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Be SpectACTive! is a large-scale European cooperation project – co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union – which operates in performing arts through artistic productions and participatory practices aimed at involving the citizens and spectators in creative and organisational processes. Its members are European festivals, theatres, cultural organisations, universities and a research centre.

Starting in December 2018, it continues to work on audience engagement, while fostering experimentation in the European arena through the following actions:

• the production of 15 new theatre and dance shows
• the creation of 50 local groups of active spectators involved in co-programming and co-managing activities (1500 participants will select more than 350 shows in 4 years) the European Art Commissioners
• a site-specific project connecting 8 local communities with the aim to commission artistic works
• 4 European Spectators Day, a community based event connecting citizens through Facebook
• the implementation of the research project evaluating the different effects of the practices activated
• 4 International Conference dedicated to the dissemination of the findings

Dublin Theatre Festival have engaged a group of fifteen active spectators between the ages of 18-25. The group meets on a monthly basis to discuss what theatre they have seen and what theatre they would like to see as part of Dublin Theatre Festival. The group will decide one production of the festival programme in 2020.