Past Projects

FACE opens a space for arts organisations to cooperate internationally and acts as an incubator, giving tailor-made advice and supporting the design process of partnerships (for example, by inviting key advisers or by providing a meeting room and travel grants to allow preparatory meetings to take place). Facilitating these early steps, FACE helps to build the capacity of cultural players to work transnationally and to interact with like-minded stakeholders, raising the quality of partnerships and funding strategies.

The arts and culture sector in Europe are a recognized contributor to addressing some of society’s most pressing issues. The sector’s infrastructure includes artistic organisations, networks, research and training providers, both formal and informal. Artists and culture professionals are...

FACE was part of SHIFT Culture, a new Erasmus+ project gathering nine European platforms. Coordinated by the European Music Council, the project began in December 2019 and ended in January 2022.

FACE facilitates workshops to help cultural agents develop cooperation projects. The sessions focus on several key steps that are important to taking a transversal approach to international work:

Sharing ideas, beliefs and 'food for thought' to establish meaningful partnerships and ensure...

As part of its missions to accompany performing arts companies based in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the Belgium venue Les Doms (Avignon, France) has developed a support scheme to help companies tour their work internationally. FACE is member of the expert group providing guidance to...

Farming the Arts is a European collaboration involving MiramirO (Belgium), FiraTàrrega (Spain), La Grainerie (France) and Finspangs kommun (Sweden). Together they devised a collaborative working model involving local farms and exploring, through the arts, agriculture-related topics that affect...

FACE designed a co-spectatorship programme, FACE-to-face, to support venues and festivals experimenting with new ways to engage different communities: the organiser pairs an artist and a citizen, who then attend a performance together and exchange their views on the work seen. Several approaches...

Following the successful European cooperation project Unpack the Arts led by Circuscentrum (Belgium) and supported by the Culture programme of the European Commission, FACE proposed that performing arts festivals continue to maintain a dialogue with emerging and experienced critics and cultural...

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