A video made by Christiane Hommelsheim ( https://www.christianehommelsheim.de/ ), in Reichenow, January 2023 during the Weaving Voices as Threads of Community Erasmus+ project. The video was created as a material for the project exhibitions, while it stands also as an independent piece.

The video has been recorded during a voice improvisation while participants individually has taken place in a separate black room to listen the sounds of the improvisation. The spectator of the video can hear the choir improvisation and see the micro-movements on the face of the hearing person which together can create a poetic montage in the mind of the spectator.

Walli Höfinger; Laurent Stéphan; Hannah Butterfield; Dr Gillian Dyson; Marika Wittmar; Orsolya Hollósi; Géza Pintér-Németh; Rosa Smits; Vera Jónás; Wendela Löfquist; Nina van Hartskamp; Teresa Brayshaw; Tara Khozein; Judit Biksz.

This was the Menu Party of our team in Baranya county to choose the shows for 2025 for the villages of our network: Hosszúhetény, Alsószentmárton, Szajk, Szalatnak, Vásárosbéc. The touring season of Sparse PLUS – Supporting & Promoting Arts in Rural Settlements of Europe is designed around the theme of family and children. More details are coming soon about the next international touring season.

One of the project results, the Weaving Voices book is available on our page.

We presented the results of the Weaving Voices project in Baranya county, in the villages of Szajk and Hosszúhetény. Participants could learn the basics of weaving and watch a short film about the project.

The short documentary about the workshop in Szalatnak is also available here.

Sinum Theatre Laboratory Association as coordinator will share the results of the Weaving Voices Erasmus+ project after two years:

• The Weaving Voices book as a summary of the community development toolkit of the project
• Documentary film about the “Szalatnak WV week”
• Photo gallery and textile handwork exhibition which were created during the project.

The dates of the coming events:

14th December in Hosszúhetény

15th December in Szajk

Find out more about the project on this link:

https://fb.watch/tphsYe1GXb/

This is how we handed over the community carpet of Szalatnak Község Önkormányzata as the main aim of our “walking performance” on the 8th June 2024, where during the walk we recalled from the past different stories which then met and merged in one carpet as different threads of life-stories. Thank you to all the participants and to the Weaving Voices as Threads of Community Erasmus project.

Photos by Norbert Molvay

• Weaving workshop residency in Szalatnak with Rosa Smits (the Netherlands), from 7 to 12 May, in between 10:00-12:00 in the Cinema Hall and 16:00-18:00 outdoor in front of the Church (in case of bad weather inside the Cinema Hall).

• Plant dyeing and Land Art workshop, with Nina van Hartskamp (the Netherlands), from 21 to 26 May. More details are coming soon…

• Bündeltanz, a one act historical performance by the Oberon Theatre Company based in Pécs, directed by Krisztián Ákli. The show will be on the 4th of June at 20:00, in front of the old barn, in the garden of the house of Kossuth street 4.

We hava realized our menu party to celebrate and to finalize the rural touring program for this year in the villages of Vásárosbéc, Alsószentmárton, Szajk, Hosszúhetény and Szalatnak. The final program is comimng soon.

Participatory theatre, puppet show, dance and circus will arrive in our villages from April to May this year.

Big thank to Gabriella Poór for the hospitality in Hetény, and to Beáta Kálmán from Szajk, to Eszter Bánki and Zoltán Popa from Vásárosbéc for coming to plan together the details.

Looking forward to make the first year of Sparse PLUS – Supporting & Promoting Arts in Rural Settlements of Europe