6 September · 09:00-12:30
Stari Grad, Museum of Stari Grad
A morning workshop on alternative imagination for people aged 18 – 25 who live, work or study on Hvar
How many times can you explain where the “best beach” is before you lose patience? What does the tourist season give Hvar, and what does it take away? How does it shape work, housing, the sea, friendships and family life, and for whom? What kinds of relationships does it create between people who arrive and people who stay? What does it make possible, and what does it prevent? What kind of life on Hvar might be possible if the season did not determine almost everything? And what if it did, but differently? What common pleasures do we not imagine, let alone pursue, while serving the machine of consumerism?
We invite a small group of young people who live, study or work on Hvar to spend an a morning investigating these questions together. We will begin with what you know: seasonal jobs, tourism or hospitality school, family rentals, crowded summers, winter life and everyday encounters on the island. Visitors (including us, the people running the workshop) are fair material for criticism and jokes. There will be room to complain, laugh, exaggerate, disagree and invent.
This is not a lecture, and there is no correct position on tourism. No artistic experience or special knowledge is needed. We are not looking for an “authentic island story” to take away and nobody is expected to arrive with a solution. We will talk, play, argue and try to imagine other ways of exchanging, hosting, caring, relating, and enjoying life on the island.
Together, we will decide what trace this meeting should leave.
We wanted to experiment with the encounter itself carrying from a different economic basis, so each participant will receive a small gift, in recognition of the value of your time, experience and contribution.
The workshop is facilitated by Valeria Graziano, researcher and educator based at University of Rijeka, and Morana Miljanović, writer and sailboat captain and teacher based on Korcula in the tourist season. Both Valeria and Morana are part of the Pirate Care project.
Send a brief expression of interest with your name and a few lines about yourself and what interests you about the subject to: kkenjar@gmail.com (please write JEDNO LJETO in the subject line)
Deadline: 30 August