Abigél Varga was the fourth person to join the creative process of composing a collaborative musical piece using the “Cadavre Exquis” method as part of the “Mind the Gap” project. We talked with her about what it feels like to join a work that is already taking shape, how she found her own musical voice within it, and why knowing just a single detail of the story offered her both freedom and inspiration.
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Learning from Each Other: A Job-Shadowing Journey with Sparse PLUS
Over the weekend, the artistic director of Utcaszínházi Alkotóközösség Association, Balázs Simon, and three promoters of the Sparse PLUS project — Norbert Káló (Szendrőlád), Julianna Budai (Borsodbóta), and Éva Gulyásné (Sajókaza) — visited Cluj-Napoca and Cehu Silvaniei for an inspiring job-shadowing visit.
“My biggest hope was that the program I helped planning would have a long term impact on the participants career paths” – interview with Márton Csuzi, external expert and curator of ESR
As part of our European Solidarity Residencies project, two young professionals visited us for a one-month residency at rhe end of last year to learn about the local cultural scene and Pro Progressione’s place and role in it – Márton Csuzi, our external expert and mentor guided them during the whole residency journey. We asked Márton, to summarize his experiences in this interview:
“It’s hard to strike a balance between continuing to talk about music and speaking out on socially important issues.”
Virág Anna Virág is the first female composer to have contributed to a collaborative piece created using the Cadavre Exquis method within the Mind the Gap project. We spoke with her about her creative methods, her comfort zone, mathematics, and what it’s like to make a name for herself as a female composer in Europe today, focusing on her sequence titled Never Heard.
“I saw a group of highly motivated emerging professionals who needed support in translating strong values and concepts into feasible and sustainable professional pathways” – Daniel Valtueña
We have worked with Daniel Valtueña on several projects before – this time we invited him to the European Solidarity Residency as an external expert to enrich the participants’ work with his experience and insights. Daniel accompanied the work through three online sessions, about which we asked him in the following interview:
“A shared value base is essential, but differences are just as important”
As part of our European Solidarity Residencies project, two young professionals visited us for a one-month residency at rhe end of last year to learn about the local cultural scene and Pro Progressione’s place and role in it. We asked them about their experiences in an interview. Now, read Raouf Moussa’s impressions of his time with us:
“I could feel how a cultural institution can create a real sense of belonging—not just for audiences, but for the artists themselves”
As part of our European Solidarity Residencies project, two young professionals visited us for a one-month residency at rhe end of last year to learn about the local cultural scene and Pro Progressione’s place and role in it. We asked them about their experiences in an interview. First, read Alma Kadic’s impressions of her time with us:
12 creative minds, 10 summer days and a performing landscape – PLACE creative camp
As part of the Performing Landscapes project, 12 artists came together for a ten-day creative camp in the hills of Piemonte to explore deeper connections between art, nature, and community. Through inspiring talks, hands-on gardening, harvesting and cooking together, the program offered fresh insights and encouraged the exchange of ideas. Together, we reimagined how art can become a strategy for engaging with nature and how we might foster a sustainable relationship between green spaces and humans.
What do we have time for?
As a person in his mid-thirties who is mainly in contact with people working in the fields of performing arts, I am surrounded by more and more parents who fail day after day in their impossible attempt to transform the triangle of children, relationships, and household into a sustainable seven-pointed star, complemented by friends, creativity, me-time, and even some rest. This is not an extreme sport. It is tantamount to slow suicide.
The TeatRom Festival 2025 continues with site visits
The Utcaszínházi Alkotóközösség, the organization behind the TeatRom Festival, has been working for over fifteen years to provide space and visibility for Roma children in the Cserehát region, one of Northern Hungary’s most beautiful yet economically challenged areas. Building on long-standing professional and personal relationships, the SPARSE+ project will be implemented in five municipalities between 2024 and 2026, continuing the work that began with the launch of the TeatRom Festival in 2020.