The ICDC will create a work team with the collaboration of the Mueca, Temudas and Tran Tran festivals
He Institute of Cultural Development of the Canary Islands (ICDC) finalizes the details to launch a specific program aimed at promoting Street Arts in the Islands. The first step to carry out this initiative will be to create a work team that will include those responsible for the most prominent festivals that are committed to this format both inside and outside the Canary Islands, as well as a selected group of professionals who want to get involved in this task.
The first meeting will be in May, coinciding with the Mueca Festival (Tenerife), which is one of the collaborators in the Canary Islands along with Temudas (Gran Canaria) and Tran Tran (Fuerteventura), within the framework of a few days in which both the artistic fabric and those responsible for regional, state and international programs will participate. The purpose of the proposal led by the autonomous Government will be to seek links, collaborations and networks for the development of future projects.
In this work forum a dialogue will be opened from an internal perspective as creators and as managers; and an external look to detect the possibilities that open up in other territories, promoting the generation of collaboration networks. At the moment, at the national level, top officials from the Spanish Theater Network have already confirmed their participation, as well as from such notable festivals as the Fira de Tárrega or Almagro; the Principal Theater of Ourense and the Principal and Victoria Eugenia theaters of San Sebastián. There will also be important representatives from Uruguay, Colombia and Chile.
To complete the team, an invitation has been sent to professionals from the islands who work in the performing arts sector with the aim of having representatives who can talk about their experience in the Canary Islands and contribute ideas that really contribute to promoting this performing format. The requirements to participate are published in www.icdcultural.org. The deadline to submit a proposal ends on May 2.
The objective of the new program is to start a dialogue about this format, as a laboratory for the sharing of ideas that allow the Canarian talent in this field to be enhanced and expanded to other territories. Its development is conceived in the medium and long term, with at least one powerful action once a year within the framework of public festivals that work with this type of creativity.
First work sessions
The first meeting will take place on May 11 and 12 in Puerto de la Cruz, during the MUECA Festival. It will open with a session that aims to look 'inward' to know what we are and what we want and how they see us, with the aim of identifying potentialities and particularities, among others. Subsequently, the team will be invited to now look 'outside' to get to know others and imagine possible projects, joint proposals.
The next day there will be a first work session between artists and programming managers, so that both parties know first-hand the needs of the other and propose new paths of collaboration. At the end there will be an evaluation and diagnosis phase that serves to discuss the conclusions reached within a month.
