VI Forum Culture and Ruralities
“Continuities – Discontinuities. Arts, creation and contemporary ruralities in Europe”
Dates: July 4 to 7, 2023
Place: Cuenca and province
Organizers: Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain
Language: All the debates and presentations in “Room 1” of the Theater Auditorium of Cuenca will have simultaneous English-Spanish translation. All other activities (workshops, tours, screenings and visits) will be conducted in Spanish only if not otherwise indicated.
Registration for attendance: Registration closed, full capacity
AFTERNOON
Outdoor Activity. San Antón and Tiradores districts, CuencaSalto de línea 18:30 - 20:00 | Walk: ‘Cuenca, city landscape’. Language: Spanish and English. Pre-registration required.
City of CuencaSalto de línea 19:30 | Manual ringing of bells in Cuenca. Bell Ringers from Albaida and Navarra.
Paleontological Museum of Castilla-La Mancha (MUPA)Salto de línea 20:30 - 23:30 | Welcoming Activity to the VI Forum Culture and Ruralities.Salto de línea (Activity only for registered participants. FULL CAPACITY)
20:30 | Performance and bells concert. Music is always situation and context. Llorenç Barber and Montserrat Palacios
21:00 | Group welcome dinner
22:00 | Concert: Baile entero, Pablo Martin Jones. Research project and musical creation based on traditional rhythms and instruments.
MORNING
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. HallSalto de línea 08:45 - 09:30 | Accreditations
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 09:30 - 10:00 | Contemporary Dance. Labranza. Lamajara Collective.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 10:05 - 11:25 | Round table of institutional and professional dialogue. Europe, culture and ruralities: moving towards future politices.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. HallSalto de línea 11:25 - 12:00 | Visit to the Crafts and Design Exhibition + Coffee Break
Wednesday, July 5th. 10:30 - 18:30 | Crafts and Design Exhibition
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 12:00 - 13:25 | European cultural networks with an impact on rural areas.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 2Salto de línea 12:30 - 13:30 | Talk: Tools for evaluating impact and carbon footprint in the culture sector. Julie’s Bicycle.Salto de línea Activity conducted in Spanish only.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 13:30 - 14:00 | Institutional welcome
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. HallSalto de línea 14:00 - 15:30 | Lunch.
Salto de línea AFTERNOON / EVENING
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 15:30 - 16:25 | Round Table: Literature and ruralities. Contemporary narratives and poetics on and from rural areas.
Salto de línea
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 2Salto de línea 15:30 - 16:15 | Round Table: How to participate in European cultural projects: get to know the work of the European Creative Culture desks.Salto de línea Simultaneous translation into Spanish and English.
Presentation and dialogue with the European desks from Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Hungary, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and The Netherlands
Salto de línea Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1
16:30 - 17:25 | Presentation and discussion on the English edition of the book 'Thinking and Doing in Rural Areas. Cultural practices in context'.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 2Salto de línea Expanded Forum: presentation of artistic projects located in the province of Cuenca. Collaborative projects for the exchange of knowledge and networking.Salto de línea Activity conducted only in Spanish.
16:30 - 17:15 | Expanded Forum: Dispositivo LABranza (Lamajara collective) in collaboration with Mira Rural Drama Center and local community.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1
17:30 - 19:00 | European cinema and ruralities: Presentation of the cycle of film screenings ‘Europe and ruralites, Contemporary images’ and dialogue.
Screening:
Round Table:
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 2Salto de línea 17:30 - 18:15 | Expanded Forum: AVER, Visual Artists in Rural Environments (Tectónica Cultural, Arte Sostenible, Paula Belinchón, Isabel Campos, Rubén Chumillas y Miriam Gascón) in collaboration with Kárstica, Cañada del Hoyo.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 2 + Walk in the city of CuencaSalto de línea 19:00 - 21:00 | Losing the sense of things. A walk through a diversity of knowledge and cultural practices at risk of extinction.Salto de línea Activity conducted in Spanish only.
This guided tour through the streets and squares of the city propose an approach to a series of traditional knowledge in the process of extinction. All this through the five senses and with people and projects that are fighting for their preservation. Curated by Agrocuir collective (Monterroso, Lugo).
MORNING
Outdoor activity. Cerro del Socorro, CuencaSalto de línea 09:00 - 11:00 | Interpreted walk through Cuenca 'The first photograph of the Hoz del Huécar: Wyngaerde, 1565', by Vestal Etnografía.Salto de línea Activity conducted in Spanish only. Pre-registration required (Available soon)Salto de línea Departure from the Theatre Auditorium of Cuenca. Medium difficulty. Sports shoes required.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 09:30 - 10:40 | Presentation of the "Study of the socio-demographic impact of culture in rural areas". Developed by the Ministry of Culture and Sports and a team of researchers from the universities of Zaragoza and La Rioja.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1 Salto de línea 10:45 - 12:00 | Round table: Pathways and imaginaries of art and creation in contemporary rural areas.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. HallSalto de línea 12:00 - 12:45 | Coffee Break.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 12:45 a 14:00 | Project presentation: Knowledge, creation and nature. Proposals in the context of climate and ecological crisis.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. HallSalto de línea 14:00 - 15:30 | Lunch.
AFTERNOON / EVENING
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 15:30 - 16:25 | Project presentation: Artistic practices and new identities in rural areas.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 2 Salto de línea 15:30 - 16:15 | Expanded Forum: Fanzine-Artifact: Aberruntos. Dig deep, make a hole, by Lamosa collective - Modulable Artistic Laboratory and contributors: y colaboradores: Bewis de la Rosa, Cristina Peraile, Centro Dramático Rural de Mira, Estela Miguel Bautista, Co.lectivo Arterra, Cande Lázaro Cienfuegos, Fernando Buenache, Paco Alfaro Anguita and Tania Pardo..
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 16:30 - 17:40 | Performance. This mouth is mine. Orality, words and improvisation from a feminist point of view: bertsolaris, glosadoras and regueifeiras.Salto de línea Language: Basque, Catalan and Galician, with Spanish subtitles
Salto de línea Visit. HueteSalto de línea 17:00 - 20:30 | Visit to Huete. Museum of Contemporary Art Florencio de la Fuente and Museum of Photography of the Antonio Perez Foundation.Salto de línea Activity conducted in Spanish only. Pre-registration required (Available soon)
Pedro Mercedes Pottery Cultural CenterSalto de línea 17:00 - 20:30 | Live editing workshop. Self-Publishing and Fanzine workshop by Lamosa collective/Lamosa Lab.Salto de línea Activity conducted in Spanish only. Pre-registration required (Available soon)
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 17:45 - 18:30 | Expanded Forum: Método Móvil (INLAND Campo Adentro) in collaboration with Fundación Los Maestros (Tragacete) and with the support of the Chair of Opportunities for the Demographic Challenge of the Cuenca Provincial Council and the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Faculties of Fine Arts, Communication and Education), Antonio Pérez Foundation, LIFE Cañadas and the State Federation of Shepherds.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 2Salto de línea 17:45 - 18:30 | Round table: Orality. Revising the oral tradition from a feminist perspective.Salto de línea Activity conducted in Spanish only.
Outdoor activity. San Antón neighborhood and La Ceca, CuencaSalto de línea 20:30 - 24:00 | An evening of street music, curated by the Agrocuir collective.Salto de línea Meeting point: Pedro Mercedes Pottery Cultural Center, San Anton Distric, Cuenca.
Inspired by the format of traditional Galician celebrations, known as ‘foliadas’, in which singing, dancing and the instrumental practice of traditional music take place simultaneously. It will feature the presence of groups of traditional music and dance, ending with a concert that connects the roots with contemporary proposals and sensibilities.
MORNING
Visit. Cañada del HoyoSalto de línea 09:00 - 13:00 | Visit to Kárstica Espacio de creación, rural artists residency, and to the installation Tejiendo Conexiones of the AVER Project (Visual Artists in Rural Environments) + Walk through Cañada del Hoyo guided by artist Ana Matey, and performance 'El portal de las Ancestras' by María Gray.Salto de línea Activity conducted in Spanish only. Pre-registration required
Salto de línea
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1 Salto de línea 09:30 - 10:25 | Project presentation: Ecosystem Culture Territory: cultural network.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 10:30 - 11:45 | Round table: Design and creation on recovering merino wool and creative textile work.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. HallSalto de línea 11:45 - 12:30 | Coffee Break.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 12:30 - 13:30 | Screening: Experimental video and film. Ancestry, new conflicts and identities.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 2Salto de línea 12:30 - 13:30 | Fashion blind tasting. Workshop on fashion design and merino wool.Salto de línea Activity conducted only in Spanish.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 13:35 - 14:45 | Round table: Knowledge, heritage and new creation. Cultures that rescue cultures that recreate cultures.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1Salto de línea 14:45 - 15:00 | Live set. Idoipe.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. HallSalto de línea 15:00 - 16:30 | Lunch.
AFTERNOON
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. Room 1 Salto de línea 16:30 - 18:30 | Screening: O movimento das coisas. Manuela Serra. Portugal. 1985. 85’. Portuguese with Spanish subtitles.
Guided visits in CuencaSalto de línea 16:30 - 18:00 | VisitsSalto de línea Guided visits conducted in Spanish only. Pre-registration required
Activities outside the program
Friday July 7th - 20:30 | Concert: Estival festival: Zas! Candil Folk + Rocío Márquez & Bronquio
Access with ticket, available on the Estival Festival.
From June 21 to July 8, the Estival Festival is held in the city of Cuenca. It includes concerts which will take place during the celebration of the VI Forum Culture and Ruralities.
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca. HallSalto de línea July 5, 6 and 7 | Consulting/MentoringSalto de línea Appointments are required. The mentoring sessions will be offered in Spanish with the exception of the one facilitated by Ralph Lister which will be in English.
Funding
European funding programmes:
Creation
Design of a program of artistic residencies in rural areas.
Cultural managementSalto de línea Innovation and cultural business models through design.
Marketing and financing for cultural projects.
Legal forms for cultural entrepreneurship. Intellectual property and copyright.
Networking
Networking and internationalization of performing arts projects in rural Europe.