Each new
year presents itself with a share of the unknown. The year 2021 is exceptional
in this regard. In the
scenario in which we have been participating since March 2020, the date of the
first lockdown due the Covid-19 pandemic, the twists and turns have not ceased
with their lot of anguish and uncertainty. When will
the climax of the crisis occur? Who can tell? What forms will the outcome take?
We don't know. So what can
we wish for each other? For our part, we will say: intelligence, sensitivity and
kindness in the face of what is coming, to make as eventual worst to a possible
better. And as men
and women of theatre, may this long ordeal lead to more beauty and more fraternity.
Happy New
Year.
Fernand
Garnier and the Créarc team
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2020: Year of Covid-19
Reunion toward the future
Cancelled on May, 11th 2020 due to the public authorities’ decision face to the Covid-19 outbreak; the
32nd Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen rise from their ashes in a
different form: the Virtual Rencontres. First, those give evidence of the
vibrancy of the Young European Theatre Network. Then they reinforce the link
between the companies who are members. Finally, they are another way for the
stage directors, artists and young comedians to share with the public their
passion for creation. The Virtual Rencontres of the Young European Theatre are
held online from 3 rd to 12 th of July 2020. 12 companies
participate. Each one of them presents an original creation.
The programming plans 1 to 2
videos per day. Those will be broadcast on Créarc’s YouTube channel then
relayed on social network: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
An original way to make alive
the European Motto “United in Diversity” adding it “United in Adversity”.
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The 32nd Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre
Européen which was originally slated from the 3rd to the 12th
of July 2020 in Grenoble are cancelled. This decision follows the French Public authorities’
measure to suspend every shows and festivals until 15 July 2020 in order to
handle the coronavirus outbreak.
The Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen are a major
moment in the Network’s life and in Grenoble cultural life. This year, they
should have gathered 18 theatre troupes from 12 European countries and they
should have made Grenoble a center for artistic and civic exchanges.
The cancellation of the Rencontres is a mourning and a
loss.
But the outbreak is at one with the theatre history
since the beginning of this one. Remember Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and the plague devastating Thebes. The crisis we are
currently experiencing is a test, a journey through hells, a “trial by fire”.
What we could wish and what we could work for is to get out of this crisis more
aware of our mutual humanity and to create art and beauty. Like the phoenix, we
have to rise from our ashes.
The Crearc, center of the Young European Theater
Network, is a European Non-Governmental Organization that organizes theatrical
and cultural exchanges throughout the year. All Network members, connected to
each other by internet and social networks will pursue their work and, as soon
as the situation will allow it, they will set up new collaborations, including
the 33 rd Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen in July 2021.
Director
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The Young European
Theater Network was born from the Young European Theatre Rencontres which
have been taking place in Grenoble since 1989. It has been made official during
the seminar which was held in Grenoble, in May 2004, and which gathered
participants from 18 European and non European countries.
It is made up of
professional directors who have chosen to work with young people, being whether
on professional theatrical training of young professionals. It gathers dozens
of structures: companies, theater schools and theatrical academies, festivals,
divided up in all Europe and beyond.
It is a space
where artists, groups, companies and young people, share their practices,
experiences, and their theater vision. This one encourages practices and
abilities exchanges, between artists and theater teachers.
It is a plural
artistic movement, and an international theater laboratory. Its members
organize cultural and artistic exchanges: co productions, bilateral training
courses, show productions, professional theatrical trainings, festivals...The Young European
Theater promotes intercultural apprenticeship, diversity respect, Human Rights
and solidarity values. It cooperates to the construction of a pacified,
democratic, tolerant, jointly liable Europe, open to the World and contributing
to Peace.
The very heart
of the Net is in Grenoble, at Crearc, the founder of the Young European Theater
Rencontres.
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