UP TO NATURE is an interdisciplinary production festival for experimental theatre, dance, music, live art and performance art in Vienna (A), Bristol (UK), Kuopio (FI) and Oslo (NO). The partners will produce a series of fife unplugged performance productions for the greens and woods of their cities. The coproduction partners brut Vienna, Inbetween Time Productions Bristol, Black Box Theatre Oslo and Anti Festival in Kuopio agree to produce a festival in the recreation areas close to their cities for the outside but not for any venue. A minimum of fife international artistic productions which will be presented in all four places will be co-commissioned. All artistic productions will basically relinquish any theatre equipment normally provided by venues such as light, sound or stage systems. The program is an unplugged performance festival for the metropolitan audience in the greens outside the cities. The entire process of production and presentation will be critically reflected by theorists and arts reviews will be published within the international publication scheme of MASKA Ljubljana (SLO).European artists and companies are invited to produce unplugged performances dealing with issues of- ecology- climate change- natural resources & alternative energy- social stability- urban architectures- agriculture & gardening- flora & faunaThe festival will happen during the warm months in 2012. The productions commissioned by the project will be available for further presentations after the project is finished.