Sinking Songs
Start date: May 2, 2016,
End date: May 1, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Sinking songs is a project that will host 28 participants from Czech, Slovenia and Estonia who will meet in the end of Juli for 13 days in Slovenian village Kozarišče. Young people with artistic and social interest will come to experience the joy of creative process on common output in practise of scenography and light design to gain a knowledge and skills about how to apply art to support comunity life and active citizenship. Over-all theme of the project is „Oral cultural herritage“ - participants will be examining important songs and storries in European history and memory and compare it to their national and personal insights. By using site specific methods in creating objects and installations they will prepare sorroundings, situations and installations as methaphors and self expresion of particicular songs and storries. These spaces will be included within a local festival in the end of the project. Participants will create environmentally friendly land-art objects, light-design objects and installations which will be used as a base for their final performance open to public. Project is based on strong cooperation with local comunity and active participation of the audience into installations. During the activity we will visit near villages to let the participants and the local community know about the project and share the oral heritage (storry telling events, dinner with neighborhoods, singing events) Participants will take part in various workshops aimed on practising specific scenography and lights methods leaded by profesionals. During the activities the project joins a profesional scenographer who will individualy consult creative ideas with participants. Like this the participants will gain a profesional dimension of their work.Participants will have the chance to learn, examine and practise in depth new approaches in creativity based on process of common brainstorming, sharing ideas, knowledge and experiences, working and interfering with local community. For these passionate young people, it will be a unique opportunity to be part of a site-specific international event with major intercultural and ecological dimension and oral historical theme. Participants will improve their skills and abilities - personal but also professional (in the field of creativity, art, culture and education), they will learn to understand different perception of European oral history and memory in the spirit of openness and tolerance towards each other and to the environment and the nature.