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OPEN UNIT: events free and open to everyone
CLOSED UNIT: workshops reserved for preselected participants Inauguration of the Summer Scriptwriting Base "Digital Village"
A great chance to meet the lecturers, the mentors, and the participants and to have a welcoming drink. Institut Français - Sofia (18.07.2018 19:00-21:00) "Transmedia Storytelling" (lecture by Sytze Schalk)
During his keynote Sytze Schalk will talk about the history, practices and techniques around transmedia storytelling and he will connect these themes to his own work as a writer and designer for transmedia. Institut Français - Sofia (19.07 10:00-13:00) |
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"Immersive Experiences" (lecture/workshop by Simón Hanukai)
In this part lecture, part interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to the essentials of creating Immersive Experiences in the digital age. Immersive experiences, which have recently been taking the world by storm, take the audience out of their seats and place them at the center of the playing space. They transform the passive role of the spectator, into that of spect-actor and co-creator who is essential to the action and narrative of the performance. Immersive experiences challenge traditional performance methods and call for a new, more holistic, approach to storytelling. After receiving a crash course in the techniques, participants will create performative compositions, in order to experiment with this interactive form. Old School - Bozhentsi (21.07 18:00-21:00) |
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"Storytelling in a Converging World" (lecture by Aiste Ptakauske)
In a not-so-distant past, we could hardly imagine that we won’t need to go to a bookstore to get a book or to drive to a cinema to see a movie. However, now there is nothing more natural than watching films, reading books or playing video games on the same screen of a laptop, a tablet or a phone. Media convergence changed our patterns of content consumption dramatically. Consequently, the ways of creating content have changed too. Instead of focusing on creating content for one medium in particular (for instance, film, radio or television), content creators have to think about stories that could work across different media at the same time. Thus, we will discuss how to shape stories that have the power of captivating an audience that is impatiently jumping from one medium to another. Old School - Bozhentsi (22.07 18:00-21:00) |
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"Playing the System - New Narratives" (workshop by David Finnigan)
How do you turn a music festival into a game? How can you use your theatre to have a conversation with people who will never see your theatre? What happens when you threaten murder in the title of your play? In this workshop, we are going look at how theatre is tangled up in the complexity of the real world, how we can map that complexity, and make it work for us. Old School - Bozhentsi (24.07 18:00-21:00) |
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"Practical Toys for the Playful Playwright" (workshop by Caspar Schjelbred)
A play is not called a play for nothing. In this workshop writers will be invited to get active on the floor and concretely play with their ideas – as if they were directors or improvisational actors with a license to modify or even completely change the script. We will take spontaneous play seriously and use it methodically to generate new ideas from seemingly nothing and also to look afresh at older material. We will use creative acting exercises in combination with narrative improvisation techniques for the purpose of creating characters and situations from scratch, as well as for editing and rewriting existing scenes. Participants will work both individually and in teams; all will get ample opportunity to experiment with their ideas both as actors and directors. The workshop will be conducted in conjunction with the other two workshop and can be used by participants to elaborate what they write there – or to create and write something totally different, a complete scene at the very least. Old School - Bozhentsi (20.07 - 28.07) |
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"How to create an exciting story taking inspiration from Science" (workshop by Andrea Brunello)
“Story” is everywhere. “Story” is the way we perceive reality. Reality does not exist, only our perception of it exists, because reality is a creation of our (collective) brains. We need “story” to make sense of the world.. But… have all stories been told? Has every possible topic been explored? Is there still room for something new? The answer is affirmative and its key word is in front of our eyes: science! Science has brought us to perceive and imagine the world in new and exciting ways. For this reason scientific results can and should be brought at the heart of modern storytelling, because science is at the heart of our perception of reality. But how to do it? Starting from the principle that storytelling relies on rules as much as on personal intuition,in this workshop we will explore what are the fundamental elements of a good story and how to take a scientific topic and turn it into prime “storytelling material”. Taking inspiration from novel and profound scientific theories and ideas, each participant will work towards the development of an engaging story that will then be delivered to the rest of the group. This workshop is a continuation of Andrea Brunello's talk on how to find beauty in science from last year's edition of SSB. Old School - Bozhentsi (20.07 - 23.07) |
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