NEWS, HIGHLIGHTS & PAST EVENTS
BILOURA
2017 — 2013
5 VOICES FOR 1
Creative workshop with former trafficked women January to May 2018 in Vienna - Austria
Supported by the start-up grant of
BKA - Ministry for Art and Culture Austria 2017
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Performing Interventions
Congress Education and Gender
26 October 2017 - Turin, Italy
Educational congress for teachers on gender issues and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation organized by Sophie Brunodet of the educational department of BILOURA.
Performance interventions during the congress by BILOURA Collective. In collaboration with: La Tenda della Luna, Il Ponte di Irene, Centro Studi Sereno Regis, Centro Relazioni e Famiglie Città di Torino, Centro Antiviolenza Città di Torino, Servizio LGBT Città di Torino.
International Artistic Exchange
Finestre sul Giovane Teatro IX
18-20 May 2017 - Bologna 13-15 October - Teramo
6 days of international meetings in two Italian cities for the methodological exchange of the principles of the performers work!
Participants of the edition 2017: Filo dei Venti (Italy-Brazil), Nò Cego (Porto Alegre - Brazil), Biloura Collective (Turin - Italy), Teatro dei Servi Disobedienti (Bologna - Italy), Miguel Jerez (Spain), Elementos em Cena (University of Blumenau - Brazil), Rogo Teatro (Teramo – Italy)
IL SASSO NELLA
SCARPA
A project on violence against women
13 March 2017
“School Table” 'Albert Steiner' high school, Turin
20 March 2017
"City Table” 2 pm at the ‘Casa del Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani’
Sunday 2 April 2017
"DIALOGUES" 7 pm at Circolo dei Lettori
Experiential path of reflection on gender discrimination and violence against women led by the Training Department of BILOURA directed by Sophie Brunodet, in collaboration with La Tenda della Luna, an association of social promotion part of Coordinamento Cittadino contro la Violenza sulle Donne (CCVD) and Centro Servizi Didattici della Città Metropolitana Torino.
IN GENERE
Experiential workshop dedicated to gender issues and discrimination on the basis of gender lead by BILOURAs Training Department by Sophie Brunodet in cooperation with Raffinerie Sociali Torino.
BILOURA at Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade
1 week of performances, workshops, installations and round tables 15-20 February 2016 - São Paulo, Brazil
1 week of performances, workshops, installations and round tables concluding with the performance SPIRO. Result of a 3-month artistic residency in Brazil that saw 6 international artists in collaboration with SAMAUMA Residencia Artistica Rural.
Artistic residencies in Brazil
2015-2016
BILOURA is invited to Brazil to participate to several residencies of creation in collaboration with 3 Brazilian artists. 3-month
residencia artistica rural SAMAUMA (Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo), one week-long intercultural art exchange residency at Nu.Vi.Ar (Matao, Brazil) and one week artistic residency at SESC
Parati with the presentation of SERENADE in January 2016.
ODI
27 November 2015
Public presentation of the final performance of the intercultural theatre workshop "ODI - Cantami o Musa le differenze tra noi" with refugees and locals of Valchiusella - 27 November 2015 in Alice Superiore. In collaboration with: Spazio Baobab – centre for Afro dances of Ivrea, Les Voix Qui Dansent – female choir of African songs of Ivrea, Municipality of Alice Superiore, social cooperative Leone Rosso.
Intercultural performance between Brazil and Italy
Presentation of the performance SPIRO, the result of EFFIMERIA project dealing with the theme of death. A performative wake at the end of a 3-month artistic residency for 6 international artists between Brazil and Europe in Valchiusella. Various presentations between September and October 2015 in churches/temples in the Canavese region.
EFFIMERIA Conferences
A cycle of performative interventions during conferences on the theme of death approached from different perspectives. With guest experts in bioethics, medicine, art-therapy, anthropology and a performative funeral banquet with chef Giovanni Allegro, an expert in healing cuisine – April to June 2015 in Ivrea. In collaboration with: cultural centre ZAC!, literature festival La Grande Invasione, Faculty of Nursing of Ivrea Officina H - University of Turin.
DREAM PROJECT 2013
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY
IN GRAN CANARIA
Two-month international artistic residency ending with the musical theatre performance EL SONIDO DE LA MEMORIA on the theme of individual and collective memory. Final performance of the DREAM PROJECT in collaboration with the contemporary art space Zoppa de Azul (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) on 7 December 2013 at El Gallinero cultural space and 14 December 2013 Biblioteca Insular Gran Canaria.
PERFORMANCE
ON THE ROAD
A series of site-specific performances in urban areas created by 5 international artists of BILOURA touring Italy, Switzerland and France between June and August 2013.
LIBERI DA... HOT IT BEGAN
BILOURA was born with the performance LIBERI DA! Participatory performance and intercultural collective creation on the theme of freedom and resistance on the occasion of Italy’s National Liberation Day: Ivrea 25 April 2013 and Alice Superiore 26 April 2013 with 10 international artists on stage.