BILOURA is an intercultural and transdisciplinary performing arts collective, composed by artists of various professional backgrounds that works since 2013 with a g-local strategy between Italy and the world. It leads an artistic path of innovation of scenic languages and artivism and its performances, workshops, projects and various other activities are presented within the international circuits of performing arts.
BILOURA creates artistic projects through collective processes, emphasising the richness of cultural diversity in order to overcome barriers, labels and metaphysical prisons. It has its own poetics and its own research horizon - Cross Culture Performing Arts - oriented to go beyond differences and physical and cultural borders, addressing what unifies the human being.
Furthermore BILOURA deals with issues of political, social and environmental relevance within thematic projects, seeking for each of them an appropriate and peculiar artistic language, also capable of communicating with a contemporary audience beyond differences in language and cultural origin.
The artistic work of BILOURA wants to encourage the encounter with oneself and the other within the variety of cultural expressions. It is an artistic and political action for a less fearful and divided global society.
HIGHLIGHTS —
✬ Winner of PERFORM EUROPE 2024 with the artivism project CONNECTING
SILENT VOICES touring in Kosovo, Malta and Bulgaria in 2025.
✬ Winner of CULTURE MOVES EUROPE 2024 with the ecofeminist research residency "Everything that surrounds us is still alive", February-March 2025 in Galicia, Spain.
✬ Winner of GREEN PILOT TOUR by European Jazz Network, awarding the ecologist performative concert SINKING ISLANDS, created by SATOYAMA band and BILOURA with a tour in Sweden, Denmark and Germany in March 2025.
✬ Winner of Malta Art Council production award with the ARTIVISM RESEARCH GROUP REVOLUTIONARIES to create around the topic of decolonization in November and December 2025 in Malta.
✬ Cultural leading partner of LIVING BETTER welfare project in northern Italy, funded by Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, dedicated to using arts as tool for inclusivity of the fragile population, with special regards towards citizens with migration background (2024-2025).
✬ Co-creator of SEEKING W artistic residency together with Paradance Yogjakarta, a two months long intercultural research on gender violence in Indonesia, 2024.
✬ Winner of L'Italia dei Visionari call for entries at Kilowatt Festival with the performance SILENT VOICES inherent in the project 5 VOICES FOR 1, Italy 2023.
✬ Winner for 3-month research and production residency at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju to create the performance SILENT in South Korea, 2021-2022.
✬ Winner of the Special Mention Award for a Performance by International Artist at Bangkok Theatre Festival with the performance AMARSIAMORSI, Thailand, 2018.
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“The world has many problems and they will not be solved through one performance, but cultural actions are the primary and fundamental tools for the evolution of thoughts, the individual and the community. Without these tools no real change can take place. Culture is the spark of change and evolution that allows us to build a better world.”
BILOURA is an Association for Social Promotion that proposes cultural activities in Italy and around the world, employing artists and cultural operators committed to build a better world through art. We work to promote a culture of inclusiveness, respect and tolerance of diversity by embracing complexity. To meet the challenges of the contemporary era and continue doing our work, we need your financial support.
• You can make a personal donation via bank transfer entitled "erogazione liberale" to BILOURA APS ETS
IBAN: IT34 A050 1801 0000 0002 0000 509 - Banca Etica Torino
• If you are a company, please contact us to consider a sponsorship: your contribution is 100% tax-deductible.