Thoughts and reflections on the role of theaters and festivals in the construction of a city identity and the urban landscape, their growth, cultural promotion policies. Debate with international guests from Parigi, Lille, Lione, Tel Aviv, Montreal, Novi Sad, Tblisi, Wiesbaden, Skopje.

The conference will be coordinated by the theater critic Andrea Porcheddu.
Two sessions with two specific sub-themes are scheduled

First session (h9- 11):
Tomorrow in the city: how to change (and improve) the urban context. Which role for the theater? Metropolitan area networks or beautiful strongholds?
Break with WHAT A TARANTULA EATS - a performance by Koreja (h11- 11:20 )
Second session (h 11.20-13)
The public and us: the spectator as a customer or as an interlocutor? What practices to involve the target community?

From the narration of significant experiences of their professional journey , several guests are invited to reflect in perspective by identifying and indicating possible future projects, in view of comparisons , exchanges and networking.
Guests can choose which of the two themes to join, providing an intervention to a maximum of 15 minutes each. It is expected to open a later discussion with the aim of creating a document to be proposed as a platform for the future.
After the greetings of the Mayor of Lecce Paolo Perrone, the scheduled interventions are: Alex Ferguson, Push Festival (Canada); Marie Collin, Festival d'Automne (France); Didier Thibaut, La rose des vents - Scène nationale (France); Philippe Sidre-Théâtre Gerard Philipe (France); Yossi Tal-Gan, Israeli Festival (Israel); Adonis Filipi,  Skampa Festival (Albania); Alexander Elsner, Shauspiel Leipzig (Germany); Damir Domitrović, Ex Ponto international Performing arts Festival (Slovenia); Manfred Beilharz and Beate Kronsbein, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and festival New plays from Europe (Germany); Lieven Bertels, Sydney Festival (Australia); Dario Lo Perfido, Fiba Festival (Argentina); Costantin Chiriac, Sibiu International Festival (Romania); Kasia Torz, Malta Festival (Poland), Sandrine Mini, Le Toboggan-Decine  (France); Ekaterina Mazmishvili and Natalia Ebanoidze, Tblisi Festival (Georgia); Darina Abrahamova, Slovak National Theatre (Slovakia); Airan Berg (Lecce 2019), Bouboulina Nikaki (Greece) , Theatre Cultures (International); Jakub Porcari, Teatro Solski (Poland).

EVENT DATES

21 luglio 2014, at 09:00 - Lecce, Must