Foundation for European Youth exchange

Link ondersteunt het project id11 onderZOEKT, waarbij de focus ligt op het meer betrekken van jonge (Europese) kunstenaars bij het project. Gedurende de maanden oktober en november worden steeds 5 kunstenaars uitgenodigd om gedurende een maand in Delft te wonen en te werken. In een maand tijd werken de kunstenaars op locatie aan de totstandkoming van een site-specific kunstwerk. De eindpresentatie van oktober is te zien tijdens de Museumnacht Delft. Op de zondagmiddagen vertellen steeds 2 kunstenaars iets over hun werk in de reeks bij wijze van SPREKEN.

Data oktober 2011

Zaterdag 08 oktober     12.00 – 18.00 uur          Atelierroute Delft, werk in ontwikkeling.

Zondag 09 oktober       12.00 – 18.00 uur          Atelierroute Delft, werk in ontwikkeling toegankelijk

Zondag 09 oktober       16.00 – 18.00 uur          bij wijze van SPREKEN

Zondag 16 oktober       16.00 – 18.00 uur          bij wijze van SPREKEN

Zondag 23 oktober       16.00 – 18.00 uur          bij wijze van SPREKEN

Vrijdag 28 oktober        20.00 – 01.00 uur          Museumnacht Delft

Zondag 30 oktober       16.00 – 18.00 uur          Afsluiting

Data november 2011

Zondag 06 november    16.00 – 18.00 uur          bijwijze van SPREKEN

Zondag 13 november    16.00 – 18.00 uur          bijwijze van SPREKEN

Zondag 20 november    16.00 – 18.00 uur          bijwijze van SPREKEN

Vrijdag 27 november     16.00 – 18.00 uur          Opening

Zondag 30 oktober       16.00 – 18.00 uur          Afsluiting

Deelnemende kunstenaars: Petra van Noort, Hester Plomp, Guda Koster, Egied Simons, Ieke Trinks, Stefan Hoffman, Mark Swysen, Serena Lee, Rosa Everts en Marianne Hamersma.

www.id11.nl

Waarom kan je in Nederland makkelijk een kijkje nemen in de woonkamer van de buren? Dit en meer culturele gebruiken worden onderzocht door 32 jongeren uit Duitsland, Estland, Portugal, Slovenië, Turkije en Nederland.

Van 1 t/m 10 oktober fietsen de jonge Europeanen op tandems door de wijken van Delft. Gedurende de uitwisseling NAKED WINDOWS werken zij samen aan een Audio en Video performance. Hierin presenteren zij culturele verschillen en overeenkomsten die zij hebben ervaren.

De performance vindt plaats op zaterdag 9 oktober om 21:00 uur in de Koornbeurs, Voldersgracht 1 in Delft. De toegang is gratis. We hopen je daar te zien.

From August 27th till September 5th there were bands in Holland from Germany, Norway, Iceland, France and Poland. Six young European bands came to Rotterdam to exchange ideas, make music together and perform.

Saturday the 28th of August the exchange started with performances from Alienation (FR), Fucking in Champagne (DE), Mitss & Kapthijn (NL), Of Monsters & Men (IS) at the Westerpop festival in Delft. The Polish band Shiny Beats put an end to the day with their gig, even though it rained their performance kept the audience dancing.

The next day the Shiny Beats, Of Monsters & Men and Mitss & Kapthijn performed at the Stadspodium in Rotterdam.

After an intense jamsession new bands were made, consisting of members of different nationalities. The mixed bands wrote a new song, afterwards the songs were recorded in the studio of the Zadkine Popacademie. Making new songs was a big success, you can also listen to the new songs on this website under: media.

Thursday the 2nd of September they played a gig in Exit in Rotterdam. All the bands gave away an excellent performance.

Friday the 3rd of September Stage Europe Network was in the Koornbeurs in Delft. The diverse line up was very much appreciated by the audience.

Saturday was the last day of this week full of creativity. To end this week in a special way the bands did a Drive-By Concert in an old schoolbus. It took place nearby the ‘Along the Trax’ festival at the Beuk in Barendrecht. World service from Norway also did an exciting performance on the roof of the venue. Soon you can check the video’s of the concerts in the schoolbus on this website under: media.

This great week gave the young musicians an international experience and a great opportunity to perform abroad.

You can follow the project on the Stage Europe Network website

We applied for a project with young bands in de context of the Stage Europe Network. The project, if approved will start the last week from august. The participating bands will perform at the Rottepop Festival in Rotterdam.

Stage Europe Network is an initiative from the foundation Link in cooperation with the Popunie.

Binnenkort start het project Walls of Perception bij Inca in Berlijn.
Hier alvast de trailer

How do you hear the city?

When I’m walking through a street filled with traffic, or when I’m sitting in the subway or maybe even when I’m just drinking a cup of coffee in a little café somewhere in a little street, I observe everything around me. Especially people. Where are they going? Where do they come from? I like to ask myself those kind of questions. Then, I went to CitySound. A project that took place in Berlin, a city that was unfamiliar to me. Trough this program, I’ve really learned to think with my ears. They taught us how to see which sounds are important to describe a place. To do that you have to live the place. You have to pretend you are one of those people I’ve watched. If they go shopping, you go shopping. If they eat, you eat. And then you start to ask yourself questions again. What do you hear when you are drinking a cup of coffee in a little café somewhere in a little street? And which of these sounds are typical for the place, which are not that important and can easily be left out? And can you hear the sounds through other perspectives? These ten days, I’ve thought more about sounds then I ever did. Apart from that, we’ve learned how to work with those sounds on the computer, and got to know Berlin in a way that you wouldn’t ever had the chance to get to know as a tourist.
It was a great experience.

by:Linda.

Between May 18th-27th Link will participate in the second encounter of City Contact: City View. The project will be focused in photography, and participants will capture the essence of the city with their cameras. More news about it coming soon!!

The 1st of the 4 City Contact projects was organized from the 9th till the 18th of March 2009 in Berlin. 4 youngsters and 1 teamleader from The Netherlands wrote about specific public spaces in this interesting city. In mixed groups with younsters from Bulgaria, Turkey, Estonia and Germany they created short text about their perspective on these special locations, followed by intercultural group-discussions.The text can be read on the website of Dottland, our partnerorganisation in Berlin. www.citycontact.eu

Next month 4 dutch youngsters will participate with Link in City Talk!
With this project, young people from the Netherlands, Turkey, Bulgaria and Estonia, will get to know each other and discover Berlin together. They will walk through the town and note their impressions. City Talk is part of City Contact, which wants to explore ways of creative communica- tion, in order to overcome boundaries and to initiate a better understanding how different cultures think and feel. www.citycontact.eu

November 21st will be a special date this year, as Link will celebrate its 5th birthday!