Representing the identities and the Voices of the European Riverains

R.I.V.E.R. is a project financed by the European Union within the Culture Programme 2007 - 2013, joining organizations in the fields of interdisciplinary domains of culture as are visual arts, performing arts, culture heritage, design, applied arts from Italy, Poland, Romania and Finland.
Official website: www.riverproject.eu

R.I.V.E.R. is an artistic interdisciplinary project  promoted by 4 riverain communities based in Italy, Poland, Romania and Finland with the aim to evoke a common heritage of memories related to the river, to transform them into an occasion of European dialogue and to create a new occasions of cultural socialisation in the natural environment of the river.

The project aims are:

• to enhance the European citizenship
• to facilitate the establishment of European networks
• to promote the role of the European Union

Target group:

Young Artists, artistic directors, other people who activated in organizations in the fields of interdisciplinary domains of culture such as visual arts, performing arts, culture heritage, design, applied arts from Italy, Poland, Romania and Finland.

           
Main activities:

1. Project management
2. Stories collection
3. Competition for visual artists (intercultural dialogue)
4. Story writing (intercultural dialogue)
5. Workshops for visual artists (mobility)
6. Workshops of story telling for performing artists (mobility)
7. R.I.V.E.R. week (intercultural dialogue)
8. Communication and dissemination

 Expected outputs:

The R.I.V.E.R. project will produce a number of relevant results both tangible and intangible.
First of all the list of tangible results is the following:
- 8 meetings with elderly local population in Italy, Poland, Romania (total 70 people) and Finland (total 40 people)
- 4 reports on the river communities’ traditions from the anthropological, historical, economical and sociological point of views (one each country)
- 1 competition that will select 36 artists
- 1 European plot form which draw up the stories to be performed
- 3 workshops for the creation of the sets/installations (with 4 Italian, 4 Polish and 4 Romanian artists each)
- a series of installations on the Italian, Polish and Romanian rivers venues
- 4 workshops for the creation of the performances under the coordination of one Italian, one Polish, one Romanian and one Finnish theatre directors
- about 20 stories created by the Story tellers team
- 4 theatre performances, one in Italy, one in Poland, one in Romanian and one in Finland during the R.I.V.E.R. week
- 3 conferences in Italy, Poland, Romania to present the art installations to the citizens (65 participants in each country)
- a publication called “Stories along the R.I.V.E.R.”
Speaking about intangible results R.I.V.E.R. project is expected to:
- promote the concept of transnational mobility as an added value of the European citizenship showing the potential of a group coming from different cultures. The example of the workshops – that will also produce tangible results such as the installations – will demonstrate the importance of the collaboration with other European people also moving from the country of origin. Moreover this transnational mobility could be encouraged also because in R.I.V.E.R. process we would make people aware that they have common cultural basis together with the own identity;
- make people aware of the common needs that each European citizen has starting from people living in small and marginal community. The R.I.V.E.R. process would make aware people living in such small communities that they are not cut off from the wider concept of European citizenship;
- encourage the intercultural dialogue that in R.I.V.E.R. process will be also an inter-generation and multi-sector dialogue.

Participating organizations:
Province of Ancona - Italy
Wyzsa Szkola Humanistyczno - Ekonomiczna w Lodzi (WSHE) - Poland
Kansan Sivistystyon Liitto KSL ry (KLS) - Finland
CPPC – Centre of Professional Training in Culture (CPPC) / Romania

Coordinator project for Romania
0788.996657

www.cppc.ro