Reflexive writing workshop and the festival’s journal
Festival NagiB - Maribor, 28.8. – 10.9.2011
Reflexive writing workshop, which will be held in Maribor during the NagiB festival, is an excellent opportunity for young people interested in contemporary performing arts and creative writing which stems from the observation of a work of art, its background, or the creative process. The workshop is designed to produce a festival journal, which will be prepared by the workshop participants with the help of an experienced mentor. The participants will also get the opportunity to meet with artists, develop and improve their writing skills, get to know the theory and practice of contemporary performing arts, and especially to take a close look at a living art form which brings together the contemporary practices of performing arts.
Workshoppers will thus have a chance to
- gain a deeper insight into the practices of artistic creation and festival as such
- get to know the theory and practice of contemporary performing arts
- improve their writing skills and examine and refine their writing styles
- know the different genres of writing about art
- meet the festival’s artists
- try themselves at working in a collective and as a writer/editor of the festival’s journal, the making of which will follow the method of learning by doing.
the workshop's points of departure
writing is choreography which creates different writing formats
the selected genre is your stage where you can try out new things
which you can empty or fill, push its limits, discover absence, repetition, difference…
write down what you want to say and what you want to communicate
communicate what you want to write or »put to paper«
discover words, sentences, meanings, speech, language, voice and writing
don't form answers, ask questions instead
proceed from observing the world inside you – and around you
accept, instead of excluding.
organise, instead of adding (beginning, main body, conclusion).
How to apply?
The workshop will be held in the afternoons from August 28 to September 11. A detailed timetable will be known shortly and will depend on Festival NagiB events (workshoppers will also have a chance to see performances at two Maribor-based festivals – Platforma and Crossings). The workshop is intended to all interested in contemporary performing arts and the research of different ways of writing. The workshop is free of charge; however, attendance is obligatory throughout the workshop’s duration. Send a short curriculum vitae and a motivation letter over the form below or directly to the email: info@nagib.si (add application to reflexive writing workshop in the subject line)
For more information about the workshop call 041 900 926 (Andreja Kopač, mentor). The number of participants is limited to 12 people. Since the workshop is free, hurry up with you applications and be part of the event that is taking place in Maribor for the first time.
Application deadline is July 30 2011.
About the mentor
Andreja Kopač (1980) is a journalist and publicist. She holds an MA in Speech Linguistics and Social Communication Theory from the Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities and is currently working on her PhD from Sociology of Culture at the Faculty of Arts Ljubljana. She writes for Slovene magazines Maska, Mentor, and Dialogi. In 2008 she received international scholarships for young writers Mobile Lab and Gulliver Connect. In 2009 she was the editor of the Young Lions Festival journal Arena. Andreja was active in different fields: as coordinator of Maska’s Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts; in the field of public relations (Pristop, Maska); as a performer (Betontanc, Screech Orchestra, Manifesto K); and as a researcher in the area of cultural and art production. Recently she has worked extensively as a dramaturge (M. Farič, B. Potočan, S. Horvat, R. Hribar & G. Luštek…) and as collaborator in home and international cultural and art projects.