Limerick webinar: Eye of the River
This webinar for Memory of Water will open with an introduction to how Ormston House became involved with the Creative...
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Batumi webinar: The Golden Balance – Between Artistic Expression and Cultural Heritage Preservation
After more than a year of artistic collaboration with Georgia and the city of Batumi, Intercult invites you to a conversation...
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Stockholm webinar: Time Strollers – Stockholm, Water City in Transformation
A conversation between artists and experts on urban planning and cultural planning. In this webinar, Intercult invites...
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Govan webinars: Does ArtWash or does ArtWork?
1st Session "To Govan With Love" An evaluation of the 'remote' working practices imposed by the global pandemic. Chaired...
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Gdańsk webinar: Shipyard Anew – Sowing the Seeds of Change
Hosted by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk (Project coordinator: Magdalena Zakrzewska-Duda) In Gdańsk, the...
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Levadia webinar: From The Banks of Oblivion Into The Memory of Water
Levadia, partner of Memory of Water collaboration co-funded by Creative Europe, is taking the torch from Ostend, continuing...
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Ostend webinar: Sailing to a Brighter Future
It has been a long and amazing but also unpredictable journey, turning the intentions of Memory of Water into actual...
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Webinar series: Re-inventing Post-industrial Heritage through Culture
The Memory of Water team is delighted to share the programme of webinars that will profile the achievements of six partner...
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Podcast: Inês Cavaco & Hamish Rhodes
For our final podcast of 2020, Inês Cavaco and Hamish Rhodes share their experience of curating and coordinating the...
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Podcast: Roman Sebastyański
Roman Sebastyański curated the City Labs for the Memory of Water project at the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk,...
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Podcast: Agnieszka Wołodźko
Welcome to the Memory of Water podcast. In this episode, we meet Agnieszka Wołodźko who curated our artistic residencies...
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Podcast: t s Beall
t s Beall is a socially-engaged artist and researcher based in Glasgow and Dumfries. She works with communities on long-term...
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Podcast: Ira Brami
Ira Brami is a performance artist, mask-maker and artistic director. For the Memory of Water project, Ira Brami represented...
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Podcast: Mary Conroy
Mary Conroy’s work investigates humans’ connection with nature through socially-engaged practice, including participation...
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Podcast: Jonas Myrstrand
Jonas Myrstrand is the next guest on our Memory of Water podcast. He describes his dual role of artist and film-maker...
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Podcast: Siegfried Vynck
In episode two of the Memory of Water podcast, spray-can artist Vynck talks with Mary Conlon about how he became a full-time...
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Podcast: Iwona Zając
Welcome to the Memory of Water podcast. In our first episode, Artistic Director, Mary Conlon talks with Iwona Zając,...
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Reflection: Heritage Day in Ostend 2020
From the start of the project, the city of Ostend integrated the yearly tradition of Heritage Day into the MOW Project....
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Digital exhibition: Ollphéist
Inspired by the mythical water creatures of the River Shannon in Ireland, Ollphéist (transl. Fabulous Beasts) brings...
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Residency: Govan Pivot
Over the next two months, a series of public art projects will be happening across Govan, Glasgow, as part of Fablevision’s...
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Meeting: Local Development through Culture
The Municipality of Levadia participated in a meeting held in Athens on 18 February 2020 organized by the Hellenic Creative...
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Reflection: Heritage Day in Ostend 2019
In 2019, the city of Ostend also hat put a historic axis on Heritage Day central. On September 8, 2019, the seawall,...
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Reflection: Glass Water
Glass Water / Szklana Woda was a series of actions designed to highlight the intangible aspects of the former Lenin/Imperial...
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Reflection: Gdańsk through a Govan Lens
Some personal reflections from Govan based cultural planner, Liz Gardiner who is the Scottish partner on this Memory...
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Reflection: The Broadcast
I presented an event titled “The Broadcast” in reference to the pirate Radio Solidarność (Radio Solidarity) which...
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Reflection: Industrial Impressions
During our research residency in Gdańsk (June 2019), we decided to hop on this pirate ship to explore the shipyard...
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Reflection: Shipyard Footage
I continued my process of gathering footage to tell the story of our two-year journey of discovery together. This includes...
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Reflection: Seed Change
I wasn’t sure what to expect at Stocznia Gdańska. From the historical images I’d seen of the cranes, the...
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City Lab: Dreams to Fulfill in Gdańsk
MEMORY OF WATER // SHIPYARD A/NEW CITY LAB: DREAMS TO FULFILL 18 OCTOBER 2019 r. / Piątek Old Towna Hall, 33/35 Korzenna...
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City Lab: Transformation of the Gdańsk Shipyard
The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre will host a discussion forum about the future transformation of the shipyard area in...
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City Lab: Shipyard Anew
On 17 December in Gdańsk we summed up the project Memory of Water EU Creative Europe Shipyard aNew. We have collected...
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Residency: Gdańsk Production Residency
Memory of Water is an artist led project that explores the impact artists can have on post-industrial waterfront heritage...
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Reflection: On Govan
This was my first visit to Govan and the River Clyde and it was an eye opener for me in many ways. I had just visited...
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Reflection: This Body is in Danger
I took the intercity bus from Edinburgh airport to Glasgow city centre. The bus ride was ideal for a first impression...
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Reflection: Wild Beauty
I was mostly surprised by the River Clyde in Govan which is so beautiful and wild but not easily accessed. There aren’t...
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Reflection: The Strong Women of the Clydeside – Protests & Suffragettes
I was both nervous and delighted to welcome the Memory of Water artists to Govan. I first moved my studio there in 2009,...
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Reflection: Govan Research Residency
Our Govan Research Residency .…….. ….was an exciting rollercoaster of meeting people and projects:...
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Reflection: Communities
I had no idea that Govan had once been bigger than Glasgow. I was excited by the decorative buildings, monuments and...
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City Lab: Govan Research Residency
Friday 6th September 2019 Memory of Water’s first international City lab in Govan (the second one is scheduled...
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Residency: Govan Research Residency
Summary Our residency was constructed as an intensive cultural mapping process. The objective: to support our visiting...
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City Lab: What Young City?
Sharing visions on the development of YOUNG CITY (MLODE MIASTO) was the main topic of the second meeting within CITY...
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City Lab: Shipyard Anew
The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre is proud to launch the public debate STOCZNIA OD NOWA (Shipyard Anew) in Gdańsk: collecting...
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City Lab: Turning the Tide on the Clyde
Background The River Clyde has the label “post industrial” in the 21st Century, as vast swathes of derelict...
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City Lab: Architecture Competition
The second Govan Local Lab took place on Saturday 8th June 2019 with funding from various partners including Clyde Docks...
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City Lab: Spring into Methods
The first Govan Local Lab: Wednesday 1st May 2019 exploring the themes of Memory of Water and trying to discover what...
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Reflection: Remembering women who worked the Gdańsk Shipyard
This past June and again in September when visiting Gdańsk, I had the opportunity to meet and speak with Mrs. Urszula...
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Residency: Gdańsk Research Residency
From 3-9 October 2019, the research residency in the framework of the project Memory of Water took place in Gdańsk....
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Reflection: Documenting Levadia
The Swedish artist and film-maker Jonas Myrstrand participate at the ArtCafe with a screening of his music documentary...
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Reflection: Sun in an Empty Room
To get to the first meeting with the activists and inhabitants of Levadia at Nerotrivi, we took the road along the Erkyna...
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Reflection: Να το πάρει το ποτάμι / Let The River Take It
Να το πάρει το ποτάμι / Let the River Take It was designed as a collective catharsis, an invitation...
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Reflection: Vassias Tsokopoulos on “Sun in an Empty Room”
This is a reflection on "Sun in an Empty Room", the work of Iwona Zając in the abandoned home of Zoza and Loukas Papanikolaou....
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Residency: Levadia Production Residency
Artistic Residency The 1stArtists’ Residency in Levadia (28 January – 2 February) focused on a first and in depth...
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Reflection: Preparing for Levadia
Our six artists from six European post-industrial cities are preparing to embark on the second of their six residencies,...
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Reflection: On the Banks of the River Erkyna
The Memory of Water Residency Programme consists of two international visits in three cities: Levadia, Gdansk and Govan....
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Reflection: Blind dates
It was our pleasure to go on nine blind dates during our first day in Levadia! This was a fun way, proposed by artist...
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Reflection: The Bulldozer
During his presentation on The Industrial Zone of Erkyna, local historian Vassias Tsokopoulos proposed the biggest threat...
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Reflection: Myths & legends
The River Erkyna runs continuously through the city of Levadia. So many impressions, warm welcomes, and pictures …...
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Reflection: The river as a place to remember and a place to forget
I was incredibly inspired by the stories of the River Erkyna when I came to Levadia for the first time during the research...
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Reflection: The Perfect Wall
After lunch break, we hooked up with the local graffiti crew at Levadia. Always exciting meeting artists with the same...
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Reflection: The River Erkyna
It was a whirlwind introduction to Levadia and some of its citizens. A generous welcome awaited us led by the mayor...
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Meeting: Partners gather in Levadia
Agenda “Memory of Water” Report of Partners Meeting, Levadia 31 January – 1 February 2019 Venue: Old Town Hall,...
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Residency: Artists in Levadia
Between 29 January and 2 February, the first of three artist residencies will be held in Levadia, Greece. Memory of...
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Residency: Levadia Research Residency
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City Lab: STOCZNIA OD NOWA
The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre is proud to launch the public debate STOCZNIA OD NOWA (Shipyard Anew) in Gdańsk: collecting...
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Reflection: Ostend Thoughts
I was blown away by the official publicity release from Ostend City that demonstrated such irreverence to Trump’s...
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Reflection: Céad míle fáilte
Céad mile fáilte romhaibh (pronounced: kay-ahd mee-leh foil-chyeh row-iv) is an old Irish saying meaning one...
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Meeting: Kick-off in Ostend
Report 28th of November 2018 Present: Mary Conlon, Mary Conroy, Iwona Preis, Jonas Myrstrand, Magdalena Zakrzewska-Duda,...
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