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An Adventure Beyond Art, Myths, and Everyday Life in Europe 2013 – 2017 Meeting the Odyssey is a social and artistic collaborative project sailing from the Baltic to the Mediterranean Sea. Each summer from 2014 to 2016, artists and organizers from different European countries will travel together, giving workshops and performing theater pieces. The project will combine elements of the Odyssey, contemporary themes relevant to Europe and stories collected through exchanges with the local population. But Meeting the Odyssey is also a journey in itself: bringing people together through long term collaboration, and discovering new artistic landscapes and cultural attitudes to develop synergies at the European level..

Project ambition What is Europe today? Who are the people living in Europe compared to who they were? What is their personal Odyssey? This project asks: what is the common Europe behind the commitment of the European Union? Is there a common ground based on culture and daily life? How can we be reminded of our common roots? The project aims to decrease prejudices and to create a shared narrative that comes out of the stories of the people in Europe today, through the frame of the legend of Odysseus. For a meaningful discussion about a sustainable and inclusive European culture and a creative future, we need to cross national borders to meet people from different contexts with different perspectives on Europe.

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We will create 4 artistic productions with international teams We will 14 locally created actions, called «Instants» We will develop new methods of creating theater performances in a social theater context We will create a network of theaters and festivals all over Europe We will give the chance to a minimum of 65 artists to be on board of the ship and 30 more to be involved We will create a hybrid language for theater that can be used in international co-productions We will document and share the process in the form of recordings, media, written evaluation, the performances We will produce new research linked to the project that will ensure the lasting and dissemination of the project results. The focus of the research will be on intercultural dialogue, artistic mobility and European identity We will create unity and solidarity among the partners and the people involved in the project

Touring Schedule 2014

PRODUCTION A sailing with Hoppet 23.5 – 1.6 St. Petersburg 2.6 – 5.6 Hoppet St. Petersburg – Hanko 5.6 – 13.6 Hanko 13.6 – 19.6 Tallinn 19.6 – 24.6 Hiiumaa 24.6 – 29.6 Saaremaa PRODUCTION B sailing with river boat and Hoppet 5.7 – 12.7 Opole (Bus Opole – Berlin) 12.7 – 20.7 Berlin (Bus Berlin – Prague) 20.7 – 29.7 Prague (Bus Prague – Lübeck) 30.7 – 1.8 Hoppet Lübeck – Copenhagen 1.8 – 17.8 Copenhagen (Helsingor, Bornholm) 17.8 – 23.8 Copenhagen – Helsinki 23.8 – 1.9 Helsinki

2015

PRODUCTION C sailing with Patria and Hoppet 22.5 – 31.5 Milano 5.6 – 11.6 Varenna, Dervio (Lecco Lake) 12.6 – 22.6 Campsirago, Olginate 23.6 – 27.6 Como, Bellagio, Cernobbio (Como Lake) 29.6 – 7.7 navigation Camogli – Malta 7.7 – 16.7 Malta and Gozo 17.7 – 24.7 navigation Malta – Sardinia PRODUCTION D sailing with Hoppet 1.8 – 31.8 Sardinian’tour 1.8 – 20.9 France: Sete – Montpellier 25.9 – 4.10 Firenze – Castiglioncello

2016

Sailing with Hoppet Productions A and D 1.6 – 8.7 Corfú – Ithaka – Epidavros – Athens Productions B and C 1.7 – 8.8 Epidavros – Athens – Rhodos – Leros – Ikaria

The Yacht HOPPET

Theater Productions 2014 Production A: Memories for Life Premiere May 23rd in Skorohod Platform, St. Petersburg A physical multilingual performance about the past and the present, the old and the young. "We do not walk towards death. We do not walk towards getting old. We walk to meet ourselves. We walk to meet our Other Me. Life is like two persons walking towards each other. My old age meets my youth" Imants Zedonis (Latvian poet, b.1933, d.2013) Memories for Life is a performance about the forgotten dreams and remembered hopes of elderly people, lived through the bodies of young actors. Responsible: Viirus Theatre, Finland. Co-produced with ProFitArt Company, Czech Republic, NO99, Estonia, ScarlattineTeatro, Italy and Asterions Hus, Denmark. Director: Maria Lundstrรถm, Viirus Choreographer: Lenka Vagnerovรก, ProFitArt Company On stage: 7 actors/ dancers

Theater Productions 2014 Production B: The Penelope Project Premiere July 5th 2014 in Opole, Poland A performance inspired by the fate of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus. About her dreams and work. A performance with live music, dance and objects, performed outdoors. Responsible: Opolski Teatr Lalki i Aktora, Poland. Co-produced with ScarlattineTeatro, Italy, Viirus Theatre, Finland. Director: Krystian Kobylka, Opolski Teatr On stage: 7 actors

Theater Productions 2015 Production C: sbarchi_landing Premiere May 22nd 2015 in Milan, Italy. Responsible: ScarlattineTeatro, Italy. Co-produced with Asterions Hus, Denmark, Viirus Theatre, Finland, Skorohod Platform, Russia. Director: Michele Losi, ScarlattineTeatro. On stage: 9 actors

Theater Productions 2015 Production D: Premiere August 2015 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Responsible: Cada Die Teatro, Italy. Co-produced with Réseau en Scène, France, Theatro Anapoda, Greece. Director: Giancarlo Biffi, Cada Die Teatro. On stage: 7 performers.

Instants The Instant Performances

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Locally created actions: unique performances combining the Odyssey and the local context into a short performance at every stop on the tour Responsible: every year a team of 3 from Cada Die Teatro, Italy (2014), Viirus, Finland and Skorohod, Russia (2015), Asterions Hus, Denmark and ScarlattineTeatro, Italy (2016) Separate action, still linked to both Main Productions and Workshops Can be performed by the ship, in a venue or in the street The instant performances together with the workshops are the «laboratory» of the project