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The second day of FRESH 2023 was dedicated to the concept of safety in the arts started during a morning session at Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde. We had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable discussion with the facilitation of Chrissie Faniadis gathering Isabel Joly, Juhyung Lee, Clive Lyttle and Elisabeth Efua Sutherland, during which we have explored the importance of creating and maintaining safe creative spaces in order to regenerate the performing arts sector in general, and the circus and arts in the public space in particular.

On the third and last day of FRESH 2023 - International Event for the Development of Contemporary Circus and Outdoor Arts, we have explored the concept of sustainability. The day started with a morning session organised in partnership with De Rue De Cirque, inside the big top of Village de cirque festival.
To open the session we had Eric lenoir, landscape designer, and author, who invited us to reflect on how we can integrate systems of cooperation that are omnipresent in ecosystems into our ways of creating and working.
Marija Baranauskaitė Liberman and Andrea Salustri continued the journey via a 30-minute conversation on their mutual artistic practices through the lens of sustainability.
We also had the pleasure to host a roundtable discussion with the facilitation of Gwendolenn Sharp gathering Danielle Devery, Joris Janssens, Théo Mouzard (Collectif Etc), Olle Strandberg Colling, and Jin Yim who shared ideas about how solidarity and cooperation can foster a more holistic approach to sustainabilit

The second day of FRESH 2023 was dedicated to the concept of safety in the arts started during a morning session at Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde. We had Guillaume Dupuis, associate professor at Université Paris-Saclay who had introduced the concept of safety with an inspiring and powerful keynote. Darya Efrat and Osian Meilir have continued the journey via an artistic talk.

The first day of FRESH 2023 - International Event for the Development of Contemporary Circus and Outdoor Arts has opened in style the 3 days programme, starting at La Villette, with the opening words of Gwénola David - General Director of ARTCENA, Stéphane Segreto-Aguilar - Head of Development at ARTCENA and Coordinator of Circostrada, Gilles Pelayo, Head of Unit, EACEA B.1 CULTURE (established by the European Commission) and Christopher Miles, General Director of Artistic Creation at the French Ministry of Culture.
Day 1 of the programme, was dedicated to the concept of care during a morning session at La Villette, with the intervention of Fabienne Brugère, philosopher and author, and with the hostig of a roundtable discussion with the facilitation of Katie Kheriji-Watts gathering Koon Allary, Emilie Buestel & Marie Doiret, Anna Giribet i Argilès, Sebastián De la Cuesta Gormaz and Lucho Smit.
Listen to the talks here, with an additional closing interview of Fabienne Brugère.

EN FRANCAIS: Cette semaine, dans AROUND FRESH, la série de podcasts précédant l'événement Circostrada FRESH, est en français. La presentatrice Maaike Muis discute avec la directrice d'ARTCENA, Gwenola David, de son rôle en lien avec Circostrada et des principaux sujets
des événements FRESH.

Comment est-elle tombée amoureuse du cirque et des arts de la rue ? De quoi est-elle la plus fière pour Circostrada ? Et quelles sont ses aspirations pour l'avenir du secteur du cirque et des arts de la rue ?

Crédits : Cet épisode a été produit, monté, mixé et présenté par : Maaike Muis. Musique : Blue Dot Sessions. Avec un grand merci à Stéphane Segreto Aguilar et à l'équipe Circostrada, Kinga Kecskes et ARTCENA.


IN ENGLISH
This weeks AROUND FRESH, the podcast series leading up to the Circostrada FRESH event is in FRENCH.
Host Maaike Muis talks with ARTCENA director Gwenola David about her role in connection with Circostrada and the main topics of the FRESH Events.


How did she fall in love with the circus and outdoor arts? What is she most proud for Circostrada? And are her hopes for the future of the circus and outdoor arts sector?


Credits: This episode was produced, edited, mixed and hosted by: Maaike Muis.
Music: Blue Dot Sessions.
With big thanks to Stéphane Segreto Aguilar and from the Circostrada team Kinga Kecskes and& ARTCENA.

This podcast is a collection of the thoughts and ideas that came up during the second edition of Spark. An event that took place between June 14th to 18th, 2023 in Elefsina (Greece).

This cross-sectorial laboratory was co-organised with ARTCENA, Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Elefsina European Capital of Culture, Institut français Paris, Institut français de Grèce, Teatroskop - South Eastern European Network for Performing Arts, it was an event on the question of placemaking or making territory through live performance.

SPARK brought together a small group of professionals from across Europe combining Circostrada members, artists, architects, geographers, creative producers, artistic directors that exchanged best practices, experiences, build common knowledge and provided concrete recommendations.

This podcast was commissioned by Circostrada.

Interviews, production and host: Danai Maragoudaki.

Production, scription, editing: Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

Mastering, editing: Stefanos Konstantinidis.

Circostrada is coordinated by ARTCENA and co-funded by the French Ministry of Culture and the Creative Europe programme of the European commission. If you want to know more about Circostrada Network's missions, activities, members, latest news and resources, check out www.circostrada.org.