| Programme | Local Development and Culture |
| Selection | Open project |
| Competition title | Second round of the open call “Support for the Creation of Professional Art and Cultural Products for Children and Youth” |
| Donorstate/international project partner | Julian Sæther, Norway (https://juliansaether.com/); Greta Clough, Iceland (www.handbendi.com) |
| Project national Nr. | EEZ/2022/2/19 |
| GrACE project Nr. | LV-LOCALDEV-0032 |
| Contract No. | 4.3.1-12-15 |
| Contract Date | 14.09.2022 |
| Project title | Performing Arts Laboratory “CirqueMusique” |
| Project promoter | Limited liability company "Lielais Dzintars" (https://lielaisdzintars.lv/) |
| Start of project eligibility | 01.10.2022 |
| Project end | 29.02.2024 |
| Total eligible costs | 249 971.83€ |
| Grant financing | 212 476.06€ |
| National co-financing | 37 495.77€ |
| Project status | Completed |
| Project goal/description | Project summary: Liepāja Concert Hall Great Amber, together with partners from Norway and Iceland, will work on the creation of a mobile full-scale interdisciplinary music production for young audiences (aged 12 to 18) with the elements of circus and choreography. The creation process will be based on creative ‘ateliers’ in four regions of Latvia, which will include various artistic experiences, networking, workshops, performances with young professionals and younger audiences. The need for such a project is built on our experience in working with educational programs for young audiences in at our Concert Hall, while there is currently a lack of suitable contemporary artistic content for teenagers outside Rīga, especially in the field of circus or contemporary music. Therefore, Concert Hall Great Amber wishes to create a new production that would incorporate contemporary music and contemporary circus and choreography and allow young people to get educated, discover, and experience the exciting creative process of interdisciplinary art production both here in Liepāja and in other regions of Latvia. Moreover, the project is focused on regional accessibility for children and the increase of practice of various art forms like circus or contemporary music outside the capital. This process will create a meaningful synergy among artists, our audiences, and different art forms, thus promoting audience development and regional engagement. In order to reach a broader audience, there will be a video documentary about the project CirqueMusique to show the hidden parts of creating the interdisciplinary performance.
Project objective: The project will result in 3 main cultural products. The ‘ateliers’ will serve as creative laboratories in different perspectives. Firstly, it will be a workshop platform led by foreign and local artists for young music, dance or theatre professionals from local music schools/dance/theatre schools on applying other art forms (circus and choreography) to create an interdisciplinary music performance. Secondly, there will be seminars and meetings with different contemporary music composers who will share their knowledge with a broader audience. Finally, after every atelier, there will be a smaller joint performance and informal networking session to bring all the participants and audience together to share the results of the creative laboratories.
The experience received in all four ateliers will be the base for the creation of a mobile full-scale interdisciplinary music production for young audiences which will be presented in Liepāja and the other three regions of Latvia by including it into the national art program The School Bag. We believe that such innovative methods of creative work will allow us to approach the target audience in a more meaningful way and help performance creators to construct an art event that will be attractive to young people in terms of the subject as well.
In order to reach a broader audience, there will be a video documentary about the project CirqueMusique to show the hidden parts of creating the interdisciplinary performance. It will be produced in both Latvian and English and will serve as a testimony and source of inspiration for others interested in interdisciplinary art projects. |
| Implementation place | Visa Latvija |
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