May 16 (Saturday) – 24 (Sunday) 2015, 11pm to 7pm

Cardboardia’s Intensive Street Performance Lab 

@ Voluntary Arts Week in Derry, Northern Ireland

Venue for workshop: Verbal Arts Centre, Stable Lane and Mall Wall, Bishop Street Within, Derry/Londonderry BT48 6PU 

Personages of Cardboardia are happy to welcome anyone who wishes to create big, perform loud and parade the streets of Derry!

If you want to learn creating with cardboard or get better at what you already know; if you are looking for a powerful experience, for being a part of a large creative project and making new friends - join us at the Lab!

The Lab has two major Modules:

Module 1 - Designing costumes and objects for interactive performances

Module 2 - Street performance and communication with the public for beginners

Throughout the several days of our intensive Lab we will create a large-scale interactive space and prepare a city parade of cardboard awesomeness.

In Module 1, designers will learn basic and advanced techniques of creating costumes, decorations and objects from cardboard. The program could be particularly interesting for artists and architects, school teachers and designers.

Those who take part in Module 2 will go through the entire cycle of preparing a city event - adapting the concept to the location, preparation and management. The module is curated by a brilliant street theater director from Germany, so we especially welcome stilt walkers and other circus and general performing artists to take part. You will learn the basics of interaction with the audiences, exchange stilt walking and performing experience and get to improvise in a new eclectic team.

The Lab will end in a series of performances on 23 and 24 of May.

Curators of the Street Performance Lab are:

Mathijs Stegink, NL (artist, designer, animator, trainer), Olesya Kandalintseva, Rus (artist, designer, workshop curator at Made in Cardboardia), Wolfgang Hauck, Germany (street theater director, stilts walker).

Participation in the Lab is free, yet the number of participants is limited. Groups will be formed following the results of online interviews.

Lab participants will need to take care of their daily expenses and costs of travel and stay in Derry/Londonderry (Northern Ireland).

In order to take part in the Lab you need to fill out the https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J9or5JlzM4Uvl0_qEbbVevTSYGBaOiC5sEPfVRt8Sec/viewform" target="_blank">application form, complete a test piece and receive the confirmation from the curator.

more info

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