Armenia: Join the EU4Culture network festival in Ijevan this weekend
The EU-funded EU4Culture project will host the Armenian edition of its network festival ‘City Stories, Diverse Voices – Traces’ on 28-30 September, in the Ijevan community. The three-day community festival will celebrate the culmination of the four-year EU4Culture project.
The festival will highlight the impact of EU4Culture activities on the cultural and creative sectors in non-capital cities of Armenia. Offering a variety of activities, local and international programmes will feature artwork and performances from EU4Culture project beneficiaries, local artists and stakeholders from Armenia, along with the invited artists from Georgia.
The festival aims to unite Ijevan and 18 surrounding communities, through signs as a means of communication, cultural expression, knowledge transfer and cultural identity. During three days, ceramic signboard openings will take place in each of the 18 villages of the community, accompanied by celebrations, song and dance performances by creative collectives from Ijevan, Charentsavan, and Sevan communities.
The international programme of the festival will celebrate the nature, history and cultural heritage of the area. Events will take place every evening in public venues of Ijevan. They will involve four internationally renowned artists from Georgia and Armenia. Varying in mediums (sound art, performing art, new media performances, and movie screenings), these artists’ interventions leave traces and signs that introduce new opportunities for reinterpreting the place.
The festival will also host a round-table-discussion, where the local and international artists will share their thoughts on the theme ‘The Future of Arts is in Collaboration’.
With a budget of €7.85 million, EU4Culture is a four-year project funded by the European Union to support the culture and creative sector with a particular focus on non-capital cities and towns in the Eastern Partnership Countries. The project is implemented by Goethe-Institut (Lead), Czech Centers, Danish Cultural Institute, and Institut Français de Géorgie.
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