INVITATION TO ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES
Kaunas 2022 CityTelling Festival unites those who like stories. The festival started in 2019 with more than 40 events and 20 partners. CityTelling Festival again invites to submit proposals for its’ program of 2020. The festival aims to remind the multicultural history of the place, to strengthen the dialogue between different communities of Kaunas city and Kaunas district, to encourage pride in the place we live in, at the same time to look for innovative forms of telling stories.
CityTelling festival is planned to take place on October 8–11, 2020. This year, the festival will not only be dedicated to the past. Responding to the reality of the (post)pandemic world, the festival will invite to look at today’s experiences from a historical perspective; to reflect on the personal and historical experiences of our generation and generation of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents in the difficult times of wars, occupation, exile, persecution, etc. We invite to ask the following and similar questions:
Can we learn from the stories of the past while facing the challenges of our time? Do we recognize ourselves in them? What experiences of our own can we see in past events? What does it mean to be confronted with uncertainty about the future, insecurity, unknown? On the other hand, how to remain a human when destruction storms around? How to beat a beast without becoming one?
The priority will be given to projects that respond to the theme of the festival and seek new forms of telling stories. We encourage to meet with your partners, who are also interested in your story: to share exhibits, historical knowledge, competencies, etc. Also, we invite you to tell stories in new, undiscovered, or relevant to your story areas of Kaunas city and Kaunas district (in streets, squares, apartments, alternative spaces, etc.). Besides, we encourage you to think about initiatives that are safe and appropriate to conditions of possible quarantine.
We will be waiting for your proposals until noon, August 3, 2020.
Please tell us about it in this registration form: bit.ly/IstorijuFestivalis2020
We will inform about selected proposals till August 10, 2020. They will be included in the program of CityTelling Festival 2020.
Contacts
Curator of the festival daiva@kaunas2022.eu
Coordinator of the festival Justina Petrulionytė-Sabonienė, justina@kaunas2022.eu
INVITATION TO ARTISTS
We invite artists to submit proposals for a special part of Kaunas 2022 CityTelling Festival program “Disrupted Life: Live Stories”. These are artistic interventions in various places in Kaunas and Kaunas District, where artists will present their current experiences and their relationship with the history of the city.
We are looking for artists from different disciplines (painters, photographers, poets, musicians, etc.) to present their story and artwork in a place of interest to them. We expect works of art of different genres and forms: performance, temporary video, light or sound installation, painting, dance, poem, etc. Artistic interventions will be delivered live and/or broadcasted online during CityTelling Festival. Duration of presentation/broadcast – up to 30 minutes.
Send your portfolio and idea for the festival via e-mail el. paštu: daiva@kaunas2022.eu till August 3, 2020. (Pdf format, up to 10 MB or via WeTransfer, etc.). Shortly describe your idea and chosen place to present it in Kaunas or Kaunas District.
Selected proposals will be included in CityTelling Festival 2020 program.
We encourage to raise the following and similar questions:
How have current challenges affected me as a person, an artist?
What new reflections, creative explorations did this experience inspire?
How do I relate my experience to the experience of my parents, grandparents, residents of this city in times of crisis?
Do I recognize myself in them?
The priority will be given to artist ideas that respond to the theme of the festival, seek new forms of telling stories, and choose undiscovered places for its’ presentation (streets, squares, apartments, alternative spaces, etc.). We encourage you to think about initiatives that are safe and appropriate to conditions of possible quarantine in Autumn.
CityTelling festival is planned to take place on October 8–11, 2020 and it unites everyone who likes stories.This year, the festival will not only be dedicated to the past. Responding to the reality of the (post)pandemic world, the festival will invite to look at today’s experiences from a historical perspective; to reflect on the personal and historical experiences of our generation and generation of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents in the difficult times of wars, occupation, exile, persecution, etc.
Contacts
Curator of the festival Daiva Citvarienė, daiva@kaunas2022.eu
Coordinator of the festival Justina Petrulionytė-Sabonienė, justina@kaunas2022.eu
INVITATION TO WRITE STORIES, INSPIRED BY MEMORIES OF KAUNASIANS
We invite writers to explore the “little” stories about Kaunas and Kaunas district collected by Kaunas 2022 and to give them a voice, to resurrect them to another life. We hope that created literary texts will offer their own “routes” through the memory of the place and will speak about today's experiences from the perspective of the past stories. We keep “little” stories here: https://www.atmintiesvietos.lt/en/kaunas-2.
Selected texts will be published in “CityTelling Festival 2020” publications, on the websites of Kaunas 2022 (www.istorijufestivalis.eu and www.atmintiesvietos.lt) and rewarded with symbolic gift sets of Kaunas 2022.
We are waiting for unpublished texts of various genres in Lithuanian or English, with a total volume of 1,700–8,500 characters or 30–150 lines of poetry by 2020 August 1. Send it to justina@kaunas2022.eu (Word or Pdf format).
“CityTelling Festival” is organized by the Kaunas 2022 program “Memory Office” and will take place on October 8–11, 2020. We aim to remind the rich multicultural past, as well as the “little” stories, witnesses to the complex events of the past.
This year's festival will invite you to look at today's experiences from a historical perspective. Can we learn from the stories of the past while facing the challenges of our time? Do we recognize ourselves in them? What experiences of our own can we see in past events? What does it mean to be confronted with uncertainty about the future, insecurity, unknown? On the other hand, how to remain a human when destruction storms around? How to beat a beast without becoming one?
Contacts
Justina Petrulionytė-Sabonienė, justina@kaunas2022.eu