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June 2007 Manchester International Festival The world’s first international festival of original new work begins this week. To coincide with the festival a special event to help forge partnerships between Chinese and European arts practitioners will take place. Chinese/European Networking Event "This event is designed to forge partnerships between visiting Chinese and European producers/artists during the Manchester International Festival. It follows discussions with British Council (China), Visiting Arts and Asia/Europe Foundation. These discussions highlighted the need to create a ‘Critical Circle’ of young producers from Europe and Asia who could develop their confidence through robust analysis of the work of artists and add to their networking skills by sharing critical engagement and pinpointing future partners. This event will provide specific creative opportunities for these artists and producers who will visit the Festival and attend networking events including a Producers’ Breakfast, a discussion forum and receptions after performances. In more general terms, the event will raise the level and skills of critical discourse amongst art producers and art workers. It will also increase the probability of participating producers/artists developing international co-commissions and projects, thus enabling them to share, export and import their own international work. The event is being funded by the British Council (China) with additional support from Visiting Arts and the MIF. The intention is to bring five producer/performers from China to the Festival together with five targeted British-based director/performers who have already worked closely with Chinese artists – for example, the Liverpool-based director Rose English. The Chinese contingent will be funded for four nights in Manchester (provisionally between 29 June and 2 July) and will attend Manchester’s Performing Arts Network and Development Agency (PANDA) Showcase and a choice of commissions, exhibitions and installations to include ‘Monkey – Journey to the West’ (the Festival’s spectacular launch commission - a circus opera directed by Chen Shi-Zheng), ‘For All the Wrong Reasons’ (a theatre and dance work directed by Lies Pauwels, one of the rising starts of European Theatre), and ‘The Pianist’ (a new realization based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman and the music of Chopin). It is hoped that the event will not only be advantageous to all attending participants, but, in the long term, will cement fruitful partnerships and create co-commissioned work of significant artistic merit." Kriss Russman www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com/ The Visiting Arts Manchester Producers Breakfast will be held on Saturday 30 June at City Inn Manchester, One Piccadilly Place, 1 Auburn Street, Manchester M1 3DG (9 - 11.30am) For details, please e-mail: information@visitingarts.org.uk
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