Project’s 3rd workshop was held in Heraklion Crete 14-16th October 2011

Workshop program in Heraklion

Participants were taken to see two museums related to traditional handicrafts and Cretan history. There was also possibility to visit other important historical sights f.eg. Knossos. Participants had many interesting ideas and conversations also between the activities which we could then draw together in the final meeting of the workshop.

Films are 92 % ready

During the meeting we saw some of the films that the partners had made about the local handicraft traditions. Romanian partners had submitted their film already before to Cypriot partners and now we saw film from Estonian partners which was almost finished and also from German and Cypriot partners who had already finished their filming. Greek partners and Bulgarian partners had their film also ready, but due to technical problems the films couldn’t be seen in the workshop.

“Eine einzigartige Schule” – Article about the workshop in Germany

The German newspaper “Nassauische neue presse” published a very good article about our projects 2nd workshop in Limburg, Germany. Article tells also about the unique school of ISTA International School of Textile Arts where the workshop was held.

Read the article here. The school website is http://www.tentakulum.de 

Threads That Connect Us’ photostream

Threads That Connect Us’ photostream on Flickr.

Limburg workshop photos. Admire the wonderful work that our 2nd workshop host Baerbel and her students have made in http://www.international-school-for-textile-arts.com/

3rd meeting in Crete 14-16th Oct 2011

Meeting in Crete is held at Heraklion and the purpose of the meeting is to

• make sure the films of each country  are ready and can be finalized by Cypriot partners
• decide on the final date and program of the 4th and final workshop in Bulgaria in spring 2012
• make sure all partners can complete all the tasks required of them
• agree on how to do the final report

Final Schedule Heraklion

Video of Limburg workshop

Courtesy of our Romanian partners

Workshop memo from Limburg

Partner meeting  in Limburg, Germany was very succesfull. Here are the details of the decision made in the project managers meeting:

Next meeting in Hiraklion

Next partner workshop is going to be in Hiraklion, Crete (Greece) approximately weekend of 15^th of October. Partners from Greece will get others information by the end of May.

Website

• articles published about the project (links to newspaper websites or scanned articles)
• short comments from the youth participating in the workshops and other activities
• calendar of activities (upcoming and past, because it is also needed for the reporting)
• news about the project activities in the website
• bright ideas which have been coming up in the discussions during partner workshops and other activities
• material until 31^st May, send it to threadsthatconnectus@gmail.com

Second workshop in Germany in 29/04-02/05/2011

Provisional Schedule of 2nd workshop

Attendance form 2nd meeting

The meeting includes a 6 hours workshop in embroidery “Creative Bits and Pieces for Contemporary Embroidery by Hand and Machine”.

Materials and lectures are sponsored by Tentakulum Manufaktur and the International School for Textile Arts, so there is no charge for the workshop. There is also the possibility to purchase additional materials in the attached shop. We will also talk about the progress of the films of each participant so please bring your files with you or send them to us prior to arrival. There will be four computers/laptops available in the workroom.

First workshop in Cyprus on 18-22/11/2010

First meeting of the project was in Nicosia, Cyprus.

The meeting included a 4 hour workshop in filming and photography.

In first workshop the partners agreed to these action points:

1. to make a 30 min. film containing films from 6 partners of 5 min. each. The film of each partner should be ready by the next meeting in Germany in April, even if it’s not perfect at least it should exist in some first form so that we can check if everything fits
2. to make short documentaries for the website – these should be 2-3 min. maximum
3. to place some written information on the website starting with a short intro to the handicrafts of each country – this must be sent until the end of December
4. to have the next meeting in Germany from 29/4/2011-2/5/2011 where we will present our films and talk about the next steps,
5. to tell Baerbel Zimber how many persons we will send to the next meeting until the 10/12/2010 at the lates
6. to have the 3rd meeting in Herakleion/ Greece in the first week of October 2011 with a film screening and an exhibition
7. to have the 4th and final meeting in Svilengrad/ Bulgaria

Report of 1st meeting with pictures (in Finnish)

Schedule and participants of 1st meeting

Information about 1st meeting to participants