European Outdoor Arts Academy: School of Participation
Coventry City of Culture Trust
Cooperation Projects
England
2019
Total project grant (euros)
195,000
Sub-programme
Culture
Funding scheme
Creative Europe
Call number
EACEA 34/2018
Location
Coventry, UK
Number of partners in project
6
Lead organisation
Walk The Plank, UK
Partners
Fondacija Novi Sad 2021 - Evropskaprestonica Kulture, Russia
Kaunas 2022, Lithuania
Obstinska Fondatsia Plovdiv 2019, Bulgaria
uniT - Verein für Kultur an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
European Outdoor Arts Academy will deliver five ‘School of Participation’ 8 day training sessions to production schools in five partner cities between 2019 and 2020. Each school will bring together creative practitioners together from 10 partner cities, to gain new skills and experience in co-creating an outdoor participatory arts event. All sessions will be delivered by a team of outdoor arts experts drawn from across the core partnership and will result in collaboration with 20 local community participants in each host city to deliver an outdoor participatory arts event to the public.
The programme will underpin the development of a transnational talent pool in European participatory creative practice and contribute to the strengthening of participants’ creative careers. It provides a practical opportunity to build capacity and create a programme of “action learning” for cultural organisations and practitioners in cities who have, plan to or are building delivery of European Capital of Culture or similar major cultural programmes.
The project will serve to grow sustainable outdoor participatory arts capacity in small to medium sized, culturally engaged European cities. It will also exchange models of audience engagement through participatory practice in public space. Learning will be shared across the European Capitals of Culture network and beyond.





