LOVE AND HARDWORK: Connecting energies, people, and places
Saturday 18TH – Thursday 24TH June 2016
“Its all about creating natural joy around people – there is so little needed to dare to be yourself without protective facades” Harald Fuglsang.
This summer, all are welcome to join us for a week of workshops at Kirsten Kjær’s Museum. 10 professional practitioners have been invited to share skills and insights with each other and the public: a shepherd, an actor, a chorographer, movement and dance teachers, consultants, a designer, a web developer and visual artists will guide us through sensory experiences of learning through doing, observation and being.
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Key themes are community and re-energizing culture in rural places. We will explore holistic approaches to using undervalued resources and connecting places and people both regionally and internationally. How to re-connect with the land and our selves, take care of psychological & physical health, and develop alternative education systems? What are the opportunities for dissolving boundaries and for collaboration across disciplines from farming & practical handcrafts to art & design?
KKM was built on the site of 3 smallholdings by its founders Harald and John in honor of a previously unrecognized female painter of psychological portraits, Kirsten Kjær. Its guiding principles of Love and Hard work have been communicated and shared at this non-profit place over the past 35 years with visitors, artists and musicians coming to participate in residencies and concerts.
Between love and hard work there is play. Rituals and traditions have always held communities together, and we will celebrate mid-summer on Monday 20th June. Meals will be cooked and eaten together and there will also be space for reflection and walking in the beautiful surroundings of heathland, forest, fjord and sea.
You can join us for a single workshop or the whole week. There is limited accommodation available at 125 DKK per night. It is also possible to camp for 50 DKK per night. Please book in advance to secure your space in a workshop: lise.hovesen@network.rca.ac.uk
This symposium will be the first project initiated as part of S E I D – Scandinavian Educational Institute for Development. S E I D is currently orientated in West Jutland, and with partners in Norway, Finland, and Sweden. The aim at any specific site is to provide beneficial conditions for creative development and exchange: emphasizing well being and learning through experience. Creativity not only involves intuition and the power of imagination but also the ability to shape material and ideas that could be expanded and applied in useful and effective ways to other social, environmental and economic spheres. Valuing ancestral knowledge in co-existence with an awareness of contemporary issues, we intend to provide building blocks and ultimately derive systems of thought and action to guide us confidently into the unknowable future through residencies, educational programs, courses, workshops and retreats.
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WORKSHOPS – suitable for all – no previous knowledge or experience is needed – come with an open mind and dare to be yourself!
WORKSHOPS – suitable for all – no previous knowledge or experience is needed – come with an open mind and dare to be yourself!
THE CHANNELING BODY – An Introduction to the Practice
Saturday 18th June, kl. 9 – 13
Donations welcome
Jonathan Bonnici & Marie-Louise Stentebjerg
In this workshop we will explore the verbal and energetic practice used in our recent performance TRANS-. This technique attempts to invent nothing and deny nothing and has become part of our on-going research. Practically the workshop will first focus on awakening the column of energy at the centre of the body signposted by the different glands or chakras. We will explore and activate their unique qualities through movements and soundings. It is a set physical, vocal and energetic procedure, which aims to prepare us for receiving the information provided by an encounter with each other. In the second part of the workshop we will approach the ‘describing’ practice through the Meisner technique, first in pairs and then with the focus of the describer on the group.
Jonathan Bonnici & Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, DK. Jonathan Bonnici is a Copenhagen based British actor who went from a University background in philosophy and politics to The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London. He is active as a commercial actor at the same time as the creator of his own material. Marie-Louise Stentebjerg is a choreographer and performer based in Copenhagen. Her main artistic work happens in the duo two-women-machine-show and the collective RISK. As a performer she has been engaged with the Slovenian theatre group Via Negativa on a project basis since 2010. The project “TRANS-” was a initiated by Jonathan and Marie-Louise it premiered at Bora Bora’s Platform for New Nordic Dance in March 2015. It was curated for Det Frie Felts Festival, Copenhagen and L1danceFest in Budapest and was performed at Lille Scene, Dansehallerne and at Teater Momentum, Odense, Teaterttrefen, Berlin, Ravendanse, Kristiansand.
SYSTEMIC CONSTELLATIONS
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Saturday 18th June kl. 14-18
Sunday 19th June kl. 10-14
Lena Jacobsson and Rainer v. Leoprechting host a one-day constellation community workshop. Come for an experience, exploring your own issue or representing in the issues of others. We are open for the whole range of systemic questions, be it our inner health, relationships, intergenerational questions, professional or business, society or Europe.
“We blend constellation work with the Art of Hosting practice, including participatory methods where each and everyone is seen contributing to the group. By working together we reach more clarity and expand our worldviews more effectively than alone. We use the circle practice to create a safe working container that allows each and everyone to bring themselves in with their full selves.
We let the system speak and rarely interfere with the organic unfolding of a system, knowing that what is seen in the room is the inner process of the client. From time to time we intervene to undo knots and support flow in the inner process. We support the well-being of everyone: by having warm and cold drinks in the room, by being in a place with lots of natural light with easy access to nature, a cosy corner to lay down and rest, blankets and socks to keep warm, and a healthy home cooked meal in the middle of the day. We are looking to create a holistic constellation experience.”
Welcome to join us! http://www.constellationcommunity.org/
You can join us for one or both sessions: 350 DKK / 600 DKK including homemade lunch. If you bring your own issue to focus, an additional 200 DKK for the facilitator.
Registrations to the constellation workshop by email to team@constellationcommunity.org
Rainer v. Leoprechting – comes from Germany and now lives in Ehrenhausen, Austria. Inspired by Jean Monnet’s practice he was active within the European Commission from 1994-2012. After many different functions in management and strategy, he founded the in-house consulting service that he led until January 2012. In these years he introduced participatory and innovative methods like the Art of Participatory Leadership or Action Learning into the workings of the European institutions. Rainer’s interventions combine many methods, like the full palette of Art of Hosting practices, Systemic Constellation Work, Action Learning, or process consultation à la Ed Schein and Peter Block. Together with his wife Lena he moved to Ehrenhausen in Austria in 2012 and started the Obenaus Living Community a place where people reconnect with their inner and outside nature. There they live in a community setting.
Lena Maria Jacobsson – comes from Sweden and now lives at the Obenaus community farm in Austria. Lena holds a degree in Organisati¬o¬nal Psychology and joined pro action learning in 2012. For 15 years she worked for the European Commission in Brussels. There she also studied Social and Organisational Psychology. As in-house consultant at the European Commission she focused on management and leadership development, in particular for women, and developed long-term process oriented coaching and organisational development programmes to enhance organisational and personal effectiveness, and wellbeing. She co-pioneered the practice of the Art of Hosting and process consulting in the overall European Commission organisation. Lena strengthens emergent communities of practice that self-learn. Lena works as consultant. She practices and teaches the Arts of Hosting, process consultation à la Peter Block and Otto Laske, systemic constellation work à la Johannes B. Schmidt, Action Learning, The Work à la Byron Katie and Yoga.
FORAGING WALK, TALK & LUNCH
Monday 20th June, kl.10 – 14
By donation ( inc. lunch)
We will explore the grounds of KKM, harvesting edible plants and looking at ways of confronting the problems of domination of invasive species by identifying uses for them. Gaja will present a workshop based on foraging as a collective performance through spatial and social engagement. The exploration assembles a harvest gathered through picking up edible plants, walking, talking to people, cherishing spontaneity and unexpected encounters. We will make lunch together based on what we find.
Gaja Mežnarić Osole, Ljubljana, Slovenia – is a designer, working between design and activism. After finishing her MA at Goldsmiths in London, she co-established a Ljubljana based design collective Re-generacija (2014) with an aim to design projects that focus on current economic, social and environmental issues. She also works as a freelance graphic designer with artists, cultural workers and product designers, organizes workshops and co-develops Lepa Gesta – an online platform for exchanging non-monetary resources.
TESTING UTOPIAS IN DEMOCRACY AND SOCIETY
Monday 20th June, 16-18:00
Sara Løve Daðadóttir, co-founder Utopian Union www.utopianunion.org
During the workshop Sara will present the The Ministry of Ideas & National Assembly crowd sourcing project that took place in Iceland in 2009 and 2010. Inspired by this pro-active citizenship initiative we will discuss the following questions:
– What are the core issues in your community and how are they being dealt with?
– What opportunities does technological development bring for new strategies and actions?
– If ‘utopia’ is an essential part of political change, what does a viable utopia look like?
The Utopian Union is a young collective based in Berlin focused on creative non-institutional learning, interdisciplinary collaboration and engaged artistic practices. The UU founding members are: Caspar Leander Andresen, Sara Løve Dadadottir, Zoë Claire Miller, Tea Palmelund. In 2015-16 we are hosting workshops in Venice, Berlin and Copenhagen respectively. Each of them addresses site-specific societal issues, using art as an imaginary space for new world models. We bring people together who share an interest in creating impact, communicating new perspectives and building utopias.
MID-SUMMER’S NIGHT
Monday 20th June, kl.19 till late
All are welcome this evening where the summer solstice coincides with the full moon. We will celebrate the traditional Sankthans, by making a large bonfire to ward away evil spirits. The burning of witches to send them to Germany is a relatively new symbolic act, which emerged in the last century as a remembrance of the churches’ witch burnings from 1540 – 1693. We will still make offerings to the fire, but instead you are welcome to make and bring figures of straw and cloth that represent the ‘evil spirits’ of this day, perhaps public personas, politicians, or simply inner demons and baggage we wish to cleanse ourselves of.
On this day in medieval times the wise men and women (the doctors of that time) would gather special herbs that they needed for the rest of the year to cure people. With the full moon additionally representing illumination and completion, plants, especially herbs, are at their peak of flavour and nutrition; medicinal herbs gathered under a full moon are said to have great powers. We will cook a medicinal soup and bread over the fire and there will be ritual dance and song.
Donations welcome for the witch’s brew (soup), and to Malene for the ritual dance.
YIN YOGA MASTER CLASS
Wednesday 22nd June, kl. 10 – 12
Donations welcome
A two hour Yin Yoga Master Class, where the participant will be guided through a sequence of postures, allowing them to reach deeper into their connective tissue (Fascia). Connective tissue runs throughout our bodies, providing pathways for the flow of vital energy. It is this flow of energy we will be focusing on, to become aware of the sensations it creates.
Viola La Spina, Melbourne, Australia – is a yoga and meditation teacher, she specializes in Yin Yoga and a “Dynamic Slow Flow”. Viola is co owner of the yoga studio “Yoga In Oak Park”, and co founder of “Yoga Sound Bath, a unique concept, which brings sacred sound and the healing art of yoga together, Viola is fascinated by the subtle yet profound power of yoga, and the awareness of the body, mind and spirit it creates. She is passionate to share her personal experiences, by guiding her tribe through a sensory yoga practice. Www.violayoga.com,Www.yogainoakpark.com
FINE GESTURE – TALK & DISCUSSION
Wednesday 22nd June, kl. 14 – 16, donations welcome
Fine gesture is a multilingual online platform for exchanging gestures of interpersonal warmth, growing into equal relationships to empower individuals or groups with less opportunities. Focusing on European economic crisis, cross cultural exchange and contemporary migration struggles its purpose is to empower those in need by identifying and sharing their strengths related to interests, talents and skills and invite privileged groups or individuals to recognize their surplus and share resources. The platform enables communities to exchange gestures in a diverse set of topics: activities, housing, material goods & food, skills, work, health care etc. Currently being crafted with Gaja Mežnarić Osole, Ana Kyra Bekš and Blaž Beuermann (co-developed in association with: Zavod Open – Association for cultural diversity, Društvo Odnos – Association for development and integration of the social sciences and cultures). After the talk, we will discuss potentialities for application at KKM and across N/W Jutland.
Blaž Beuermann, Ljubljana, Slovenia – is a web developer, who has experienced working in startups, as well as a freelancer. As such he builds WordPress sites, CVs for artists and boutique web stores to accompany Kickstarter campaigns, thus supporting his practice. As a dreamer, he frequently visits Global Service Jams – a playground for developing ideas. Interested in resource-based economy and surrounding ethics, he has dedicated time to a project called Fine gesture. In previous phases of the project, Fine gesture was an open question at a few pilot events, involving the youth in co-creating interpretations to shape the world for the better (according to their innate values). Imagining a decentralized organization, he is currently inspired by blockchain as a metaphor for collective consciousness, where many brains (nodes) establish a fuller picture when interacting, thus sharing their future horizons.
RITUAL DANCE
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Wednesday 22nd June, kl. 19 – 21 + Thursday 23rd June, kl. 9 – 13
(There will also be a taster session by donation on Monday night kl. 19 – 21)
The introduction evenings will culminate in a final Ritual dance with drummer on the last day. Every time we meet for rehearsals Malene will explain a little about the meaning behind the whole, and also summarize through dialogue the purpose of the dance. After warming up there will be a program with dance exercises that train our ability to dance to inner impulse and internal pictures and additionally we will train in common dance routines and songs which will be the link between our individual expression. We dance primarily in a circle. In the circle we will tell through dramatic dance, by our common reference, a story from Norse mythology. The circle creates the magic, confidence and excitement. We see, hear and feel one another. Both light and shadow. Whoever is a friend of myth, friend with wisdom. It will be a creation report carried by humor and play out of spontaneity and a structured foundation. The children’s Sleeping Beauty story, for example, is about the curse and the blessing, sleep and awakening. Life contrasts. Dramaturgical meetings, JEG’et a DU and life changing. This is the fundamental story, the mother of all narratives. It goes well, it goes badly, it ends well.
In our society, many blessing rituals have survived, for example, the confirmation ceremony celebrated in Denmark. For some this may be a little rosy, shameful, cloying and alienating. By also dancing, make visible and articulating life’s shadow side, we can perhaps become stronger and less anxious. It is also a relief that all archetypal beings are welcome. It can be completely claustrophobic when we are only interested in humankind. In myth we see the giants, dwarves, animals, gods, heroes and monsters. Here we practice to dare give up the beauty in order to regain it again. We look forward so much to dancing with you.
Malene Bille Tveiti, DK – has been educated as a Ritual Dance Leader by Brita Haugen, theologian and psychotherapist. Furthermore, she is a relaxation teacher, graduating from the School of Body Dynamics, Copenhagen, and has been teaching movement since 2001. She has been a Physical education teacher v / Paul Petersen Sports Institute and has experience in teaching team exercise in a wide range of forms including yoga, swimming and Zumba, for children, babies, the elderly, adults, people with developmental disabilities, and physically disabled. Trained laughter instructor and laughter coach with subsequent teaching experience in laughter, improvisation and games for adults.
PLAY
Thursday 23rd June, kl. 19 – 21
Shane Irwin invites you to enjoy two hours of fun…fun is where we began, as babies giggling, as children learning, as teenagers exploring and now as adults remembering. Let’s play and in that play let us explore where we came from, where we are and where we might go. Shane says “After 30 years exploring drama and theatre in theatrical, social, political and environmental contexts I have come to realise that our human context is prime. Political views drift, environmental issues flux, Social issues change…what remains is you and I.
Therefore, I propose to spend a few hours with you my friends exploring exercises and games designed to release performance praxis. Working together in an ensemble format you will create a dramatic theatrical expression…. and in that creation will rest personal truth and I hope delight.”
Shane Irwin, London, UK – a performer with a diverse background focusing on techniques derived from Theatre of the Oppressed and physical theatre. He has worked and developed strategies in remote rural communities in Papa New Guinea bringing awareness of sensitive issues like AIDS and gender inequality through community based performance. He also works with disadvantaged communities in London, mainly with people with conditions of blindness and deafness developing performances that focused with issues of confidence and self-awareness