EoC-Care Day 22-25 (Care Month?)-personal spinoff
Dear reader. For this Care Month post: four new songs by Kingalita “Csikabuuun…
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Dear reader. For this Care Month post: four new songs by Kingalita “Csikabuuun…
Here is our next update on the activities of the mapped collectives: Call for participants in Feminist No Borders Summer School 14-16 June 2021 / online / registration deadline: 7…
After six weeks of mapping we are happy to present the results of our research, which includes around 30 initiatives from 15 cities and 7 countries, representing a wide range…
Dear reader. I will just let you listen and read. “Dimna” by Kingalita (00:12) “Not A Part Of It” by Gringi (05:09) For a Small Story, here…
Dear reader. Here comes “Metal” (00:22), a new song by Kingalita, another catchy potential hit number 1. On the longish side, but Care Day 20 favorite for today. And, as expected, no surprises…
________ Dear you, Today is my Care Day, a day fully dedicated to taking care of myself. Today you are part of it. What you are holding in your hands…
Dear reader. Let’s keep it simple for the Care Day 19. No questions given and no answers asked. Here comes the new hit single by Kingalita, from the upcoming album…
Since we were mapping the new ways of learning, we started to communicate with the main actors of our #research to start a #discussion, and #exchange_of_practices. Our new series called…
Intergenerational Urban Patrol is a performative group of Warsaw residents who have come together to use artistic language to address the current social and political situation in Warsaw, Poland and…
Dear Reader. Care Day 17 report. On popular demand, here the March song by Gringi. “Pawns”, 06:46 As far as the Small Stories go, here and today we thereby…
While we continue our research on the mapping of new ways of learning and after contacting the initiatives that we were mapping for several months, we are using this blog…
Dear reader. All the seeds are in the ground, soon the baby plants will be transplanted into the garden. And apricot tree is post blossoming and already has fruit things…
As we started our journey with the search for new ways of learning, we have been #mapping our way through our fields of #education in relation to #art, #urbanism, and…
Dear Reader. Care Day 16 and the Small Stories deadline 16. Here we come to the point where the Author suggests that the narrative rounds up and this edition possibly…
Dear reader. Care Day 15 it was. We just came to the half way point in our research into self-care and the “deadlines” as the concrete markers in our care-progress. And…
Imagine that work is a person. What do you want to ask her? What does work actually stand for? What does the slogan „working” mean? Will you occupy my…
Dear reader. Care Day 14 it is and a new Small Story for Every-Care-Day here it comes. Self-hypnotic-self-care and going strong. A gang of best friends spending summertime in the…
Dear reader. We start the report on Care Day 13 with the set of morning images from ArtfarmP2. Early fog, spider web with eyes wide open looking at the almond…
Premiere of the Island took place in June 2019. The plot of the performance is set in the atmosphere of an impending catastrophe, emergency state, urgent decision making. Coincidence, future…
How many cans of cola does hope take? Is a common catastrophe our greatest victory or our greatest defeat? What body position is needed to alleviate the world’s fears? What…
Dear reader. On shoplifting: whatever is in the store doesn’t belong to anybody yet! Quick bite, as the moron with the camera came by. And in the Small Story…
In recent years, a unique flow of creative work has emerged in work of the community gathered around the Association of Theater Pedagogues. Combining the experience of meeting: being with…
Before our performance came to be, before The Boys Performative Group was formed, a bunch of men started meeting every week for a couple of hours. They would sit on…
It’s almost three months that the word “care” is at the centre of the Care Day research and the more I explore and experiment its meaning, the more I feel…
#sociaton(1,2,3) #socialism #reggaeton #decadence #AlfonsoBarrantesLingán #socialistspeech #Lima #PlazaSanMartín #1986
Dear reader. In the Small Story for Care Day 11, the anti-hero finds himself hangover on the friendly sofa, zapping sports TV. One of his best friend walks in and intensely…
A group of artists, designers, educators and citizens that came together as Permaculture Solidarity out of a wider group of people from Spaces for Solidarity, we, Iris Diaz Carrasco, Liana…
Couple of guys, more or less known to each other, but mainly unknown, formed a group – man circle. To talk about masculinity – what is it? Is it an…
Once upon a time, in the fall of 2019, in a world without a coronavirus, I wanted to make a performance about hope. At that time, it seemed that this…
Dear reader. Here some excellent goodies to celebrate Care Day 10. From Berlin, Drugar Duki send us this wonderful contemplation on isolation (05:08 min) And from Boston, Drugar Srdjan contributed another beauty, on taking his…
Dear reader. On Care Day 9 the protagonist of Small Stories, the undercover story hunter, travels through One-Way-Tunnel and after the feeling of Auto-Selective Partial Hearing Loss overwhelms him, ends up…
The story of Care Day #9 [55:26, raw] #politicalgesture #creativetraining #claustrophobictalks #universaltension #doubletime #consciousspace #collectivereborn #copewithtime #historyevent #onconnection
April 2019. Polish teachers start a nationwide strike. Those who join the strike break the school system to a half. The society is divided. On one hand we have gestures…
Dear reader. The spring is coming, but the wood-chopping will still go on for a while. Woodchopping Day for the Cosy Evenings. In the new Care Day episode of Small…
The story of Care Day #8 [41:49, raw] #zmaily #anxiety #anti-racist #thecalfnovel #oldloveletter #analogmusic #mandarintree #non-EUartists
Welcome! This is the Making the Invisible Theaters Visible project run by Badhuistheater from Amsterdam, Netherlands and the Association of Theater Pedagogues (Stowarzyszenie Pedagogów Teatru) from Warsaw, Poland. Here we…
Dear reader. Here comes some stuff from Care Day 7. For the regular Friday recording session of the raw, unedited podcast, we, Ecology of Care group (Sofia Cartuccia in Polverigi, Rodrigo Ghatas…
The story of Care Day #7 [1:03:40, raw] #guest #collectivecare #24/7insidesleepingbag #self-isolated #capitalistinternet #self-care #slowingdown…
The story of Care Day #6 [47:04 min, raw] #utopiandystopian #twintowers #nothing’llbethesame #communism #dystopiawithindystopia #internetcafe #cheguevara #protodatastealing
Dear reader. Care Day 6 came and went to stay. Time for a Small Story . We boldly approach the transition from historical overview to Present Day. I mean, the…
The story of Care Day #5 [35:47 min, raw] #12grapes #runthroughsnow #slowmotionsociety #mentalchallenges #timeispolitical #firstday2021 #goodaimslist
Dear reader. Here comes the translation of Small-Story-For-Care-Day 5, which – the day, not the story- fell on New Years Day. We continue with the history of the colonization of…
Dear reader. Care Day 4 was on Friday, again, but this time was on X-mass Day. As x-mass, even…
The story of Care Day #4 [33:22 min, raw] #sineadoconnorfemalepriest #traditions #vinodivisciola #Christmasediton #orthodox #panetonne #dogadoption #cookbook
The story of Care Day #3 [32:15 min, raw] #singing #miceinthehouse #corruptedsolidarity #inheritedwisdom #happiness #dodeskaden
Dear reader. Here comes the new weekly installment of Small Story for Every-Care-Day. Will keep this introduction short (just for…
Dear reader. Friday “Care Day 2” happened and two days later spillover of caring energy is still…
The story of Care Day #2 [52:00 min, raw] #collectivecare #mandarinsonthefloor #failure #joysofbureaucracy #attentioneconomy #onlinetraps #doingnothing
My friends and I of the CLE group Ecology of Care have started something together. A project. A research. An experiment. An intimate practice. You can call it in…
Dear reader. Those are weekly personal files on my experiences of Care Day. Care Day is research-development project of…
The story of Care Day #1 [42:41 min, raw] #punchthesleepingbag #enjoythesilence #peew.2hands #fairyhouseonwheels #natureinsideout #emotionallabor
Dive into the magic of Culture Lab Europe in a podcast created by one of CLE participants Mike Manicardi from Amsterdam’s Badhuistheater portraying also what the groups have talked about…
Please see the video recap summarizing the key findings of the groups during the Culture Lab Europe:
~ What is it about? How do you get to know if you do or do not have something in common with other people? Have you ever been misled by…
Before I start to analyze the work of the Urban commons group, it is necessary to ask the question what is actually a common space and why is it an…
This project was supposed to happen in April 2020 in European Capital of Culture Rijeka, Croatia – but nobody could expect the COVID-19 pandemic. This prevented the participants to work…
Ecology of care or should we say the „Offline“ group, is really something different. It is a group with 4 participants who are practicing unusual and unique methodology of work….
My observation of CLE inhabitants, participants – workers for solidarity, got me imagining invisible threads of connection between them. Divided by groups, but led with a common mission, inhabitants of…
Social justice is the view that EVERYONE deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities. Social justice means EQUALITY, it means HUMAN RIGHTS – no matter the skin colour,…
When talking about the ways of creating new forms of solidarity, and also actions that already took place in reality of the European public sphere, it is very important to…
These days we are dealing with working in a digital space which means we have to respect social distancing measures. COVID-19 brought the state of misery to us, but that…
Why is it important to ask (the right) questions? During the past few days a group of participants called the Fellowship of questions showed some very interesting approaches to the…
Right to move, right to act, right to do is one of the seven groups included in the Culture Lab Europe, where cultural activist from all over the continent are…
Term “CLE City” is something often heard and buzzed about in this project. One might ask what exactly that is, and luckily, all puzzles will come to place with this…
Today was the final day of preparations before the official kick-off of Culture Lab Europe, which is starting on June 22. Participants got to mix with their own groups, but…
Culture Lab Europe – Spaces for Solidarity is going into its next stage. The first weeks we used to get to know each other a bit better and getting acquainted…
This spring, i had great opportunity to join a group of thirty front-line squatters in a mission impossible attempt – to set up an alternative cultural center and…
Kiraathane Istanbul literature house opened in 2018 as a project of P24, an NGO established to further the cause of freedom of expression in Turkey. Inspired by the European Literature…
Thank you all for joining the 2nd session of Culture Lab Europe – Spaces for Solidarity today. For the ones who missed it or the ones who can’t get enough…
Since end of march our world changed into digital. It´s hard. We miss all meetings with long term and new partners, also in Rijeka for sure. Now we´re on the…
The Cultural scene in Amsterdam (read :your major European Capital) needs some adaptation to meet demands of the present population. The original Dutch (whicheverCity) are in minority but most…
Discovered it yesterday. It is very good. Not easy to find these days things that touch you. And you want to share the touchness.
Solidarity lately came closer to the spotlight; there were more and more solidarity projects and during this pandemic and quarantine times, we were almost all reminded about its importance. Referring…
Let’s play “What is behind that curtain?”. *** My island don’t’ have 4G, and 3G sucks. What if the rest of the world gets 5G? I am totally f….. big…
During recent years, Turkey has been through a lot of drastic changes that effected urban context and limited people’s visibility and participation in public. The privatization processes intersect with urban…
Very Interesting First Introduction. Thank you for the project Explanations . We are an International Theatre Location / Platform, that has reinvented itself in the LOCKDOWN into an International Visual…
How do we visualise being in solidarity with? As our societies move towards states of perpetual crisis, to be in solidarity with, appears as a frequent form. A form becomes…
Body of Solidarity I’ve got many heads, they connect like threads interweaving /\what-they-know/ \experiences/\ ideas to build something to call home. And it all starts from what’s under my…
Mike’s Badhuistheater Theater has worked for more than 25 years as a successful community Theatre and International Theatre Company from its home base, the Badhuistheater in Amsterdam East. we are…
Late night mess brings up the philosophical part of me. My thoughts wander – they go, and come back – they get stuck in dilemmas and they force themselves to…
Solidarity Europe is one that is aware and sensitive to differences and power relations with other territories. Who receives and has multicultural policies. That ensures that there is no racism,…
My focus is on sustainability, which in this case means people power, individual and collective responsibility: how can we get people on board to enhance transition to sustainable institutional and…
A few years ago, in the middle of the extensive migration movements throughout the Balkans towards central Europe, this photo became one of the symbols of a caravan of hundreds…
Marginal is a design studio based since three years in the city of Palermo, where we focus on creating new forms of collaboration between people, places, and cultures. We are developing…
I’m sharing three images here to trigger a few questions about the meaning of community in the context of global confinement. What kind of solidarity can we reclaim with closed…
The current situation shows now more than ever, that our problems are deeply intertwined, and that European ways to tackle these various problems are needed, yet at the same time it…
We are not changing as fast as the bad things keep appearing. In a world threatened every day more by insecurity, nationalism, borders being raised again, virtually or for real,…
I believe that Europe should be a space for collective learning and collective help. A shared common ground of human rights; A balance between local and global economical advantages; Politics that…
To whom and where are we declaring solidarity to nowadays? This crisis is shaking the grounds of our collective political practices, the forms and methodologies of our labour processes and…
It has already been three months since the world shut down and our lives with it, after a routine where we meet at least 10 people a day, we have…
A few days ago, my mind was trying to split the worriedness in three – like that’s even possible, – about my loved ones and ‘other’ bodies I care for…
For the past year I have been researching a magazine published by the International Student Friendship Club in my hometown Zagreb. The Club during its activity from 1964 to 1991…
Solidarity in Europe Coming from Britain, of course it is a challenging time to be talking about solidarity in Europe. Even before Covid-19, as a society we seemed to be…
1.What is your vision on solidarity in Europe and a shared European public sphere? Our vision of solidarity relies on the exchange of practices, of experiences, memories and fantasies to generate…
This is semi-official report on the series of Zoom discussions on the subject of “Visions on Solidarity in Europe” among various European members of ArtfarmP2 community, conducted between 10.05. -17.05.2020….
A lot has been said about the urge to create a sense of commonality, to build a shared public sphere, to understand differences across European countries and its citizens as…
As you all know, we are facing a global crisis. Our event was planned to take place in April in Rijeka, Croatia, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 crisis. All…
… our research allowed us to outline certain conclusions: 1) Solidarity may be provoked as part of a cultural and artistic activity, if the said activity happens based on a…
