We are happy to announce the four selected applications for the School of Enough programme of our TBG partner, Rosendal Theater, which will run from November 2024 until October 2026.
A total of 28 project applications have been received, from 14 different countries. We were impressed by the quality and the relevance of the projects we received and wished we’d have had the means to invite at least twice as many to take part in the programme! We hope to be able to involve the applicants who have not been selected to some of the activities and will be working towards building up our capacities and scope in order to enable this.
The four selected projects are:
Angelo Mai /Merende /Industria Indipendente /Barikamà/Sara Alberani (IT)
In the context of Rome, an alliance has been formed between various agricultural, cultural and activist collectives (Angelo Mai/Merende/Industria Indipendente, Barikamà, Sara Alberani), who intertwine their agendas on the ground to propose an urgent process based on sustainable agricultural practices, degrowth, the protection of territories and cultural spaces through activism, social and artistic commitment. Based on these values, the project for the School of Enough extends from the fields cultivated by the Barikamà cooperative, to the activist spaces of the Angelo Mai kitchen, and spreads to the context of Merende, through the solidarity network built by curator Sara Alberani. The rooting of a practice related to food and environmental sustainability in a queer, transformative and convivial context like Merende – as well as in a symbolic place like Angelo Mai – is fundamental to the creation of new political imaginaries, in order to disseminate new practices of consumption and food production, to nourish a stratified community.
MediCina Valley (HU) — New Rituals
The MediCina Valley and its neighborhood are experimenting with how to create a voluntarily simple, close-to-nature lifestyle and a cooperative community, sharing related experiences. In our joint work with Klára Cserne, we are developing playful rituals that can strengthen the local community, offer deeper connections with visitors, and suggest new ways for collaboration between communities and art professionals.
The Friendship Art Education Foundation & Ditte Berkeley (PL)
The Friendship Art Education Foundation (Wrocław, Poland), in collaboration with Ditte Berkeley, is deeply committed to addressing the urgent need to tackle the crisis of teenagers’ health and well-being due to post-COVID effects, climate catastrophe, and the overuse of technology in our lives. Rooted in the values of our flagship project, Lelenfant—an international initiative for artists and culture practitioners under 16—we emphasize friendship, collaboration, peer learning, and artistic expression. We aim to establish a teenage program focusing on young adults over 14, proposing a daily basis program to help them reconnect with themselves and nature through collaboration, creativity, effort, critical thinking, and innovative approaches.
Valentine Paley & Margaux Schwab (CH) — /frîa/
Valentine Paley (dancer and choreographer) and Margaux Schwab (cultural producer and curator), both based in Vevey (Switzerland), share a common interest in art, activism, food and transdisciplinary practices. With the project /frîa/, their aim is to make Vevey the first town in the world to ban strawberries in winter, the ultimate symbol of the disconnect between the reality of regional agriculture and respect for planetary limits. The project addresses the question of symbols and the construction of our desires generated by false narratives of modernity and infinite growth.