Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as an active member of the Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition European programme, participates in the conference “Towards Stronger Peripheries: New Coalitions and Policies of Solidarity”, which will take place from May 28th to 31st, 202, in Belgrade Serbia. The conference is organised by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and the University of Arts in Belgrade
The conference program will encompass a series of presentations, discussions, and artistic programs on participatory practices in performing arts, community theatre, peripherality, policies of decentralization and decolonization in culture, north-south relations in theatre policies and practices, independent performing scenes in South European countries, and corresponding support systems for sectoral development.
Over 50 artists, researchers, and experts will take part in the main conference program, while keynote lectures will be provided by Eleonora Belfiore, PhD from the University of Aberdeen, and Kristina Lelovac, PhD from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje.
Key dialogue will engage Federico Escribal, PhD, a professor and researcher at the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, and Emanuel Negrier, PhD, director of the Center for Political and Social Studies at the University of Montpellier, with discussion facilitation by Luis Bone PhD, director of the Cultural Management Graduate program of the University of Barcelona.
The conference will take place in the Yugoslav Film Archive. It is organized as one of the final activities of the project “Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition”, which connects 14 partner organizations from 10 European countries. It is co-funded by the European Union through the “Creative Europe” program, Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
Activity aligned with Goals 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17
