Arts Printing House (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Following their participation to the training seminar « Managing Performing Arts Across Europe » in Riga in May 2002, Indre Daunyte, journalist and theatre critique, and Viktoras Karpusenkovas, administrator of the Dance Information in Vilnius, carried out a survey of industrial sites reconverted into cultural venues with the support of Theorem, in the perspective of the opening of the Arts Printing House.

The Arts Printing House project is based in the buildings of the Vilnius printing house. This is where Pravda, the communist daily newspaper of reference during the soviet period, used to be printed.
The idea is to renew all buildings and make them a contemporary arts centre, open to Europe at the time of enlargement of the European Union, and devoted to young creation in all cultural fields.
The opening of this new venue is initiated by the Theatre Information Centre and Dance Information Centre in Vilnius. The project is multiform and multidisciplinary, it plans to host companies in residency, to present national and international works, to enable the creation of projects in situ, to organise workshops…

Visit of 8 alternative spaces in 4 different countries:
Meetings with directors, managers and technical directors of these reconverted structures, visit of the spaces, documentary research, enabled the achievement of this compared study of all artistic, economic and technical aspects of similar projects of cultural reconversion of industrial premises in 8 alternative spaces of 4 different European countries:
1. Trans Europe Halles, Meetings in Dublin, Ireland (Viktoras Karpusenkovas)
2. City Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland (Indre Daunyte, Viktoras Karusenkovas)
3. Axis Arts Centre, Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland (Indre Daunyte, Viktoras Karusenkovas)
4. Project, Dublin (Indre Daunyte)
5. The Chocolate Factory, London, United-Kingdom (Indre Daunyte)
6. The Junction, Cambridge, United-Kingdom (Indre Daunyte)
7. Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Indre Daunyte)
8. Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussells, Belgium (Indre Daunyte)

Indre Daunyte and Viktoras Karpusenkovas wrote a publication at the end of their research mission about ther studies on the reconversion of industrial premises.
Downlaod the study (in English)


Gulliver's Connect Programme, Felix Meritis

The Gulliver's Connect programme is a flexible training network favorising cooperation between professional arts practionners from Central and Eastern Europe, ex-USSR and Mongolia (25 countries of the former "east block", from Albania to Mongolia). This is the unique programme in Europe to provide a framework stimulating international cooperation between ex-socialist countries, diversifying schemes of training and carrier development.
To participate, professional arts practionners from Central and Eastern Europe can apply as "visitor" or "host". Then the selection process begins.
The visitor, once selected, works in an organisation for a given period. Training sessions can last 3 to 8 weeks.
Theorem associated with Gulliver's Connect to enable this programme to extend its pool of hosting organisations to "Western" Europe.
Participants to Theorem seminars as well as different partners of the association hence benefit from the joint expertise and financial support of Theorem and Gulliver's Connect to be "placed" in adequate performing arts structures or go on missions.