KULTURA ETA SORMEN TOPAKETAK
Public Space and Creative and Cultural Expression in the New Reality
Held for the second year running, Kultura eta Sormen Topaketak will address the public space and how the current health crisis situation is affecting the cultural activities held within it. The pandemic has forced us to redesign the use of these spaces and rethink our day-to-day habits and behaviour. For cultural activity, the crisis has led to a significant reduction in the numbers of people attending events, temporary shutdowns of venues and cancellations of events, shows and projects, greatly hindering professional activity.
The cultural and creative sectors (CCSs) played an essential role during lockdown and continue to do so in the new normal, and they must find new ways of making their work compatible with the health emergency situation. Within this context, public spaces – open spaces, squares, streets and any building or venue where people socialise and interact – are a space for recovery, reinvention and redesign.
Fortunately, it is the cultural and creative activities themselves that design and intervene in the public space and the elements it contains. They transform thought, feed the critical spirit and work with emotions to create unique experiences, through constant interaction with the surrounding environment. Cultural and creative sector know-how is therefore a valuable resource for this process of reflection and reinvention of the public space.
The event will include a panel discussion with talks on seven experiences of cultural and creative initiatives run by the districts and municipalities, which have come together under the patronage of GARAPEN and with the support of INNOBASQUE to work towards boosting and promoting the CCSs.
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ANTespacio was established in 2010 in Bilbao to generate experimental projects within cultural production, linking them to everyday life and social transformation. We are working on new ways to disseminate and publish contemporary art, where the processes and dialogues created form an essential part. These projects can take the form of exhibitions, festivals, meetings, workshops, publications, etc. Our principles are based on collaborative working and the creation of networks that generate critical judgement and bring the audience and the creator closer together.
On this occasion ANTespacio presents the ITURFEST Festival which will be held from 20 to 27 November coinciding with Bilbao Bizkaia Design Week. It is a festival of contemporary culture held in the context of the Iturralde neighbourhood. Artists are invited to create specific projects with, for and around the neighbourhood, both for those who live there and those who pass through it. ITURFEST's raison d'être is to bring contemporary art and culture closer to daily life.
ElektrART is a creative studio formed by multidisciplinary artists who work on the design and implementation of art and technology projects. Employing continuous technological innovation applied to creative, production and exhibition processes, they design artistic projects using data analytics or virtual reality, among other technologies, and artistic experiences in urban spaces. Similarly, they help to strengthen innovative companies and entities through creative transformation processes and work to achieve real modernisation and innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industries.
eXperientziak is comprised of a multidisciplinary and creative team, with experience in the educational, recreational and tourism fields.
We are experts in the creation of personalised experiences.
Our aim is for the people who participate in the experiences we create to internalise messages in a fun way.
Girabira is a collaboration project between Txikis del Bidasoa and Ezmugak that involves an annual summer tour of the city's main parks with the aim of (re)discovering Irun via 4 themed days that vary each year (circus, theatre, photography, etc.).
These include music (live performances and DJ sessions), action (in the form of participation activities such as workshops) and parks.
Girabira is also a nod to popular picnics, street food, and meals in public spaces as a way of socializing and meeting friends and families.
Although the programme was established within the context of the 2015 participatory budgets, linked to a young audience that demanded live music and popular meals in city parks, the truth is that the public is increasingly diverse and trans-generational.
In my case, nature has helped me to understand and express, through different creations, my feelings and emotions. This learning now enables me to interpret my customers' emotions and turn them into something tangible and real, like a jewel, for example.
Each of the jobs I work on, either as a jeweller, a master florist or a designer of natural spaces for events and advertising, I can carry out thanks to that personal learning, which has enabled me to create a conscious working mechanism..
INspiraTU is a multidisciplinary artistic creativity educational initiative. A proposal for collaborative learning with innovative methodologies focused on obtaining greater social tools, in which art is the vehicle and creativity is the engine. A multidisciplinary co-creation project (rap, theatre, plastic arts and urban dance) with students from Basic Vocational Training. In agreement with the Department of Education of the Government of Navarre, students participate in this artistic process during school hours. This is the fifth edition of the project and since the start of the academic year dynamics have been adapted due to the situation generated by COVID-19, and workshops, instead of being held in closed spaces, have been held in open areas close to the schools: Squares, Arga river park or gardens. This adaptation has provided the project with new value-added since students and teachers have very positively rated the fact that dynamics take place in natural open environments.
Peace of Mind, is a company that specialises in urban dance that was founded in 2017 by Paula Pérez Pinilla and Carmina Gimeno Latas. The search for new resources in contemporary dance and other arts helps them find and expand their language and form of expression.
Peace of Mind began to forge its trajectory thanks to festivals hosting short pieces in non-conventional spaces. Paula Pérez Pinilla and Carmina Gimeno Latas are dancers who specialise in urban dance, which already takes place within a street environment, but the vision of contemporary dance offers them a new perspective on a creative level. Thus, it could be said that the company develops all its projects with a special emphasis on adapting dance to any space.