Events & Activities

Beyond South showcases the international theatre, dance and performance co-productions created as part of the Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition project. The showcase presents the creations of Valentina Medda, Nóra Juhász, Neja Tomšič, Tiago Cadete, Mélodie Lasselin and Simon Capelle, Petra Hrašćanec and Ksenija Zec, and Hamdi Dridi, in a seven-day event (24th to 30th October) hosted in Portugal. Beyond South questions and discusses the notions of “south” and “peripheries” from a socio-political and socio-cultural perspective, by presenting the artistic approaches the project coproduced since 2020. It expands the dialogue to new audiences, artists, professionals and organisations, and raises questions by presenting diverse insights. An opportunity to rethink our identities through culture and the empowering confluence of cultural difference.

The conference program will encompass a series of presentations, discussions, and artistic programs on various subjects, such as 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.

Première of the final performance of the Catalan Tandem, “Daily Bread” (Moon Ribas & Quim Girón).

Première of the final performance of the Italian Tandem, “Daily Bread” (Kepler-492).

Première of the final performance of the Catalan Tandem, “Connecting Dots” (Chiara Bersani + Valentina Medda).

Première of the final performance of the second Portuguese Tandem, “Having a Voice” (Tiago Cadete).

Première of the final performance of the first Romanian Tandem, “Right to the Future” (Catinca Draganescu).