COOPERATIVE DEVELOPERS

For 8 years, the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival has implemented the Edinburgh Carnival Festival, which stages a parade along Princes Street, and hosts informal and stage performances in Princes Street Park, the first Sunday of the festival, with 800 artists and an audience of 25,000 people. The Carnival features bands from various communities in Edinburgh and the rest of Scotland, as well as international performers.

The Carnival also organizes community engagement programs, including weekend events, workshops, performances, meetings, talent development projects, with the aim for the Carnival to welcome as many communities as possible.  

Samba Sem Fronteiras (Portugal) is a professional samba group created in 2012 by four Brazilians and a Portuguese resident in Porto. Since 2015, the cultural association Tartaruga Distinta has legally represented it and structured its objectives, which are to spread Brazilian culture through music, in particular samba and its variants, with concerts, workshops and cultural events. The organization also gave birth to a samba roda also called Samba Sem Fronteiras, to unite Brazilians residing in Porto and all Portuguese samba lovers.

The activities of the group are multiple and cover:
· Musical creation and production: 2018 was the year of the preparation and the launch of the first original album of the group, already in preparation for a second job.
-Dissemination: in recent years, the group has traveled the country from north to south with live performances, festivals, municipal parties, private and corporate events.
Training at local and international level, such as those carried out with Samba Résille in 2019 and 2020.

MetX is a production house made by and for music creators. In collaboration with artists from various backgrounds, we create original repertoires and ensembles. On the one hand through the production and promotion of groups such as Mâäk, BRUiTAL, Remork & Karkaba ou Fanfakids. On the other hand, by opening up and transmitting as much as possible the repertoires and knowledge acquired by our composers.

The music that characterizes MetX incorporates elements of Western improvisational culture and Urban Ethno, la musique traditionnelle originaire des différentes cultures présentes dans une métropole telle que Bruxelles. Une fois mélangé par our music creators, with mutual respect for each other's traditions, this artistic material evolves into a totally new and authentic musical culture. Sometimes strong, sometimes soft, sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly. Never perfect. Always exciting.

Founded in 1994, AVANTE 3 is a non-profit association with an educational and social character. It was born from the initiative of a group of parents of young people with intellectual disabilities, who are trying to provide answers to the needs that emerge at the end of schooling and during the transition to adult life.
Initially, she focused on the field of employment and work for young people and adults with intellectual disabilities, subsequently considering it necessary to develop a project enabling people with intellectual disabilities to live independently. This is how the Tréboles project was born in 1997, which takes a serious and detailed look at independent living alternatives for people with disabilities.
The creation of an autonomy skills training apartment, several supervised apartments and a job with support, are some of the milestones of these 25 years of life of the entity.
In this way, our entity works for the defense of the rights of people with intellectual disabilities and promotes their social and professional inclusion.
The interest of all the people who make up Avante3 (people with disabilities, families, friends and professionals), is to ensure that people with intellectual disabilities develop their abilities and potential to the maximum so that they can be the protagonists of their own life, the life they want to live.

The Lucid Body is a psycho-physical process that offers the fundamental building blocks of a new language, a new insight into character diagnosis and embodiment. We are ultimately offering the acting student or anyone interested in self-expansion, a way to embody the given circumstances of a character with a deep visceral truth by rearranging the energy in their own body,

Three Fundamental Concepts:
• Gravity Line
• Non-judgmental Mind
• Audible Exhale

Holistic acting means that the act of acting is a benefit to your system, not a drain. Lucid Body is a holistic training, based on the belief that self-knowledge is the most important ingredient to your acting. Using Carl Jung’s theories of persona and shadow, we will start with understanding why we are the way we are.

The seven chakra energy centers will be introduced as tools to differentiate human behavior based on intent. While the root will protect you, the heart will express compassion and joy. Inspired by the ancient knowledge of the Eastern yogic traditions, the LB process specifies the weight and resonance of each center as it affects our humanity. Exploring, uncovering, digging deeper, flying higher, you will move into new places of self, those small voices become large, and those undetectable feelings, immense.

Constellations is a co-learning program for artists from all disciplines who have a project being written around living art in the city.

Two days a month between January and April 2023, the 12 constellated artists will discuss their respective practices, based on the sharing of a particular question that they raise in their work, in the form of prototypes that will be observed, triturated, dissected, loved, cherished.

Constellations is a tool to learn new methodologies, to understand other writing paths, to know other ways of doing things and to strengthen artistic solidarity.

It is also a laboratory for thinking together about living art in the city, and trying to draw the outlines of the notions of public space, committed practices, the poeticization of the city.