Encounters is aiming to respond directly to the Accidental Festival - taking the festival itself as its starting point.
A useful place to start may be with a recap of the festival's aims as set out by the festival organisers:
Who we are:
The Accidental Festival is steered by a group of passionate, young creative minds whose interests lie in diverse directions. Coming from a degree course that creates practitioners who are more fulfilled means that as emerging artists, we have an unbridled enthusiasm for the arts community that we are fast becoming part of.
We are taught not only to have a thorough understanding of performance, but of art in all its forms. We are keen to encourage and inspire interesting collaborations and debates that will contribute to the progression of theatre, performance and the arts.
About the festival:
The Accidental Festival 2009 is a celebration of the talent, eccentricity and innovation that exists in contemporary performance and the arts - a creative environment dedicated to revelling in the lasting effects art can have on us. We strive to find work of excellent quality from both established and emerging artists that originate from an interesting array of disciplines and stimuli.
As much as we hope to challenge our festival audience, we in turn wish to be
challenged by our audience and we hope that by creating a space for discussion and exchange we can accommodate communication across the 'divide' and make a difference to the contemporary performance landscape.
We are excited by interactivity between audiences and artists as well as between art forms and we aim to provide a platform for a diverse mix of work, including that which is so innovative it cannot necessarily be defined. Experiences, moments of intimacy and subtle exchanges between individuals are as important to us as work which can be more readily termed 'theatre'.
Who the festival is for:
The Accidental Festival is a place for people to meet people, to share ideas, to start collaborations and develop relationships, artistic or otherwise. It is a place for
communication, connection and exchange between individuals who work, play and dabble in the arts …as well as those who simply want to know more.
We aim to break the boundaries between artists and audience, be it during a performance itself or in the bar afterwards.
We hope that we will provide our audiences with ways and means to access areas of creativity and art which before seemed unreachable.
We hope the Accidental Festival 2009 will function as a catalyst to inspire and develop, acting as a binding force for talent and passion.
A living, breathing and ever evolving force with an identity all of its own, The Accidental Festival cannot be tamed.
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