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.
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“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.
Reclaiming Technology Session Vol. 2 with Silvia Binda Heiserova
Who designs the technologies we are using ?
How does the technology design affect our lived time ?
What agency do we have as users when making conscious or unconscious decisions about technology-related activities?
Long Life to DemArt! – A Blog Post by Daniel Valtueña
Is it possible to be happy at the end of something whose end you don’t want to see?
The Big Green greets with discussions on sustainable and creative leadership
The Big Green -project partners met in beautiful Slovenia to experience, think, learn and co-create what sustainable and creative leadership really is about. We spent 4,5 days together as a group, exploring, appreciating and enjoying the beautiful local nature and environment in Slovenian I’Julian Alps, on the edge of Triglav National Park in Bohinjska Bistrica. We built our way to the theme by discussing practical, theoretical and experience-based ways to understand what sustainable leadership means to us as individuals, members of different communities, projects or other consortia as well as citizens of Europe, and the world.