities
Conference programme
09.00-09.30 Registration and welcoming coffee
09.30-09.40 Short introduction
09.40-09.45 Opening speech by Doru Hobjila, Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment,
Research and Culture (SEDEC)
09.45-09.50 Greeting – Stelios Kouloglou, Member of the European Parliament
09.55-10.30 The Role of Culture for Society in Europe – Barbara Gessler, Head of Unit, DG EAC, Unit D.2
Creative Europe
10.00-10.30 Introduction to Caravan Next – Per Kap Bech Jensen, Caravan Next Project Manager and Alberto
Pagliarino, Caravan Next Artistic Coordinator
10.30-11.00 Sustainability of a Project: The Value Proposition – Irene Ropolo, Caravan Next External
Consultant
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-12.00 Art and Culture: The Double Face of Theatre – Julia Varley, Actress Odin Teatret
12.00-12.30 The Value and the Values of Culture – Natalie Giorgadze, Culture Action Europe, Communications
Director
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30 Cases: Teatr Brama, PL (Caravan Next), Demos, BE, Stanica/Truc Sphérique, SL (Caravan Next),
TBA
15.30-15.45 Happening
15.45-16.30 Achievements of Creative Europe and the Years Ahead – Pedro Velázquez, Deputy Head of Unit /
Creative Europe
16.30-17.00 Sum-up – Per Kap Bech Jensen, Caravan Next Project Manager, Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium-Odin
Teatret
17.00-17.30 Cocktail and networking