Cooperation project on the promotion of a local theatre

Since April 2010, the 'Joli Collectif' is leading the Pocket Theatre and its BONUS festival.The project is organised during the whole year between the cultural season, which proposes contemporary works, and the creations of the group. The objectives are to make the renovated Pocket Theatre accessible and friendly, to transform it into a reference cultural place between urban and rural areas, and to raise people’s curiosity towards diverse contemporaneous art.

In the frame of the LEADER program, the Joli Collectif is supported in the implementation of two projects addressing the development of the territory: the Cafés de Poche and the Outdoors projects. The results of these two projects are very encouraging: the Pocket Theatre is now recognised as a place open to everybody where creation and contemporaneous artistic diffusion challenges in a rural environment meet challenges linked to local development in terms of services directed to the population.

We aim at implementing a cooperation project in the long term (12 months) in order to develop actions for the benefit of the territory. Actions to be carried out could include artistic guidance on the festival agenda, distribution of existing projects between the partners, artists residencies, workshops around the companies work, exchange programmes on artistic matters tageting the youth in the city.

Another theatre in a similar situation from a rural area in Europe.

Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Malta, Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Slovakia, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Romania, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Lithuania, Latvia

English, French

Community development, Culture, Education, Leisure, Promotion

11/12/2012