New Theatre Institute of Latvia for four years has been one of the partners of a Creative Europe project ACT: Art, Climate, Transition! We have managed to send Latvian artists to three Summerlabs across the Europe – Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Elviks in Zagreb Summerlab,\u00a0<\/a> Iveta Pole in Ljubljana Summerlab<\/a>, Oskars Moore in Skopje Summerlab<\/a>, as well as organize one in Latvia, in our magical peatlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n We have held three artist residencies that resulted in new researches, approaches and performances. Artist Voldem\u0101rs Johansons created his performance Attractors Listening Room<\/a> to be premiered in International Festival of Contemporary Theatre “Homo Novus” in year 2021, J\u0101nis Balodis together with Argentinian artist Nahuel Cano premiered their performance The Last Night of the Deer<\/a> in year 2022 while Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelyte worked on her new project Mutes<\/a> in year 2023.<\/p>\n We have had a virtual Forest School bringing together scientists, artists and environmental activists around the Nordic countries to travel digitally across various ecosystems resulting in six recorded sessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n We have had multiple workshops, lectures and summer schools inspiring new and already established artists, students, community members to spend some quality time together and learn and inspire from one another. In some instances it resulted in new performative events, in some as articles or visual works. Sometimes it just ended with some new created communities and friendships.<\/p>\n And of course – performances! Performances in the form of a fashion show<\/a>, in a form of a dinner tasting<\/a>, in a form of an audio walk in a park<\/a>, in a form of asking questions<\/a>, being silent<\/a>, seeing the queen bee in action<\/a> and more and more.<\/p>\n We want to thank all of the partners and artists and everyone involved in the project throughout these four remarkable years for your inspiration, questioning, courage and patience while trying to achieve what we wanted from the very get-go – art, that is encouraging us to ACT. And we think that this research proves that we have. Find it here and share – ACT REFLECTIVE REPORT<\/a><\/p>\n ACT is a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, mass extinction and growing inequalities we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we ACT.<\/p>\n ACT: Art, Climate, Transition appears as a third evolutionary phase of Imagine 2020, which started in 2010 as a cooperation of arts organisations, raising awareness in the cultural field on climate change. Confronted with the ongoing climate crisis, sheer imagination is not enough. ACT is urgent and topical in addressing ecology and climate change, deeply rooted and entwined in a political economy that favours inequality and exhaustion. There is no sustainable transition without climate justice. Partners and story<\/strong><\/p>\n New Theatre Institute of Latvia ACT was developed with a multidisciplinary approach – performing and visual arts, discourse programmes, community-based activities, among others. \u201cACT: Art. Climate. Transition\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is co-financed by the EU\u2019s programme \u201cCreative Europe\u201d. ACT is a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, mass extinction and growing inequalities we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act. ACT is a project initiated by 10 cultural operators from 10 European countries, working in the field of performing and visual arts. More about the project read at\u00a0artclimatetransition.eu<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did we manage to ACT?
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\nWhat is ACT?<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nACT implemented 397 actions and events in the field of contemporary arts, ecology and a fair transition including: coproductions, exhibitions, festivals, knowledge sharing, performances, publishing, and participatory projects with local communities.<\/p>\n
\nArtsadmin<\/a>, London United Kingdom
\nBunker<\/a>, Ljubljana Slovenia
\nCOAL<\/a>, Paris France
\nCommongrounds<\/a> \/ Arie Lengkeek, Rotterdam The Netherlands
\nCulturgest<\/a>, Lisbon Portugal
\nDomino<\/a>, Zagreb Croatia
\nKaaitheater<\/a>, Brussels Belgium
\nKampnagel<\/a>, Hamburg Germany
\nLokomotiva<\/a>, Skopje North Macedonia
\nThe Change Management Research Group<\/a>, The Hague The Netherlands
\nTheater Rotterdam<\/a>, Rotterdam The Netherlands<\/p>\n
\nThe rooting & circulating WP (work package) included activities engaging with specific qualities, geographies, values and realities of our localities, while also feeding European exchange. This WP included main items of our shared work. With Collection Europe, collegially selected arts projects were brought to life. Relay lectures conceived and organised in a collaborative manner between partners of ACT. A series of 4 international Summer Labs for artists working around a specific theme, in close interaction with local communities and civil society organisations.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/theatre.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ACT_logo_basic_black_CMYK-1-1.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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\nHave a look at a reflective report on a four-year CE project ACT: Act, Climate, Transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,96,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-act","category-we-recommend","category-what-we-do"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}