Get Out Fest

Get Out Fest

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2010/ URBAN ACTIVATION/
Poze

ABOUT THE PROJECT

“Get Out Fest” was an event organized on a little island in Tineretului Park. The island is an undeveloped and unmaintained space, but it is used by many people for relaxation, for contemplation, for fishing and for sun bathing. The concept behind the event “Get Out Fest” was that public space is ours and we have the right to negotiate it and to shape it according to our needs and visions.

We wanted to show the potential, but also the beauty of the small island, to show new ways of spatial development. After long negotiations with City Hall, to whom the park belongs, we obtained the necessary authorization for the event. Subsequently, we negotiated with the Park’s Administration and we got their support: Mrs. Mihaela, the tireless manager of the park, sent us people who mowed the tall grass, which made half of the island unmanageable, but also a tractor driver who helped us transport all the logistics to the respective place.

The event was symbolically placed on an island; the participants were “refugees” in an urban oasis, to which we gave life and colour, enjoying it for a day. What we planned there: musical auditions, painting workshops for children, juggling, playing in hammocks, an alternative library in open space and film projections.

The pupils that we supported and guided in organising this small one day festival came from “George Cosbuc” and  “Ion Neculce” High schools and the event was organised within the project “Closer to the future” implemented by Komunitas Association in May 2009 – June 2010.

The event from Tineretului Park came in continuation of the series of actions in public spaces within the “Closer to the future” project. It had been desired to be an intervention through artistic and cultural approaches, organised by youth that want to live in an alternative city.

We are all aware that Bucharest is a tough and chaotic place, which many times affects our way of life, but in this city there are also oases of tranquillity, green and glee, which we have to discover, but, most of all, we have to create and inter-connect them.

We remain hopeful that we would see each other on the island in big numbers and that this kind of symbolic ”islands” will someday form an ”urban archipelago”.

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