TartaARTe Residency – Marina di Grosseto 2026

Event Overview

TartARTe Theatre That Reconnects Residency

Marina di Grosseto · Tuscany Coast · Summer 2026

A site-based artistic residency weaving participatory theatre, ecological awareness, and sea turtle conservation on the Tuscan coast.

Hosted in collaboration with tartAmare — the Marine Conservation and Environmental Education Association and Sea Turtle Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre — this residency invites participants into a living inquiry between people, place, and the more-than-human world.

Over the course of a week, participants will engage in embodied practices, collective creation, and community encounters rooted in the Theatre That Reconnects methodology — an integration of Theatre of the Oppressed, Social Presencing Theatre, The Work That Reconnects, and Dragon Dreaming.

Set within the coastal landscape of Marina di Grosseto, the residency creates space to slow down, listen deeply, and explore how artistic practice can nurture interspecies awareness, ecological responsibility, and collective imagination.

What we will explore

• Embodied and participatory theatre practices
• Collective listening and social sensing
• Ecological grief, care, and resilience
• Community-based artistic creation
• Interspecies awareness and relational ecology
• Collaborative dreaming and action

During the residency participants will:

• Experience the core practices of Theatre That Reconnects through body, voice, movement, and dialogue
• Spend time alongside tartAmare volunteers and the sea turtle rehabilitation centre
• Co-create workshops and small performative interventions with local community members
• Share moments of reflection, council, and celebration by the sea

The methodology

Theatre of the Oppressed (TO)

Participatory theatre tools developed by Augusto Boal to explore power, oppression, and possibility through the body.

Social Presencing Theatre (SPT)

Embodied social arts practices that help groups perceive systems and emerging futures through movement and collective sensing.

The Work That Reconnects (WTR)

Joanna Macy’s framework for transforming ecological grief and overwhelm into connected action and care.

Dragon Dreaming (DD)

A collaborative and regenerative project design approach integrating dreaming, planning, doing, and celebrating.

Together, these streams are woven into Theatre That Reconnects (TTR): a living practice that bridges personal experience, collective intelligence, ecological awareness, and social transformation.

Who is this for?

The residency welcomes artists, facilitators, educators, activists, researchers, community practitioners, and curious citizens interested in participatory art, ecology, embodied practice, and collective transformation.

No previous theatre experience is required. More info at tartarte.lovable.app

Facilitator

Uri Noy Meir

Artist, facilitator, and community weaver working at the intersection of participatory arts, embodied research, and systems change.

Uri’s practice explores how theatre, ritual, and collective storytelling can help communities reconnect with themselves, one another, and the more-than-human world. He co-leads TheAlbero collective and the development of the Theatre and Stories that Reconnects methodology.

Practical Information

Participants arrange their own accommodation in Marina di Grosseto. Support will be offered in connecting participants interested in shared lodging.

Contribution tiers:

• Standard — €350
• Sustainer — €500
• Supporter — €750

Limited scholarships are available.