Children All-Loud was the name of the public program for little ones at Survival Kit 13. Each Sunday, we organized a workshop for kids.
Explore the exhibition together with cat Ojārs! (worksheets in Latvian language)
11.09 Sound workshop with Elīza Dombrovska, experimental theatre director and one of the creators of the radio show "Volnenija", a partner of Survival Kit 13 festival.
A collaborative musical piece titled "I'm here LITTLE" with children & co. During it, like footprints in the mud, words carved in wood or a sweet, silent thank you, using the method of conscious listening, participants were invited to become aware of themselves in spaces, big or small, and to document their feelings aurally in order to create great art like great artists.
Once upon a time, Elīza (a graduate filmmaker, a growing organism) had a plan. But it was so thin, almost invisible, that for Elīza even such questions as "what will I be when I grow up big?" became as transparent as tears. Now she spends every day behind her imagination and wherever she goes, she listens very, very carefully.
18.09 Drawing and collage workshop "Green sky and blue earth. What colour is the water?" with artist Sabīne Šnē.
The workshop provided the opportunity to draw different landscapes, real or imaginary, living or non-living. Landscapes that one would like to protect and landscapes one doesn't care about. Participants had the opportunity to learn about environmental pollution in the Soviet Union and reflect on how the past times affect our lives today. The ecological nuisances then and now.
The workshop was inspired by the article “Par Daugavas likteni domājot” by Dainis Īvāns and Artūrs Snips, published in 1986 in the magazine “Literatūra un māksla”, which made an important contribution to stopping the construction of the Daugavpils HES and played a big role in the Awakening processes.
25.09 Stilt walking workshop with "Rīgas Danči", a community of folk musicians, dancers, and artists who, together with Berlin-based Turkish artist Ahmet Öğüt, created the performance "Balanced Banners" for the White Night program of Survival Kit 13 "Night must be caught" on September 3rd of the same year.
02.10 Embroidery workshop "Framed in Belarus" by the artists' association "StichIt".
The #FramedinBelarus project aimed to tell the story of every unjustly convicted Belarusian citizen and create portraits of them using the traditional Belarusian embroidery technique with red threads on a white background, thus capturing an important period of Belarusian history through the ornament of the national code.
The embroidery process is lengthy and meditative, which allowed us to focus on our thoughts and feelings about the person arrested. Time is what is taken away from a person in prison, and time is the small sacrifice we make when we create a portrait of a political prisoner.
About the embroideries of prisoners: The embroideries bear a short story about their arrest and the offence. The project had a social action character. Those who decided to take part in the project after registration received patterns and instructions for the embroidery, the address of the prison where the person is held and information on how they could support the convicts. The embroidery process became a form of meditation on the fate of the prisoners. In the context of the whole project, the key to freedom was a collective action. The final form of the project was a common quilt of all the embroidered portraits, a tangible symbol of intertwining political events and human destinies.
09.10 Worskhop by art mediators of Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.
16.10 Orientation hike and a tour to the Barricades memorial sites in Old Riga together with the 1991 Barricades Museum team.