This time we bring artistic creation to the heart of the meeting program. We want to celebrate art both as a means of personal expression and as an energy that has the potential to change people, communities and our daily lives.

THURSDAY, 23th MAY

Registration, Introduction, Meeting, Collaborative Art

10:00 – 12:00 Registration

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:00 Introduction meeting

15:20 Walk to City Hall/ Competition

16:00 Opening of European Cultural Canon and performance by Olga Žitluhina dance company. In City Hall we will discover two modern Europeans, they are European citizens but very different in their “content”. These large, robust human figures will turn out to hold drawers filled with national treasures…

19:00 Dinner

21:00 Talk show with candidate members

22:00 Performance – Orbita

23:00 DJ Selffish

FRIDAY, 24th MAY

Working the Net, TEH Tinderbox, Training Workshops, Group Photo

9:30  Registration Local participants

10:00 Warm up with Aija Novicka

10:20 Working the net 1

10:40  Working the net 2

11:00 Break 20 min (or go to Tinderbox session no 1)

11.20 Working the net 3

11.40 Working the net 4

12.00 Lunch

14:00 Speach of Minister for Culture Žaneta Jaunzeme- Grende,

introduction to the Workshops

14.30–18.30 Workshops 1–8

18:40 Group Photo

19:00 Dinner

21:00 Talk show, drinks and DJ Andris Kuprišs

22:00 Performance Elvi/Dunian

23:00 DJ Andris Kuprišs

SATURDAY, 25th MAY

The Future Day, TEH General Assembly, Art Tour & Family Party

10:00 Warm up with Aija Novicka and introduction of the day

FOR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS                FOR GUESTS AND OTHERS

10:00 Future workshop                   10:00 – 13:00  Artists tour in Riga

12:30 Lunch                                    13:00 – 14:30  Lunch at NOASS

14:00 Future Workshop session 2  14:30 – 16:00  “Follow me” Collaborative art piece workshop

15:30 Break

16:00 General Assembly

18:00 Drink & Mingle

20:00 Dinner

21:00 Family party

23:00- 02: 00 DJ Indriķis Ģelzis

SUNDAY, 26th MAY

Sunday Outings

Option A

10:00 – 14:00 Long Excursion to Spilves Airport

Option B

Boat trip at Daugava river

* There may be a small changes in timing

Sponsors:

NOASS is opening a terrace with the best view in the city! Chef Martiņš offers not only to enjoy tasty fish and grill dishes, but also vegetarian dishes and other treats. And there is also a bar!

We are opened every day from 16:00 till the last gourmand. The official opening on May 12!

There will also be a variety of events throughout the Summer and we are bikes, dogs, boats and children friendly.

Information about the events:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/NOASS/

noass.lv

https://twitter.com/Noass_LV

Our address: AB dam Riga – 2, LV- 1048

Let the Summer begin!

This year Culture and Arts project NOASS marks the fifteenth year of existence.  In the new season NOASS have made special program for all Summer.

15th Anniversary year will start in the end of May with Trans Europe Halles (TEH), Independent Culture Centers meeting in Riga. TEH meeting in Riga will bring together more than 150 participants from 50 Cultural centers across the Europe. The reason of TEH meetings is to learn, share experiences, establish new contacts and develop cultural projects and initiatives. The meeting highlights city and also the country where it takes place, marking it in culture map as intersection of important ideas. That’s why NOASS have prepared a special event program, which will give participants opportunity to get acquainted with Riga as a city which is opened to contemporary culture developments. Besides, TEH 30 anniversary celebration party will take place in Riga!

Continuing the season an open-air cinema project “Film Island” will take place on AB Dam. During this project bright and attractive video programs from around the world will be shown to open-air screens.

14. – 17. June NOASS will become a home for contemporary dance festival “Time to Dance”, which is organized by the Latvian Professional Contemporary Dance Choreographers Association.

In 15^th season also the location of Latvian Naive Art Museum has changed. From June 2013 museum will be moved to floating art gallery BETANOVUSS (AB Dam 2, LV-1048, Riga). Museum will continue to show naive art works in contemporary art context. Visitors are welcome free of charge.

NOASS is still successfully participating in program “Artists in residence”. We are continuing to introduce the inhabitants of Riga with artists from other countries and their work, and in turn provide artists with the chance to discover Riga as a city of diverse contrasts by presenting the residency as an opportunity to get inspired.

See you there!

The 12th international “Waterpieces” contemporary and video art festival will as usual stimulate professional competition between video artists in the Baltic region, as well as provide a comprehensive insight into the latest global trends in art of the moving image through the presentation of selected programmes from renowned media and video art festivals. Among the selections on view during this festival will be short films from the futuristic urban British video art archive “Onedotzero”, the very best works from the technologically innovative “15th Japanese Media Arts Festival”, as well as a programme from the travelling video festival “CologneOFF” which focuses on geographic and artistic boundaries, while the impact of the crisis on art of the moving image will be reflected in “Austerity Measures” – a selection of videos compiled by Portuguese curator João Laia.

The festival programme will be enlivened by sets by Latvian VJs with participants including “Gas of Latvia” and F5 and performances by text group Orbīta, Kaspars Groševs, DJ Krii and $Kodek and TV Maskava.

The Program of “Waterpieces”

16 August – opening day of the festival

21:00 Presentation of the Baltics best audio-visual art works and awards ceremony

22:30  Text – group Orbīta performance / FM Slow Show

23:00 LV VJ set featuring:

“Gas of Latvia”;

“F5″

Zane Raudiņa un Jeļena Glazova “Reborn”

17 August – second day of the festival

21:00 Kaspars Groševs/ performance by deliberate

21:30 Curator João Laia’s (Pt) programme “Austerity Measures”

22:30 DJ Krii Kruu

23:00 “CologneOFF”- video art in a global context “Mexican Visions” programme

18 August – closing day of the festival

21:00 $Kodek and TV Maskava

21:30 “Onedotzero”- adventures in moving image programme “Citystates’10”

23:00 A selection of the best works from the “15th Japan Media Arts Festival”

Exhibition accompanying the festival: “4Dialogues” at NOASS gallery from 12:00-19:00, 15 – 30 August.

A lecture by the exhibition’s curator João Laia (Pt) will take place at 19:00 on 14 August on the NOASS floating arts centre.

Entrance free

The Jury of International Contemporary and Video Art Festival’s “Waterpieces” competition for the best Baltic audio-visual art work has been selected.

This year submitted competition works will be evaluated by a professional and competent jury representing the three Baltic countries:

Mārtiņš Ratniks – Artist, Lecturer at Art Academy of Latvia [LV]

Irma Stanaityte – Artist, Video Lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts [LT]

Raivo Kelomees – artist, art critic and New Media Lecturer at Tallinn Academy of Arts [EST]

Still until June 30 is possible to enter the competition! Check here how to apply.

Visit to the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum / June 1:

Participants: NOASS team together with artists Doron Polak (Israel), Eitan Vitkon (Israel), Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden), Doris Neidl (Austria), Jay Needham (USA), Ben Neufeld (USA), Shelley Jordon (USA) and curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) and our tour was led by Rabbi Menachem Barkahan

Artists Talks / June 1 – 2