About walls and bridgesArts education as intercultural communication

Arts4all meeting 3rd October – 5th October 2014Riga, European Capital of Culture

I N F O P A C K E T

The Arts4all meeting in 2014 is linked to the 9th International Children’s and Youth Art Exhibition “Stories of Today” and we will participate in its opening ceremony on October 4th at Castle of Lights.

Due to societal changes arts education nowadays is intercultural communication. In-tercultural communication in this case isn’t understood as communication between different nations, but also as communication between different lifestyle groups. That involves also communication between different generations, social milieus, nations and religions, between students and teachers, between digital natives and digital im-migrants, between punk rock fans and techno-culture and so on. Arts education is re-lated to the whole human being. It therefore is predestined for broad and inclusive pro-cesses of intercultural communication and learning. This requires certain competences by the art pedagogue and may change arts education practice. Children and youngsters living in Europe should be enabled to perform self-confident as European citizens with-in a globalized world. In creative processes children and youngsters learn to communi-cate in an aesthetic way. They may apply or deconstruct different cultural symbols and codes, iconography or stereotypes, which they find in a globalised world. Thus artistic process might be considered as intercultural communication, too. But what are the surrounding conditions to speak of arts education as intercultural communication?

Linked to the 9th International Children’s and Youth Art Exhibition “Stories of Today” the Arts4all conference is to discuss about chances and difficulties of arts education as intercultural communication in a globalized world. We would also like to invite Latvian Arts Schools participating in the exhibition to take part in the Arts4all conference and European Arts Schools participating in the Arts4all meeting ask to take part in the ex-hibition.

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Accomodation & CostsThanks to Riga City Council and by Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Arts we are able to offer free accommodation in double rooms at Konventa Seta Hotel, Riga Kaleju 9/11 http://www.hotelkolonna.com/konventa-seta/. Participants will have to cover costs for travel, food and private expenses themselves.

Follow the lectures and discussion of the Arts4all meeting “About walls and bridges” live on the internet:https://www.connectcast.tv/ltvideo

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SceduleFriday, 3rd October, Castle of Lights, Mūkusalas 3, Riga

10.30 to 12.00 o’clock: Welcome to RigaConference’s Opening: Organisational matters by Vilnis Heinrihsons, Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Arts and Julia Nierstheimer, German Federal Association of Youth Arts Schools. We welcome the delegation of Riga’s twincity BremenEverybody shortly introducing him/herself and his/her organisation (2 min./Person)

12.00 to 13.00 o’clock: Short best practice Presentations from Arts4all members- Presentation of the Arts4All project “Walls and bridges. Stories of love and hate. Likes and dislikes” - Andrea Siamis, Quatier gGmbH, Bremen, Germany - Joost Goothals, Fotohuis, Brugge, Belgium

13.00 to 14.00 o’clock lunch break

14.00 to 14.45 o’clock: Results from the intercultural exploration “Kunst-Code“ (finished in 2010) of German art schoolsLecture by Julia Nierstheimer

14:45 to 15:45 o’clock: Short best practice Presentations from Arts4all members- Gudula Treftzger, Youth Arts School Freiburg, Germany- Liv Grud Vestbjerg, The National Union Children Art and Imagination, Denmak- Arie Keijzer, Schoolen in de Kunst, Amersfoort, Netherlands

15.45 to 16.30 o’clock Arts and inter-cultural education Lecture by Rolf Witte, International Relations Officer of BKJ, the German Federation for Arts Education and Cultural Learning 16.30 to 17.30 o’clock: Pride, boom and shock! What do you want and do not want to know about the communication of art in Latvia? Lecture by Anda Rožukalne, Riga Sradins University

17:30 to 19.00 o’clock: Stories of Today (keynotes in Latvian, English interpreted)“Stories of Today” and the short isight into a history.Keynote by Dina Luse, head of Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Arts ”Stories of Today”. Why I find it important. Keynote by Iveta Laure, Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Arts

Evening: Exploring Riga

Moderators: Peter Kamp, Vilnis Heinrihsons, Anu Hietala

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Saturday, 4th October, Castle of Lights, Mūkusalas 3, Riga

10.00 to 10.45 o’clock: Public Art with the participation of whole community in Finnish art schoolsLecture by Marketta Urpo-Koskinen, Director Lohja Art School for Children and Young People, Finland

10.45 to 11.30 o’clock: The Art Teacher, Student and their Visual LiteracyDace Paeglite, Art educator, Lecturer, Mag. Art, Deputy director, Pardaugavas Music and Art school, Riga, Art Department

30 min. break

12.00 to 15.00 o’clock: Opening ceremony of the exhibition “Stories of Today” Performance “Art and Communication”, opening speeches (officials); announcement of jury and greeting of prize winners; drinks and snacks afterwards

16.00 to 17.00 o’clock: Working Group: ExtraCurricular ArtEducation is popular in Flanders – reflection about goals in arts educationInput and best practice example with Daniël Vandersmissen, Onderwijssecretariaat van de Steden en Gemeenten van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap and Wim Smet, Artschool Hamme, Dominique Selen / Ann Moelans, SASK Turnhout and Christophe Meul, Ge-meentelijke Kunstschool, Borsbeek

17.00 to 18.30 o’clock: Discussion the Capital of Culture- Presentation by Aiva Rozenberga, Programme Director of the Foundation „Rīga 2014”.

Evening: Exploring Riga together – snacks at cafe Betanovuss and visiting culture and art project Noass

Moderators: Nadja Höll, Vilnis Henrihsons, Peter Kamp

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Sunday, 5th October

Meet at Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Arts10.00 to 14.00 o’clock: Visiting Arts schoolsExcursion to Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Arts and toPārdaugavas School of Music and Arts Bolderājas School of Music and ArtsIncluding break for lunch before visiting Bolderājas School of Music and Arts

Bolderājas School of Music and Arts 14.00 to 15.00 o’clock: New Alliances for EuropeKeynote by Rolf Witte

15.00 to 16.30 o’clock: The Arts4All NetworkPreparing next meeting(s), Finding more members, finding ad unit, staying in touch between the meetings, Financing the network, official ending.

Moderators: Peter Kamp, Julia Nierstheimer

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BEST PRACTICE presentat ionsFriday, 3rd October 12.00 to 13.00 & 14.45 to 15.45

Andrea Siamis, Quartier gGmbH,Bremen/Germany

Peter Kamp, Chairman, Federal Association of Youth Art Schools in Germany (bjke e.V.)

Within two hours six projects of European art schools are shortly presented: “Walls and Bridges. Stories of Love and Hate. Likes and Dislikes” is the first bi-national youth exchange, which is inspired by and directly liked to the Arts4All network. Peter Kamp, chaiman of Federal Assisiation of Youth Art Schools in Germany will give us first impres-sions about it.

Andrea Siamis from Bremen/Germany is head of the dependence of Quartier gGmbH in the area of Tenever. As an example of her com-munity based intercultural work she will present a youth art project vorBild, an intercultural project, she ran in Bremen.

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BEST PRACTICE presentat ionsFriday, 3rd October 12.00 to 13.00 & 14.45 to 15.45

Discussing “Snapshot” Joost Goethals, lecturer at Fotohuis Brugge/Belgium talks about the importance to collaborate with cultural partners within the city. “Escaping ahead” is the title of Gudula Trefzgers presentation, head of Freiburg Art School/Ger-many about a music video project with unattended refugees from war zones. Liv Grud Vestbjerg, chairman of the national union of children, art and pictures from Aarhus/Denmark points out a new situation about building bridges between different organi-sations, aesthetic fields and social groups in the area of youth culture in Denmark. Arie Keijzer, director of Schoolen in de Kunst, Amersfoort/Netherlands presents the schools new building and talks about relevant organisations in the Netherlands.

Joost Goethals, lecturer at Fotohuis Brugge/Belgium

Escaping ahead

Liv Grud VestbjergNational union ofchildren, art and pictures Aarhus/Denmark

Schoolen in de Kunst, Amersfoort/Netherlands

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ABSTRACTS of the lecture

Results from the intercultural exploration

“Kunst-Code“ of German art schools Friday, 3rd October 14.00 to 14.45

Julia Nierstheimer,executive director, Federal Association of Youth Art Schools in Germany (bjke e.V.) julia.nierstheimer@bjke.dewww.bjke.de

From 2008 to 2010 the federal association of art schools in Germany (bjke) ran the project. “Kunst Code. German Arts Schools in Intercultural Dialog” with 12 art schools situated all over Germany. Investigating the intercultural qualities of their works they pointed out four chapters of interest: barriers of accesses and new target groups, in-tercultural education in cooperation with schools, kindergartens and migrant organiza-tions, potentials of integration with and though the arts and mobility and the potential of youth exchange within Germany. What they learned may indicate certain markers of a professional attitude for inclusive practice in arts education. Focusing on barriers of access some of those results will be presented.

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ABSTRACTS of the lectures

Every concept of projects, programs and activities in the field of arts and cultural edu-cation has to take into account the actual situation of our societies. Therefore diversity, migration and intercultural learning have to play a role in good quality arts education offers of our days. Which quality criteria can be formulated to raise the awareness of arts and cultural educators for this issue?

Arts and inter-cultural educationFriday, 3rd October 15.45 to 16.30

Rolf WitteInternational Relations Officer of BKJthe German Federation for ArtsEducation and Cultural Learningwww.bjke.de

The EU 2020 strategy is focused on growth and jobs. Arts and cultural education has more or less vanished from the political agenda. What possibilities do we see to broad-en the quality and outreach of arts education all over Europe during the next years? Which stakeholders of civil society and administration have to join forces to make some steps forward.

New Alliances for EuropeSunday, 5th October 14.00 to 15.00

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Lecture reflects the research of different art and culture media in Latvia by analyzing new cultural information portals that have been recently established and developed in Latvia. Research data include information about the structure, content and audience behavior of different portals that elaborate information about the art and culture in Latvian, Russian and English.In order to find out correlations between the content of culture media and the even-tual audience, the study provides the analysis of the communication of culture media.The data of this particular research are interpreted in the context of a variety of views on cultural journalism functions in Latvia and other countries. Specifically, cultural media content analysis allows to make conclusions about the editorial policy, content diversity and quality of information provided by different culture media. Research data analysis shows the shocking disproportion between the content offered and theaudience ‘s response to the content, allowing to create discussion about the Internet audience as users, citizens or consumers of information on art and culture. Audience data of culture media are analyzed in the context of media functionalist approach, me-dia use and gratification theory and the understanding of the public sphere (Habermas) .

Photo: Edijs Pālens, LETA

Anda Rožukalne, PhD, assoc. prof., Head of Department of Communication Studies, Director of Journalism Studies Program Faculty of Communication, Riga Stradins University, e-mail: anda.rozukalne@gmail.com; anda.rozukalne@rsu.lv, Latvia

ABSTRACTS of the lecture

Pride, boom and shock! What do you want and do not want to know about the communication of art in Latvia?

Friday, 3rd October 16.30 to 17.30

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Dina Luse, Art educator, head-mistress of Mara Muizniece Riga School of Artmmrms@riga.lv, Lv, Latvia

ABSTRACTS of the lectures

The Ninth International Children’s and Youth Art Ehxibition „Stories of Today” takes place in the new building of the National Library in October 2014. It is the second time when during exhibition International conference goes on where representatives of art schools from different European countries meet each other. Twenty years long way. How it looks like? Where are we now? What is waiting for us in the future?

In my presentation I will tell how idea of international exhibition have started and de-veloped. Short information about every previous exhibition will be announced. Some plans for the future will be outlined.

„Stories of today“ and the short isight into a history

Friday, 3rd October17.30 to 19.00

ABSTRACTS of the lectures

Photo: Raumars.org

Iveta Laure, art educator,artist, Mag. Art, teacher at Mara Muizniece Riga Art schooliveta.laure@inbox.lv

„Stories of today“. Why I find it importantFriday, 3rd October 17:30 to 19.00

In my speech “Why I Find It Important” I will tell how and why the youth art exhibi-tion’s theme “Stories of today” was found, dedicated to communication in the 21st century.

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ABSTRACTS of the lectures

Public Art with the participation of whole

community in Finnish art schoolsSaturday, 4th October, 10.00 to 10.45

Marketta Urpo-KoskinenDirector, Lohja Art School for Children and Young People, Finlandmarketta.urpo@lohjanseudunkuvataidekoulu.fihttp://www.lohjanseudunkuvataidekoulu.fi

Art Navigator 2, a development project for contemporary art education, was launched in the fall of 2012 and involved eleven visual art schools across Finland. Student-cen-tered pedagogy was at the heart of this development project. The shared theme was “Urban Art,” and the entire community – teachers, students and local residents – par-ticipated.In recent years, both urban and community art have increasingly expanded, both in scope and in application. Our project has reacted to this moment. Student-centered pedagogy is considered important, yet the main question is how to apply more of such pedagogy in art education.One of the project’s main goals was to find opportunities for teachers and students to work together. Teachers certainly have a great deal of experience with urban and community art, but how does one make use of this experience as part of a school’s program? In the Art Navigator 2 Project, teachers and students formed working groups in which they studied, discussed, created, and executed diverse urban art ventures. The teachers did not offer any ready-made concepts, and the students were engaged in the undertaking right from the beginning.The creative process was documented throughout, and the related descriptions were written jointly by students and teachers at the end: What was done and why? What happened? Was the result successful? What might be done in future such projects? The project also contributed to developing activities in the schools themselves, which attained more awareness in their local areas.The results can be seen on the project’s web pages. In several visual art schools around Finland the art festival of light, “Light wins over the darkness,” was held simultaneously on the 14th of November, 2013. In the fall of 2014, the project partners organize a trav-eling exhibition, and the magazine presenting the final projects is being published.

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The art teacher, the student and their

visual literacySaturday, 4th October, 10.45 to 11.30

The learning and communication between teachers and students are changing. Stu-dents more and more need to be able to make critical selection between the necessary and the unnecessary, between messages from the real and from unreal digital world. How ready are teachers to integrate nowadays images and the understanding semiotic systems in crowded school curriculum? How equiped are teachers to use nowaday im-ages in the post-literate age?The report is made as an information and as an insight in the Latvian Art School Educa-tion system, based on experiences in Pārdaugavas Music and Art school Art depart-ment www.pmms.lv during last 10 years trough: • The communication between teacher, student and community.• The Art school Curriculum – the innovations and difficulties in arts education process.The small scale local projects, exhibitions and environmental activities. • The co-operation with InSEA organization – platform for the intercultural projects with Baltic countries, Portugal, Brazil and South-Africa. • The retrospective visual insight in the history of organization of the International Children’s and Youth Art Exhibitions in Riga.Pardaugavas Music and Art School realizes the accredited 6 year curriculum “Visual and Plastic Arts” 20V21100 (2455 hours) consists of drawing, painting, composition, sculpture, introduction to the language of art, work with material, plain air workshop and the graduation piece. Since 2009 school more works on the framework of a new Curriculum (1460 hours + the ECO-workshops-handmade paper casting-paper works, graphic works, textile, mosaic and stained-glass workshop and contemporary art workshop, computer design). In this period in the school’s programme a special attention was paid on how to develop in students the understanding of the ecology and a friendly attitude towards the nature, how to find out the qualities of the naturally and industrially produced materials and to get acquainted with the responsible use of them, moreover to use all the previously mentioned in an attractive way for making the students’ works creative. Meanwhile an inter-subject connection was made between different school subjects like drawing and modelling, small scale design and composition, by exploring and depicting a united theme in the plane and space, however, using the different means of expression.

ABSTRACTS of the lectures

Dace Paeglite, art educator, lecturerMag. Art, deputy director, Pardaugavas Music and Art school Riga, Art Department, dacemaksla@inbox. lv, Latvia

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Daniël Vandersmissen, pedagogical counselor part-time art education at the Educational Secretariat of the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (OVSG) Brussel

Ann Moelansteacher and pedagogical coordinator school for part time art education, visual arts Turnhout

Christophe Meuldirector school for part time art education, visual arts Borsbeek

Working GROUP

Education in and through art Saturday, 4th October, 16.00 to 17.00

BACKGROUND

Part-time education in the arts is aimed at artistic education of children and adults and, in doing so, at providing a contribution to their personal development. Participants learn to critically approach and experience all art forms, as well as practising these art forms themselves, individually or in group (e.g. in an orchestra, dance group, or theatre company). In addition, part-time education in the arts gives young people who opt for a professional career in the arts the possibility to thoroughly prepare for higher education in the arts. Finally, part-time education in the arts adds substantially to high quality social and cultural life in Flanders. DKO is a supplementary form of education aimed at children (lower level), young people (intermediate level) and adults (upper level and only in the visual arts discipline also a specialist level). Participants enrol voluntarily and pay an enrolment fee. In part-time education in the arts there are four different disciplines: visual arts, music, wordcraft, dance. Part-time education in the arts is provided in 82,5 % of the municipalities in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. The sector currently comprises 168 colleges, of which 93 are for music, litera-ture and dance, 65 for visual arts, and 10 for music, literature, dance and visual arts. Approximately 173.000 students attend DKO. Most course participants are under the age of 18.

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Wim Smetdirector school for part time art education, departement visual arts Hamme

Dominique Selendirector school for part time art education, visual arts Turnhout

Working GROUP

THE WORKSHOP

1. Besides the usual program the school of Turnhout for part time art education also provide a customized visual education medium grade (intermediate level) for people with a limitation (disabilities). The presentation will give a small overview about this project.

2. The school for part time art education of Hamme prepared an overview about their cooperation with a primary school: education in art for education through art.

3. Lecture concerning the integration of new media and digital techniques in a non technical pedagogic environment. Situation - experiences - conclusions. Formal digital training versus creative instinctive and intuitive training in combination with classic arts. What is digital art, is it an addition to the traditional arts or has it a means of existence on its own.

4. As perhaps in every country and every education for any category of students set itself again and again the question of the learning objectives to be achieved in the arts (also in our part-time art education in Flanders). A compilation of quotes from the teachers of the school for part time art education in Aarschot gives an idea of what the teacher consider as the target of his or her art education.

So the subsequent or previous questions in this issue: which outcomes, who should determine these outcomes, and from where they are to be determined?

DISCUSSION questions afterwards

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Aiva Rozenberga, Programme Director of the Foundation „Rīga 2014”.

Saturday, 4th October 17.00 to 18.30

ABSTRACTS of the lectures

Challenges, main goals and first results of Rīga as the European Capital of Culture in 2014. Background of Rīga 2014 artistic concept and structure of the Programme. Role of citizens in shaping changes in the city and their quality of life through active involvement in Rīga 2014Programme.

Photo: http://riga2014.org/

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Get-together in Betanovus-Noass Saturday, 4th October 19.00 to 20.30

events of SOCIALIZATION

“Culture and Arts Project NOASS” is a creative intelligence association that is in the sixteenth year of its operating existence and is one of the oldest non-governmental arts and culture organizations in Latvia. NOASS’ goal is to participate in the formation of the Latvian and European cultural environment. In the main, NOASS supports the realization of contemporary arts projects in an urban environment, making art part of the daily lives of residents of Riga and visitors to the city.

The Naive Art Museum location is on AB Dambis, floating art gallerie BETANOVUSS.The Naive Art Museum of Latvia has defined its operating goal as being the collec-tion of works of naïve art, as well as their preservation, study and promotion. The Museum’s task is to preserve the cultural and historical heritage of naïve art for future generations and to use it to educate the general public.

Photos and text: http://www.noass.lv/

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events of SOCIALIZATION

Visiting Art schoolsSunday, 5th October 10.00 to 13.00

Excursion to Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Artswww.ars.lv

Pārdaugavas School of Music and Arts www.pmms.lv

Bolderājas School of Music and Artswww.bmms.lv

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GENERAL information

Arts4all. The European Art Schools NetworkArts4all is the network of art and culture schools and centres of creativity and their national associations in Europe founded in 2005. The members are national associations of art or culture schools and also single institutions as representatives for their country. Arts4all is therefore representing a huge amount of extra curricular activities for children, youth and adults in the field of nearly all artistic lines. They offer art projects, courses or workshops in short terms or continuous for all people – the talented and also the just interested ones.

Arts4all wants to enhance the vivid exchange of experts regarding the importance of extra cur-ricular cultural education for an open minded, creative and democratic society in Europe. Arts4all is a growing network for professionals in strategic and pedagogical work in art and cul-ture schools and centres of creativity in Europe with members and interested friends in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, and Sweden.

Contact: Arts4all c/o, bjke e.V. – Federal Association of Art Schools in Germany, Kurpark 5, 59425 Unna, Germany, Fon: ++49 2303 25 30 2 12, Fax: ++49 2303 25 30 2 25, Mail: info-bjke@bjke.de or julia.nierstheimer@bjke.de, www.arts4all.eu

Photos from last Arts4all meeting

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The Excursion October 5, 10.00 - 14.00

Meeting place - Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Arts, Gertrudes 36http://ars.lv

GENERAL information

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The way from the HOTEL to the Māras Muižnieces Riga School of Arts

The way from the HOTEL to the NATIONAL LIBRARY

GENERAL information

Leave tram at “Barona centrs”

Take tram No 6at “National Opera”

Take tram 2,4,5at “Grēcinieku iela”

Get off at “Nacionālā bibliotēka”

Walk throughthe old town

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We are planning to sit together in a very nice place - The Art Gallery

and Cafe Betanovus - Noass. It takes 10 minutes to go by feet from the National Library. October 4th, 19.00 - 21.00more info: http://www.noass.lv/about-us/

The Lunch break October 3rd, 13.00 - 14.00It takes 10 minutes to go by feet from the National Libraryhttp://materia.lv/

GENERAL information

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The way to the AirportIt takes 15 - 25 minutes to go by Taxi from the National Library and aproximately the same time from Bolderājas School of Music and Arts and also Hotel Kolonna. The price is from 14 to 18 Euro

GENERAL information

Patricija Baļjan - LV Dina Baumane - LV Iveta Biķerniece - LVJuris Bindemanis - LV Artūrs Blušs - LVIngūna Briede - LVIlze Bule - LVIvita Ceriņa - LVKristīne Cukura - LVArta Dzirkale - LVRolands Erķis - LVIlze Dilāne - LVAntra Galzone - LVJānis Galzons - LVElga Grīnvalde - LVVilnis Heinrihsons - LVMāra Kārkliņa - LVVelga Klints - LVGinta Kristjansone - LVVitolds Kucins - LVIveta Laure - LVKristīne Lazdāne - LVDina Lūse - LVInese Margēviča - LVLaila Meldere - LVInga Melne - LVIrēna Olekša - LVAgnese Ozoliņa - LVDace Paeglīte - LVDace Pudāne - LVVineta Ribaka - LVIlona Soļaņika - LVAgnese Staģe - LVAgnese Šimanovska - LVMāra Taivane - LVIngemāra Treija – Čivle - LV

Karen Marie Demuth - Den Jon Aslak Fintland - Ger Joost Goethals - Be Ingeborg von Hantelmann - Ger Anu Hietala - FinHendrik Jan Houtsma - NlNadja Höll - GerMinna Hyytiäinen - FinVirve Kallio - FinPeter Kamp - GerArie Keijzer - NlUrška Košica - SloJulia Nierstheimer - GerChristophe Meul - BeAnn Moelans - BeJukka Särkkä - Fin Marja-Leena Seilo - Fin Dominique Selen - BeAndrea Siamis - GerSigne Sindberg - DenWim Smet - BeGudula Trefzger - GerMarketta Urpo-Koskinen - FinDaniël Vandersmissen - BeLiv Grud Vestbjerg - DenRolf Witte - Ger

LIST of participants

This brouchure is prepared by Julia Nierstheimer and Vilnis HeinrihsonsPrinting is financed by Mara Muizniece Riga School of ArtsDesign and layout - Vilnis HeinrihsonsRiga, 2014