Creative Collaboration is a British Council project in partnership with artists, cultural leaders and creative entrepreneurs across South East Europe and the UK.

The project uses innovative approaches to networking to encourage arts and cultural leaders from different countries and different art forms to talk together, learn from each other and develop new partnerships for effective cross-border working.

Launched in Istanbul last year, with support from the UK’s award-winning theatre group Improbable, the project is bringing together leading arts professionals to work on the issues that are most important to them such as public space, arts and professional development, social inclusion, cultural leadership and creative cities.

What do we want to achieve?
We want to help the region’s artists and cultural leaders to develop the networks and skills they need to build a better society, support economic growth and enrich the cultural life of Europe and its surrounding countries.

What’s happening in Greece?
For details of our Creative Collaboration events, visit the links below:

			City to City Cabaret City to City Cabaret is a sociable dance event which features the best bits of a traditional cabaret event (table service, live band, compére) alongside a distinctly modern diverse line-up of dance, performance, spoken word, circus and film. Athens: 16 October 2010
			Tom Chivers in conversation with Sakis Serefas and Don Schofield UK poet Tom Chivers will be taking part in a cross-cultural poetic event together with Greek writer/poet Sakis Serefas and American poet Don Schofield. Thessaloniki: 12 May 2010
			Word Express writers join together in Athens Join us at a series of poetry readings, discussions, creative workshops, residencies, screenings and other parallel events with the contribution of a line-up of talented young poets who all took part in our Word Express train journey through the Balkans last year. Athens: 7–9 May 2010
			Word Express: A literary journey through the Balkans Word Express is a new literary exchange project taking place in South-East Europe as part of our Creative Collaboration programme. In collaboration with the literary magazine Entefktirio, we are organising two exciting events in Thessaloniki with the Balkan writers and poets taking part in the project. Thessaloniki: 27 & 28 October 2009
			Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls is the successful Greece-led project in our Creative Collaboration Project Fund. The National Theatre of Greece, the Theatre Organisation of Cyprus and UK theatre company Imitating the Dog have teamed up to create an innovative, multilingual piece of theatre to be presented in all three countries. Greece & Cyprus: September 2009 UK: February–March 2010
			Creative Collaboration Project Fund now open! Do you work in the arts? Are you passionate about cross-border collaboration? If so, why not submit a proposal for the fund? You could be chosen to take part in a series of creative initiatives across South East Europe and the UK. Deadline for applications: 10 October 2008
			Open Space – Arts for Social Inclusion Athens: 23–25 May 2008