Southern Coalition #4

This workshop will explore new practices and strategies to approach broader and different audiences in order to create long term two-way links between the cultural organizations, the people and the arts.

Through dialogue and exchange of experiences between the cultural, social and educational institutions of the region, the workshop will focus on how to put into effect collaborations and co-intentional cultural projects aiming at the active involvement of the local community.

The workshop aims at creating long-term, two-way links between the employees of cultural, social and educational organizations so as to meet the needs of the organizations and ensure their continuity through time, as well as to explore new practices to broaden the audiences and make artistic creation  accessible to all citizens of the region.

Part I
Developing strategies, innovative ideas and new practices to bring broad and diverse audiences together.
Promoting strategies.
Coordinated action of the departments of artistic programming, communication and education.
Linking cultural organizations and jointly designing programs with the social structures of the municipality and the educational community.
Design of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural actions involving citizens.
Actions for vulnerable groups.
Part II
Laboratory design for joint actions

Trainer: Georgina Kakoudaki, stage director-theatrologist
Target: Staff from the Municipal & Regional Theatre of Patras, Cultural Organization from Patras Municipality, Social Organization from Patras Municipality, Offices of Cultural Affairs of the primary and secondary education of the region.
Venue: Theatre Barry, Patras