ErosAntEros involved in Piran-Pirano candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2025
For more than a year now, Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco / ErosAntEros have been involved in Piran-Pirano 4 Istria 2025 candidate city for European Capital of Culture 2025, with a project aiming at the creation of an International Centre for Contemporary Performing Arts in Istria under their artistic direction.
This is the joint candidacy of the four municipalities on the Slovenian coast –Piran, Izola, Koper, and Ankaran– which is now in the finals. A shared and participatory process involving 10 cities in Croatian Istria, Muggia, Trieste, and the Veneto Region, for a total of 57 projects with 512 international partners from 41 Countries.
To create their project IICPAC – Istrian International Contemporary Performing Arts Centre, Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco have involved the international theatre institutions and artists they love most.
The partners are 29, and among them – just to name a few–, Schaubühne (DE), Théâtre National de Strasbourg (FR), Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE), Théâtre National du Luxembourg (LU), Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts (HU), Hrvatsko narodno kazalište (HR), Bitef Festival (RS), MESS International Theatre Festival (BA).
The IICPAC directed by ErosAntEros will produce and programme multidisciplinary, multilingual, and multicultural performances, workshops, masterclasses, and participatory projects.
Located in the former salt warehouse Monfort in Piran, the Centre will make contemporary performing arts the new salt of this territory with an international programme of activities oriented towards Europe.
The Centre will combine development (of the audience and the territory), education (of professionals and spectators), production and programming (of international and local artists) in projects deeply based on multilingualism.
Between 2023 and 2025, the IICPAC will produce three big, site-specific, and participatory performances by ErosAntEros in three different industrial heritage settings on the Slovenian coast. Two theatre classics will be rewritten drawing on local history and the personal stories of its citizens. A third great collective production will be the result of the meeting of these (hi)stories with the work of five dramaturgs of different nationalities.
A one-year-long participatory process for each of the three performances that, Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco are sure, will give people the chance to get in contact with each other through the collective exercise of artistic creation.
The Slovenian city awarded European Capital of Culture 2025 will be announced on December 18, 2020.