UrbCultural Planning (UCP) is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region-program which runs from Januari 2019- June 2021, and it’s a project that aims to strengthen the innovation capacity of public sector authorities, knowledge intermediaries and communities in the Baltic Sea Region to deal with pressing urban societal problems and challenges. The project’s main goal [...]
Shirley Basfield Dunlap PH.D Associate Professor & Theatre Arts Coordinator Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD Director Shirley Basfield Dunlap and actors of New Nordic voices and their production “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” had a workshop about different theatre- and storytelling techniques st Folkets hus in [...]
Welcome to a Q&A with the cast of New Nordic Voices about the play “For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the Rainbow is enuf.” National Black Theatre of Sweden is joining the talk to discuss their work with NBTS - a consistent platform to African and Afro-Swedish plays, stories and African descent artists. We will reflect [...]
WORKSHOP WITH ARTISTS - TURN YOUR OWN STORY INTO A PERFORMANCE PIECE Join us for a workshop together with the cast of New Nordic Voices. We will work with various theatre- and storytelling techniques to explore Ntozake Shange's 'For Colored Girls' - as well as sharing our stories. Together we will transform our experiences [...]
"But bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma / i havent conquered yet / do you see the point" - Ntozake Shange Playwright and poet Ntozake Shange whose most acclaimed theatre piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”, now makes [...]
Call for participation: UrbCulturalPlanning (UCP) We are looking for you that are an artist, designer and/or creative to take part in UCP residencies in 7 countries in the Baltic Sea Region. Do you want to add value to local communities, create dialogues and contribute to the development of local projects? Apply now! The UCP project aims to [...]
Still and for a long time we will all be going back to memories from the Levadia artist residency . Thank you Municipality of Levadia for the engagement in organising the event. Your river and people will keep the memories! What is coming next in our European journey in the project Memory of Water? [...]
The polish artist Iwona Zajac made mural paintings during the Memory of Water residency in Levadia in April. Iwona discovered an empty house by the River Erkyna on St. Stratigou Ioannou which inspired her to find out about the Levadian family that lived there. Read Iwonas story about the artwork and watch the fantastic [...]
Iwona Zając – a visual artist (b. 1971). Graduated from the Painting Department of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1999. In 2017 she obtained the title of doctor of art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Zając pays attention to the location of a project – she starts with collecting detailed [...]
The artist representing Gothenburg, Sweden, in Memory of Water is Jonas Myrstrand from Studio Jox. Originally from Stockholm, Jonas now since many years lives since 1990 in Gothenburg working as a film maker and guest teacher at different university's and highschool's. During the week in Levadia, Jonas will be documenting and filming the process, actions and [...]
