{"id":10807,"date":"2025-06-16T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2025-06-16T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:36:15","slug":"isjudinti-gyvunai-akee-ir-ltmks-stovykla-mokyklinio-amziaus-vaikams-aleknaiciu-kaime-pakruojo-rajone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/naujienos\/isjudinti-gyvunai-akee-ir-ltmks-stovykla-mokyklinio-amziaus-vaikams-aleknaiciu-kaime-pakruojo-rajone\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakened Animals \u2013 children\u2019s day camp organised by Akee and LIAA\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aleknai\u010diai Culture and Education Space (Akee) together with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association (LIAA) is organising a day camp for children aged 8-10 years old from the Pakruojis district in the spaces of the Akee residence, as well as in the surrounding fields and meadows, taking place between 16-19 June 2025. The camp programme is designed and implemented by LIAA members \u2013 artists Gail\u0117 Grici\u016bt\u0117, Ieva Ri\u017e\u0117, and educational programme curator Vilius Vaitiek\u016bnas.
\n<\/b>The theme of this year’s camp \u2013 Awakened Animals \u2013 invites children to engage in imaginative and sensory games that move away from the usual rules of play and the everyday sense of the body. Just as animals react to the faintest rustle or refraction of light, children will be invited to trust the sensitivity of their own bodies \u2013 to act on feeling rather than experience.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>During the camp, participants will be invited to experience their body and its relationship to its environment in a new way through movement, sound and enhanced attention. Sounds \u2013 both natural and bodily \u2013 will become the direction of action rather than the background: bird calls, wind moving linden leaves, unexpected positions of bodies in release and rhythms of breathing will become the field of exploration through which new experiences of the self and the changing rural areas will be revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the different creative strategies that Gail\u0117 Grici\u016bt\u0117 and Ieva Ri\u017e\u0117 use in their practice, the children will be invited to set aside the usual formats of communication and play and enter into an experiential process: to listen, to slow down, to move themselves and each other through material, sound and silence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gail\u0117 Grici\u016bt\u0117 is a composer, performer and sound artist. She belongs to the generation of 21st century creators for whom versatility of creative identity is the norm. Grici\u016bt\u0117 creates both sounds and images, and implements her ideas in a variety of forms: from scores with the smallest details (Thangtong Gyalpo), to performances (Eye Gymnastics), to improvisations that are created and performed only in the present moment. She performs with the collectives Mold, Eye Gymnastics and Weld Mignon, and her most frequent partner is a prepared piano. Her interdisciplinary approach is based on the search for a specific sound, experimentation, and attention to process (both in her work with performers and collectives, and musically, especially in improvisation). In her work we can see the identification of composer-performer-listener, their equivalence, the importance of different perspectives and self-reflection. Grici\u016bt\u0117 strives for the listener’s individual hearing, intimate experiences, so we would not find specific, unifying themes in her work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ieva Ri\u017e\u0117 is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Vilnius. She graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Monumental Painting and Stage Design and a Master’s degree in Contemporary Sculpture. Her practice includes three-dimensional painting, sculptural installations, video and performative practices, often involving texts, sounds or drawings. Rize focuses on the human psyche, temporality, relationships within closed groups, and themes of identity and power. She is intrigued by in-between spaces and states: inanimate material, life form, people, objects and concepts, their dependencies and the tensions that tell a story. The aesthetics of Ieva’s work is often shaped by short- or long-term creative rituals or impulsivity, while the archives of individual imagination are stirred by abstractions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The curator of the educational programme, Vilius Vaitiek\u016bnas, is an educator and producer of various cultural activities and formats. In 2018, he received his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Minerva Academy, the Netherlands and completed a pre-graduate programme in Art and Cognitive Science at the University of Groningen. Vaitiek\u016bnas is an alumnus of Rupert Alternative Education (2021) and Inland Academy (2022), and is currently studying in the Master of Arts in Arts and Media programme at Aalto University, Helsinki. In 2019, together with his colleagues, he founded the culture and education space \u201cAkee\u201d in Aleknai\u010diai village in Pakruojis district. He has worked as a curator of education and community engagement activities at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, assisted in the project \u201cChildren’s Forest Pavilion\u201d in the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023, and coordinated the presentation of the project at the Stasys Museum in Panev\u0117\u017eys in 2024.Since 2024, he has been the head of educational programmes at the Stasys Museum, and the same year he curated the project \u201cExperiment Platform\u201d of the Architekt\u016bros fondas, together with Martynas Germanavi\u010dius.<\/span><\/p>\n

The camp will take place between 16-19 June, daily from 10:00 to 16:00. The camp is for children aged 8-10 years old, free of charge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Project designer \u2013 Kornelija \u017dalpyt\u0117
\nEducational assistant<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 Simona \u010cemo\u0161kait\u0117<\/span><\/p>\n

Organised by Aleknai\u010diai Culture and Education Space (Akee) in cooperation with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association. LIAA activities are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Partner \u2013 Pakruojo r. Lygum\u0173 pagrindin\u0117 mokykla.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1561,26],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n