Gathering@Cafe Social

This beautiful cafe, “Cafe Social” in front of Piazza de Mercato, friendly agreed with us to do creative interventions. We are doing a series of gatherings/meetings/events in September. And to do it, we want to have as many crazy, creative, fun, serious ideas as possible.

Gathering@ Cafe Theater (The name is undecided)

[Objective]
This event series will focus on “Potentiality” of informal education system, which is based on an exchange of knowledge and sharing collective experiences. Its mission also includes “potentiality” of connecting local people’s immediate interests with our interests, without exploiting each other’s “need.” Contents of the events should be as diverse as possible, from art-related issues, the local economy, food, politics, performance, ecology, etc… with traditional/experimental methods. Through the interventions, we also hope to introduce who we are, why we are here, and what we are doing here in Cittadellarte.

[Possible Contents]
- Food (Food tasting local food and foreign food, maybe inviting local farmers???)
- Body, dance, more perfomative interventions
- Film Screening
- Local and global economy
- Immigration Issues
- Ecology
- Listening group

[Form]
Traditional/experimental lectures, perfomative interventions etc… will be used depending on the contents. Since we are hosting the events at a cafe setting where people are coming and leaving, and passing by, we want to cope with the fact that people participate in the events to a different degree, some actively participating, some only listening, and others not listening at all. Simonetta, owner of the Cafe Social, is pretty open to new ideas as long as we make our intentions and methods very clear.

[PR]
A great thing about organizing events at the cafe, a semi private/public place, is that you have customers as audiences. This is an advantage especially given that this type of event usually face a challenge of gathering a diverse group of people. Nevertheless, for gathering additional audiences, we will print posters and flyers, at least 2 weeks in advance (mid August), and distribute them in the city. Also we can ask Communication Office for help.

[Date]
September
Tuesday (9/2, 9, 16, 23, 30)
Friday (9/5, 12, 19, 26)

[Time]
19:00 – 20:30 (Around aperitivo time)

[NOTE]
- For a advertisement reason, all the schedule with at least, the titles of the events should be fixed around mid August.
- For a first test case, we are thinking about borrowing the “Blackmarket

(http://www.mobileacademy-berlin.com/englisch/2008/s_wien.html)” idea, to introduce who we are and see how things work or don’t work.

Outside seatings