INTERNATIONAL UNDER25 PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY

The <under25 project is a partnership between three European nations and four arts organisations (Peshkar Productions – Oldham, Companhia Joao Garcia Miguel – Lisbon, La Rambleta – Valencia, Escuela del Actor – Valencia) to bring together emerging artists under the age of 25 to share practice, to collaboratively create, and develop new ways of artistically working crossing borders of artform, culture and language.

The project kicks off in the last week of June with a laboratory followed by a four week residency in Valencia. This will be repeated in January 2017 in Lisbon and again in June 2017 in Manchester. The project will culminate with the final artistic work touring to each of the European cities in autumn 2017.

The artists from Manchester will come from a pool of young artists recently recruited through an open call and four artists from each of the countries will take part in each artistic residency.

North West based artists take part in a recent development day in preparation for the <Under25 project.

Every residency will be proceeded by a creative laboratory which will consist of artistic, cultural and linguistic exchanges, drawing upon the expertise of arts professionals in each of the host cities.

The residencies will each last for four weeks where all artists will have a chance to develop their artistic practice and skills. As well as experiencing the cultural and linguistic differences between their European neighbours. Culminating in artwork created collaboratively which will be toured internationally in autumn 2017.

Peshkar Productions has recently run workshops with the North West based artists who will be part of the UK pool of artists. Starting their artistic journeys in Oldham before they begin to work collaboratively with fellow artists from across Europe.

The <25Under project can be followed by visiting the project website: http://www.under25routes.com/home/ and you can follow the project from all countries on Twitter: @under25routes

<Under25 is co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Partner organisations meeting in autumn 2015 to plan <Under25 – Andrés Poveda (Escuela del Actor), Lorena Palau(Espai Rambleta), Joäo Miguel García (Torres Vedras, Portugal) and Jim Johnson (Peshkar Productions, Manchester