Dates
| 07.10.2023 / 15:30-17:00 |
| 08.10.2023 / 10:00 - 18:00 |
| 09.10.2023 / 15:30 - 19:00 |
Information
Our society is flooded with barriers. We have learned to create spaces where we separate and isolate from each other based on the way each of us is currently situated. When we walk through a city, carefully looking around, when we enter buildings, institutions, and look inside the infrastructure, we shall ask the question: for whom are these places intended? Who can use them? The best way to answer is to look and see who is not present in these spaces, who is missing.
In cultural sector we like to say that we are ‘open to all without distinction of any kind.’ And maybe that is what we think. But if we look just a little closer, step out of our position (or ideally ask someone), we will see that we have built dozens of obstacles around us. How can I participate in a programme if I am in a wheelchair and your institution does not have a wheelchair access and an accessible toilet? What if I do not have money for the ticket? What if I have young children and the show starts late, just when I have to put them to sleep and, on top of that, I cannot afford babysitting?
So who are those ‘all’?
In our Afternoon Accessibility School we want to find out what happened to the people who used to be in our audience before they became parents. Where are they now? Through a three-day programme, we would like to connect with those we met at theatres, galleries, concerts, and clubs. We wish to create a space for encounters and to experience art events together; a space shared by parents and non-parents, thus breaking at least one of the barriers separating the two groups.
Whom is the Afternoon Accessibility School intended for?
We believe that the programme has something to offer for parents of (small) children as well as for our regular audience and expert public, who may be asking the same questions.
What is in it?
Saturday workshop Signals – Resilience Training to strengthen our communication skills. How to read signs that are sometimes obvious, sometimes hidden. For us, learning to listen is one of the main ways of understanding across different life realities.
Sunday performance I Want to Tell You Something, co-produced by the Brno independent theatre Co.Labs and students of the FaVU Performance Studio.
Monday joint lunch followed by a relaxing nap. An afternoon discussion block in which we will introduce several good accessibility practices. An early evening series of performance-lectures highlighting the barriers we build between parents and non-parents.
Free childcare throughout the Afternoon Accessibility School programme.
Tickets for an individual programme are available as Pay What You Can, from CZK 0-300.
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How did it all start?
The Afternoon Accessibility School is partly based on the Studio ALTA’s effort to make its programming available to different groups and to create a more connected world (not only in our auditorium). It is also part of artist Marika Smreková’s long-term research on the position of parents as spectators in culture and her collaboration with Studio ALTA curator Petr Dlouhý. The research is currently carried out under the auspices of the Creative Europe research project On Mobilisation.
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What if I cannot attend?
If you feel there is a barrier that prevents you from coming and joining us, please let us know and we will do our best to make the programme accessible to you. If you cannot come due to other commitments, you can stay in touch with us through WhatsApp group, where we will inform you about the project’s next steps.
Find information about access to WhatsApp group at www.altart.cz/parent-friendly-culture
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Babysitting
for the entire duration of the Afternoon School program, free babysitting will be provided for children from 1.5 years of age. The children will be looked after by our professional guides who have several years of experience in forest nurseries. Games and art workshops will be prepared for them.
The watch will take place outside in the gardens of Studio ALTA (Saturday + Monday) and Kafkárna (Sunday). Bring adequate clothes for the children and, of course, don’t forget a snack. Guides will always be waiting for you 30 minutes before the start of the program and 30 minutes after the end.
In case of any questions, contact Peter from Studio ALTA (731 468 447; petr@altart.cz) or Lucie (604 505 989; lucie@altart.cz)
the program will take place in the Czech language
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Schedule
07.10. 15:30-17:00 Signals – Resilience Training
workshop
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08.10.
08.10. 10:00-18:00 Návštěva symposia Gardening Ecofemisms (Kafkárna/ Centrum pro
umění a ekologii)
studijní výlet
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09.10.
15:30-17:00 Parent-friendly Culture
discussion
17:30-19:00 The Kind of World Worth Dreaming About
performance-lectures
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Contact
Petr Dlouhý
+420 731 468 447
petr@altart.cz
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The Afternoon Accessibility School was created within the framework of On Mobilisation supported from Kreativní Evropa funds.
DETAILNÍ PROGRAM
Signals – Resilience Training
Oct 7 ~ 15:30-17:00
A group of female artists invites you to a joint training of trust as a relational quality without which one cannot live (and survive) with others.
We will consider the dynamics of our resilience, moving between the individual zones of Defiance, Relief, Celebration, Sharing, Strategies, Chance, and Deprivation. Our attention will be directed to individual phases, their manifestations, our abilities to interact with them and at the same time pay attention to our surroundings.
Workshop guides: Hana Chmelíková, Seiko Hihara, Kateřina Kuchtová, Martina Malinová, Jitka Ribárová, Barbora Trnková
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Attending the Gardening Ecofeminisms Symposium (Kafkárna/ Centre for Art and Ecology)
Oct 8 ~ 10:00-18:00
On Sunday, we will attend a cultural event at Kafkárna, the UMPRUM sculpture studio in Dejvice. Where monumental sculptures used to be created (such as the statue of Jan Žižka in Vítkov, part of the Stalin monument), a space for a meeting of art and ecology is opening today. We will have an opportunity to attend a number of lectures and participate in workshops inside the studio and in the adjacent garden. They will take place during the Gardening Ecofeminisms Symposium, which focuses on understanding care and listening to other beings (and other than human beings). Our questions then may include: What can ecology and (eco)feminism teach us about creating a healthy and inclusive cultural environment? How can we seek and defend our position in society? What are the means of resistance when we get to be excluded from society?
Symposium participants: Zuzana Veverková, Ros Gray, Masha Meskimmon, Lenka Kubelová, Tadeáš Žďárský, Lenka Vráblíková
Complete symposium programme here
Address: Buštěhradská 2, 160 00 Prague 6
(15 min walk from Vítězné náměstí, 10 min walk from Prašný most stop)
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Parent-friendly Culture
Oct 9 ~ 15:30-17:00
What are the forms of accessibility and inclusion of parents in cultural activities? We have invited staff from various institutions to an informal discussion. We will share best practices of what a parent-friendly culture can look like and talk about the pitfalls that implementing structural changes could cause. But we also want to listen to the needs and wishes of the audience and artists. What do they expect from institutions and what kind of care and support would they need to participate in cultural productions?
Representatives of the following institutions have been invited: the National Theatre, Letní letná, Heinrich-Boll Stiftung, and cultural centres, Prague-based and from outside of Prague.
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The Kind of World Worth Dreaming About
Oct 9 ~ 17:30-19:00
We believe that imagination can pave the way to a better and fairer future. Through art we can open hidden doors and undermine fences, and gradually remove barriers wherever we encounter them. A series of performance lectures will offer perhaps unexpected insights into how our society is structured. We wish to point out the often invisible barriers, seen only by those who are directly affected. The presented lectures turned performances create a space for empathy and offer strategies to face different levels of oppression and misunderstanding.
Lectures and performances by: Marika Smreková, Darina Alster & The Daughters, Maja Vusilović & Eliška Koldová (Druhá : směna)
The Afternoon Accessibility Schoolis part of the On Mobilisation project supported by Creative Europe funds and organized in collaboration with the Kafkárna/Centre for Art and Ecology UMRPUM.
The project is part of the Studio ALTA’s Cultivator platform for transforming the functioning and practices of cultural institutions
