Partnership

Change /project is created in close partnership of 4 organisations from – Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary.

Leader of the project

Sztuka Nowa (PL) is artistic collective moving in the areas of performance, dance and social arts. Since 2017 it has been working on discovering and studying new forms of expression of performative arts. Sztuka Nowa invites professionals and non-professionals from various social groups to create artistic performative projects. Sztuka Nowa collective is a team of proffesionals led by Dawid Żakowski. Sztuka Nowa creates a partnership in Warsaw of 4 different non-governmental and non-institutional Warsaw based organisations which run together the Art Centre Lubelska 30/32. Each of these organizations operates in the field of culture, art and education while being socially involved.

Partners:

Priestor Sucasneho Tanca (SK) is an initiative to promote the professional development of dance artists, choreographers, teachers, and students – people who live for dance or live from dance, who are active and works in the field of contemporary dance. It is about creating a place for the meetings, confrontations, exchange of the experiences and knowledges.:

• Interdisciplinary workshops, discussions, seminars, etc.
• Production and coproduction of contemporary dance pieces with local artists
• Coproduction of contemporary dance piece with artists in residence

Audience development  activities (productions for non-artists in collaboration with renamed choreographers, dance at school, encounters with artists.

Platform Kulturális Egyesület (HU) is a new independent art association based in Hungary. The idea behind the association is to foster socially conscious art projects from different disciplines. Their aim is to create a platform for artists whose practice inspire positive social change. Their team consists of artists, project managers and creative minds dealing with the topic in their practice.

The association is closely related to Ziggurat Project, an interdisciplinary art company based in Budapest. In the main focus of Ziggurat Project are socially conscious, site-sensitive performances connecting different forms of art. In the past three years the company participated in international cooperations such as Picture Project of Placcc Festival (HU, NO), Nassim El Raqs art lab and residency (EGY), Performing Arts residency of Visegrad Fund (SK), Art&Tech Days (SK), White Night Festival (SK), Spotter Trip (A) or Let me in Performing Arts Festival (DE). In Hungary they have created site-sensitive actions in non-conventional public or private spaces, as well as productions for Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, MU Theatre, Artus, Valley of Arts, L1dance Fest, Samsara Festival, etc. 

Cooltour Cultural Centre (CZ) is multi-disciplinary contemporary arts centre which was established in October 2011 in Ostrava with the aim to support emerging young talents in the arts and to provide a space for new art forms and genres to develop, a platform that was nonexistent at the time.  

Cooltour Cultural Centre is a place you can visit to see a performance or party, you come here to work in a non-formal co-working barcafé, you participate in different workshops and also, a place where you seek support for your projects. Beside the artistic experience of various kind (theatre, music, dance) we also organize many projects that help the city of Ostrava – Experience Ostrava differently, USE-IT Ostrava, Pianos in the city, Adopt a flower pot, Urban interventions, International day of dance, City in motion, Cinema Royal and many more. We are interested in the city center, its problems and opportunities. We are located at the Black Meadow and we want to help change it to be a cultural a lively place where people often come.
In the past three years, Cooltour has become an important platform for the support of cultural projects. These projects are directed to encourage the individuals’ creative potentials, as well as those of communities. These projects are local and international and focused in different directions. Sometimes they focus on building relationships between the city and its inhabitants, sometimes at making sad and empty city spaces alive again, or sometimes focusing on international cooperation in the arts or strengthening democratic values and principles. We consider these activities to be extremely important, because not only do they contribute to the city life, but equally help in awakening personalities. Those same personalities that will create the future of Ostrava.

Fot. Grzegorz Zielonka