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Programme
Festival School: Adrift On Avotu Street
Public presentation 6.09 16:00, Marijas street 13 k-4 | Free
We are going to spend a week meeting the people who live, work, walk and roll on Avotu Street. We will ask them questions about their lives and about who they think are the most interesting people living, working, walking and rolling on Avotu Street. Then we’re going to sit – sometimes together, sometimes in small groups and sometimes alone – and come up with at least one idea for a participatory performance starring each and every person we met on Avotu Street. Then we’re going to invite the people from Avotu Street and we’re going to pitch our ideas to them and to the programmers at Homo Novus. And we’re going to see if we can get any bites.
Festival school presentations will be held on 6th of September 16:00 in near Festival centre in Berga Bazārs – Marijas street 13 k-4, Riga.
About artists
Based in Germany and Canada, Mammalian Diving Reflex is dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences. They create site and social-specific performance events, theatre productions, participatory gallery installations, videos, film, art objects and theoretical texts, collaborating with non-artists to create work that recognises the social responsibility of art, fosters a dialogue and dismantles barriers between individuals of all ages, cultural, economic and social backgrounds. Mammalian brings people together in new and unusual ways around the world, to create work that is engaging, challenging, and gets people talking, thinking and feeling. They make ideal entertainment for the end of the world.
Support
This presentation of Adrift On Avotu Street is made possible in part thanks to grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario. Special thanks to “Valodu māja / House of Languages”.
Public presentation on 6 September at 16:00
Free entrance