The European Creative Hub

The European Creative Hub was launched in 2016 by the Ministry of Culture, together with Valenciennes Métropole and the Haut-de-France region. Today it includes 11 French organizations. Linking the local and the international worlds, its main objective lies in promoting, producing, training and supporting emerging artists and artistic teams throughout the world, as well as welcoming foreign cultures.


Regarding the Phénix, the European Creative Hub has enabled the founding members and associated artists (
Boris Charmatz, Julien Gosselin, l’Amicale, Halory Goerger and the XY Company) to maintain their growth over time, providing them with a vital local support, in addition to a strong international demand.


We’ve expanded the support of emerging artists to the whole region with the CAMPUS of the European Creative Hub. Expertise, support and mentorship were implemented thanks to the pooling of resources and a common management with the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens. Since 2018, 20 local, national and European artistic teams, as well as 24 artistic projects were supported, including 4 participative think tanks involving locals. 


A new generation of artists  who established their creative work in the North region became known thanks to the Campus :
Gurshad Shaheman, Tatiana Julien, Yuval Rozman, Noëmie Ksicova, Maëlle Dequiedt, Hugo Mallon, Rébecca Chaillon, Hugues Duchêne, Jeanne Lazar… among others. A community of artists is born, as shown in numerous collaborations and a constant sense of mutual aid. 


A special international collaboration also proved to be a great achievement : the collaboration with Flanders encouraged by the NEXT festival, of which the Phénix is one of the co-organisers. So is the partnership with the National Theatre Tapei. Kaidong is an innovative convention signed for twice four years. Just like the Institut Français, foreign agencies like Dutch Performing Arts, le Centre culturel de Taïwan, Pro Helvetia, l’Institut Ramón Llull/ Catalogne or Accíon Cultural Española brought financial support to the project.

 

The Agence Nationale de la Recherche makes its international network of artists available to the artists from the Hub.


From 2022, the virtuous experience that was the founding of a community of artists with the Campus has driven us to carry on the support of artists : the European college was born.

Séminaire du campus 2022
Séminaire du campus 2023