GREEN E.Th.I.Cs – Green Experience through Theatre Inspiring Communities is a European Social and Community Theatre project developed by 18 partners in 12 countries. It implements cultural initiatives of civic engagement to create climate change awareness and foster citizens’ critical thinking and proactivity with respect to the European Green Deal, through performing arts.
The project objectives are:
GREEN SHIFT OF THE CULTURAL FIELD: making sustainability a main issue for both communities and professionals working with culture, fostering a green shift and providing them with technological infrastructures, protocols, knowledge and expertise to promote CO2 reduction actively throughout the power of culture.
CULTURAL GREEN ENGAGEMENT OF THE AUDIENCES: emotionally engage the audience in artistic processes while enhancing critical thinking and providing accessible scientific information about climate change.
The project develops and brings to 110 EU cities 2 innovative formats: The GREEN E.Th.I.Cs LIVE Game: an interactive theatre show on environmental issues that uses performing arts to promote critical thinking and involves audiences in contents creation, making them active part of a civic action. The format will be developed into its BOARD and ONLINE version; Pedal-powered Theatre: a prototype able to fully power a stage with a co-generation system operated by bicycles that raises audience’s awareness of eco-sustainability through an experiential approach.
The project will implement 110 live game performances, 1200 board game activities in schools, 10 capacity buildings and 30 artistic workshops for communities, 8 capacity buildings for culture professionals, exchange among 12 young visual artists, 12 conferences, 1 scientific publication and 1 photobook and the involvement of 100 professionals and over 45.000 citizens (mainly from disadvantaged groups in suburban areas).
The Social Community Theatre (SCT) methodology, developed by the lead partner UniTo – Social Community Theatre Centre, will be passed down to the whole Consortium throughout dedicated capacity buildings that will be scheduled in the first year of the project. The SCT methodology will be implemented by all partners, working with local communities, with the support of the lead partner.
Project partners
- University of Turin, Dip. Studi Umanistici, SCT Centre (Italy) – Project Leader – Methodological Partner
- Stichting Zid – Artistic Partner
- Stowarzyszenie Edukacyjno-Spoleczno-Kulturalne Teatr Brama – Artistic Partner
- Compagnia Il Melarancio cooperative sociale onlus – Artistic Partner
- Madarski Kulturni Centar Nepker Subotica Udruzenje (Hungarian Cultural Centre Nepker) – Artistic Partner
- Narodna biblioteka “Njegos” – Artistic Partner
- Theaterwerkstatt für aktive Kultur e.V. (STUDIO 7 Theater) – Artistic Partner
- ASTA albi (Associação de Teatro e Outras Artes, ASTA) – Artistic Partner
- Asociación Residui Teatro – Artistic Partner and Communication
- Omma Studio (Greece) – Artistic Partner
- Polytechneio Kritis (Special Account for Research Funds, Tuc) – Scientific Partner (ICT and Climate Change)
- Universidade de Evora – Scientific Partner (Evaluation)
- Fondazione Polo del ‘900 – Historical and cultural partner
- Associazione Culturale Mulino ad Arte – “Cultural environmental” partner
- Pro Progressione Kulturalis Nonprofit Kozhasznu KFT – Artistic partner
- Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Culture, and Education – Artistic partner
- Nodibinajums Zinatnes un inovaciju Parks – Scientific partner (Climate change)
- J M Caprifolen Kommanditbolag – Graphical design and corporate identity
The project is funded by the European Commission under Creative Europe Programme Proposal number: CREA-CULT-2021-COOP-3-101056116.