Arts and Urban Space International Conference American corner at Sofia City Library, 4a Slaveykov Square 27-28 September, Sofia

Arts and Urban Space International Conference September 27-28, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria EEPAP has a pleasure to announce that the international conference ARTS AND URBAN SPACE will take place in Sofia on 27 and 28 of September. The conference is organized by Sofia Development Association, Art Office Sofia and EEPAP as a part of the series of international events that are taking place in Bulgaria in relation to the Sofia European Capital of Culture 2019 application. It is an occasion to gather artists and experts from East and Central Europe to discuss diverse initiatives, experiences and ways of operating in the city space in the circle of people that come from various artistic or professional backgrounds and diverse social and political contexts. Among the invited guests there are theatre makers, visual artists and cultural operators from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Croatia, Romania, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and Poland. The panel discussions are open for the public. Join us in Sofia! 27 September, Friday 09:30 - 10:00 - Registration 10:00 - 10:30 - Opening – Sofia Municipality and Sofia Development Association representatives Panel 1: Cultural Landscape of the City Moderator TBC 10:30 - 10:40 - BORIS BAKAL - From “Vitić Dances” to “Father Courage” – theatre projects and the context of the city 10:40 - 10:50 - GERGANA DIMITROVA - All you need is crazy team and a duct tape: the city as a multifunctional stage for stageless independent artists. 10:50 - 11:00 - VLADIMIR US - Forming public space through cultural action 11:00-11:10 - BORYANA ZAFIROVA Outdoor events and performances. Mission possible 11:10-13:00 – Discussion 13:00-14:00 Lunch break Panel 2: City: a public or a private space? Moderator Kalina Wagenstein 14:00 - 14:10 - TACIANA ARCIMOVIC - Independent theatre in Belarus today. Private as Public. 14:10 - 14:20 - KIRIL KUZMANOV - In/Visible Locations 14:20 - 14:30 - NATALIA VATSADZE - Between public and private - Apartment exhibitions by Group “Bullion” 14:30 - 14:40 - RADOSVETA KIROVA - Transform your public space 14:50 - 16:30 – Discussion 28 September, Saturday 9:30 - 10:00 - Registration Panel 3: Art in the City: for whom and why? Moderator Vladiya Mihaylova 10:00 - 10:10 - YAVOR KOSTOV- From Conventional to Applied theatrе...and back 10:10 - 10:20 - MARTINA STEFANOVA - Converting the space under the Central Railway Station into a Center for Arts and Culture 10:20 - 10:30 - MAGDA MOSIEWICZ - Performing arts as political tool 10:30 - 10:40 - PRAVDOLUB IVANOV - Me, Myself and the Rest of Me on the Square 10:40 - 10:50 - IULIA POPOVICI - Critical democracy and false democratization in public space. 10:50 -13:00 – Discussion 13:00-14:00 Lunch break Panel 4: City and its specific identity Moderator Joanna Wichowska/EEPAP 14:00 - 14:10 - SAMO SELIMOVIĆ Working with the local community and revitalizing specific urban areas in Ljubljana 14:10 - 14:20 - MYKOLA HOMANYUK Kherson Experiences of Performing Art Interventions to the Urban and Rural Space 14:20 - 14:30 - ANDRE ERLEN "RAUS! OUT! - a theatrical exit out of the wrong life" 14:30 - 14:40 - NEDA SOKOLOVSKA Verbatim theatre - new aspects of togetherness and social awareness. 14:40 - 14:50 - OKSANA DUDKO City of Suburbs: Imagining New Urban Landscape of Lviv 14:50 - 16:30 – Discussion 16:30 - 18:00 Closing session Moderator/Summing up Asen Terziev

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