Happy New Year
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 – 2021: What about the Petit Théâtre?
Due to the work in Notre-Dame block, the Petit Théâtre
will be close during the 2020-2021 season. Grenoble Habitat, responsible for
the project keeps us informed of the progress of work. The work schedule plans that
we return to the Petit Théâtre before the 33rd Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen are planned on July 2021.
We remind you that within the framework of the
agreement signed with the city of Grenoble, Créarc usually organizes at the
Petit Théâtre several activities, including:
- Hosting a wide variety of companies and
associations: dance, theatre, literature, “Accessibility Month”...
- Providing a place for residences and rehearsals to
companies from Grenoble metropolitan area.
- The programme planning of Créarc on its different
work areas: creation, support for artistic practices, European exchanges and
Young European Theatre Rencontres...
- The agenda of the permanent troupe of mentally
deficient comedians Arist-Créarc.
A public relations effort with the companies and the
associations willing to perform at the Petit Théâtre will be done throughout
the year. Thus we will perpetuate relationships built over the years, assure
the Petit Theatre’s permanence as a place of civic conviviality and prepare the
2021-2022 season.
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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 33rd Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen in July 2021.
Fernand Garnier
Director
Situated in the
historical centre of Grenoble, this theater has got 62 seats and has been provided
to the Crearc by the Grenoble Town Council.
It welcomes
young companies, associations, MJC, residents groups that come here to
rehearse, attend workshops, and show their theatrical productions.
It’s the working
place of the Crearc itself. Theatrical workshops, creations, readings...go on
there all along the year.
Every year, in
July, it is at the very heart of the European Young Theater Rencontres and during
the year, it welcomes directors and European artists for training courses and brainstorming
meetings.
It’s a resources center and a space for
artistic, cultural and citizen conviviality.
It secures synergy
between local, regional, national, European and International levels.
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