Le(Serre is a receptacle with four entities:
Le(Serre is a receptacle with four entities:
Le(Serre – literally meaning ‘The Greenhouses’ – is a place for cultivating ideas. A space where relationships and cooperation take place. A centre of cultural production. It is the experience we live every day among the five of us (Francesco, Giovanni, Laura, Joseph, Matteo) and with the many professionals who, like us, work in the cultural and creative sphere. After 10 years of working together, we have acquired a space where we can develop the ideas and realities we create.
Le(Serre – literally meaning ‘The Greenhouses’ – is a place for cultivating ideas. A space where relationships and cooperation take place. A centre of cultural production. It is the experience we live every day among the five of us (Francesco, Giovanni, Laura, Joseph, Matteo) and with the many professionals who, like us, work in the cultural and creative sphere. After 10 years of working together, we have acquired a space where we can develop the ideas and realities we create.
Our space is located in a small industrial area on the outskirts of Udine (Italy). We have started a renovation project to transform an old industrial building from the 1950s into a place of cultural production. The office area, whose structure and materials recall botanical greenhouses, is where we will imagine, design, write, organise and manage. The workshop area is where we will develop, experiment, build.
We like to invent, recount, interweave, imagine but also organise, manage, realise. We know that diversity is a resource, it‘s hard work, it‘s beauty, it‘s change. We experience it every day among ourselves and through the different types of services and projects we work on. In all of them, we use creativity as a generator of social and cultural innovation. We work with public and private entities, and collaborate with national and international partners.
In questo momento lavorano quotidianamente con noi Ester Kyei, Marta Savorgnan, Claudia Ferigo, Jacopo Lunazzi, Caterina Giacomello, Raffaella Corrias, Alberto Duca, Marianna Rizzatti, Marina Rosso, Carlo Zoratti, Antonio Della Marina, Stefano Giacomuzzi, Renato Rinaldi, Alex Duca, Sara Bassi, Cecilia Cappelli, Luca Morocutti. Ma le persone con cui portiamo avanti tutti i nostri progetti sono molte molte di più e a breve faremo una pagina dedicata.
We work with individuals, groups, associations and public administrations who wish to realise their ideas in the cultural sphere. We offer consultancy and management services to build the most effective strategies together, identifying objectives, actions, timeframes and necessary resources. We carefully assess the sustainability of the idea, considering its potential developments. We take care of the funding application writing and reporting aspects. In some cases, we support the entire project’s life, managing its different steps, from conception to writing, from implementation to reporting.
We take care of the creative direction for other entities and for all our ideas, which then become, more or less, articulated formats or projects. To do so, we often collaborate with other professionals, fully aware that sharing adds rather than detracts.
Art as an activating element, whether in large urban centres or very small towns; artist residencies as a practice of knowledge generation and participation. From these elements in which we deeply believe, many events and several festivals have been born. We organise ‘Terminal’ and ‘Microfestival’ on an annual basis.
We devise and realise multimedia art installations, creative formats and applications based on topics that we consider urgent and important, dispersing wide-ranging cultural and artistic content. We also deal with photographic documentation for theatres.
For many of our events and projects we use performance as a way of engaging, questioning, communicating, recounting. This is the case for the ‘Microfestival’ project, which each year gives voice to border mountain localities and depopulated places, or with the ‘Pubblico Incanto’ project, which explores and platforms provincial life.
Workshops are one of our preferred tools for gathering points of view, perspectives, visions that then serve to create the content of installations and art products (e.g. ‘Audiobus’ and ‘Prima della Leva’). They are also a tool to think together and suggest new insights (e.g., ‘Dimmi. Le donne raccontano’, ‘Tigri’, ‘Atrememorie’).
Community is the key element on which so many of our projects are based. Here community is understood as the interweaving of relationships, memories not to be lost, challenges to be taken up in the present. (‘Casamia’, ‘Microfestival’, ‘Tigri’, ‘Dimmi’, ‘Walk the Line’, ‘Altrememorie’…)