“Healing portraits - performative itinerary” shows the works of the participants of the multidisciplinary performing arts workshop “Healing Portraits”, coordinated by director Eugen Jebeleanu.
Admission is free, with reservation at https://forms.gle/M9pAVEj2q48NXJjA8.
The maximum number of spectators is 40.

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⭐The Last Song
⏰4.30pm
Duration: 20 min
Location: Creation and Experiment Reactor (4 Petöfi Sándor Street)
Team: Alexandra Mocan, Alex Rațiu, Cristian Opriș, Simona Țăruș
Language: English
An assemblage of spoken word and video intervention that explores the theme of loss in a variety of instances, as experienced in our personal histories. From the disinvestment and alienation to which politics pushes us, isolation, the hora of the world, the anticipation of loss, separation and mourning, the return in time, to purification and restart, we build haunted by the last song of the kauaii oo bird, a ceremonial of finitude.

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⭐How to be emotionally available (self-performative walk)
⏰ 5pm and 6pm
Location: Reactor-ZIZ route (5 participants) and ZIZ-Transit House (5 participants)*
Duration: approx. 15 minutes
Concept: Olivia Grecea
Language: Romanian
Description: In the midst of postponement, openness and vulnerability still seem valid. Courage and sentimentality. I offer you 15 minutes of emotional and (I hope) playful availability. My presence is filtered by physical distance. The space between us is freedom.
*Participants will scan a QR code at the start of the trail and will need the Instagram app and headphones for communication.

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⭐Mirror Box
⏰ Time: 17.30
Duration: 30 min
Location: ZIZ - Art and Social Area (5 Paris Street)
Team: Andreea Roxana Bolovan, Matei Maxim, Cristina Varga, Doru Vatavului
Language: English
Mirror Box draws threads between a series of distinct personal histories. The same images take on new meanings when the screen and the narrator’s gaze meet. The screen becomes the mirror of a story that you discover from new angles. Can such a process have a therapeutic effect? Can it heal?

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⭐Locations
⏰Time: 18.30
Duration: 20 min.
Location: Tranzit Sala Mare
Team: Juan-Jose Almarza, Adriana Creanga, Mihaela Cîrjan, Ati Gödri
Language: English
The video installation “Housing” unites 4 perspectives on housing in a pandemic. Intimate environments (a truck cab, a dorm room, an apartment) and the road to Pata Rât become social and political environments, like images of a manifesto.

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⭐Between
⏰Time: 19.00; 19.15; 19.30; 19.45;
Duration: 15 min/ can enter 4 times, groups of 10 people
Location: Tranzit House (16, G. Barițiu Street) - Studio Room, first floor
Team: Grațiela Bădescu, Olivia Grecea, Ioana Hogman, Mihai Pecingine-Bădescu
Language: Romanian
This is a museum of gesture awareness that does not carry the requirement of intention and guidance. Which do not require the attention of the doer, nor of others. A throwback to an art-time. To not forget its density. Not to forget its indifference.

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⭐A Outclass (desktop documentary)
⏰Time: 19.00; 19.30
Duration: 29 min/ can enter twice, groups of 10 people
Location: Tranzit House - Great Hall
Team: Lukas Braun, Juan-Jose Almarza
Language: English
A general analysis of gymnastics allows the celebration of a friendship that is maintained virtually.

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⭐Angel shot
⏰Time: 20.00
Duration: 15 min
Location: Tranzit House - Kitchen
Language: Romanian and English
Team: Simona Țăruș, Cristina Varga
Angel shot proposes a performance manifesto to support victims of domestic abuse, as the number of cases of abused women in Romania has increased significantly with the onset of the pandemic. Through a discourse that draws a parallel between the patriarchal vision and the harsh realities around the world, Angel Shot gives a voice to those who do not have the power to speak.

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⭐This text - Manifesto for drama in time of emergency
(performative reading in English)
Text: Yann Verburgh
⏰Time: 20.30
Location: Tranzit House - Courtyard
Duration: 30 min
Team: reading coordinator Eugen Jebeleanu
Language:English
This text is a dramatic text. Adjective. Drama. To play theatre. Art. Play. Great danger. Alarming. Spectacle. Theatrical. Exaggeratedly serious. Violent. Tragedy. Serious or pathetic. Comic or realistic. Excessive seriousness. Does this text have a right to feel good?
Does this text have the right to make you feel good? This text feels responsible for what it can create. This text is afraid of what it can create in you.

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
<> is a workshop at the intersection of theatre and cinema. Together, participants followed the portrayal of personal stories from the pandemic, their own stories or those of people they knew. Each team put together a short-medium hybrid work that contributes to the final form of the HEALING PORTRAITS project.

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The event is part of << AGAINST CYNISM>>, the 6th edition of Focus Atelier, a project of the Reciproca Association. Beyond the cynical, handy and passive criticism, we ask what gives us dignity, hope and freedom?

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Details of the entire Focus Atelier 2021 programme can be found at focusatelier.ro. For any information the organisers can be reached at asociatia.reciproca@gmail.com

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Focus Atelier 2021 is a project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.