NEWS
PRESENT & FUTURE
CONNECTING SILENT VOICES WINS PERFORM EUROPE GRANT 2024
We are proud to announce that BILOURA Collective's project CONNECTING SILENT VOICES is one of the 42 selected projects by PERFORM EUROPE. The grant will allow us to tour SILENT VOICES in Malta, Bulgaria and Kosovo in 2025 and meet artists, NGO's and activists across borders to create new networks and collaborations all over Europe. PERFORM EUROPE, supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. Through its fundings, it aims to facilitate international networking and supports inclusive, diverse, and green partnerships that wish to tour across the 40 Creative Europe countries.
In the second edition of the project, in July and August 2024, BILOURA deploys a
strategy of active involvement of the people directly affected by the project, namely the population with a migration background. A theatre workshop will involve them, at the same time as the
local population, to give them protagonism, positive sociability and a voice on the project's themes: living and working. The result of the workshop will be 7 flash mobs in public spaces in the
Canavese area, aimed at giving visibility to the project's themes, people and activities, raising the community's awareness of the advantages of a more inclusive society for
everyone.
OPEN SUMMER PRACTICE
July, August and September 2024
An open fix appointment of practicing performing arts techniques. Behind the artistic identity of the intercultural and transdisciplinary performing arts collective, there is the systematic repetition of a landscape of performing arts practices. Exercises for the mind, the attention, the body, the voice, the space, the listening, the creativity and the receptivity, which the performers train without the goal of staging and drawing from various traditions of the performing arts. We believe that the Practice can benefit all those interested in exploring it, and that it is useful for all aspects of life, not only for the creative life.
BILOURA AT AGORÀ
FESTIVAL DELLE COLLINE GEOTERMICHE TOSCANA
AGORÀ: THE STEADY GENTLENESS OF THE SEEDER
28th June 2024, 22.00, Pomarance, Toscany
Curated by theatre critic Laura Bevione. With Michele Altamura, Roberta Cagnetta, Domenico Castaldo, Serena Gatti, Silvia Ribero, Angie Rottensteiner and other guests.
After wondering about the present, with Agorà 2024 we want to project ourselves into the future, trying to imagine new horizons. Since in these years, talking about the future often means referring to the EU Agenda 20-30, we have scrolled through its 17 goals and noted the screaming absence of art, mentioned only transversely as a tool for ensuring the famous "cultural welfare". We would like, therefore, to propose an 18th goal, focused on art for its own sake. We would like to reaffirm its autonomy and independence that, among other things, make art contribute to achieving the other goals as well. And in order to achieve this 18th goal, an autonomous and fertile art, a critical and generative mirror of reality, we believe it is necessary to scatter seeds of unseen yet resilient plants.
HUMANS IN TRANSITION
Friday 14th June 2024, 20.00
Festival della Gentilezza
Casa di Quartiere il Barrito, Torino
MEET THE ARTIST
Il Festival della Gentilezza invites Silvia Ribero of BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective to speak about BILOURAs work of the recent years and bring her testimony on the peculiarities and challenges of artivism, contemporary arts in a global and globalized society and the necessity of artistic research and its relationship with Italian theatre system.
CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCY @ INTERPLAY FESTIVAL TURIN
DANCE BEYOND BORDERS in collaboration with
BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective
FROM 7th TO 9th MAY 2024
Barriera di Milano - Via Baltea e i Bagni Pubblici
Of how many and what borders is our collective and individual present made? How can art help us narrate them, deconstruct them, and ultimately try to break them down?
Participants will have access to three different workshops that will guide them toward a collective creation aimed at fostering reflection and connection on the theme of migration and colonialism.
MY HOUSE IS AT WAR
Saturday 4th May 2024, 16.00 pm
Participatory Performance by BILOURA Collective
Peace. Siege. Danger. Destruction. Resistance. Survival. In recent years, war has returned violently to our lives, forcing us in its brutality to question the meaning of terms we have taken for granted for too long. Like every year, the performance, which brings together the Valchiusellese community and international artists, will occupy public space to reflect on the meaning of Community, whether cohesive or disunited; at peace or at war; connected or disconnected.
A collective experiment that starts with the questions: If your house would burn down,
what would you save?
BILOURA AT ICO ACADEMY
Saturday 6th April
2024
BILOURA is also among the speakers at the Training Course for Cultural Operators that ICO Academy is organising for the second year in Ivrea.
Sophie Brunodet and Silvia Ribero bring training on intersectionality as a tool for creating projects and on art as a tool for socio-cultural impact.
POLIMORFA is now at its fourth edition. As is its nature, it is constantly changing and evolving. This year it offers a May of openness to the world
around us, both due to the presence of national and international artists and due to the desire to connect and embrace through performing arts. It entrusts the languages of dance,
collective ritual, music and social enquiry with the task of 'artfully' restoring to us the complexity of life. It places the audience at the centre in the conviction that democracy and peace
also pass through arts.
SEEKING W IN INDONESIA
The performers Silvia Ribero and Angie Rottensteiner from BILOURA Collective are travelling to
Yogyakarta, Indonesia from 12th January until 28th February 2024 for an artistic residency at PARADANCE PLATFORM. Aim is a first artistic exchange between BILOURA Collective and PARADANCE Indonesia as well as an artistic research around the topic of traditional dance in
relation to contemporanity, gender equality and environment. BILOURA will collaborate with the Indonesian choreographers Ela Mutiara, Lestari Kardyasa and Putu Aristadewi as well as the artistic
director of Paradance Nia Augustina.
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY IN MALTA
BILOURA Collective travels to Malta for the second edition of REVOLUTION. After a first edition in Italy, the three artists of BILOURA Collective Chiara Bosco, Silvia Ribero and Angie Rottensteiner will be in Malta from 4th to 14th October 2023 for another artsitic residency of exchange and creation together with Dance Beyond Borders and the artists Elena Brea, Kjersti Nilsen, Claudia Sanchez & Bojan Milosavljevic.
LETS GO LIVING BETTER
The social cultural project LIVING BETTER has won for the second time the support of the Foundation Compagnia di San Paolo. For 2024 and 2025 BILOURA will lead the artistic and educational interventions within the project, working with migrants and disadvantaged citizens. Within these two years BILOURA will realize an educational training to strengthen the network of the collaboration partners. Furthermore it will realize workshops, flash mobs and create a performance that will reflect on the concept of HOME and DIVERSITY.
SILENT VOICES wins the final selection of VISIONARI 2023
BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective will present SILENT VOICES on July 13th at Kilowatt Festival at Sansepolcro in Tuscany. We are very honored to have been selected by the Jury of 45 Visionaries. See you soon in Tuscany!
CON OCCHI DIVERSI
23 June 2023 at 19.00, Bene Vagienna
In the recent month BILOURA has lead an artistic and cultural project about inclusivity in the south of Piedmont. Aim was to bring together associations, citizens and administrations through art and cultural reflections to create a more inclusive society. The result, the video CON OCCHI DIVERSI created by BILOURA Collective will be presented on June 23rd 2023 in Bene Vagienna, Italy.
ART - COLLECTIVITY - BILOURA
30th May 2023, 19:00 - PiùSpazioQuattro
BILOURA is invited to an open talk by Pericentrica San Donato in Turin to speak about the role of Art and its relation with collectivity and public space. In a 2 hours talk the collective will present and analyze its work together with the theatre company Stalker Teatro.
by BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective
Monday 24 April 2023 at 20.30
Partecipative Performance - Val di Chy (IT)
A fix appointment of POLIMORFA festival, REVOLUTION is a collective creation which brings together international artists and inhabitants of
Valchiusella. This year it returns stronger than ever on the occasion of Liberation Day in Italy and BILOURA's 10th birthday. RIVOLUTION will be a reflection on the cultural capacity for change
in its most radical and courageous forms. An action of deconstruction and reconstruction stretched between individuality and collectivity, a drive that often stems from violent situations,
sufferance and injustice, but also is nurtured by hope, imaginative power and commitment. A performance made by many in order to remember revolutionary values and project them into the
future.
POLIMORFA
Performing Arts Festival in Valchiusella
24 April - 14 May 2023
The third edition of the POLIMORFA festival, directed by BILOURA Collective and this year entitled REVOLUTIONS, returns to Val di Chy (Italy) stronger than ever. Six performances including drama, dance, clown and figure theatre and a big party to celebrate BILOURA's 10th anniversary. Come and celebrate with us because no hay lucha sin alegria.
ODI WORKSHOP
March 2023 Val di Chy (IT)
In collaboration with the Mary Poppins cooperative, BILOURA Collective conducts a creative journey with a group of migrants living in Val di Chy. The workshop ODI has already seen several editions in Italy, France and Austria and wants to be a tool for the contemporary era of the multiethnic and
globalised West, which struggles with intercultural misunderstandings and intolerances. BILOURA firmly believes that when one is willing to shift focus in order to encounter the other, one
discovers the amount of values that unite people instead of dividing them. ODI workshop aims to build bridges between frontiers, cultures and thoughts in order to overcome the “fear of the
unknown” in favour of a peaceful multiethnic society.
INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY NAGUAL IN BRUSSELS
16 November to 16 December 2022
The Forest Lighthouse - Brussels, Belgium
Two artists from BILOURA Collective, Angie Rottensteiner and Silvia Ribero, are invited to participate in the second residency of the international research project NAGUAL in Brussels, Belgium. Together with the Mexican director Betzabel Falfan, the Belarusian dancer Tanya Galibus, the French performer Aurèle Belliard and the Congolese dancer Diego Liendo, they conduct an artistic research on the theme of transformation.
THE NECESSITY OF PERFORMING
Masterclass
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by BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December 2022, h10 – 17
The Forest Lighthouse - Brussels, Belgium
THE NECESSITY OF PERFORMING is a performing arts masterclass for improving the tools of the performer and for digging into the original impulse of art
creation: the “necessity”.
It is a tool for artists in order to deepen the understanding of their own peculiar and unique artistic doing, and its evolutionary potential.
Two artists of the Collective will share some of BILOURA’s unique practices.
EMPATHIA Imaginary City
Saturday 15 October 2022 at 6:30 pm @ Lo ZAC!
of Ivrea
Video presentation "EMPATHIA" for the project Living Better created by BILOURA in collaboration with videomaker Valentina Corrado, the visual artist Stefano Giorgi and the cultural and social innovation association Pubblico08.
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