Students:

• Saxion University Deventer – Enschede students meet Sibu students through AIESEC Sibiu

Debates, lectures, meetings
• Europe Hot. Why (not)? About the history of Europe and the current images and challenges.
Lectures and debates.
• Young in Europe. The agenda for youth (political, cultural, societal).
Debates between and with Romanian and Dutch students, schools and universities in Sibiu (Romania) and Deventer (The Netherlands.
• The multicultural city: a threat or a chance. Lectures and debates.
• Living in neighbourhoods. Meetings and debates on the spot.
• The rural area: modernisation versus conservation. Meetings and debates on the spot.

• Socratic dinner: menu Being Young and Happy in Europe (taste the dialogue)
• Treasure hunt in Sibiu
• Challenge your worldview – a glimpse of Romania / Sibiu
• Training on Cross Cultural communication; cultural sensitivity games
www.saxion.nl

Music
Intercultural exchanges – innovation of art – original performances - confrontations.
Popular music (pop, hiphop, rap, rock, metal-dance-industrial, jazz, percussion)

Bands:

• The Freaks

The Freaks is one of the most trendy band from Deventer! Rockgrooves and swinging funks make the audience dancing crazy! Stiring up, dancing show, in which various styles are tied together in an original way. The variant occupation of the band, with saxophone and orgue makes it more special. The melody-lines are both like rock and cheerful and almost jazzy, but they always correspond. Frontman Jordi Filali is a very strong and energetic person in the band. With a lot of humour and passion he sings, raps, growls, squeaks and shouts his excellent texts to us. Live this Freakshow is a feast for the eye and ear.
www.freakonout.nl

• Next Waste Dimension & VJ

Next Waste Dimension (NWD). Blending heavy guitars with modern dance. Only few bands dare to do it, even fewer are able to make it work. With REWIRE REALITY Next Waste Dimension (NWD) prove they can pull it off. And how! On it’s debut NWD shows how to perfectly blend metal, dance and industrial in a way it sounds both natural and refreshing. Together with producer Pascal Altena (The Monolith Deathcult, Devious) and mastering engineer Guido Aalbers (Faithless, Muse, Within Temptation, Franz Ferdinand) NWD nailed down their innovative symbiosis in ten tracks (+1 video!) that are filled with energy, creativity and melody. But NWD is more than just music. NWD is a multimedia platform where music, lyrics and video all come together. Because of their innovative and high energy show NWD was invited to take part in international events such as Aardschok’s Metal Bash competition (as a finalist) and the Noordschok talent scout-festival. Moreover, they were the Dutch closing act at the Metal Ways Festival in Madrid (Spain), summer 2005. NWD is inseparable of their thrilling live VJ-show. They look forward to offering their artistic video projection skills to their Romanian heavy music comrades.
www.nextwastedimension.com

• Thinktank

Guy Nikkels (1979) is born in Bogota (Colombia) and grew up in Deventer. He started guitar playing when he was 10 years old, got interested in jazz music when he was 15. At 19 years old he entered the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he successfully got his degree in music in 2003 and in 2005 his master degree. The other members of the Guy Nikkels Quartet consists of Rein Godefroy, Hendrik Vanattenhoven and David Barker, all former members of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. They focus on fusion and jazzrock, also mixed with other influences like latin. The band plays own pieces and has played on wellknown jazzfestivals in the Netherlands and abroad. Recently they played in the final of Jazz Hoeilaart in Belgium, one of the most important international jazz-competitions in Europe with participants from 22 countries. During his study-period Guy Nikkels has played and worked with different national and international famous artistst like Michael Brecker, John Ruocco, Kenny Werner and Kurt Rosenwinkel.
www.myspace.com/thinktankjazz

• Hiphop group Da Floawaz

Da Floawaz is an English-language hip-hop group from Deventer, who has influences from the Oldschool. But variation, energy, content and originality are their key-words. Da Floawaz is founded in 2002 and its members are: MC’s Nexus en D, Dj Swerve and Dj/sound-engineer Biotic. Since 2002 they had performances a.o.: with Opgezwolle, C-mond&Kypski, played on 3TM Libertyfestival; 2004 in Zwolle, Opening Event FIFA World Championship Football under 20 in Doetinchem with Lange Frans and Baas B. They also played with Delinquent Habits, Blockjam, Bogey’s, Groene Engel. Were finalists in Oogst van Overijssel 2004 and 2005. Their first album is called The ALBOMB a.o. with videoclip.
www.myspace.com/dafloawaz

• Reality Brass Band (9) meets Romanian band(s)

Reality Brass Band is the first and only Antillian Brassband from the East-Netherlands! They play during festivals, celebrations and parties. For every situation they make a tailor-made performance. They also play together with breakdancers, dancers and/or brass players. These nine young talented percussionists got their education from the famous ABC Brassband from Rotterdam. Brassband is original from the tropical countries. When they play, an atmosphere with rhythm is immediately created and people start to dance. That’s why many brassbands participate at Carnival.
www.kunstcircuitdeventer.nl

DJ’s:

• DJ confrontations

Dutch DJ’s in cooperation with Dutch VJ, will perform in Sibiu. The city of Sibiu has a very lively disco-scene, better said has many dancing opportunities for the youth in Sibiu. Lately, the house, dance and techno music has been more and more successful in The Netherlands and worldwide. Enormous house parties are organised in famous discos in The Netherlands where well-known DJs are invited. A Dutch – Romanian house, dance party organised in Sibiu could make the Romanian audience acquainted to the music trends right now in The Netherlands and the other way around, the Dutch DJs will experience knowledge-exchange with their Romanian counterparts. This programme is mainly directed to the young population and might attract great audience.

Classical contemporary music:

• Simeon Kwartet, De Leeuwenkuil : Canto Ostinato, classical contemporary music in combination with modern VJ presentation

The Simeon Quartet will perform Canto Ostinato (music by Simeon ten Holt, a contemporary Dutch composer) on four grand piano’s together with four young pianists from Sibiu (from the Music and Arts Highschool in Sibiu) and four young pianists from Deventer/Zutphen (De Leeuwenkuil). Before and/or during the performance photo/film shoots will be made and mixed during the performance by a VJ and projected on a big screen. The VJ mix will show people and places from Deventer and Sibiu.
www.oostcultuur.nl , www.simeonkwartet.nl

Theatre & Dance

Breakdance:

• Breakdance group ILL SKILL SQUAD

The break-dance group ILL SKILL SQUAD is a group that, besides giving performances, leads workshops during one day with school groups, educational and cultural groups but also with all other kind of persons willing to do an exercise. The goal of the workshops is to try the impossible. Through their unique and original manner, the group works with other groups that one wouldn’t expect of, such as traditional ethnic folk-dance group or socially deprived groups like street-children, etc. The group also has its own production, doing break-dance on classical music. The orientation of the Ill Skill Squad is cross-disciplinary. The results of the workshops can then be shown to the public. They will f.i. have breakdance battles with Romanian breakdancers, do freestyle on the streets and squares in the city, breakdance ON classic shows on big stages open air and on dance-parties indoor. This is an initiative of the Production House East – Netherlands and the result could be surprising.
www.oninternet.nl

Objects theatre:

• Theatre group Tam Tam

The Dutch theatre group Tam Tam was founded in 1979. Since then they produced some 30 shows combining various forms of art and researching the possibilities of visual theatre. This resulted in a new and original TAM TAM-style. They are considered to be part of the avant-garde of European visual theatre. They have a repertoire of performances for youth and adults. They performed in 19 countries, at festivals of different desciplines, in theatres, in the streets, in schools and in various unusual places. The result of 25 years of research is clearly visible in the style of the performances. Text has almost disappeared and images and sounds tell the story with a subtle dose of absurd black humour. The tailor-made soundtracks, the inventive technical effects and the ingenious lighting have become more important through the years. The performances are inspired by the humour of silent movies and cartoons, by classic theatre- and film effects and by a collection of found objects. TAM TAM translates these influences into an absurd theatre-style, which critics describe as subtle, visually highly attractive and very unusual.
www.tamtamtheater.nl

African basic dance:

• AMUKA

AMUKA can teach the African basic dance. She played seven years in the group Cacimbon on small traditional percussion instruments, teached by Mangue Camara, who died 12 June 2006. Since 2000 she is a graduated teacher in African dance (Amsterdam Highschool for Arts). Every year since 1999 she works for a period in Africa; in “le vieux quartier” she lives the life with the people and sings and dance with the children in the neighbourhoods. Amuka has also followed an education in working with people with disabilities, therefore in order to involve also the disabled children in the city and county of Sibiu in our programme, Amuka together with her two partners will give performances and organise workshops in f.i. institutions for children with disabilities in the Sibiu county and in schools.

Cinema & Photography
Making  a documentary about the project  – photo images of people

Cinema:

• “Young in Europe: Sibiu meets Deventer” – The Documentary
    Rowdy Pelgrim, Filmhuis De Keizer & Astra Film Sibiu

Rowdy Pelgrim is a talented young Dutch filmmaker/actor. He graduated in ”Communication and Multimedia Design” in 2006 at the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, specialised in the direction of film/video. He already produced several documentaries and (short) films, such as a short movie “Huil maar” (Just cry). Together with a talented young Romanian filmmaker he will make in co-production the video-documentary about “Young in Europe: Sibiu meets Deventer” 9-21 August 2007 in Sibiu. The documentary will comprise and picture the differences in behaviour and culture of the Romanian participants (filmed by the Dutch filmmaker) and of the Dutch participants (filmed by the Romanian filmmaker). This documentary will be broadcast afterwards in both the cities of Deventer and Sibiu, but also elsewhere.
Second part in this field will be Dutch multi-cultural films for young people on cinema locations in Sibiu.
Third part will be documentary films at Astra Film Studio.
www.filmhuisdekeizer.nl, www.multiro.nl

Photography:

• Photography; Images of people – Rob Philip

Rob Philip (1969) has organised several exhibitions in The Netherlands and abroad. He tries to expose not only the reality, but also his vision of the human condition. His work usually consists of a mixture of portrait and documentary photographs. He will have his exhibition in Sibiu during the project period in Brukenthal Galery, Strada Tribunei from 17-31 August 2007.
www.philip.com

Art

VJ artist and workshop:

• Ontwerpatelier&DesignArbeid (John Patrick Nijkamp and Ruben Abels)

VJ workshops – Most interesting option for John Patrick Nijkamp and Ruben Abels as artists and local artists from Sibiu would be to create workshops. A small group of local professionals or artists and John Patrick Nijkamp and Ruben Abels can work on new material for a show during a week. They can introduce them to the possibilities of VJ-ing as a medium of expressing artisticity. They can create new material together, react to eachother, cooperate and work with eachother’s ideas. The workshop can then result in a (series of) performance(s) from Ontwerpatelier&DesignArbeid and the local artists, best of all with a DJ set.
www.ontwerp-atelier.nl
www.designarbeid.nl

C3 Art project (Connecting cultural capitals):

• C3 Art project (Connecting Cultural Capitals) by Sebiha Demir, Bart Folmer and Patrick Mangnus

The three initiators are Sebiha Demir, Bart Folmer and Patrick Mangnus, all three live and work in Deventer, the Netherlands. The idea to set up this project came from the enthusiasm and appreciation of eacht others work. Besides other projects, they have put up a long-term and intensive project in where artists of different disciplines will meet and work together in forthcoming projects.

Sebiha Demir is a visual artist (sculpting, painting and drawing). Her work is two- and three-dimensional and besides that she has multi-media projects. In her two-dimensional work she mainly uses a technique called aribrush. Bart Folmer is a graphic designer, musician, dj, vj and visual artist. He focuses mainly on multi-media, graphic assignments, free graphic work, websites and audio art. Patrick Mangnus is a visual artist and musician. Originally a graphic designer, but all the traditional techniques are mixed with drawing, painting and graffiti. Patrick has already done quite a few co-operation projects together with other artists. He also makes installations.

The idea of the project is that within ten days in Sibiu, a trans-national artistic multi-media co-operation project will arise. The three initiators will each search for typical characteristics of the culture of Sibiu. Working from their own disciplines, they will be inspired and use this in forthcoming projects, where they will work together and react on each others work.There will be a presentation of these works. It could happen that one artist makes a painting and an other will draw in it and yet an other will use his light techniques to show another side . In every cultural capital about fifteen local artists will be approached to participate in these projects, contribute, respond and to invoke discussions about culture and it’s identities. From these artists five will be selected to join the next project in a different cultural capital, every time. The project will grow and the diversity between the cities and their cultures will show. But most important: the connection between the cities will grow stronger.

Goals
• Research on the cultural identity of the cities
• Build an international network of artists and other interested
• Invoke discussions about cultural identities and point out the relations between the European cultural capitals
• Promoting cross-overs between the different discplines and unique co-operation projects
www.C3artproject.com, www.Redwig.eu