Here is some photo documentation of the Wonders project in Kaunas.
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Kauno stebuklai in progress
Aided and assisted by artists from Laundry, on Monday thirty participants from the Art Institute and the Institute of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University – along with students from the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University - set off in search of the Wonders of Kaunas. Come along and see their work in progress on Friday December 7th at 6pm!
Atidarymas gruodžio 7 d., penktadienį, 18 val.
VDU klubas „Sesija“, S. Daukanto g. 27, Kaunas
With 37 nominations on line and more than 100 collected from postcards we look forward to the results, which will form part of a publication the Art Institute will be presenting in 2008.
Reports from study trip in Poland
Here you can download reports written by Lithuanian participants of the study trip in Poland. They reveal most interesting cases of cultural institutions / initiatives that were met on the way Warsaw-Lublin-Krakow.
Study trip of students from Lithuania and Poland over Southern-East Poland
FRIDAY 21.09
Meeting with NN Theatre in Lublin (I)
SATURDAY 22.09
Meeting with NN Theatre in Lublin (II)
KOSMOS – performances in the theatre Gardzienice,
after KOSMOS – meeting with Włodzimierz Staniewski, the director of Gardzienice
SUNDAY 23.09
Meeting with a folk theatre in Hańsk
Meeting with a folk theatre Nadbużański Klon Zielony in Zawinów (next to Dorohusk)
MONDAY 24.09
Meeting with Association „Miasteczko” in Chełm
TUESDAY 25.09
Meeting with a folk band in Bukowa
Meeting with Association of Singer in Biłgoraj
Meeting with the director of Municipal Culture Center in Tarnogród and an amateur theatre and a walk around Tarnogród
WEDNESDAY 26.09
Visit in the Castle in Łańcut
Meeting with Przedmieście Theatre in Łańcut
Meeting in Culture Center in Czarna
THURSDAY 27.09
Meeting with the director of Ethnographical Museum in Tarnów
Meeting in the institute of culture (Małopolski Instytut Kultury) in Cracow
Presentation of Leonardo projects
Event held in IKP presenting students’ work abroad.
impressions from study trip to lithuania
The participants of the study trip to Lithuania share their impressions, observations and thoughts about cultural institutions and especially non-professional theatres they’ve visited in the region of Lithuania Minor.
The important thing
Our whole trip was based on meeting people who work in different theatre groups not controlled by the state and on examining contemporary Lithuanian theatre. The amateur theatre movement in Lithuania is very much alive, and very varied. There is a strong difference between groups working in cities and those situated in villages.
Study trip to Lithuania: meetings and experiences
The 14th 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. Continue reading
Lithuanian and Polish students make a study trip to Lithuania
In April a thirteen person group will make a one week study trip to Lithuania investigating independent theatres and other cultural activities from the perspective of cultural animation. Lithuanian students from Art Institute (VMU) will meet Polish students from Instytut Kultury Polskiej (WU) in Vilnius, jointly will go to Kaunas for a one day stop and team-building before a grand tour through the specific region of Lithuania called Lithuania Minor. Continue reading