Plant Manifesto: the performative journey | BOLOGNA

To participate fill the form within 8h July: https://forms.gle/617g7Da2MqDcPSHC9

Create and imagine with us a Plants’ Manifest. We invite you to participate in a three-day intensive workshop with Strefa WolnoSłowa multidisciplinary team based on movement, improvisation with body and space, on creation of the written forms, storytelling by different art forms and on elaboration of sounds and music. Inspired by the world of plants, by different texts, sounds and important socio-political events we would like to explore what we can learn from plants today and how we can use these skills, abilities and knowledge in the common reflection on the world today. We are going to propose to you a format in which to create and improvise for then together to prepare a performative journey through sound, space and movements.

The workshop will be held on 8, 9, 10 July from 18.00 to 21.00 in Salus Space.

The meeting on the 10th July will be concluded with the public performance.

That open call is aimed at individuals living in or around Bologna regardless of their background, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, knowledge or lack of knowledge of Italian and/or English, and stage skills or experience.

We all live in a bubble. Admittedly, it is stuffy and unbearable in the bubble – but we live in it nonetheless. Outside the bubble, there is something – an entire world, the Kingdom of Plants without a king or master, without human hierarchy, with tree crowns instead of crowned heads.

The Bologna edition of the Strefa WolnoSłowa’s performance Plant Manifesto inspired by “Nation of Plants” by Stefano Mancuso, in the form of a performative journey. The show is the finale of a short-term workshop project involving performers associated with the Strefa WolnoSłowa Foundation and residents of Bologna.

Finale / performative journey: Wednesday, July 10, 9:30 PM
Salus Space, Via Malvezza 2/2, Bologna

The show will be in the form of a silent disco – each participant will receive headphones at the entrance to Salus Space.

Admission is free.

Creatives: Alicja Borkowska, Weronika Chinowska, Łukasz Wójcicki, Olga Klip, Mikołaj Poncyljusz, Stanley Ndua, Pavlo Luhovyi, Antonella Beccaccini, Marco Cottignoli, Beatrice Bernardi, Igor Stokfiszewski
Production: Strefa WolnoSłowa, Salus Space, Cantieri Meticci
Music: Mikołaj Poncyljusz

We are a multicultural and multidisciplinary collective of artists and activists based in Warsaw. We create artistic events, festivals, participatory community processes, and artistic interventions in Poland and abroad. Our main interest is to explore different aspects of migration processes, we search for the tools and new perspectives to work on the social awareness about migrant stories and to educate on migration. We explore the possible artistic narrations in which to talk about migration phenomenon and current events in the world.