AUTOR MOTOR ANIMATOR is a contribution to the discussion on culture animation and culture management and art management in Czech and European contexts.

Go on and read it for discussion – reflections – talks – impulses.

The book has been published by Spolek Richelieu within the ANIMATOR project as a conclusion of the three-part discussion project on the culture animation, culture management, its studies and practice in Czech and European context.

To read more, we publish the pdf version of the book, where the english summary is possible to find at the end.

DOWNLOAD THE BOOK (PDF)

 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.

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.

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Spokek Richelieu made a short visit to the West Midlands of England to view theatre activities and cultural animation projects. They visited with Stan’s Cafe and Black Country Touring. They also shared ideas of work of members of the association. View one example of the types of projects that members of Spolek Richelieu undertake…

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The first open public seminaries lead by students of Departament for Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy at Theatre Academy Prague (KATaP) took place the 21st of October in Liberec, within the frame of the Festival for new theatre BIG INVENTORY.

There were three parts of the workshop devoted to three basic disciplines at KATaP: Acting with the inner partners, Authorial reading and so called Recitation.

Dear project partners, dear Culture Animators,

On behalf of Spolek Richelieu, Association of Students, Graduates and Friends of the Theatre Academy Prague we would like to invite you to a small conference entitled CULTURE ANIMATION…? which will take place

on the 25th of february 2008 in Alfred ve dvoře Theatre from 10 till 18

with the participation of experienced practitioners, students and pedagogues of the Theatre Academy in Prague and the Faculty of Art of Charles University, international partners of the ANIMATOR project and other people interested

and as the last event of a three-part open public discussion entitled

AUTOR-MOTOR-ANIMATOR on the theme of the theatre production and cultural management, its studies and practice and successful work experience of the graduates and cultural animation in regions of the Czech Republic but also in a European context.

The first public debate will take place on 6th of November at Theatre Academy Prague and is called CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AS STUDY DISCIPLINE? The second one is planned on 24th of January 2008 in Alfred ve dvoře Theatre and is specialized on the regional cultural NGO´s. We would like to discuss what should the cultural manager have to know, how and where should he study? Are the studying plans answer to actual needs?  Which skills are required on cultural animators? And at least but not last, what the culture animation is or what it could be?

We will really appreciate if you will be interested and inspired by these questions and will prepare a short paper refers to this questions and refer it at our february´s conference.

A working session of the partners of the ANIMATOR project will be held on 26 February 2007. We would like to ask you to book your time and take part in the session.

On 18–24 February the Small Inventory festival will be held in Prague as a festival to present the new theatre and stage projects created in the last year. You are cordially invited to attend the festival. For more information, see www.malainventura.cz

Please confirm your participation or ask for more info at +420 603 18 16 12 or at simatko@centrum.cz

In the last week of February (20 – 25 / 2 / 2007), five Prague theatres hosted the fifth annual Small Inventory festival. Under the motto “The cream of this year’s theatre crop” , the festival presented the most interesting authorial physical, dance, visual, interactive, non verbal and cross–over theatre projects to have premiered in the last year. (Read more…)