TREES (2023 - 2025)
- Project Type
- Theatre, performing arts
- Title
- TREES (2023 - 2025)
- Release Date
- 2024
- Irish Partner
- Smashing Times Theatre Company
- Co-Partners
- UG DAH TEATAR, Serbia
- ACTION SYNERGY SA, Greece
- CENTRO DE ARTE Y PRODUCCIONES TEATRALES SL, Spain
- GRENLAND FRITEATER AS, Norway
- PROTAGON - FREUNDE UND FOERDERER FREIER THEATERAKTION, Germany
- STICHTING ZID, Netherlands
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2023
- Funding Amount
- €989,493
TREES - Raising environmental awareness through Performing Arts project aims raise environmental awareness through the use of theatre and promote intercultural awareness and exchange on issues related to climate change.
The project is based on the experience that DAH theatre had with the creation of a site specific performance which aimed to raise awareness on the importance of trees in our life and to encourage urban initiatives in defence against excessive tree felling in the city of Belgrade. This performance uses dance, theatre, video projections, original music, poetry and facts to speak about the life of the trees.
Project Objectives
- Increase the environmental awareness of the public and to stimulate its active stance in issues related with climate change.
- Transfer at a European level a successful approach on how theatre can be used against climate change.
- Promote the intercultural awareness and exchange on issues related with climate change.
Target Groups
- Artists and organisations working with theatre and performance arts.
- Environmental organisations and environmental scientists: this group will be involved through the cooperation of artists and art organisations.
- General public. The main aim of the project is to raise the environmental awareness of the general public and empower them to take a more active stance for the defence of the environment.
Planned Activities
- Participation of at least 5,000 people in the performances at the local level and in the international festivals.
- Creation of 6 new theatre performances based on the Dancing Trees model.
- Participation of 120 artists from all over Europe in the activities related with the transfer of the approach through the seminars, webinars, and training activities.
- Organisation of 3 international festivals each one including 7 theatre performances from 7 countries.
Irish Partner
The Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality, incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble, is dedicated to the promotion, study and practice of the arts and equality.
The centre operates as a world class arts space and digital hub for artists, activists, communities and the general public across Ireland and internationally, providing a resource service and a training and networking agency in relation to using high quality creative processes and collaborative arts practice to promote human rights and equality for all.