Monthly Archives: October 2007

Wonders of Kaunas

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October 4, 2007
In October, Brendan Jackson from Laundry, visited the Art Institute of Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, to present proposals for The Wonders of Kaunas project. With the help of Linara Dovydaityte and Edgaras Klivis, Brendan made a presentation as part of two meetings at the Institute. The first meeting, concerning mostly academic staff, outlined four new courses at the Institute and the course about Cultural Animation among them. Brendan showed examples of cultural animation work that has been undertaken in Warsaw and in the West Midlands of England. The second meeting, with a group of students, concentrated on the Wonders project as a model of practice, sharing ideas on how to deliver the workshop which is planned in early December. Workshop participants will be working in teams with five members of Laundry, making an exploration of Kaunas, creatively engaging with local people to explore their concept of the city. This is an extension of the Wonders project being undertaken in Warsaw.

 

 

Refresh – the Cultural Animation Discussion Forum

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Are you an artist, a creative practitioner or someone interested in things like regeneration, arts and health, or arts in education?

Then you should check out: www.culturalanimation.com /discuss

Invited "speakers" will be meeting on the forum to discuss a specific issue. You are invited to join us for the discussion, to "listen" & ask questions & add to the conversation. 

When: Thursday 18 October, 18:00-19:30 GMT
Who: For more information on invited "speakers" visit: Refresh
Topic: Can art fix things, even when it does not have an obvious agenda?  

Refresh – the Cultural Animation Discussion Forum

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Are you an artist, a creative practitioner or someone interested in things like regeneration, arts and health, or arts in education?

Then you should check out: www.culturalanimation.com /discuss

Invited "speakers" will be meeting on the forum to discuss a specific issue. You are invited to join us for the discussion, to "listen" & ask questions & add to the conversation. 

When: Monday 15 October, 17:00-18:30 GMT
Who: For more information on invited "speakers" visit: Refresh
Topic: Can art fix things, when it is used as a tool to address specific issues?

Local cultural institutions: study trip to south-eastern Poland

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In the last week of September 2007 a group of students from Poland and Lithuania went for a study trip around south-eastern Poland. The Polish part of the group consisted of students of cultural animation specialization at Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University. The aim of the trip was to discover people, places and institutions important for culture of this particular region. The meetings had been planned around the theme of local culture animation but they became much more. It turned out that we set off on a track of lost multiculturality, memory and tradition which are being preserved not only by institutions but also village theatre groups and a collector and local history enthusiast based in the woods of Medynia Glogowska…

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  • village theatres in Hańsk, Zanowin, Bukowa
  • Teatr Przedmieście in Łańcut

In all those places we learned the secrets of local enterprises and found out that cooperation, institutional support and information flow are among the most important ones. Just as passion and courage to set off to make one’s dreams come true. We are hoping that these meetings will become an inspirations for students who are bound to meet similar challenges in the future.

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