16 May 2014

Grandhotel Cosmopolis presents: Intercultural Storytelling Workshop-Stories make Art

Grandhotel Cosmopolis presents the intercultural storytelling workshop 'Stories Make Art' . It will take place on three succeeding weekends in july 2014. We invite people, whether seeking asylum or not, to meet, create stories and get to know the Grandhotel and our work within the experimental artistic space of storytelling.

On the first three weekends in July, you are invited to take part in this intercultural encounter. Ficticous short stories, diary entries, poems or autobiographical stories will be transformed into nonverbal forms of expression and presented at the Augsburg Friedensfest. The program will be filled with spontaneous individual initiatives and interventions by workshop leaders, team members and participants.

The four great artists that support our workshop are:

Lena Gätjens (Berlin)
Stage Design, Lighting
Graz University of Performing Arts, Wismar University


Peter Maltz (Telaviv)
Sculpture
Royal College of Art, London


Nayaari Castillo (Venezuela)
Visual media artwork, installations in the public realm
Bauhaus University Weimar


Daniela Kammerer (Augsburg)
Painting, Drawing
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg.


To ensure an intensive cooperation and exchange of ideas, the number of participants is limited to 30, both guests from near and far and refugees.

Dates:
July 2014 4-6, 11-13 and 18-20

Contribution:
min. 190 €. Whoever is able to support the project by giving more is welcome to.


About the Grandhotel Cosmopolis:

The Grandhotel Cosmopolis is no common hotel. It is a place that unites accomodation for refugees, artists' ateliers with open workrooms and a hotel with gastronomical and cultural offers. People from all over the world come to visit as hotel guests and volunteers to take part in an unique intercultural exchange.
More workshop modules will take place during this and the next year.

Interested in participating? Any questions? Contact us!

storiesmakeart@grandhotel-cosmopolis.org
www.grandhotel-cosmopolis.org