BUENAVENTURA
Last week Pekka (giugno 2004, ndr) and I went to Buenaventura to start preparing the spring meeting 2005. It had been planned that Paul and Pekka should go but Paul was too busy so I replaced him.
It was interesting and good, it will astonish noone of you to hear that they are wonderful hosts.
We met the mayor, to gain some support, Buena is still very much in its beginnings as far as the contacts to the Cirt are concerned.
We scouted several locations for the meeting, Buena is too small to host us, only workshops and evenings can be done there.
Have a look at my scheme, we made a concept. We found a very nice location for the public day (Teatro Academico, see pic's) and a fantastic residence where around 50-60 people can stay (Ca Amadeo), take a look at the pic's. We will try to rent the whole place for 3 days so that we can bother noone.
We discussed the content of the meeting for a long time. What we came up with is a seminar/plenum on Italian cultural centres (networking, problems etc) and a speech of a young Italian researcher who will publish a book on Italian cultural centres in autumn. She will also be present at the Amsterdam Summer Academy (Art Factories) and Pekka (who will also be there) will try to talk to her then.
The internal/PD topic would be setting up a future Buenaventura and we thought of small intense working groups for different topics (publicity, bar management, networking, etc > see programme, still to be specified) to discuss different ways and choices in a cultural centre that is in a phase of transition.
Which BV is, as they're thinking about moving space, changing scope and adapting the organisational structure This will end in a final presentation, where a dream Buenaventura / archetype of a cultural centre will be presented.
The aim of the workshops should not only be to come up with new ideas for BV, but also a chance for professionals of different disciplines to discuss and compare their methods of work. Therefore (I do hope it works) every workshop will have 2 patrons, one from BV, one from another TEH venue. Probably to be decided upon in Berlin. See attached time schedule.
One thing we have to keep in mind is in how far this topic will interest the existing (old) members or how we can ensure that. All your comments are welcome! I will also send the schemes to Buenaventura Please keep in mind that all documents are work in progress...
Allegati:
Programma di massima, versione iniziale:
Timetable