2017-2018 Awards

In 2018, several projects have been set up thanks to the cooperation of European teams that were created during the 2017 NCG Forum.
5 projects received a grant from Nantes Métropole :
So you don’t think you can dance

Project :
Meet Up project was born by the meet between three organisations : Atelier Muse (Turkey), Global Youth Union (Amenia) and LabStrus (France). They was meet during Nantes Creative Generation forum where they won a Cooperation Price who permite to organise this project.
They begin by one question : “So you think you can’t dance ?”. Meet Up is a project about self-expression and is goal is to create free workshops for local people. Marion Binois and Alan Mathurin make this workshops around hip hop, popping, experimentation, knowledge of body and feeling in share atmophere. This workshops takes two weeks in itch cities, Yerevan and Istanbul. At the end we finish by a show.
Meet Up combine people who don’t know each other to meet and experiment. They come from differents age, social and culturel place, from differents life perception. The dance research go to deepen communication and share.
Partners :
- Battle russian roulette - NANTES
- Role of Arts and Culture Entrepreneurship on Social Reflections – ISTANBUL
- Disco Stew Truck – YEREVAN
Website :
Foodsharing

Project :
FoodSharing is a culinary event that proposes to connect people, to promote skills and cuisine of own home country, to change perspectives and prejudices about vulnerable people around us - refugees, homeless, elderly people.
It consists of both local events organized by each partner in their city, but also a festival organized jointly in one of the 5 participating cities.
Partners :
- Globeconteur - NANTES
- Foodsharing Katowice – KATOWICE
- Solidarity Sandwich – RIJEKA
- Refugees Welcome Romania – BUCHAREST
- Disco Stew Truck – YEREVAN
Website :
Dance 360 heritage Edition

Project :
Heritage edition is a project that aims to film 360 ° dance shows in different heritage sites across Europe during the summer of 2018 (Ex: Saranda / Albania, Nantes Castle, Pompéi / Italy, etc.)
The goal is to offer an immersive experience in iconic places with innovative dances to tell a human story. A presentation will be proposed in each of the participating cities.
Partners :
- Silvertrace - NANTES
- Ride a bike to promote your Start-Up – TIRANA
- Losing the Threat: Knitting in Time – NAPLES
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NANA !

Project :
NANA ! is a creative social project. Six artists had a road trip with Expressions Nomades art-mobile-studio caravan from Nantes to Naples. They facilitated community art workshops while on their travels and also document the trip through their own creative practice. This was a project about travelling, documentation and collaboration.
During the trip, they animated art workshops during various festivals and will develop their own artistic production. The project outreached with an artistic residency in Naples, followed by an exhibition and a publication aimed at enhancing the project as a whole.
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Partners :
Cross Performance with Refugees / Kune

Project :
The "Cross Performance with Refugees / Kune" project brought together 30 young people from 9 European countries and young migrants (Mainly from Syria) for 9 days in May 2018, in Izmir, Turkey, to discuss refugee welcoming issues and to foster cultural exchange through the creation of a common artistic production. At the end of the meeting, a show was presented to the public and a photo / video report will highlight the project.
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