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EVENTS INFORMATION
As part of the 2023 festival we have a selection of events including artist interviews, panel discussions, live performances and workshops. All of the Lacuna Festivals events are prepared, organised and delivered for free with Creatives from around the world volunteering to share the knowledge, skills and understanding from their artistic practice online or in person without charge. There are some quick links on the buttons below for a calendar overview and if you are wanting to join an event being hosted online on Lacuna Festivals Zoom. For more detailed event information, scroll down the page.
Artist Preview Night
Hosted by the Lacuna Festivals team from Lacuna Festivals HQ in Lanzarote. Come along, maybe bring a drink or snack, get comfy and settle in for an introduction to this year's Lacuna Festivals Metamorphosis 2023. Meet other participating artists from around the world, find out more about the festival origins and the people working behind the scenes as well as how to access all of the exciting and FREE events taking place as part of Lacuna Festivals Metamorphosis 2023.
We can't wait to meet all of the artists who are joining our community for the first time and to see returning artists once again!
Date & Time: 30th June at 7.30pm (GMT+1)
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festivals Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Inauguration - ArtenMala
Join the Lacuna Festivals team at ArtenMala, Mala, Lanzarote for the inauguration of our first physical exhibition. We have prepared an exciting, intriguing and at times challenging exhibition that examines the festival theme of 'Metamorphosis' from a number of perspectives.
The exhibition features a selection of physical artworks that respond to the theme of 'Metamorphosis', in a range of different, medias, techniques and styles that include mixed media hangings, abstract paintings and a hand printed risograph book.
There will be a bar available to buy drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Date & Time: 1st July at 6pm (GMT+1)
Language: English/Spanish
Bookings: N/A
Location: ArtenMala, Mala, Lanzarote
Upcycling Workshop - Melissa Lockwood
This is a workshop where I demonstrate simple ways to transform clothing items into updated new wearable items. For example turning a tee shirt into a skirt, a long sleeve tee shirt into a summer dress, pants into a skirt or Kilt.. The purpose is to inspired people to keep clothing items in use by updating them, rather than the fast fashion trend of discarding clothing after short term use. Instead we learn together to transform our clothing in a limitless manner of potential perpetual transformation. With every new version our clothing can transform as we evolve as human beings. In this upcycling workshop you will experience your clothing as an endless palate. This is a workshop you can join at any point as it will be repeating concepts.
Date & Time: 2nd July, 1-4pm (GMT+1)
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: YouTube
NB: Melissa will be going LIVE on Zoom on 4th July at 1pm to share live demonstrations, top tips and tricks and answer your questions about her three workshops!
Zero Waste Pattern Making Workshop -Melissa Lockwood
This is a fashion design workshop where I will demonstrate how people can create clothing, ranging from skirts to jackets with no fabric waste. I will share zero waste clothing patterns and talk about how to use geometric shapes to create clothing. This is a workshop you can join at any point as I will be around to repeat things.
Date & Time: 3rd July, 12-3pm (GMT+1)
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: YouTube
NB: Melissa will be going LIVE on Zoom on 4th July at 1pm to share live demonstrations, top tips and tricks and answer your questions about her three workshops!
The Butterfly effect - Melusine Brosse
Participatory workshop and creative event for visitors and artists alike.
Using commonplace supports and very simple medium such as A4 printer paper, cardboard waste, charcoal and ordinary gray pencil, visitors and artists present on the festival will be given the opportunity to create one or more drawings in an “all over” fashion. The works will be arranged together to create a collective artwork that will evolve throughout the festival, transforming and growing everyday, changing our individual sensitivities into a greater creation.
Because art is a collective treasure, let’s join our forces to create a unique artwork onsite!
Date & Time: 3rd-28th July, Mon-Fri 4-8pm (GMT+1)
Language: English/Spanish
Bookings: N/A
Location: Sala de Expocisiones el Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
Fashion Design with Pattern Area Waste Fabrics - Melissa Lockwood
In this workshop I will talk about fashion industry waste fabrics and how fashion designers can design with what they usually throw away. In this workshop I will share how to use radial projection to create cylindrical forms with the same shape pieces of pattern waste area fabrics created during mass production. Pre-watch an example here on YouTube and then join Melissa live at 1pm.
Date & Time: 4th July, 1pm (GMT+1)
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festivals Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Displaced Ukrainian Artists: The Impact of War on Artistic Practice
Moderated by Ukrainian artist Olena Kayinska, this panel discussion with displaced Ukrainian artists, who have lost their homes due to the war in Ukraine, migrated, and continue their art practice. In this discussion, we will explore how the loss of their homes has influenced their artistic practice.
The panel will feature several Ukrainian artists, who will share their personal experiences of displacement and how this has impacted their art practice. They will discuss the challenges they have faced as a result of displacement, including the difficulty of finding a new place to live and work, as well as the emotional toll of leaving behind their homes and communities.
The artists will also share how their art practice has been influenced by their experiences of displacement. They will discuss how their work has evolved in response to their new environment, as well as how it has been influenced by their memories and experiences of their former homes. They will also talk about how their work reflects their feelings of loss, longing, and hope, as well as the resilience and strength of the human spirit.
Through this panel discussion, we hope to shed light on the experiences of displaced Ukrainian artists and their unique perspectives on the impact of war on artistic practice. We also hope to encourage greater awareness and understanding of the human cost of conflict and displacement, as well as the role of art in healing and resilience.
Date & Time: 5th July, 5pm (GMT+1)
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festivals Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Introduction to Decoupage & Texture into Clay - Jane Platts and Beverley Porter
A practical joint workshop with mixed media artist Jane Platts and ceramicist Beverley Porter.
Learn transferable decoupage skills and techniques on how to impress foliage into clay.
Tools & equipment will be provided, with a materials fee of €3. Please bring any foliage, textured items, paper napkins you find interesting.
Date & Time: 6th July, 6-7.30pm (GMT+1)
Language: English (basic Spanish translation is available)
Bookings: N/A
Location: Sala de Expocisiones el Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
Experimental Printmaking Workshop - Elisabeth Kirschbaum
Using different materials to create structures or stencils you can leave your imagination free to create unique pictures. You will use intaglio inks and print on an intaglio press on good quality, specialist printmaking paper.
All materials and tools are provided with a material charge of €5 per person. Tuition and use of the printmaking equipment is free and there are no other charges. There are a maximum of 4 participants as the printmaking studio is a small space.
Date & Time: 7th July, 11am-3pm GMT+1
Language: English, German &Spanish
Bookings: Directly with Elisabeth via WhatsApp: 0049 1511 233 5956
Location: Mala, Lanzarote.
Inauguration - Sala Quirofano
Join the Lacuna Festivals team at Sala de expocisiones el Quirofano in Arrecife, Lanzarote for the inauguration of our second physical exhibition. We have prepared an exciting, intriguing and at times challenging exhibition that examines the festival theme of 'Metamorphosis' from a number of perspectives.
The exhibition features a selection of physical artworks that respond to the theme of 'Metamorphosis', in a range of different, medias, techniques and styles that include cut-through embroidery, photography and digital drawings.
Date & Time: 7th July at 6pm (GMT+1)
Language: English/Spanish
Bookings: N/A
Location: Sala de Expocisiones el Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
Unsettled Workshop - El Encuentro Collective
Unsettled Workshop is an artist talk with El Encuentro Collective members Andrea Ferran, Simone Tetrault, and Alessandro Businaro. In this digital workshop, the artist panel will present their research and process for Unsettled, a participatory theatre project that explores lived experiences of migration, precarity and social instability that will culminate in a live performance presentation in Lanzarote in autumn of 2023.
Unsettled explores narratives of liminality and transience through theatre and performance. The project examines experiences of uprooting to settle somewhere new and associated feelings of being unsettled by unfamiliar people, places, customs and traditions. It asks how acts of leaving, of arriving, or of waiting somewhere in between can impact individuals and communities. It looks at how families and communities are shaped by financial and social unpredictability and inconsistency. It gives voice to migrant and marginalised communities in Europe through the co-creation of new performance work with professional directors, actors and musicians.
Date & Time: 9th July at 12noon GMT+1
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Secrets and Notes - Kim-ling Morris
Secret loves, secret ambitions, secret hopes - things that can't be expressed in front of others will be given a voice and made physical as part of this performance piece. Kim-Ling Morris and Maureen McLaughlin will be reading out anonymous secrets which have been contributed via a sealed post box. Morris will stitch into the notes while McLaughlin will provide notes on the mandolin.
Secret Notes will be performed in Maureen's Bar, Cork, Ireland.
Date & Time: 10th July at 11am GMT+1
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Colour Explosion Stone Balance Workshop with Artist Odessa Ford
Learn how to incorporate vegan food coloring into stone balancing! Using the natural ingredients and materials to create bold, yet simple balances. We will discuss composition and digital images. Using only your phone cameras, you will photograph your work and learn how to enhance your photos.
Colour Explosion Stone Balance Workshop Materials Needed: Aluminum Pan or Baking Sheet disposable Liquid Food Coloring; all natural if creating in nature Powdered White chalk Spray bottles or paper cups gravel or sand, enough to fill your pan or baking sheet.
Date & Time: 11th July at 6pm GMT+1
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Slam It! METAMORPHOSIS Open Mic -Odessa Ford
Rules: Original Poem Written By You Must be Spoken! 3-6 Minutes in length, poems that go over will lose points.Voting will be in chat. Must use Metamorphosis as a theme in some way. Very open to interpretation. Winner will receive bragging rights!
Date & Time: 12th July at 6pm GMT+1
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Wing Making- Jane Platts
This workshop is making wings of the butterfly. It is a nod to the theme of the festivals this year Metamorphosis. Our made wings are a sign of our own Metamorphosis over the years.
Wear them and post to social media #Lacunafestivals #metamorphosis2023 #transformation
Date & Time: 13th July, 6-7.30pm (GMT+1)
Language: English (basic Spanish translation is available)
Bookings: N/A
Location: Sala de Expocisiones el Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
Weaving workshop - Elaine Foster-Gandey
Please bring an item of clothing you would like to recycled, this could be a T-shirt, top, skirt or trousers.
I will provide the basic tools and equipment and show you how to cut up your garment and weave it into a new design.
Please bring along: a garment to recycle (t-shirt, shirt, trousers, dress or skirt)
Date & Time: 15th July, 10am-1pm (GMT+1)
Language: English (basic Spanish translation is available)
Bookings: N/A
Location: Sala de Expocisiones el Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
Metamorphosis Conversations Podcast - Anum Farooq
A podcast led by festival artist Anum Farooq interviewing a selection of participating artists from Lacuna Festivals Metamorphosis 2023.
Tune in to find out what the 2023 theme of Metamorphosis means to our artists and how they responded to it within their practice.
Date & Time: 16th July at 8pm GMT+1
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festivals YouTube Channel
Back to 3023 (Imagine the World & art 1000 years from now) - Bianca Turner
What can we imagine the world and the art produced in it to be like in another century? How about two centuries? How about in a thousand years? My approach is from the biogenetic engineering point of view and I have already created a series of paintings with this theme.
Date & Time: 18th July at 7pm GMT+1
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Transgenerational Metamorphosis - Daniella Scimonelli
I would like to perform a shamanic ritual that can help pacify our morphic field and free ourselves from the painful memories of our ancestors. The morphic field, also known as the Field of Memories or Akashic Records, is a concept in the theory of morphogenesis that refers to the energy field that surrounds every living being and contains information about its development and evolution. In this morphic field, memories or records of the pain or suffering experienced or caused by our ancestors also remain.
Although these memories were experienced by those who came before us, they can still influence our present life and well-being. In fact, if we are tuned into these memories, we can also suffer, and this can manifest in various ways, such as anxiety, depression, guilt, health problems, and much more. For this reason, it is important to work on reconciling the morphic field and harmonizing energies. Through a shamanic ritual, we can undergo a transgenerational metamorphosis and free ourselves from the chains of the past.
We will perform this ritual within a Shamanic Yoga class. Shamanic Yoga is practiced in a state of ecstasy, which is achieved through breathing and is called the imaginary forest. We will invoke our ancestors and reconcile our field. I will also have my drum. In this way, we will undergo a transgenerational metamorphosis, freeing ourselves from the negative memories of the past and opening the way to a more peaceful, healthy, and happy life.
Date & Time: 19th July, 10am (GMT+1)
Language: Spanish
Bookings: N/A
Location: Sala de Expocisiones el Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
Facets of Change - Deborah Root, Marton Pongracz & Althea Mallee
An open dialogue focusing on change and metamorphosis. This roundtable discussion will include several themes from philosophical, historical, and spiritual topics to individual and collective understandings. We will discuss these topics’ more general implications in the arts and specifically in connection to the exhibition and Lacuna Festivals Metamorphosis 2023.
Date & Time: 20th July at 5pm GMT+1
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Metamorphosis 2023 Catalogue Launch
This year we are honored to have the super talented Armando Rotondi on board designing and editing the official catalogue.
Armando Rotondi is a performance maker, academic, playwright and journalist. He leads the MA Programme in Creative Performance Practice at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance. He is director of the journal “Mise en Abyme” (part of the cultural association IDEA) and is a member of many editorial boards. For more than 10 years he was Director of Publishing at Bel-Ami Edizioni (Italy) and for two years was Lecturer in Publishing Management at the University of Verona.
Come along to the catalogue launch and see what magic he has worked.
Date & Time: 21st July at 5pm GMT+1
Language: English
Platform: Lacuna Festivals YouTube Premiere
Scatto in Avanti - Werther Germondari
The performance is reversing the most classic situation of a photo session, that is 'naked model - dressed photographer'. Come along to this interactive event and have your portrait taken by our naked photographer.
Date & Time: 22nd July, 6pm (GMT+1)
Language: N/A
Bookings: N/A
Location: ArtenMala, Mala, Lanzarote
Kaspar or vibrations of a body that has never danced - Baejjahn Dance Company
It is the story of a (semi-) wild child kidnapped shortly after birth and locked in a cell for political reasons. He will thus grow up outside civilization. Despite his imprisonment, he manages to build an identity in accordance with nature and the universe. One day, however, he is brutally thrown into society. A second shock to him, disrupting his existential paradigm. What will he gain ? What begins ? What ends ? This dance performance is about the origins of language, and the relationship between language and the process of humanization.
Date & Time: 23rd July at 7pm GMT+1
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival YouTube channel
Arts & Disability Round Table Discussion
Moderated by Lacuna Festivals Director Sarah-Jane Mason and including panelists Zita Holbourne, Anum Farooq, Mike Savuica and Molly Goehring who suggested this event for Metamorphosis 2023. This round table discussion is focused on the following key thinking points:
· What does disability mean to you?
· What does accessibility mean to you?
· Do you find the descriptor ‘disabled artist’ empowering/helpful or not? Why?
· Has your lived experience of disability affected your art? How?
· When has the capitalist concept of ‘powering through’ affected you?
· Who is in the room and who is missing from the conversation?
Date & Time: 24th July at 7.30pm GMT+1
Language: English
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Electric Awakening - Al Limite Collective
Electric Awakening is a virtual and experimental, ensemble-driven physical performance inciting collective liberation. Through primal choreographed movement, live sound and a unique sequence of participatory rituals, we aim to disentangle our collective psyches from the death grip of internal and external oppression.
As the world struggles with increasing injustice and crises, Electric Awakening responds directly to the immediate social conditions of the here and now, where both audience and performers create instant community in search of new connections and ontologies.
Date & Time: 25th July at 6pm GMT+1
Platform: Lacuna Festival YouTube Channel
Dance Therapy Workshop - Michela Montrasio
Our body is our home. A dance teacher of mine used to say that we rent our bodies. What is certain is that our whole history, our traumas, our emotions are sedimented in our body, everything is embodied in the tissues. When we put our body in motion and, in particular when we discover and experiment with different ways of moving, breaking the mold, we put all the levels of our being in motion and we enter the terrain of the unknown which opens up to transformation, to metamorphosis as form and content are one, they are closely related.
This is an experiential movement workshop rooted in the therapeutic qualities of dance.
Date & Time: 26th July, 10am (GMT+1)
Language: Spanish & English
Bookings: N/A
Location: Sala de Expocisiones el Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
Initiation - Michela Montrasio
Initiation is the latest and new work by Michela Montrasio. A video-performance to propitiate and celebrate the encounter with the Divine Feminine, our soul. A ritual to favor a metamorphosis and the evolutionary process of being, drawing on ancestral gestures and elements full of sacredness.
The performance is configured as a real initiation ritual to be reborn to oneself through reunification with one's Soul, with one's divine part. The performance is related to the theme of metamorphosis to be understood in a spiritual and alchemical sense. It is a sort of sacred marriage between the human and the divine, an elevation to a next step which passes in particular by integrating the Sacred Feminine.
The performance consists of live action and a video projection.
Date & Time: 28th July, 8pm (GMT+1)
Language: N/A
Booking: N/A
Location: Sala de Expocisiones el Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
The Last Dance - Lacuna Festivals
Join the Lacuna Festival Team for an online gathering like no other - an end of festival event where we can share a drink, a dance ora snack and reflect on the 2023 festivals.
We want to know what you have loved and what you weren't fussed about? What was your highlight of the month? How can we make things better next year? And perhaps most importantly, what themes might we put to the vote for Lacuna festivals 2024?
Feel free to grab a drink and/or a snack, or simply just pull up a pew and enjoy coming together with creatives from around the world in this relaxed and informal setting.
Date & Time: 30th July at 2pm GMT+1
Language: Mixed (host language is English)
Bookings: N/A
Platform: Lacuna Festival Zoom
Passcode: 2023
Living Statue 'The Metamorphosis' - Hakime Bal
This is an interactive living statue performance expressing the metamorphosis of human beings;
“…at what point did the silkworm die after having shut itself up in the cocoon and bolted the door, how was it possible for the life of one to have been born out of the death of the other, the life of the moth out of the death of the worm, and for them to be the same but different, or did the silkworm not die because the moth still lives. …”
“…the silkworm didn’t die, there was no corpse inside the cocoon when the moth had left, but, as you said, one was born out of the death of the other, It’s called metamorphosis, everyone knows that, said the apprentice philosopher condescendingly, That’s a very fine-sounding word, full of promises, and certainties, you say metamorphosis and move on, it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things, themselves …” Jose Saramago (Death with interruptions)
As Saramago says in his book, we are not the person we used to be yesterday. And on this point, we want to show people that transformation can help us to reach a better version of ourselves. We are waking up being a different kind of moth after the pandemic. Having old selves dying to then live through a better version of us day by day.
Date & Time: 30th July, 6.30pm (GMT+1)
Language: N/A
Bookings: N/A
Location: ArtenMala, Mala, Lanzarote
Clausura - ArtenMala
Join the Lacuna Festivals team at ArtenMala, Mala, Lanzarote for the official closing event of Metamorphosis 2023. There will be a bar available to buy drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Date & Time: 30th July at 6pm GMT+1
Language: English/Spanish
Bookings: N/A
Location: ArtenMala, Mala, Lanzarote