NETWORKING MEMORIES

The Networking Memories project created a durable network between 8 civil society organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Kosovo and Serbia (DAH Theater) aimed to involve citizens in the conception and implementation of joint activities. The NETWORKING MEMORIES project aims to explore the memories of the time of Yugoslavia- among the younger generation who never actually lived in it – that is why these memories and feelings, although strong, are borrowed (from parents, family, school, media…)As a result of this specific work, a kind of MUSEUM OF MEMORY and a theatrical play will be created from the artifacts and stories of the participants. The project was implemented in Pristina, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Rome and Trentino. [2011-2012]

BORROWED MEMORIES
Performance premier on June 30th- at DAH Theater

The play is inspired by the memories of Yugoslavia, the memories of young people who did not actually live in it.

Performers: Predrag Kotur, Sonja Mladenov, Slobodan Roksandić, Milica Stefanović

First Act: YU TUBE

Text and Direction: Aleksandra Urošević

Text Collaboration: Jeton Neziraj

Scenography: Ivana Lovre

From any relationship that has a history, intimacy is inevitably born. Even conflict creates intimacy. With this play, we wonder where that intimacy goes after parting. We take the past as the cause and the present as the consequences. We look at the past from the present perspective. Who knows how many times we conclude – “maybe we ended up with the past but the past did not end with us.” Nostalgia no one can take away, it belongs to everyone.

*quote from the film Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Second Act: FAREWELL

Dramaturgy and co-direction: Sanja Krsmanović Tasić

Actor’s text and research participants: Muhamed Filipović, Georgi Stardelova, The RITAM NEREDA Group, Karl Marx, Marko Raguža, Jetona Neziraja and Sanja Krsmanović Tasić

Four actors go through the ritual of FAREWELL through the characters of Mother Serbia, the Risen Earth who had the sea, the One Who Believes, and the Sacrificed Son. What is it that needs to be sent, in order for the new and different, and maybe – better, to be welcomed? How to get out of the vicious circle of our cursed heritage? Have we sent enough sons and daughters to “fight for our people”, or to some distant country where a better life is possible? It’s time to get ready for happy welmcoings, there were a lot of farewells.

We thank Boris Čakširan, Ivona Tomić, Iva Musović.


MUSEUM OF MEMORY
Opening on April 27 at 7 pm at DAH Theater

Artifacts brought (objects, photographs, objects, etc.) from and in connection with the SFRY period will be exhibited in the Museum of Memories within the project Networking Memories.

As part of the opening, DAH Theater will present a part from the play “Tender, Tender, Tenderly”

PARTNERS IN THE PROJECT: ARCS ARCI, DAH THEATER RESEARCH CENTER, I HAVE THE GARIWO LOOP, QENDRA MULTIMEDIA
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
Project supported by the European Union – IPA program and ERSTE Banke