29-08-2011

04-09-2011

United States, New York
The Wild Project www.thewildproject.com

Posted by: aktina-stathaki

Category: Festival/Biennial/Triennal

Field: Performing arts

Source http://betweentheseas.org/home/index.html

Between the Seas Festival
New York City, August 29th- September 4th 2011

Join us in celebrating contemporary Mediterranean culture!

MISSION:
Between the Seas Festival is organized for the very first time in New York City from August 29th to September 4th 2011 at the Wild Project theater space in the heart of the East Village. The festival seeks to engage performing artists and researchers from the Mediterranean and Mediterranean diaspora with the following goals:
- Share with New York City audiences the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary cultural production from the Mediterranean, aspects of which often remain inaccessible and under-represented in North America
- Encourage exchange and future artistic collaborations between NYC-based and Mediterranean-based artists
- Contribute to the examination of Mediterranean identity/ies by encouraging discussion and exploration of the region’s commonalities and differences as manifested in arts, history, culture, geography and politics
- Generate interest and debate over Mediterranean identity and culture, envisioning the region’s potential as a model of cross-cultural exchange beyond polarizing and homogenizing discourses.

BACKGROUND:
The vision for this festival was sparked by our need, as diasporic Mediterranean artists, to celebrate the dynamism of the Mediterranean’s younger generation of artists while emphasizing the region’s long and complex history of cultural exchange and envisioning its position in today’s globalized world. This initiative also comes as a response to the growing number of institutions and policies, particularly in Europe, that aim at studying and supporting Mediterranean and Euro-Mediterranean relations. More recent events, such as the radical economic and social changes in Southern Europe, civil unrest in North Africa and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, make our effort to use culture in order to understand the region all the more pertinent. With Between the Seas our hope is to create links between the Mediterranean and North America and contribute to the representation of region in New York.

The festival is produced by Les Manouches Theater Company with the collaboration of distinguished scholars, theater practitioners and festival managers from the US and Europe. For more information visit: www.betweentheseas.org

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