Category: Festivals

Dramokratija festival

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DRAMOKRATIJA FESTIVAL

 

MANIFESTO

In the begining there was a word.
And every word is important for Dramokratija!
The drama is international.
Story is not only drama and drama is not only the story.
Here anyone can create drama.
Bcause the drama is alive.
The path to the drama is based on words.
(dramatic pause)
You got the right to drama,
So don’t be afraid to spill the ink!

 

DRAMOKRATIJA is a democratic play reading festival organized by playwrights themselves. It is a place to read plays, analyze them and present to the public. By any means to all the participants the most important is the process, not the result. This festival not only invites people to the theatre, but also brings the theatre to people by gathering in various non-theatrical spaces in Vilnius, such as bars, night clubs, galleries, beauty parlours, where the fourth wall dividing the audience and the readers could be eliminates.
 

 

The festival has been initiated as an educational-practical assignment of Playwright course by Gabrielė Labanauskaitė at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Gabrielė sought to share the results of student playwriting in public and draw attention to the contemporary Lithuanian dramaturgy. Not only did she manage to establish a creative space for communication, culture and learning outside the Academy, but also helped the festival to go international and inspired the alumni of Theatre and Cinema studies to successfully continue the organization of this annual event.

Special thanks to Indrė Bručkutė, Živilė Zablackaitė, Irena Kunevičiūtė, Mantas Rimkus and others!
 

DRAMOKRATIJA is built entirely on the democratic principle, so it has no traditional theatre hierarchy and fosters the idea of people picking the play, the idea over the names or other priorities.

The festival is libertine, DYI creative lab, composed of three parts: pre-scheduled playwriting workshop, gathering of playwrights, actors and directors for the improvement of a written play and representation readings at the non-traditional venues of Vilnius. Creative workshops have already lured the members of the international playwright community and were delivered by such inspirations as German dramatist Theresia Walser, Russian screenwriter and playwright Michail Durnekov, British playwright Chris Thorpe and Swedish dramatist and director AnnaLiza Hertzberg.
 

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🎭Anyone interested in the contemporary dramaturgy can read the plays on DRAMOKRATIJA website → www.dramokratija.en

FESTIVAL TARP

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INTERDISCIPLINARY FESTIVAL “TARP”

 

TARP (en. “In-Between”) was an international festival of audiovisual and experimental poetry combining interdisciplinary arts with poetry as we know it. It was thriving from 2006 to 2015. Back in 2006 it was just an underground event, which expanded and became familiar to Lithuanian and foreign audiences. It took place at the most unconventional sites in various Lithuanian cities. Until now in Lithuanian cultural scene there are no festivals equal to this one.

 


 
Firstly, it appeared to Gabrielė Labanauskaitė as an idea, following the magic formula of audiovisual poetry: poetry + video + audio. This festival had grown and improved with the help of great Lithuanian artists: Vladas Dieninis, Žygimantas Kudirka, Darius Jurevičius, Aistė Jūrė, Gerda Jo, Jurga Tumasonytė, Edvinas Grin, Milda Januševičiūtė, Tadas Karpavičius, Dovilė Butnoriūtė, Rūta Mur, Austėja Tavoraitė, Vaidas Vai, Vaidotas Ambrozaitis, Benas Šarka, Eglė Sirvydytė, Agnė Jokše and others. Always fueled by the voluntary principles festival TARP was oriented to the search of authentic poetic forms, their expression and the representation in Lithuania of innovative foreign artists, creating in the fields of poetry, music, performance and visual arts.
 


 

OBJECTIVES:

      • to create, establish and popularize the tradition of audiovisual poetry in Lithuania;
      • to introduce arts & poetry enthusiasts with the concept of audiovisual poetry;
      • to raise the interest in poetry through non-traditional art forms and their interfusions;
      • to encourage the cooperation between artists of different fields.

 

KEY ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAMME:

      • exhibitions of visual poetry (in a form of photograph, graphics, painting and etc.)
      • poem screening contest & review of submitted poems;
      • live performances of local and international audio + visual + poetry collectives (performances, happenings, concerts, poetical & musical improvisations; poetry slams and poetry jams);
      • Educational part (lectures, seminars, workshops).

 
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❓ More information about TARP festival → www.tarpfest.en