The conference on CULTURAL ANIMATION was held in Prague, ALFREDVEDVORE Theatre the 25th of February from 10 till 17.

Partners of the ANIMATOR project took part and presented their part of ANIMATOR project as well as presentions on different models of cultural animation - its study and practice - in their country.

• Presentation of Iwona Kurz from Institute of Polish Culture [.ppt]

The conference was close down by open discussion about cultural animation and art and cultural management. The recording of the debate in mp3 format will be made available here soon.

This discussion took place on the forum

On 3rd February 2008 (in Polish)

Thanks very much to Patka, Gosia & Lukas. This is a pretty rough translation. Please forgive us if we made mistakes. We figured the most important thing was to get the basic ideas out there.

 So you can download a PDF of the discussion diy-forum-discussion-english.pdf

if you have any comments or questions, you can email us@laundryline.co.uk

or add your comments to the English translation on the forum

At the press conference devoted to a Small Inventory Festival (February 20 - 24, Prague, Czech Republic) was presented, as a part of OFF -programme of the festival, a publication prepared within the frame of ANIMATOR project and called CZ/PL Theatres after the Reconstruction. This book will be available during the festival and it prezents reconstructed theatre buildings - a new regional cultural centres in Poland and Czech Republic where also an alternative or so called new theatre is shown. The book is published in cooperation of Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University, Spolek Richelieu and New Web Association which is a main organizator of the Small Inventory festival.

A conference CULTURAL ANIMATION, organized by Spolek Richelieu,  is a next  part of the OFF-programme of the festival. It will take place the 25th of February from 10 till 18 p.m in ALFREDVEDVORE theatre. Partner´s organization of the ANIMATOR project will prezent their part of the project realization as well as situation of cultural animation and its studies in each country. There will be open debate at the end of the conference. Students, pedagogues and practitioners-cultural organizators were invited. The conference co-organizes New Web Association and Motus Association-production of ALFREDVEDVORE theatre.

www.novasit.cz

www.malainventura.cz

www.divadlo.cz/spolekrichelieu

Video made by Blue Group: Vilma Baltrušaityt, Silvija Burokait, Ernesta Stackevičien, Violeta Mikutaityt, Aidis Stuck and Beata Godlewska, working with Brendan Jackson.

Jeśli chcesz spełnić swoje marzenia, a do tego podzielić się nimi z innymii…
-    bez ogromnych sum piedniędzy
-    bez sponsorów
-    bez wypełniania stert papierów
-    bez oficjalnego wsparcia żadnych (jaki wkolwiek) instytucji…

Dołącz do dyskusji na temat „D.I.Y. – Do it Yourself (Zrób to sam)"

KIEDY: 3 Luty 2008 (niedziela),
           Godz. 14-16
GDZIE: www.culturalanimation.com /discuss

If you want to make your dreams come true
And to share them with others…
-    without great amounts of money
-    without sponsorship
-    without filling in stacks of paper
-    without official support of institutions

then please, join the discussion on the topic
„D.I.Y. – Do It Yourself (Zrób to sam)"

WHEN: 3 February, 2008 (Sunday),
from 14.oo-16.oo if you are in POLAND
or 15.oo-17.oo if you are in places like Lithuania
or 13.oo-15.oo if you are in ENGLAND

WHERE: www.culturalanimation.com /discuss

This discussion will be in Polish and it will be translated into English very very soon afterwards.

NEXT LIVE ONLINE DISCUSSION EVENT will be 14 February, 2008
on the topic "Animators and their tools - Do we need more than words?"

With invited speakers:
Gosia Litwinowicz in Poland,
Michala Pohorela in Czech Republic,
Mats Rehnman in Sweden
and Geoff Broadway in England

17:00-19:00 if you’re in England
19:00-21:00 if you’re in Lithuania
18:00-20:00 if you’re in Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, etc.

Please join us at Refresh - the Cultural Animation Discussion Forum

The second part of the serie of public discussion will be held the 24st of January in Alfred ve dvoře Theatre in Prague. This debate is specialized on the regional cultural NGO´s and their practice.

At the first debate we tried to define who is animator of culture and manager of culture in Czech republic as we still do not have the official definition of this conceptions. Than we tried to ask how should be these people educated and if we do have adequate education for this disciplines/activities.

Now we would like to invite people who we could be called „cultural animators“ in regions of Czech republic and we would like to discuss with them how looks real practice and how should be students prepare for this reality and if the education offers what the practice asks. We would like to ask them how they were educated as we do not have any cultural animation studies in Czech republic and how they would like to be educated for the practice they are use to.

We are documenting this discussion and we are going to rewrite it for our planning publication.

By the first debate called CULTURAL MANAGEMENT CULTURAL ANIMATION AS STUDY DISCIPLINE? we opened very interesting and very little explored area and we found out that it would be very good study material the publication with the rewrites of the debates and reports from people interested in the subject. We start to cooperate with Department of production at Theatre Academy Prague because they consider our project as very important and interesting for their students and pedagogues too. At the first debate, there were about 60 people coming. There was students of Theatre Academy in Prague, Brno and Bratislava, pedagogues of these schools, students and pedagogues of Academy of fine art in Prague who are opening the course of Cultural management, students of the Faculty of Art at Charles Univerzity in Prague , pedagogues of Salezian University in Opava who would like to open department of Cultural animation.

We cooperate also with Nová síť/new web project (www.novasit.cz) and Alfred ve dvoře theatre (www.alfredvedvore.cz).

The last part of this debate will be a conference entitled CULTURE ANIMATION…? which will take place on the 25th of February in Alfred ve dvoře Theatre from 10 till 18. The conference will be held with the participation of experienced practitioners from czech regions, students and pedagogues of the Theatre Academy in Prague and the Faculty of Art of Charles Univerzity Prague and international partners of the ANIMATOR PROJECT. We would like to compare the concepts of cultural animation in different environments.