SCENEGROWTH: Performing Arts for Social Transformation is an international project for the exchange of experiences between European cultural and social entities with the aim of learning new management models and methodologies to favour access to culture for the most vulnerable groups and their full inclusion.
This project is aimed at organisations and professionals working in the fields of cultural management, performing arts and social participation and inclusion.
SCENEGROWTH is a cultural cooperation project between three European entities with complementary profiles: the Aragonese company AD HOC Gestión Cultural, leader of the project; the Greek theatre company PRAMATA & KAMATA; and the community social services centre JAUNUOLIU DIENOS CENTRAS from Lithuania.
The objectives of the project are:
- To provide cultural and performing arts organisations with a new working methodology that favours social inclusion.
- To provide professionals in the cultural and performing arts sector with new digital tools.
- To create a regional, national and international network of entities with shared values of equity and inclusion.
- To favour the full and active participation of people at risk of social exclusion in cultural events.
The main activities of SCENEGROWTH are the exchange of experiences and good practices between European cultural and social organisations working in the fields of performing arts and social inclusion; and the effective transfer of this new knowledge.
The following actions have been carried out during the 2 years of the project:
- Learning visits to the countries of the project partners, where 60 experiences around cultural management, performing arts and inclusion have been known first-hand. In September 2022 (Panevėžys, Lithuania), in November 2022 (Kalamata, Greece) and in March 2023 (Zaragoza, Spain).
2. A «Handbook of Good Practices» in e-book format, with the aim of transferring knowledge to local authorities and key cultural and social actors in the participating countries.
3. Three training programmes (one per country) that include the methodologies and learning acquired.
4. Three days of dissemination of the results (one per country).
5. 13 audiovisual pills with the conclusions of the project.
The 13 audio-visual pills from the three participating countries that show the results of the project can be viewed at the following link .