Part funded by the EU
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The European Polycentre for
Artistic Creation is a platform
for resource and development
and a network of creation
centres for street and circus
arts for the euroregion of Haute-Normandie, Picardie, Pas-De-
Calais in France and East Sussex
in England. It is part funded by
the European Union within the
program of Interreg IIIA.
The PECA network was established
following a close collaboration and
artistic exchanges from 1997 to
2000 between street arts festivals
in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Amiens and
Brighton.
Since 2001, the PECA partners
include, on the French side:
- Le Hangar - Creation Centre for
street arts/Amiens Métropole
- L’Atelier 231 - National Centre
for street arts /Sotteville-lès-Rouen
- Culture Commune - National
Centre of the Mineral Bassin of
Pas-de-Calais / Loos-en-Gohelle
And on the English side:
- Zap Art - The Virtual Creation
Centre, with the participation of
Brighton & Hove and Hastings.
The partners are interested in the
overall development and the professional
development of street arts
and circus arts as an integral and
significant part in urban
regeneration. The partnership
considers spaces dedicated to
residencies and artistic creation
as important supports for the
emergence of new dynamics with
populations and regional development,
with cultural, social and
economical objectives.
The Polycentre plays two major
roles:
a pole of development and
a resource platform.
The pole of development aims to
facilitate a way of thinking and the
exchange of skills in supporting the
production of new shows, artistic
projects, professional training,
workshops and creating a dynamic
between artists and local populations.
The resource platform, comprises
the combined facilities (human,
logistic, technical, financial and
administrative) and skills of each
partner put together.
In this context, the partners
supported, amongst other projects,
the creation of the ‘The Lazy Kings’
by French company Transe
Express, with an active involvement
of the local population from each
partners.
It is also in this context and with
an exchange of experience and expertise, that the network support
the development of the first
Creation Centre in England around an inter-district project in East
Sussex.
In addition the partners have
presented a range of debates at
events such as the National Street
Arts Meeting (NSAM) in Brighton
and the Creation Centre Conference
and Professional Development
Seminar in Hastings with the
participation of both UK and French
professionals speaking from the
street arts and circus arts sectors.
The transborder cooperation project "Work in progress" offers the
opportunity for the different
partners to enlarge their field of
artistic and cultural work as well
as enabling them to produce
large-scale productions on an
International scale. It has also
allowed the partners to improve the
technical and equipment facilities
of the different creation spaces
already established: l’Atelier 231
in Sotteville-lès-Rouen and la
Fabrique Théâtrale of Culture Commune in Loos-en-Gohelle, and those planned in the
future: le Hangar in Amiens and
experimentation with work
methods in the UK’s Creation
Centre in the south east.
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