On the 10^th of May Iwona Kurz and Małgorzata Litwinowicz from Instytut Kultury Polskiej (WU) gave a public lecture on cultural animation at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) Art Institute. Students and lecturers of the Art Institute were invited to participate in the meeting and to find out more about the cultural animation. Guests from Warsaw gave a comprehensive lecture on the teaching of cultural animation, which was presented as a synthesis of academic education, workshops, probation and implementation of actual project. The guiding principles of the work of cultural animator and its aims were discussed during the meeting as well. We’d like to share at least the part of the knowledge we gained by attaching the slide show, which was shown during the lecture.

Cultural animation: education, work, aims 

The 14^th of April will be remembered by Lithuanian and Polish students as the day on which their impressive cultural adventure started. On that day they met each other in the capital of Lithuania Vilnius to continue their trip through the regions called Lithuania Minor and Samogitia and finaly reach the unique sand dunes in Curonian Spit. Students have met the representatives of non-professional theatre troupes as well as the independent professional artist, cultural workers and academicians on their way. This gave them a great opportunity to study a structure of non-professional theatre movement in Lithuania and to better understand its function in cultural animation. Beside that students were introduced to different professional artists, who seek for alternative ways of social interaction. (Read more…)