The meeting
between groups from Spain, France, Germany and Poland took place in
Poland between Wednesday and Sunday ( napisz daty). This time the
group To.Pole were hosting the meeting in the city where they work-
Cracow.
The meeting
happened at Biala Droga (http://bialadroga.wordpress.com/).
It is an artist run space and it functions as a platform for working
with Debniki community in Cracow. It is a place where knowledge,
skills, and experience are exchanged. Participants can attend
workshops, meetings and presentations.
The first day
of the gathering started by showing the groups specific places around
Cracow connected to our project, which we call EEE. EEE stands for
Enough 4 Everybody 4 Ever. During the walk we talked about our
project, exchanged ideas, inspirations and experiences. The outcome
of exchange brought to attention important topics like communication
between groups, plans for next meetings, and preparation for the
final work. The Krakow group prepared an alternative walking tour
around the city centre, we visited a local food market, the Jewish
district and some important cultural spots.
On the second
day, we split into two groups. One group took part in a theatre
workshop organised by the German group. Second group worked on the
EEE project blog. The theatre workshop emphasis was on the exercises
with words meanings, and a collective decision-making without using
speech. In this way the German group introduced to all participating
groups the way how they work. All these were important to happen
before our project culmination in March 2014.
The second
group that was working on the blog, decided on the structure of the
material, and all the elements consisting the content of the blog.
The aim was to structure our work/material and to discuss the need of
the project.
Second
part of the day was dedicated for the workshop of Polish traditional
dance, and later on the dancing to Polish traditional music. A group
of musicians and dancers was introducing to the workshop participants
the different steps and types of Polish folk dances. It was the
presentation of To.Pole group that was to promote and educate about
the Polish traditional culture.
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Third day of
the gathering we started in an art gallery Galeria Bunkier Sztuki in
Cracow with the workshop run by the French group. It was a
presentation of a wooden construction called ‘mobile’, which can
be used for varies exercises in group work. It allows the group to
play with the idea of “balance” and “sustainability” and
bring new insights into these topics.
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It is a
visualisation that can be used in verity of workshops as a didactic/
a method of teaching. The aim of this exercise was to represent a
creation of a construction
in practice/in real.
Second part
of the morning we attended the Fanaberie Festival,
(http://fanaberieferformance.blogspot.de/),
which concentrated around recycling and artistic methods against
consumerism/consumption. To.Pole group was involved in this festival
as well, and wanted to share they educational input in it. One of
their project presented at the festival called POLtwor, was presented
there, it was a form of recycling (http://poltwor.com/blog/),
which is about ecological education through art.
In the
afternoon we all gathered and summarised all the three days spend
together. We made final decisions, and talked about our future
meetings.