2WARdS Europe 2nd project meeting, 20-23 February 2013 in Cēsis, Latvia

Programme of the meeting

20 February, Wednesday
15:20:
Organized bus for the group Riga airport - Riga centre - Ligatne - Cēsis
17:30:
Excursion to Ligatne former secret Soviet bunker
 
(70 km from Riga on the way to Cesis)
19:00 – 19:30:
 Arrival in "Kolonna" hotel in Cēsis
20:00:
 Dinner at the hotel restaurant

21 February, Thursday
9:00:
 Meeting at Cēsis New castle conference room
  - Presentation about Cēsis and Cēsis Culture centre
  - Presentations of German and Czech partners
10:30:
 Coffee break
10:50:
 Organizational questions and other partners' presentations
  - 15 min / partner to be concise and tell
  - at which stage he is in the project
  - the key questions he wishes to raise
  - the kind of production(s) he would like to carry out
13:00:
 Excursion through the castle
14:00:
 Lunch, Finnish group with Hannu arrives
14:45:
 Afternoon session – Latvian case studies
  - Presentation by Cēsis museum education specialist Evita Muceniece - educational game for youngsters “Cēsis Freedom fights”
  - Presentation “Both sides: interviews of participants of WW2” - Lelde Neimane, Museum of Occupation of Latvia video library
16:30:
 Coffee break
16:45:
 Discussions. Meeting with Cēsis youth group – participants of the project, which will collect war and conflict memories from elderly people in Cēsis
18:00:
 Excursion through Cēsis Old town
19:00:
 Dinner at café “2Locals”

22 February, Friday
9:00:
 Group meeting at Cēsis New castle conference room
  Collective methodological work:
  - Through the collection of memories of conflicts, what could be the important questions to be tackled at the project level?
 
- Which methods will be used to collect the stories?
10:30:
 Coffee break
10:50:
 Collective methodological work: (cont)
 
- How to restitute those memories and stories?
12:30:
 Visit to the Smithy of Ancient Jewelry in Cesis castle garden
13:15:
 Lunch
14:00:
 Collective methodological work:
  - Which kind of productions we would like to present at the end of the project?
  - How do we achieve this common goal in each country?
15:30:
 Coffee break
15:45 - 17:30:
 Collective methodological work (cont.):
  - Can we adopt a common time frame for the duration of the project with clear working steps?
  - What are the priorities for the next period?
  - Confirmation of the dates of the next meetings
  - Evaluation of the meeting
18:00: Optional – Concert in Cesis Exhibition Hall – Viktor Kozlitin: songs of Vladimir Vysotsky (in Soviet time famous and popular Russian singer-songwriter)
19:00: Dinner and informal evening, cultural program at cafe “Pie Raunas Vārtiem”

23 February, Saturday
  Departure to Riga
15:00: Workshop with Gerald Assouline for Cēsis youth group

 

An article about the meeting in the regional newspaper "Druva".

Photos of the meeting at Facebook.