TRENOff is the first Fringe Festival in Bologna.

“Fringe” identifies those experiences that are at borders of the common production and distribution system, which ranks as alternative expressions of innovation, experimentation and avant-garde. Fringe is all that is “at the edge”, “from the suburbs”, for this reason Instabili Vaganti who conceived the Festival and will ensure its artistic direction, has chosen as location, one of the most famous suburbs of the city of Bologna: the Barca's area with its public housing complex called “Train” for its architectural form and from which the Festival takes its name.

Divided into artistic and creative coaches, TRENOff offers an international platform to indipendent groups and individual artists who carry out research in the contemporary, trough moments of performance, capable of interfacing directly with urban spaces, changing their function and appearance, with an easy approach and without long preparation, in a happening and performance perspective. The Festival will take place in a public place, lived, acted by the common people, in a multiethnic, multicultural area, open, like a gesture of breaking into everyday life in order to cross the boundaries between art and life. The Festival is an opportunity for interaction and exchange between artists, audience, actors, and was created with the intent to promote new means of dissemination of contemporary culture through performances ,installations, and all forms of art capable of interfacing with an urban space retrained, rethought and redesigned.

TRENOff wants to open an active reflection overcoming sterile models and promoting the collective creation of a contemporary language visible within the city. The aim is to encourage citizen participation in the process of contemporary artistic creation and, in this regard, the following notice is addressed to all those who wish to take part in this initiative.

The Festival is open to all, through different routes of which the following notice is made:

International public call: invitation to groups and artists selected through the following open call spread internationally.

Training and creation moments shared: workshops aimed to the creation of performances and special events addressed to: actors, artists, musicians, students and all those who want to be part of the Festival, through direct participation in its events.

Other form of participation: open call for volunteers. To qualify as a voluntary collaborator of the festival, please write to: trenoff@liv-bo.com

International Public Call

Call for the selection of artistic proposals

Addressed to: Dance and theater companies,performers, dancers,musicians,visual artists, video makers.

Categories: happenings, perfomances, art installations, site specific works, urban raids, work in progress.

Space and technical features

The space available is unconventional and alternative locations. The outdoors locations are: the public housing complex called “Train”, the square and the park opposite to the building. These spaces will be granted free of charge to artists and provided a minimum of technical equipment (electricity, basic light and audio). Only few spaces will be fitted with amplification. There will be a technical manager who will assist artists and groups by providing technical advice. Any others additional requirements, except as made available by the organization, in terms of personnel and material will be sustained by the company/ artist.

Priority is given to artistic proposals capable of interacting with features of urban spaces and the proposed technical requirements and minimum setup time. If a proposal requires an unconventional theatre space indoors, it will be the artistic direction of evaluating alternative spaces such as those in LIV Performing Arts Centre and in the auditorium next to the building train. We encourage to propose also short performances ,even in the form of study or work in progress, previews, site specific versions.

Advertising and Communication

The organization will advertise and communicate all the events of the festival as a whole, giving relief and information to every single event included in the program. The entire schedule of the festival will be also included in the promotional plan of Bologna Estate (The city council summer programme). The groups and the artists will display their advertising and promotional materials (posters, postcards, brochure and more) at the festival office TRENOff. The events will be promoted by the press office of the organization and documented by photographers and video makers of the festival in order to provide a visual documentation. TRENOff will have as a media partner Art Parts of cult(ure) that will document the entire festival.

Conditions

Most events are free admission at TRENOff . In some location, the organization, in collaboration with the company/artist, will establish a symbolic entrance fee to cover costs incurred by artists. The proceeds net of expenses, will be devoted to the artist or company. In some contexts, for artists who perform in the outdoor spaces and unconventional, will be permitted to solicit bids from the audience. The option must be agreed with the organization. The companies and the artists will be selected to provide for their own travel costs, meals and lodging. A dinner after the performance will be served by the organization in the LIV Zone, the space dedicated to the artists of the festival. The organization can assist participants in identifying some structures for accommodation.

Residential Award

Among the projects approved to participate, the organization will select a draft study or work in progress of a company/artist to which assign an artist residency (14 days) and a visual arts project that allocate an artist residency intensive (7 days) and an exhibition space.

The residencies and exhibitions will take place in the space of LIV Performing Arts Centre in Bologna, and the results will be presented at the 2013 Programme.

How to participate

1 The invitation is open to those who recognize the guidelines set out and those who feel the need to share space and resources of the Festival as a tool to change the cultural and social context to encourage new practices and aesthetics of the contemporary.

2 Participation in this call is free

3 The companies/artists must submit their project art, by the deadline of 31 August 2012, accompanied by application form completely filled out and signed

Project description

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-Video (promos or full) Web Links and /or via weetransfer

-Cv of the company or individual components

4 The proposal submitted, including video and images, will be used to promote the festival and organization will remain in the archive.

5 Proposals will be evaluated in order of receipt, so artists are encouraged to submit the required documentation before the deadline.

Please send the form attached to this call and other material required or Link reference to trenoff@liv-bo.com

Workshops

Call of participation in the special events of festival. Among the form of supports for the project, were created in TRENOff, some training courses aimed at the creation of two events that will be presented during the Festival. The workshops will have a nominal cost that will support the artists involved in the project and includes a membership card and insurance.

Dodes'ka-den

Workshop of Urban physical theatre

Directed by Instabili Vaganti

7 – 11 SEPTEMBER 2012

LIV Performing Arts Centre, Bologna, Italy

The workshop is aimed to create the itinerant performance Dodes'ka-den

that will open the I°edition of TRENO Fringe Festival on 14^th September 2012 Bologna.

The project is inspired by Akira Kurosawa movie “Dodes'ka-den” and is aimed to produce an itinerant outdoor performance with the participants that will have its premiere at the I° edition of TRENO Fringe Festival, in the suggestive urban spaces of a long building called “The Train” in Bologna, Italy, on 14^th September 2012. The participants will interact with the urban areas and elements through the use of their body and some acrobatic and dynamic balance techniques in relation with metal barrels which will be the practicable elements of the performance. The participants will be led through the creative exploration of these objects in order to create individual and choral actions that will be part of the itinerant performance.

www.instabilivaganti.com

Schedule

7 – 11 September 17:00 – 21:00: workshop

12 – 13 September 18:00: rehearsals

14 September 19:30: performance

Fee 80,00 euro

Soli contro tutti

Workshop for the creation of a concert with 50 guitarists and electric bassists

directed by Aidoru

6 -7 SEPTEMBER 2012

14 September, Performance with participants at the workshop.

Workshop for the creation of an orchestra of guitars and basses for the performance titled Soli contro tutti. The orchestra will be led by Dario Giovannini of Aidoru Association. To participate you simply need to bring your own instrument and your amplifier. One does not need specific musical technical skills , the orchestra and the repertoire will be articulated and structured according to the musicians who will participate in the workshop.

www.aidoruassociazione.com

Schedule

6 – 7 September 18:00 – 23:00: workshop

14 September 19:30: performance

Fee 30,00 euro

Info and registration trenoff@liv-bo.com Tel 0519911785 no later than August31,2012.

INFO: TRENOff c/o Liv Perfroming Arts Centre Via R. Sanzio 6, 40133 Bologna. Tel. 0519911785

trenoff@liv-bo.com ; www.liv-bo.com