Perma-curatorial seedlings – August 2024 to June 2025
How can we help to make the performing arts more sustainable – ecologically, humanely, socially and artistically? To find some answers, the far° team has been conducting experimental and collective research inspired by permaculture since 2022.
Permaculture (a term derived from the contraction of “agriculture” and “permanent”) is a conceptual toolbox based on an ethic of care: care for the Earth, care for people and the equitable sharing of resources.
With PERMA-CURATORIAL SEEDLINGS, the far° Nyon team and its partners Leila Chakroun (permaculture researcher) and Gregory Stauffer (choreographer) will share their questions and discoveries so that they can take root in other soil. Relying on collective intelligence and creativity, this multi-disciplinary workshop has been conceived as the deployment, in different contexts, of the publication PERMA-CULTURE (work in progress) resulting from the first cycle of far°’s research to breathe even more life into live art. This series of workshops organised across Switzerland will provide an opportunity to exchange practices, theoretical knowledge and some concrete solutions.
With (alternating)
Marion Baeriswyl (choreographer, dancer)
Leila Chakroun (PhD in environmental sciences and permaculture)
Nathalie Garbely (cultural participation manager, far° Nyon)
Anne-Christine Liske (director, far° Nyon)
Gregory Stauffer (artist-choreographer, teacher)
Laurent Valdès (multidisciplinary artist, video artist)
The other members of the far° Nyon team
Support
m2act Migros Culture Percentage, City of Nyon, Nyon Région, State of Vaud
A series of multidisciplinary participatory workshops
In Nyon, Lausanne, Lugano and Zurich
29.03.25 in Lausanne, with La Grange
With Leila Chakroun, Anne-Christine Liske, Gregory Stauffer
Open to all interested people
Free, in French and sign language, childcare on request
Practical information to come
Partner La Grange – Centre / Arts et Sciences / UNIL
24.05.25 in Zurich, with TanzPlan Ost & Grünhölzli
With Leila Chakroun, Anne-Christine Liske, Gregory Stauffer
Open to all interested people
Free, in English and sign language, childcare on request
Practical information to come
Partners TanzPlan Ost, Grünhölzli
25.06.25 in Lausanne, with Théâtre Sévelin36
With Leila Chakroun, Nathalie Garbely, Gregory Stauffer
Workshop by invitation
Partner Théâtre Sévelin36
June 2025 in Nyon
With Leila Chakroun, Gregory Stauffer, the far° team
Workshop by invitation
Past workshops
15.08.24 at far° festival des arts vivants, with AVCD (ddd)
With Marion Baeriswyl, Leila Chakroun, Nathalie Garbely, Laurent Valdès
10:30-17:30, open to all interested people
Free, in French, childcare on request
Partner Association vaudoise de danse contemporaine (AVDC), as part of rencontres ddd – danse dramaturgie dialogue
13.10.2024 in Lugano, with FIT & TIB
With Leila Chakroun, Nathalie Garbely, Gregory Stauffer
10:00-16:00, open to all interested people
Free, in French and Italian, childcare on request
Registration on FIT’s website
Partners Festival internazionale del teatro e della scena contemporanea (FIT) , Ticino is Burning (TIB)
Special thanks to Camilla Parini (TIB) and Spazio L’ove Lugano
16.11.2024 in Lausanne, with UNIL, UNIGE & Artos
With Leila Chakroun, Anne-Christine Liske
This workshop is reserved for students enrolled in the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Cultural Management
Partners University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, Artos – association professionnelle
To find out more
→ read our publication PERMA-CULTURE (work in progress), A perma-curatorial and artistic essay by far° Nyon to breathe even more life into live art (PDF online, in French and in English)
→ or write to us: participation@far-nyon.ch