ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE AND MEETING of THE PARTNER ORGANISATIONS IN MARIESTAD
This week we've had an Artist in Residence and a Study Visit in the Off Season Art Gardening project. The artists from Holland, Lithuania and Sweden have gotten to know Mariestad with surroundings. They had walks in the city, visited a local business, saw millstones in Lugnås, had lectures by the University of Skövde, gotten to know DaCapo, met representatives from the Municipality of Mariestad and the region. They also had workshops with the professional gardener Simon Irvine where they planted trees together.
Since we also had the project group meeting with the project organisations at the end of the week we all- both artists and representatives from the partner organisations- had a really good possibility to build the project process together.
On Thursday there was an International Culture Day at the residence building. Citizens could learn about EU fundings and also take part of an afternoon with presentation of the project and meet the artists. After this there was an interesting and high quality panel talk about culture and art in the public space in rurban environments.
We ended the week together with thoughts about the future parts of the project. Next year, in September, there will be an Artists in Residence week in Ukmerge, Lithuania. Co-creation and a project like this can have its challenges but we can see that we gain so much from this! Crossing borders, communicating, networking. Planting for the future.
A big THANKS to everyone involved.
// Sofia Guldbrand
Project Management
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