Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

Create to Connect (CnC) is a joint effort of 13 European cultural and research organizations to create powerful and long-lasting connections
of artists, cultural operators, audience and researchers. We recognize the need for arts and culture sector to respond to the crisis, especially
to neuralgic points of the disengagement of citizens in the public sphere, to the disintegration of participation in public matters and to the
diminishing sense of community. Especially contemporary performing art with its direct interaction between artists and audience has potential to create a sense of community and conditions in which searching for new alternatives, giving voice to the ones that do not have it or opening opportunities to participate in the matters of public is possible.
CnC network has chosen a pool of European artists, who will be commissioned and coproduced by different partners to create art works
engaging the audience in new innovative ways and trying to create new public arenas together with the audience, whether it be physically,
through dialogue or participation. The partners have also made commitment to host touring performances by providing artists conditions to
adopt works in longer relation within local contexts and communities. The (co)producing and adaptations will be curated in consensus and the principle of making joint decisions. CnC will (co)produce 25 new art works and adapt 44.
All the (co)productions, adaptations and the process of developing new work will be documented, evaluated and further developed: final
evaluation, publications, a new master’s study module and a tool-kit that will offer the tried-out ideas and solutions through a web application.
CnC will organize 2 conferences that will bring together artists, representatives of the participating audience, cultural operators and
researchers. Conferences will offer space for exchange, confrontation, evaluation and also for devising recommendations for future work of
artists and producers.