11.09., 18.09., 25.09., 09.10., 16.10.
Children All-Loud
Family Sundays: a workshop and tour
Explore the exhibition together with cat Ojārs! (worksheets in Latvian language)
13.00
Venue: “Hearing Voices Café”, Pils iela 23
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.
*The workshop will be held in Latvian.
A collaborative musical piece "I'm here LITTLE" with children & co. An experimental workshop During it, like footprints in the mud, words carved in wood or a sweet, silent thank you, using the method of conscious listening, participants are 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.
Arrival at 13:00
A tour with her mums dads sisters brothers and the Survival Kit festival cat Ojārs
Young Artists Making a Piece 13:40-14:40
Solemn premiere 15:00-15:30
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 programme of Survival Kit 13 "Night must be caught" on September 3rd this year.
*The workshop will be held in Latvian.
18.09. Drawing and collage workshop "Green sky and blue earth. What colour is the water?" with artist Sabīne Šnē.
*The workshop will be held in Latvian.
The workshop will provide 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 will have 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 is 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 programme of Survival Kit 13 "Night must be caught" on September 3rd this year.
*The workshop will be held in Latvian.
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 programme of Survival Kit 13 "Night must be caught" on September 3rd this year.
*The workshop will be held in Latvian.
02.10. Embroidery workshop "Framed in Belarus" by the artists' association "StichIt".
*The workshop will be held in English.
The #FramedinBelarus project aims 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 allows 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: Embroideries bear a short story about their arrest and the offence. The project has a social action character. Those who decide to take part in the project after registering on framedinbelarus.net receive patterns and instructions for the embroidery, the address of the prison where the person is held and information on how they can support the convicts. The embroidery process becomes a form of meditation on the fate of prisoners. In the context of the whole project, the key to freedom is a collective action. The final form of the project will be 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.
*The workshop will be held in Latvian.
16.10. Orientation hike and a tour to the Barricades memorial sites in Old Riga together with the 1991 Barricades Museum team.
*The workshop will be held in Latvian.
*The event is accessible to people with disabilities. Before visiting the festival, please read about the accessibility here. If you need special access requirements or have any questions about the accessibility of the festival, please contact us at mara@lcca.lv
The Hearing Voices Cafe is a project of the Goethe-Institut incorporated into a comprehensive package of measures for which the Federal Foreign Office provides funding from the 2022 Supplementary Budget to mitigate the effects of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.