About festival
International Festival of Contemporary Arts “PLArTFORMA” is a project of multicultural cooperation and contemporary expression, the only of such kind in Klaipėda and the region of Western Lithuania. It is a festival of both cultural and educational character, regarding the dissemination of contemporaray art expression to the audience. This year the festival will be held for the 6th time already on the 29th of September - 1st of October at Švyturys Art Dock in Klaipėda.
This festival is in a way a continuation of an international art festival of Adriatic and Baltic countries - “SEAS” - that was co-organized together with Swedish cultural institution “Intercult” and held in Klaipėda in 2004. The festival has received a huge response both from critics and the audience that was very pleased to attend the events of the festival. Therefore it was decided to continue organizing international festival of contemporary arts every year.
Main goals of the festival are:
· to combine the forms of visual (various art forms, video, film) and performing arts (modern theatre, contemporary dance, music) as well as the artists from Lithuania and foreign countries in one cultural platform;
· to develop collaboration and communication between the artists from different countries and cultural backgrounds;
· to induce interaction of different art genres and thus to present innovative and qualitative interdisciplinary art works;
· to expand geographical areal of participants, strengthening European dimension of the festival;
· to present process of art creation and to induce audience to take part in it.
Main concept of the festival is related to the geographical and metaphysical interpretations of boundary zones, which are embodied already in the character of the festival itself: different genres, forms of expression and ideas intervene here, paying no attention to the borders of traditional arts. Such art synthesis is identical to a search of new limit points, which spreads into a presented program of contemporary theatre, dance, music and visual art.
The program of the festival is presented in untraditional places, actualizing cultural, industrial and nature heritage objects of the city. It draws artists’ attention towards their usage for creative needs and shows the audience how these spaces may transform into cultural venues. Thus the festival seeks to revive the urban territory of previous shipyard with the help of cultural events.
In 2009, on occasion of European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the festival was granted the FestLabPass, issued by European Festival Association and Mr. Jan Figel, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth. This year, festival became a partner of project “DNA Development of New Art”, which aims to become a sustainable organic network, joining various forms of arts and artists from all over Europe and acting as an open platform for the artists who are offering fetching creative ideas to recast role of arts and culture in the contemporary European society life.
In 2011 “PLArTFORMA” was awarded a title of Representative festival of Klaipėda city.
The festival is organized byArtists group "Fish Eye"
The festival is supported by Klaipeda city Municipality, Lithuanian Culture Support Fund, and EU programme "Culture".
More info: http://www.zuviesakis.lt/en/about_festival/
