IT'S A MATCH - Workshops, conferences & round tables

The current ecological catastrophe is undoubtedly the challenge of the century, since it involves nothing less than preserving the habitability of our planet for our generation of humans and for the living creatures on which we depend. Like all human activities, art and culture are being called upon to participate in the necessary paradigm shift: in its practices to reduce its own impact and in its narratives to bring about the necessary bifurcation of our societies. In fact, there is an increasing number of reflections, initiatives, manifestos and concrete, well-established initiatives.

And yet the sector is also showing a certain reluctance: fear of new constraints, of associated work, fear for creative freedom, intercultural relations, distinction and loss of competitiveness in a highly competitive sector, temptation to preserve privileges (could there not be a new "cultural exception" in the new Climate Regime?). 

IT'S A MATCH proposes to examine the conditions under which live performance can become a driving force for the necessary ecological redirection, through its stories, its works and the materiality of its practices.
The question of the collective action needed to activate the transition will be addressed at the Euroregion level, with a dialogue between players from Flanders, Wallonia and Hauts-de-France, as well as inspiring examples from elsewhere.