Shooting Stars – Tiliade

April 15-27 2026

Saint-Montan, France

Call for application

before February 1st

Workshop co-created with La petite ourse

Shooting Stars will invite 30 artists & youth workers from Bulgaria, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey to explore current societal challenges together through audiovisual media. Set in a medieval location, Shooting Stars is a unique opportunity to experiment, create and present personal stories at the crossroads of local communities and an international audience. A transformative experience of cohabitation and co-creation that starts here!

Who we look for

You are a creative, educator, social worker, youth worker, trainer? You want to expand your toolbox? Engage in social and cultural projects ? You would love to experience co-living in a creative laboratory with fellows coming from Europe and the world?

Shooting Stars is for you then!

What we offer

Shooting Stars explores an innovative learning method channelling emotional intelligence to foster personal engagement in social and cultural initiatives through audio-visual tools.

It is a training. You will explore the use of digital tools and collective art to better self-express and engage in creative advocacy. You will learn from yourself, others and our trainer team. During the process you will experience a set of knowledge and tools related to storytelling, to get your artistic message across. Then you’ll help youth audiences in your local community to do the same!

It is an art residency. You’ll be hosted in a creative medieval village to research, question, develop and confront your art vision and practices with trainers and participants. The aim will be to gradually merge your personal narrative and experience into
a local and international event.

At the end of the residency-training, your work will be shown in an event yearly held by the local community and usually gathering thousands of visitors: Surprisologis.

Learning methods

Our methodology is based on experiential learning (learn by doing it!), interdisciplinary exchange (widen your panel of knowledge!) emotional and collective intelligence, outdoor education and non-formal education principles!

Participants will learn through testing designed methods and reflecting upon the experience. Using a participatory approach, we encourage the exchange of experience between the participants and with the local community, fostering peer learning.

We are looking for diverse participants profiles to foster co-learning and enrich everyone’s projects with the expertise and perspective of others, to help you develop mesmerising projects!

Program

Mornings will be dedicated to collective training.
Afternoons will be time to develop your projects, personal or collective creations ; to exchange about your project evolution in peer groups, sometimes in plenary ; to consult individually with Shooting Stars trainers and/or to join technical workshops to enrich your practice.
Evenings will be open for participants willing to propose activities to each other.

Venue & travel

Activities will take place in France, in the PACA region, in the village of Saint-Montan.

We require all participants and organisers to engage in green travel, using exclusively sustainable low-emissions means of transport such as bus, train or car-pooling (NO PLANE!). You can enjoy up to 6 days of travelling! We will be able to reimburse your travel costs up, thanks to the support of the Erasmus+ programme.

Maximum reimbursement for your green travel:
> France: 285€
> Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain: 417€
> Bulgaria, Turkey: 535€

Trainers

Anne Merlin

is a creativity explorer. Whilst studying visual arts and interaction design in France, she discovered the magic of creativity mixed with collective intelligence and social action. She lived in Greece, Brazil, Seychelles, Portugal and a few more countries, experimenting with ever more creative ways to interact and discover one another in multilingual or non verbal settings. Along the way, she collected myriads of tools & methods for collaborative creation, nature-based learning, emotional intelligence, specializing in storytelling, team dynamics and project design using creativity, movement, emotions and stories to foster well-being, cooperation & social action.

Stella Iannitto

Stella works in the audiovisual field and cultural sector across various domains. In the audiovisual field, she has worked as a filmmaker and documentarian, as a producer, in event and festival organization, and in image education with both children and adults. More broadly, she has worked in the organization of theater and dance festivals and collaborated with associations engaged in social work through cultural actions aimed at supporting disadvantaged individuals and communities. She loves traveling and appreciates the richness found in diversity.

Maxime Lindon

Maxime is a screenwriter, film director and video producer experienced in animating youth workshops. His approach to storytelling is based on a double background and knowledge: cinema & communication. In the last 10 years he wrote TV screenplays, directed one short film and one feature documentary, both awarded in festivals. He founded Pitch Films, a company creating corporate video contents and storytelling workshops. Raised in Milano, Italy, he spent 15 years in Paris, France, before moving to Marseille. As a storytelling trainer, he perceives his job as listening to participants’ storytelling desires, helping them to turn their emotions into expressive, high impact and well driven plot multimedia artworks. His mantra in creation: vision is nothing without a heartbeat!

European partners

La petite ourse, France

Common Gold, Netherlands

Eastern Theatre Foundation, Poland

Asociación Cultural Transeúnte, Spain

DTCR, Portugal

FECE, Bulgaria

Crow Art Hub, Turkey

Crafting roots, Italy

Apply here before February 1st. Results will be announced latest on February 15. Candidates will be asked to confirm their participation within 1 week after the selection results are published.