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Scenic Harvest – Programme

Logo Scénickej žatvySCENIC HARVEST 2010 IN MARTIN
88th contest of the slovak amateur theatre


Martin,
27. – 30. August 2010


MAIN PROGRAMME

Friday 27/08/10


9:00 (Strojar House of Unions, Slovak national literary museum SNK)
WORKSHOPS EDUART 2010

18:00 (Studio SKD)
OPENING CEREMONY OF SCENIC HARVEST 2010 – with the nomination of J. Kroner award, NOC general manager tribute and awarding medal of D. G. Lichard

Theatre Commedia, Poprad
P. Turini: JOSEPH AND MARIA
Directed by: V. Benko

20:30 (National house)
Theatre Třetí věk, Louny (Czech Republic)
Based upon texts by J. Suchý: I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT

21:30 (Festival tent)
Big Band, Bánov


Saturday 28/08/10

9:00 (Strojar House of Unions, Slovak national literary museum SNK)
WORKSHOPS EDUART 2010

9:00 (Festival tent)
breakfast on the grass
(Festival Forum - meeting of creators with the viewers, reviewers and theatre-makers)

14:00 (National house)
Children theatre group Prvosienka, Zákamenné
Z. Demková: HOME
Directed by: Z. Demková

15:00 (Studio SKD)
Children theatre group Hastroši DaMi, Košice
M. Harčaríková: MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL
Directed by: M. Harčaríková
and       
Theatre group „L“ ZUŠ, Levoča
J. Paulovič: OF A HUNGRY LITTLE PIG
Directed by: M. Muránska
and
Theatre group Dobrozvíťazí, Nižná
K. Bendová: LONELY PRINCESS
Directed by: Z. Brozová
and
Puppetry theatre Diócska - Figura, Galanta
E. Bréda: MEET THE DWARF
Directed by: E. Bréda a S. Bréda

16:30 (National house)
Theatre group Zasesmelendve by ZUŠ J. Rosinský, Nitra
Paasilinna: STORY OF A LAPP MILLER
Directed by: M. Šišková

18:00 (Studio SKD)
Children recitation ensemble SoFrKa, Košice
Harčaríková: DANCING ON THE ROOF
Directed by: M. Harčaríková

19:30 (National house)
Theatre U Zuzy Múzy by SZUŠ Tralaškola, Nitra
Team of authors: WEDDING
Directed by: K. Ševellová

20:30 (Studio SKD)
Theatre Al-Khareef, Damask  (Syria)
Bulbul, R. Alaswad: THE SOLITARY

22:00 (Festival tent)
You Coco, Trenčín


Sunday 29/08/10

9:00 (Strojar House of Unions, Slovak national literary museum SNK)
WORKSHOPS EDUART 2010

9:00 (Festival tent)
breakfast on the grass
(Festival Forum - meeting of creators with the viewers, reviewers and theatre-makers)

14:00 (Studio SKD)
Theatre Gong, Bratislava
A. Goldflam: BLOODY KNEE
Directed by: M. Homolová, P. Varga

15:30 (Studio SKD)
Theatre group TOTE TAM by ZUŠ Antona Cíger, Kežmarok
M. Gonda: FLY
Directed by: E. Šavelová
and
Theatre Klasik, Bratislava
M. Babarík: BORED IN 1945
Directed by: M. Kovalčíková Ondrejková

17:00 (Strojar House of Unions, Slovak national literary museum SNK)
Michaela Viskupovičová, Modra
P. O. Hviezdoslav: ANNA
       
Eva Kášová, Prešov
M. Válek: QUADRUPEDS

Anna Rakovská, Prešov
Q. Monzó: TOAD

Eva Palkovičová, Bratislava
F. Kafka: BEADSMEN

18:30 (National house)
Theatre Hľadanie, Tlmače
E. Hellstenius: IN PRAISE OF MADNESS OR ELLING AND KJELL BJARNE
Directed by: A. Senešiová

20:30 (Studio SKD)
Teatr of A. Goncharuk, Omsk (Russia)
F. G. Lorca: LOVE OF DON PERLIMPLIN

22:00 (Festival tent)
Balkansambel, Žilina


Monday 30/08/10


9:00 (Strojar House of Unions, Slovak national literary museum SNK)
WORKSHOPS EDUART 2010

9:00 (Festival tent)
breakfast on the grass
(Festival Forum - meeting of creators with the viewers, reviewers and theatre-makers)

14:00 (Studio SKD)
Theatre VHV, Kovačica (Serbia)
B. Srbljanovič: FAMILY STORIES
       
16:00 (National house)
PRESENTATION OF WORKSHOPS EDUART 2010

17:30 (Studio SKD)
Studio by Theatre Dagmar, Karlove Vary (Czech Republic)
J. D. Salinger, L. and R. Pellar: I, HOLDEN

18:30 (Studio SKD)
CLOSING CEREMONY OF SCENIC HARVEST 2010
with the nomination of the Best act of the year award 

20:00 (Festival tent)
Sherpa Band, Žilina

Changes to the programme reserved!

Programme


of the 56th Folklore festival Východná

July, 2nd – 4th, 2010
Amphitheatre area, chosen areas the township Východná,
in Liptovský Mikuláš


The 2010 Východná Folklore Festival offers folk art programmes from beneath the majestic peak of Kriváň in the High Tatras. It represents a symbiosis between beautiful natural surroundings and human pheno-menon expressed through lyrical productions, celebratory or balld song texts, melodies, expressive dances, music and folk costumes rich in colour, traditional rites and customs, and of course, through the entertaining skills of folk crafft masters...
Every year, the Folklore Festival welcomes tens of thousands of children and adults who come to see and experience the exceptional beauty again. This is the beauty that rejuvenates both the mind and the soul; a fragile beauty that spontaneously inscripes and offers new strength and which reinforces one´s own feeling of pride, dignity and faith in the nation and the country where they come from, where they live...
We would like to invite you to 56th Festival that presents the cultural heritage, indeed the identity of the Slovak nation, a festival that develops new friedships, knowledge and hope, and a festival that brings people and nations together!

The 2010 Východná Folklore Festival will be held under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Robert Fico.

PROGRAMME

Thursday, July 1nd 2010
7 p.m.  
INVITATION TO THE 56th FOLKLORE FESTIVAL VÝCHODNÁ

Presentation of the foreign ensembles:
Bulgaria, Czech rep. Hungaria, Cuba
Location: Culture house Ružomberok


FRIDAY, July 2nd 2010

3 p.m.
INVITATION TO THE 56th FOLKLORE FESTIVAL VÝCHODNÁ

Presentation of the foreign ensembles
Location: Place in front town hall Liptovský Mikuláš

4.45 p.m.
SYMBOLIC CEMETERY IN VÝCHODNÁ

Memory on the important personalities
Location: Municipal cemetery

5.30 p.m.
OPENING – EXHIBITION
Ľudmila Lakomá-Krausová: Heritage of the Fathers
Location: Fire House, Municipal office Východná

7 p.m.
LIKE ONE FAMILY
Programme from landcape Žilina
Location: Main stage

8 p.m.
WELCOME 2010
Opening ceremony of the 56th Folklore Festival Východná 2010
Location: Main stage

9 p.m.
MY KINDLESTS...

Location: Main stage

9.50 p.m.
FASCINATED AT A GLANCE

Opening programme PUĽS from Prešov
55th anniversary of the found

11 p.m.
JÁNOŠÍK

Performances of the Statetheatre Košice

12.00 p.m.
CRADLE

Birth of the Child
Location: Main stage

11 p.m.
ENTERTAINMENT – DANCING PARTIES
Location: Tent of the Slovak Television


SATURDAY, July 3t 2010
BLOCK OF THE PROGRAMME:
10 a.m.
LITTLE SCHOOL OF DANCING

Dance workshop for the Children Visitors FF Východná 2010

10 a.m.
SCHOOL OF DANCING

Dance school for youths and adults
Location: Tent of the Slovak Television

11 a.m.
TALENTS...
Performance of folklore ensembles, groups and soloists
Location: Small stage

12 a.m.
RADIO IN VÝCHODNÁ
Live broadcasting of Radio Regina – Slovak Radio 2
Location: House of Culture

1.15 p.m.
WELCOME AT MAYOR of the village Východná
Location: Municipal office in Východná

2 p.m.
PARADE THROUGH THE TOWNSHIP VÝCHODNÁ
Location: From Municipal office through township Východná
to Small stage of the area amphitheatre

4.30 p.m.
SPUR OF ŠAFFA
Selected of laureats of the nationwide competition of the soloists dancers
Location: Main stage

5.05 p.m.
BEARERS OF THE TRADITIONS

Programme of the folklore groups
Location: Main stage

6.10 p.m.
MLADÉ SRDCIA - IFJÚ SZIVEK (YOUNG HEARTS)
Programme at 55th anniversary of the found
Location: Main stage


BLOCK OF THE PROGRAMME

8 p.m.
MUSIC FLOWS FROM TATRAS

Hommage á harmonist Svetozár Stračina and 60th anniversary
Slovak Filharmony
Location Main stage

9.05 p.m.
SENIORS II.
Performance of senior folklore ensembles
Location: Main stage

10.10 p.m.
REEL FANTASY
To work the jubilee folklore ensembles and personalities
Location: Main stage

11.45 p.m.
INVITATION TO CHRISTENING PARTY
Location: Main stage

12 p.m.
STEPS OF THE BLACK EYES
Destiny of the Romany song – neverending journey at looking of domesticity
Location: Main stage

11 p.m.
ENTERTAINMENT - DANCING PARTIES
Location: Tent of the Slovak Television


SUNDAY, July 4th 2010
9 a.m.
WE ARE WALKING UP THE VILLAGE
Song and playing of the red-letter folklore sunday

10 a.m.
US JOINED THE DANCE
From the project of the Days of traditional culture
Location: Small stage

11 a.m.
NIGHTINGALE OF SLOVAKIA 2010
Children singing folk songs – winners of competition of 20th annual
Location: Small stage

1.20 p.m.
BY THE RIVER DANUBE
Foreign folklore ensembles
Location: Main stage

2.20 p.m.
AS THE CHILDREN FOR HANNAH SMALL DREAM WERE SEARCHING
Programme of the children folklore ensembles
Location: Main stage

3 p.m.
CHILDREN AS THE LIVING FLOWERS OF THE LAND
(CHRISTENING PARTY UNDER TATRAS)
Final Programme of the festival
STV live transmision
Location: Main stage


OFF-STAGE PROGRAMMES
PRESENTATION OF HANDICRAFT
Children School of Handicraft
Carved into wood
Liptov (region) at traditional Handicraft and Kitchen

EXHIBITIONS
Ján Šípka, painter, permanent exhibition, Municipal Office
Ľudmila Lakomá-Krausová: Heritage of Fathers
Traditional room in Východná – permanent exhibition
Kindness in Východná
Courts in Východná

SCREENING OF THE FOLKLORE FILMS
(selected – with the music of S. Stračina)
Saturday ( 8.p.m. – 10.15 p.m.) – Location: Tent of the Slovak Television
CD „From the adaptation ad composition“ (selected works of Svetozár Stračina)

We reserve the right to changes the programme

CONTACT:
Project manager and executive director FFV 2010:
Eva Pernecká
mob.: 0918 716066,
e-mail: eva.pernecka@nocka.sk

Programme director FFV 2010:
Jana Liptáková
mob.: 0918 816128,
e-mail: jana.liptakova@nocka.sk

FFV 2010 programme board secretary:
Štefan Zima
mob.: 0918 182277,
e-mail: stefan.zima@nocka.sk

Organisation service:
Pavel Nunuk
mob.: 0918 716074, 0907 806008
e-mail: pavel.nunuk@gmail.com

Východná Folk Festival 2010

Logo Východná (Head)
amphitheatre area, chosen areas the township Východná

Programme 2010

A special position in the cultural events annually organized by Národné osvetové centrum (National Centre of Culture – NCC) is occupied by the Folklore Festival Východná. Individual shows and other accompanying events of the three-day festival are attended each year by an audience of more than 30.000. This festival has a unique tradition, presenting a broad spectrum of art programmes with an international impact. It is the expression of the abundance of Slovak folk art, witnessing the high level of professional care for advancement under modern conditions, of the traditional spiritual heritage and the attention given by the National Center of Culture to the entire field of folklore.

The Východná festival, named for its High Tatra host village, was established in 1953 by members of the local folklore group. In its more than 54 years of history the festival, with NCC as its main coordinator and organizer, gradually established itself as a folk-art show of international dimensions, and is now considered to be one of the largest and most attended festivals of its kind in the world. It is a member of the international organization of folklore festivals (CIOFF), carrying out its activities under the auspices of UNESCO.

More than 1200 active participants display the results of their artistic abilities in Východná each year, representing all regions of Slovakia. Foreign guests also regularly participate. Over the years the Festival has built a tradition as a national meeting of folk-culture admirers, professionals, activists and volunteers working in the field.  It has always been an event seeking and pioneering new trends in the elaboration, research and organizance of folk art in Slovakia. Its programmatic composition traditionally combines spectator-interest programmes with demanding projects, generating a deeper knowledge of folk culture of all nationalities living in Slovakia as well as broader historical, cultural and spiritual links. Visitors of the interesting Východná amphitheatrical area  (in this days new), along with its adjacent village and the nearby city of Liptovský Mikuláš are offered, in addition to the Festival programmes, fine examples of folk arts (e.g. in the form of a standing exhibiton of wooden sculptures, thematic exhibitions, ets.) and cratfs. Informal evening meetings offer possibilities for contact with folk music, song and dance.

 

 

Slovak republic - Scenic Harvest

Memories Of The Festival Director

The yearly Scénická Žatva in Martin is a unique phenomenon in our theatre culture. This is due not only to the number of editions, but particularly to the great scope of selection of companies from the nationwide advance reviews of dramatic and musical theatre, theatre of adults performing for children, children dramatic creativity, theatre of poetry, elocution, dance theatre, scenic miniatures. A critical-theoretic reflection of this event allows for analysing, then abstracting, and generalising certain processes.

The Scénická Žatva in Martin has always been the highest school – it introduced discussion boards with renowned theatre critics, and lectures and workshops with university lectors. Thus, the search for the festival’s new status was not easy. Let us go back into its history.

By the end of the third cycle of revived famous autumn Martin Culture Festival at the Martin Theatre Festival in 1967, members of the preparation committee discussed the conception of the next editions of the Martin festivals. The majority of the participants proposed to make it the festival of festivals, that is, the representation of the highest rated performances from the Festival of Humour and Satire in Bratislava, from the nationwide review of amateur theatre companies in Spišská Nová Ves, and from the Festival of Poetry Theatres at the Štúrov Zvolen, as well as other invited companies. During the discussion the need for publishing bibliographies for this event was accented, as well as reintroducing the awards and rewards, which the 1967’s edition lacked. Another emphasised issues were: the need for a suitable juxtaposition of amateur and professional performances, qualitative changes in the contest of monologues, and the want for lectures covering a wider range of amateurs. At the last, the Culture Institute was assigned as the most suitable partner. In the end of the discussion was discussed the position of the festival among the other Slovak reviews. The Martin Festival sought not to violate anything with a tradition of its own; the aim was to implement the existing natural status with the consciousness of the past generation’s artistic achievements in order to create a confrontational basis for the stimulation of the current development.

The third edition of the Martin Theatre Festival was held within the Scénická Žatva (21st – 25th October) and in honour of history it was labelled 43rd O memoriál ÚSOD-u. Post facto, the theatre companies that met the criteria for the past twenty years (which were: at least two participations at nationwide reviews, noteworthy contribution to the progress of Slovak amateur theatre, and continuity of work) were inscribed to the memorial book of ÚSOD – the Honourable Wreath of Winners. 16 companies were added to the Wreath.

The season of puppet art, 6th Festival of Puppet Theatre, took place as usual within the Scénická Žatva as its second part but somewhat later (13th – 16th November). Such integration was very important for the puppet production that felt lonely and isolated from the other parts of the national culture. Being in one line with other reviews the puppet theatre production became a conscious and appreciated value.

Counter to the previous editions organised by Matica Slovenská, in 1970 Scénická Žatva was not a succession of separate reviews of dramatic and puppet theatre performances. The organisers experimentally joined the reviews to one whole: the 44th edition of O memoriál ÚSOD-u (the review of winners of the Slovak amateur contests and other guests) and 7th Festival of Puppet Theatre – Gašparko’s Shield. Connecting the drama and puppet activities together at the Scénická Žatva 1970 (17th – 24th October) a space for mutual confrontation and creative influence was created. This edition caused the puppet theatre for children being next to the drama theatre of children. These two fields of theatre were often mixed up and many useless misunderstandings arose. Yet, the art for children and the creative work of children are two different things, and neither the addressee nor the consumer are the same.

The decrease in artistic quality of some productions from their presentation in other nationwide reviews repeatedly brings forth the questions about the suitability of the autumn term of the festival, and at the same time, it causes scepticism towards the union of the autonomous Martin festivals (dramatic and puppet). The most of the visitors, though, do not realise the organisational drawbacks of the union, and cherish the unique possibility of confronting development trends, level and form of theatrical work of drama and puppet companies. Even before the Scénická Žatva 1973, the leaders of children ensembles questioned the odds of reprising something so subtle, fragile, and full of children fantasizing creativity; whether the teacher with his children collective, whom he provoked to spontaneous invention and playfulness – the basis for the final outline of a production, will manage to fix a shape in children that would not sway in the tempo and rhythm, yet would not become just a precise cold reproduction in reprises and over the time. Especially those collectives in whom the children matured more quickly during the holidays and lost their genuine children playfulness, which did not happen once at the reviews, confirmed the fears.

In 1974 was the main prize of Scénická Žatva for the first time awarded by the Ministry of culture of the SSR (Slovak Socialist Republic). The Wreath of Winners was entered the companies that contested in the Scénická Žatva for a second time in a row, and in the end the companies and individuals were bestowed the awards of co-organisers.

Scénická Žatva in Martin has become the place of synthesising the knowledge of the amateur theatre, about its creative, organisational, and societal issues. This confrontation was enhanced by foreign companies and by companies of foreign Slovaks. Besides the evaluation of festival performances, the seminars (organised by the Culture Institute and Matica Slovenská) brought also several specific topics: aesthetic issues of children theatre, Russian, Soviet, and Slovak classic drama on our stages, puppeteer in front of the curtain, the amateurs and the authorial law, et al.

In 1976 the Culture Institute in Bratislava replaced Matica Slovenská in the place of the main organiser of Scénická Žatva. This year introduced new participants: the winner of MJF Festival in Poprad, and the nominees from the Hviezdoslavov Kubín (elocutionists and theatre of poetry) and from nationwide reviews organised by other culture institutions. This year was commenced a list of companies awarded the Prize of the Minister of Culture of SSR (later also: Grant of the Minister of Culture of SSR, Prize of the Culture Institute, Prize of the National Culture Centre, and Prize of the Director of the National Culture Centre) for their extraordinary creative achievement. Naturally, the organisers sought to alter the directives about the festival organisation so this would be the highest prize – a yearly award of Minister of Culture for amateur theatre and elocution. Besides this award, there existed also the Plaque of G. Fejérpataky – Belopotocký.

The seminars ceased to discuss particular productions and started to analyse more general topics of the staging praxis – following the issues produced in Martin by the performances of participating companies representing the sample of current amateur theatre. Besides the particularly interesting productions of professional directors collaborating with amateurs, another professional dramaturgic personalities and actors, for whom the direction was not just a job, started to appear – as well as ambitious amateurs, who often found their way among the professionals.

Many companies started at Scénická Žatva their ascent to the World Festival of Amateur Theatre, or got an invitation to a foreign festival – thanks to foreign spectators who came here either to attend the general assembly, a working meeting of the of the Central European Committee of the International Amateur Theatre Association (CEC AITA/IATA), discussions of editors about theatre magazines, the seminar about organising festivals with foreign participation, or the two editions of the international conference Author – Production – Critique (which was co-organised by the Association of Slovak Theatre Critics and Theoreticians, ICT, and AITA/IATA).

Scénická Žatva 1979 had a new festival tune; the logo was changed, and new, quality promo materials were published.
After extraordinarily fruitful years (e.g. 1980 when 5,000 spectators have seen the performances), organisational problems appeared. Since 1982 the selection key for the winning companies could not be used. This was due to the new structure of Slovak nationwide reviews that changed the annual cycle to biennial, and also to a further decline of puppet companies. The generation change should also be mentioned. Scénická Žatva has become the festival of young theatre followers.

The active participation of citizens on he changes in 1989 left the amateur creative work uninteresting for a time. In the first year of the Slovak Republic the first organisational and administrative problems came. The directions about organising events, classifying companies, awarding the Plaque of G. F. Belopotocký, et al., passed by the Ministry of Culture of SSR were no longer valid. The traditional journey to Martin after culture was losing its strength. Of course, there were a lot more causes that were brought by the transformation of the whole society. In the nineties were validated the words of Jaro Rihák, the member of the jury, that “at Scénická Žatva only those will be of any interest who will bring to Martin their own, authentic performance, which comes out of a distinctive and unique way of perception and style of work; where the creativity and not repeating the already known is the aim; where the quest for an individual expression in the number of shapes and forms of theatre art will join a clearly stated idea, or will subtly and silently prepare the way for a strong idea. For it is possible to do it this way, or a bit some other way, only if it comes from a great depth.”

The model of Scénická Žatva is assembled well, and some festival organisers sought to adopt it; yet no one did as well as Jiráskov Hronov, which can now, retrospectively, serve as the source of our inspiration.

Alena Štefková

The National Culture Centre is a professional organisation creating methodologies, providing consultancy and guaranteeing protection and presentation of part of the intangible local and regional cultural heritage with a specific focus on the development of cultural and educational activities.

Main pillars of the activities of the National Culture Centre are:

Leisure time artistic activities
Traditional folk culture
Culture education
Culture research and monitoring

The National Culture Centre is a state subsidized organisation subordinated to the Ministry of Culture of the SR. As the only organisation of its kind it has a nation-wide competence and it represents the state in the area of general cultural activities as defined by the effective legislation.

Important national events organised and guaranteed by the National Culture Centre from the beginning of their existence include:

Východná Folk Festival – the paramount festival of traditional folk culture
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The Scenic Harvest – the paramount national theatre festival with international participation – the highlight of the amateur theatre and artistic recitation season
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Why I am happy in the world - an Original Slovak Art Project, The key project of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic aimed at drug addiction prevention
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Days of Traditional Culture – an international project connecting traditional culture activities with educational events among the Visegrad Four countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary)