The F.E.S.T Seminar Series

During THE F.E.S.T you are welcome to borrow headphones and Mp3 players and follow the quest of this 3-dimensional sound performance leading us all the way through the history of this unique and affected village of Skillinge. A village of 500 people where more than 70 men, between 1890 - 1940, died in the uncontrolable forces of the cold and vicious sea.

Just come to the reception in the restaurant house pick up a map, headphones and a MP3 player , the walk goes to the big harbour of Skillinge, past the smaller saail boats harbour and the further into the narrow streets of the old Skillinge village.
Duration: approx 50 minutes Language: English

The last years has been a challenge för many companies and individuals within the cultural sector of stage art. What can we do to create a wider space for creativity, how do we foster our oportunities? How can we help and support one another and how can we take the lead on the discussion about the future for stage art?
Invited organizations Teatercentrum, Danscentrum, among others (TBA).

Moderator: Karin Johansson-Mex, Artistic Director of Skillinge Theatre

Participants: Platform HIT, Norwegian artists + Europe guests.

How can theater be a part of the community? How can the city or the village be included in the artistic research?

Panel discussion led by Mariana Araoz - Biologist, Ecologist and Object theater expert (mask, clown and puppets)

Participants:
Alan Boone: theater and health : midwives and gynecologues
La MEG-Paris: Mission In-Visible : object theater and physical theater, gender balance and inclusion
Teatro del sotano: inmigration and object theater
Karin Johansson-Mex - Amadeus-Skillinge teater: theater including the village
Collaborative: object theater and disability, a new way to communicate
Karavan: physical theater and circus

We will also try to understand the relation between the object on stage, the influence in the dramaturgy and the understanding of the world around us, through the object.

Both physical and object theater will answer to the questions of an ecological art in stage performance, in theater education, in theater and politics to embrace the concept of : Art-tivisme