The A.I.N
The Artstrust International Network, aims to brake down barriers in international collaborations.
Aims & Objectives
• Identifying future artist collaborative opportunities
• Identifying cultural identity and knowledge exchanges programmes between the UK and Brazil
• Identifying partnership development and capacity building for UK/Brazilian artist
• Develop a greater understanding of the Dance/Arts ecology in Brazil 2013
• Project legacy with a Social Network
Partners
Escola de Dança is a government funded organisation currently undergoing a period of significant change of direction within their education and artist aspirations. Susannah Yamauchi a Fulbright and Japan Foundation Fellowship scholar, dancer and choreographer of Brazilian/Japanese heritage is a performer, choreographer and educator, currently working as the Director. The partnership will provide valuable access to government and artists. In
addition we have shared goals of promoting cross-cultural understanding and the use of dance to inform and enrich our community, facilitating awareness and change within communities. This vision will allow us to develop together artistically, bring together two countries of different backgrounds and cultural.
Supported by the British Council
Artstrust is please have the support of the British Council
'We are pleased that Artstrust is progressing to work closely with Escola de Dança de Sao Paulo and to establish contacts with cultural and arts organisations in Brazil. His aim to identify and develop future partnerships, capacity building and knowledge exchange programmes for artist and producers between the UK and Brazil will be a strong strand for building the stepping stones towards a Brazil/UK dance festival in the UK in the coming years.
We fully support Martin’s application to the International Development fund. From our conversations with him both in London and Brazil we believe with this research time he will be able to develop an exciting programme which fully fits with the mission and vision of the British Council in this country and his own aspirations. His tenacity and forward thinking will engage potential funders, producers and artist, which has been demonstrated to date by his relationship with the host partner Escola de Dança.'
Liliane Rebelo and Cristina Becker (British Council)
Brazil: Country Interest
Within the UK there has been a noted call for knowledge sharing and capacity building of Arts from Brazil to the UK. For example at London's annual
Frieze Art Fair, the number of Brazilian galleries represented has nearly doubled in recent years to five. Co-director Matthew Slotover said "I've been to Russia, China and Brazil in the last few years and Brazil is the most interesting one of the Bric countries, It has an incredible history of architecture and design through modernism, and that has really fed into the art scene."
The development of art more widely within Brazil has been recognised by the Brazil's Ministry of Culture who has received its biggest budget to date this year [2013], amounting to 2.2bn reais, up from 1.4bn reais last year. It was reported by the Guardian that ‘the problem is not all the funds available gets spent, says Contas Abertas, a non-governmental organisation that monitors the nation's accounts’.
Nevertheless there is a clear commitment from the Brazilian government to invest in internalisation with a rise in residencies, bursaries and fellowships for young artists and students around Brazil. Most notably Science without Boards, a Brazilian Government scholarship programme which aims to send 100,000 Brazilian students on undergraduate sandwich courses, including dance programmes.
Experts say that Brazil has become a much more exciting place for young artists than more experienced ones. Some prestigious galleries have opened experimental spaces. Galeria Fortes Vilaca was one of the first galleries to invest in new talent and experimental projects and recently São Paulo gallery, Galeria Vermelho, founded in 2002.
Being aware of the British Council initiative TRANSFORM this is the key time to be developing collaborative process between the two countries. As Martin Davidson, Chief Executive of the British Council said, “The London Olympics was a catalyst for building new cultural relationships around the world, TRANSFORM will enable the UK to work with Brazil to continue and grow that legacy. We are going to bridge the London and Rio Olympics games with this new programme to forge new connections and cultural understanding that will build trust.”
Working in Brazil will enable our partnership to take our goals to the next stage with a clear working plan of development and shared goals, within our art form, dance.
Aims & Objectives
• Identifying future artist collaborative opportunities
• Identifying cultural identity and knowledge exchanges programmes between the UK and Brazil
• Identifying partnership development and capacity building for UK/Brazilian artist
• Develop a greater understanding of the Dance/Arts ecology in Brazil 2013
• Project legacy with a Social Network
Partners
Escola de Dança is a government funded organisation currently undergoing a period of significant change of direction within their education and artist aspirations. Susannah Yamauchi a Fulbright and Japan Foundation Fellowship scholar, dancer and choreographer of Brazilian/Japanese heritage is a performer, choreographer and educator, currently working as the Director. The partnership will provide valuable access to government and artists. In
addition we have shared goals of promoting cross-cultural understanding and the use of dance to inform and enrich our community, facilitating awareness and change within communities. This vision will allow us to develop together artistically, bring together two countries of different backgrounds and cultural.
Supported by the British Council
Artstrust is please have the support of the British Council
'We are pleased that Artstrust is progressing to work closely with Escola de Dança de Sao Paulo and to establish contacts with cultural and arts organisations in Brazil. His aim to identify and develop future partnerships, capacity building and knowledge exchange programmes for artist and producers between the UK and Brazil will be a strong strand for building the stepping stones towards a Brazil/UK dance festival in the UK in the coming years.
We fully support Martin’s application to the International Development fund. From our conversations with him both in London and Brazil we believe with this research time he will be able to develop an exciting programme which fully fits with the mission and vision of the British Council in this country and his own aspirations. His tenacity and forward thinking will engage potential funders, producers and artist, which has been demonstrated to date by his relationship with the host partner Escola de Dança.'
Liliane Rebelo and Cristina Becker (British Council)
Brazil: Country Interest
Within the UK there has been a noted call for knowledge sharing and capacity building of Arts from Brazil to the UK. For example at London's annual
Frieze Art Fair, the number of Brazilian galleries represented has nearly doubled in recent years to five. Co-director Matthew Slotover said "I've been to Russia, China and Brazil in the last few years and Brazil is the most interesting one of the Bric countries, It has an incredible history of architecture and design through modernism, and that has really fed into the art scene."
The development of art more widely within Brazil has been recognised by the Brazil's Ministry of Culture who has received its biggest budget to date this year [2013], amounting to 2.2bn reais, up from 1.4bn reais last year. It was reported by the Guardian that ‘the problem is not all the funds available gets spent, says Contas Abertas, a non-governmental organisation that monitors the nation's accounts’.
Nevertheless there is a clear commitment from the Brazilian government to invest in internalisation with a rise in residencies, bursaries and fellowships for young artists and students around Brazil. Most notably Science without Boards, a Brazilian Government scholarship programme which aims to send 100,000 Brazilian students on undergraduate sandwich courses, including dance programmes.
Experts say that Brazil has become a much more exciting place for young artists than more experienced ones. Some prestigious galleries have opened experimental spaces. Galeria Fortes Vilaca was one of the first galleries to invest in new talent and experimental projects and recently São Paulo gallery, Galeria Vermelho, founded in 2002.
Being aware of the British Council initiative TRANSFORM this is the key time to be developing collaborative process between the two countries. As Martin Davidson, Chief Executive of the British Council said, “The London Olympics was a catalyst for building new cultural relationships around the world, TRANSFORM will enable the UK to work with Brazil to continue and grow that legacy. We are going to bridge the London and Rio Olympics games with this new programme to forge new connections and cultural understanding that will build trust.”
Working in Brazil will enable our partnership to take our goals to the next stage with a clear working plan of development and shared goals, within our art form, dance.
