The Transmission

INTERNATIONAL ARTS PARTNERSHIP

England

2020

Total project grant (euros)

196,390.00 €

Sub-programme

Culture

Funding scheme

Creative Europe

Call number

EACEA 32/2019

Call publication date

10 Jan 2019

Application deadline

27 Nov 2019

Number of partners in project

6

Lead organisation

INTERNATIONAL ARTS PARTNERSHIP

Partners

IASTAR FRANCE

LE COLLECTIF WOW!

STOCKHOLM STADSTEATER AB

SZUBJEKTIV ERTEKEK ALAPITVANY

UNIVERSITETI I TIRANES

The Transmission launches an innovative project to bring young people together from the 6 partner countries to collaborate in making short form (under 7 minutes) audio drama. The project is a recognition that, although audio drama is undergoing a renaissance brought about by technological developments which allow it to be made to high quality at low cost and easily and widely disseminated, young people still have few opportunities to experience the joy of making it.

Audio drama has developed in very different ways across Europe making it uniquely suitable for a trans national cooperation programme; participants will be exposed to the full range of approaches and enabled to bring their own interpretation to those forms in the work they make. Involving partners from Sweden to Albania, over 200 young participants will be supported to co-create scripts with professional writers, collaborate with young people from other countries in making work and celebrate together at a final festival. Young migrants will be integrated into the project in every country ensuring that they have a clear voice within it. 72 plays in all project languages including Arabic will be produced. 

The partnership itself synthesises skills in youth engagement, migrant engagement, making audio drama with young people, supporting student radio, creativity in higher education. The lead partner produces an established international radio drama festival which will be at the heart of the long term sustainability strategy. All project resources - scripts, toolkits etc will be freely available for anyone to use. Audio means drama without boundaries. This project will unleash the creative potential of young people, and leave them as advocates for the art-form and cultural exchange across Europe and beyond.

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