Tirana
HubFiliza*
Phase 1
The hub implemented a broad set of activities ranging between cultural events such as cinema evenings with talks, pecha kucha and poetry slams combined with acoustic concerts and a series of open talks and lectures around relevant topics such as urban commons and critical thinking. Uzina and Tek Bunkeri also implemented a set of weekly creative crafts and zero waste workshops targeting disadvantaged youth and young professionals, while Destil and its GurGur platform launched a young creative program for several disciplines, awarding students with workshops and material funding to realise their works.
* “Filiza” means seedling or cutting in Albanian. As all partners lost their previous cultural spaces in the last years, and with these happenings, their audiences a space to meet, interact and co-create, the name fits perfect to the collaborative restart of culture and open community spaces in Tirana.
*Participated only in Phase 1
*Participated only in Phase 1
Phase 2
Concrete Contract
in collaboration with Athens and Diyarbakır I hubs
Connecting three different cities, Diyarbakır, Athens and Tirana, the project “Concrete Contract” uses fiction as a tool to explore contexts, map new territories, and produces content through collaborations, exchanges and productions. This fiction fits and travels into the interstices of a concrete megalopolis spreading over Turkey and the Balkans. Concrete Contract faced local realities, different audiences and environments, but it also exposed what we believe to have in common: a territory linked by geography and history, intertwined practices, yearnings for a different future and the absolute necessity to meet and produce together.
The project expanded over eight different activities that punctuate and structure the fiction. There were activity phases of discussions, data-mining and brainstorming and activities of wide openings, collaborations and production. Storytelling, virtual and physical encounters, participation of artists, travels, workshops, diary of the journey, exhibitions, local events, interactions and publications are amongst the tools that were used for this purpose. The desired goal was to make this fiction tangible and craft a topography for all to see and explore.