NEWS
Island Connect ToolKit
The Island Connect project learnt a lot from our experiences, and hopefully the artists did too! Below is a collection of our articles and documents about the project.
Island Connect 2020-2022
This iteration of Island Connect ended on the 30th November 2022. Thank you to Creative Europe and all of our partners across five countries who helped make this possible. Thank you to all of the artists for participating and sharing their work with us. We are in the…
Greek Islander Focus Vlog – Yorgos and Maria
Yorgos and Maria came to Ireland as part of their Islander Focus residency. They made this video about their trip!
BIRCA Culture Week Festival
Within the Culture week at BIRCA, in the afternoon and evening of 21st of September 2022, a wonderful program of 5 performances created within Island Connect will be shown. The program features two final productions from Island Connect – last year’s production “What…
Irish Aerial Dance Festival
The Irish Aerial Dance Festival is an annual training and showcase festival for aerial dance works based in Letterkenny, Ireland. The Irish Aerial Creation Centre partnered with the festival to bring three final productions to the stage in the northwest of Ireland to…
SpringLab 2022 in Athens
From April 4 to 8, the ISLAND CONNECT hosts in Athens the SpringLab, a 5-day intensive networking workshop for artists, with the aim to provide the companies with tools for development, creativity and sustainability of their artistic projects. The capacity building…
Meet the artists #7: Androniki Marathaki, Natalia Manta & Elton Petri (Greece)
How can colours, light and reflections unravel awareness and flows of movement? Driven by a dance practice about what is actually a bodily sensation and how motion awakens any sensing through its actualization, choreographer Androniki Marathaki, artist Natalia Manta…
Meet the artists #6: Marilén Ribot (Mallorca, Spain)
(The Armour can be broken when the soul is caressed) The main concept behind this whole project and its creation is the emotional and physical wounds that people have to face throughout their lives, and the way we relate to them. Facing and overcoming adversity, we…
Meet the artists #5: Mak Murtić, Marta Kolega & Filip Borelli (Croatia)
Medzotermina, in the language of ancient Croatian sailors, meant the place between places, the island in the middle of everything. The group involving composers, performers and visual artists is set to explore the different ways in which humans interact with the…
Meet the artists #4: Anna Javoran, Irma Unusic & Sabrina Fraternali (Croatia)
The Secret Garden is the title of a participatory site-specific performance for young audiences over the age of 12 developed by Irma Unušić, Sabrina Fraternali and Anna Javoran. Having the connection of the individual to their environment in mind, the performance…
2021 Residencies Announced
25th January 2021
The Creative EU-funded project ISLAND CONNECT will support 8 Performing Arts projects from Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, Greece and Spain in 2021. This support will be dispersed via granting residencies and a “SpringLab” in Limerick including different Capacity Building Workshops. ISLAND CONNECT’s goal is to support and assist artistic creation and the mobility of artists. The 2021 call for residencies received 81 applications.
The 8 selected companies are:
- Kathleen Doherty and Alexandre Duarte (IR) – residency at BIRCA (Bornholm, Denmark)
- Christopher McAuley and Emmen Donnelly (IR) – residency in Cres (Croatia)
- The Amazing other (DK) – residency in IACC (Limerick, Ireland)
- Eirini Tiniakou and Zoi Mastrotheodorou (GR) – residency at BIRCA (Bornholm, Denmark)
- Konstantinos Pavlidis (GR) – residency at C.IN.E. Sineu (Majorca, Spain)
- Nikolina Komljenović and Irma Unusic (CR)– residency at C.IN.E. Sineu, (Majorca, Spain)
- teatreBLAU (SP) – residency in Cres (Croatia)
- La ContraPiel Teatro (SP) – residency in Naxos (Greece)
The 8 companies will develop their projects during a 2-weeks residency in their own country and a second 2-weeks residency in the partner country, fights & coaching/mentorship included. The supported artists distinguish themselves by the richness and originality of their artistic approaches, as well as their aim to experiment.
Furthermore, the program will support this year 2 more projects in the framework of the Islander Focus productions, aimed at more established artists that have already been researching specificities of the insularity conditions. In 2021, a Danish company will travel to Majorca and Greece and a Croatian company will create in Ireland and Denmark. Both will benefit from and a final presentation of their work abroad.
The ISLAND CONNECT program not only supports new emerging companies of the 5 countries, but it also encourages artists’ interaction with the island area and community. Specific community members are contacted to spend a day with the artist on an island field-trip exchanging experiences, practices and reflections. Other public activities are artists’ work-in-progress presentations organised at the end of each residency and presentations of finished works of selected artistic companies in partners festivals. All presentations are followed by an artist-audience feedback session.
Download the press release PDF here.
