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PATOSOFFIRANJE is a multimedia festival for young audiences, which
presents drama and music / rhythm workshops, theatre productions,
performances, visual arts exhibitions, concerts of contemporary
music, screenings of video works, and panels.
Main criteria of the Festival are that all the programmes -
productions and presentations, need to be characterized by strong
authorial approach, originality, youth inventiveness,
provocativeness and freshness. Therefore, the award Branislav
Čubrilović is given to the bravest and most innovative project
presented in the Festival.
The aim of the Festival is to inform and familiarize young audiences
with contemporary art flows, but also to animate them to participate
in art-making and to thus educate them.
Although the target group of the Festival are young audiences in the
first place, the Festival addresses also citizens of middle
generation, with urban sensibility and inclination towards
contemporary art. Both those broad target groups have warmly greeted
and supported the first issue of the Festival. |
Festival was held for the first time last year - from 1st to 3rd
July 2005.
The idea was born from the great need for quality cultural offer for
the young, which was totally neglected during the 90’s. The
initiative however came from the AR.CO (Artistic Connection)
international performing arts project (INTERREG III A Trans-Adriatico
project line) which included young artists from Italy, Albania,
Croatia, B&H and SCG.
The Festival was a part of the final phase of a 20-day workshop held
within this project.
Together with the workshop results, there were presented guest
performances of other theatre companies, modern ballet performances,
video and film screenings and video recordings of theatre
productions of PATOS and of partner companies from Italy and Western
Balkans, concerts of local musicians, performances and improvised
performing arts sessions which included all the artists
participating in the project.
The Festival met an extremely favourable response in the local
community, especially among the young who, after a gap of almost 15
years, finally had a chance to get acquainted with contemporary and
innovative art tendencies, but also to actively participate in
interactive Festival programs, and meet and exchange experiences
with the youngsters from other countries.
Centre for Culture has established strong quality connections with
guests and partners, who were, and still are, determined to bring
their new work to the Festival this year. |
Program of the festival PATOSOFFIRANJE 2006
This year the Festival will present:
- 2 two-day theatre workshops
- 4 one-day percussionist workshops
- 6 theatre productions in official selection
- 1 theatre production outside the selection
- 1 modern dance performance, outside the selection
- 2 art performances
- 3 video art screening sessions
- 1 contemporary music concert
- 1 popular music concert
- 3 music sessions (jazz, world music, rock)
- 4 panels with guest artists
- DJ evenings
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The Festival previews to include app. 200 young people in
interactive art events
(6 workshops, 3 music sessions, 4 panels); to attract app. 5 000
people as audience for 28 art programs; and to reach app. 25 000
inhabitants of Smederevo and neighbouring towns/settlements with
media information. |
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PATOS is abbreviation for Mobile Alternative Theatre of the Youth of
Smederevo
(Pokretni alternativni teatar omladine Smedereva) which gathers
young theatre practitioners (professional actors, art students and
other young adults, but also teenagers) around research and
experimental theatre projects, often realized in cooperation or
partnership with professional theatre and performing arts companies
and groups in the country and abroad.
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PATOS is the only performing arts group in Smederevo which functions
on permanent basis. PATOS organizes workshops all through the year,
and has its own productions at the end of the season. The group is
rather large, gathering app. 35 young people in total, as well as
app. 15 artists-collaborators from various art disciplines.
PATOS is a strong disseminating factor for contemporary and
innovative art in Smederevo and its gravitation region. Members of
PATOS are actively involved not only in the artistic part of the
programme, but also in organization, realization and promotion of
the festival PATOSOFFIRANJE. Members of PATOS form a strong core and
a spine line of new urban culture in Smederevo, and a base for
cultural work and criteria in the future. |
