From 16 to 22 July 2018, Personages of Cardboardia gather at Kudykina Gora to open a laboratory for the researching the carnival traditions of Europe and Russia. What can be the basis of the customs of different cultures? How did the images of carnival heroes, familiar to everyone, arise? Why do they sooner or later unite all the peoples on Earth?

We are trying to find the answers to these questions and invite everyone, who is willing to help us in our research, at the on-site internship workshop "Made in Cardboardia".

The internship will take place in the natural park of wonders "Kudykina Gora", where on July 21 the festival "This is the carnival" would be held

http://kudikina-gora.org/carnival

For one day the park will turn into a united carnival space filled with music, parades, workshops, dance flash mobs, contests, theatrical productions and performances.

Registraton for internship: http://goo.gl/forms/liswI7jiTQ

Module 1. Performance Design

Module curator: Olesya Kandalintseva (Minister of Education of Cardboardia) and Mikhail Gorshkov (Persdoange of Cardboardia and art-director of the “New school”) we will research some basic skills of working with cardboard, developing the concept of objects and set design.

Module 2. Street performance, organization and communication with public for beginners

Module curator: Sergey Korsakov (Tyran of Cardboardia)

Together we will learn how to plan an event and create an event scenario based on a proposed concept.  We will acquire public speaking skills and develop way of communication with an audience.

WHEN: 16-22 July 2018 from 10 am to 8 pm 

Check in - July 16 (Monday), check out - July 22 (Sunday) the second half of the day or July 23 (Monday).
The internship includes the process of preparation and participation in the festival from July 16 to 22, without days off. The daily schedule will be updated.

The recruitment is based on the results of the test assignment and interview. For nonresident interviews can be remotely, online.

To write for an interview, tell us about yourself and fill out the following form:

http://goo.gl/forms/liswI7jiTQ

WHERE:  the natural park of wonders "Kudykina Gora" (Kamenka village, Zadonsky district, Lipetsk region)

http://kudikina-gora.org/

TRAVEL. It around 3-4 hours drive from Moscow (Russia). We will help to plan and organize transfer from Moscow if you will come. The travel is paid by trainees independently. 

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD
Accommodation in the park is possible in the camping (tent camp), free of charge. The number of places in the tents is limited, but you can set your own tent.

Meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner are paid - 600 rubles. per day, in the cafe / canteen of the Natural Park of Wonders "Kudykina Gora". The menu is negotiated in advance.

WHO may be interested:

Module 1 - "Performance design: costumes, props and objects for interactive performances"

We invite to participate: beginning artists, designers, architects, photographers, students and everyone who is interested in making art. Take part in our intensive practical course - which will teach you the basics of cardboard-modelling and making performances with people. The course is ideal as a practice internship for students.

 Module 2 - "Street performance, organization and communication with public for beginners"

Suitable for actors, performers, directors, clowns as well as event managers/producers who would like both get a new interesting  experience of creating performance from the very beginning and improvisation and take part in the organization of the process. Organizers who would like to develop skills interacting with the public in the process of street and spectacle performance are welcome to apply. Your training in performance and management is considered but not critical in our selection.

This is an opportunity to take part in creating real projects where you will deliver unexpected tasks with delightful consequences.  The way you are involved in participation depends on your desires, talents and diligence. For the experienced specialists the internship can become a base for experiments, public realization of art plans, research for new directions. For the students and beginners the internship can become an opportunity to make first steps and a place where you will be evaluated by your results, not your diploma and portfolio.

What we are doing

During our internship program participants will learn and improve their skills:

-    creating a visual concept of objects/costumes

-    sketching

-    making objects

-    working with cardboard

-    working up some plans of realisation an actions

-    making a script of an action based on offering conception

-    realisation of an action according to script

-    public performance, improvisation and communication with the audience

TERMS:

If you want to join you need:

-      fill out the application form online -

http://goo.gl/forms/liswI7jiTQ

It limited numbers of participants we accept

-      accomplish a task, that you will receive within up to 5 days after sending the form

-      go through offline or online interview (time and date will be confirmed individually) 

-      arrive to place of internship according confirmed schedule.

Participation is free. Participants are responsible for their own food and travel costs (include visas if needed) to place

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Cardboardia Mobile Embassy: Come and meet your ideal world in Slough

From 26 to 29 June we will setup Mobile Cardboardia Embassy in Slough to present culture of Cardboardia on 30 June for the Streets Alive 2018 Festival.

Imagine if you could build your ideal world. What would you make? What would it look like? What characters and people would you see? Who would you be? And where would you be?

Cardboardia is a country without territory, but with own traditions, rules, economic and political systems. Personages (citizens) of Cardboardia materialised thier country around the globe. We build towns, setup Embassys and  celebrate national hollidays on territory's of friendly countries - Russia, Latvia, Poland, Taiwan, Germany, Finland, Slovenia, Denmark, Netherlands, Hungary and UK.

On opening a Mobile Cardboardia Embassy in the centre of Slough we are planning a premiere of the Official Cardboardia Orchestra - with wonderful imaginative instruments from across the world. Help create a carnival of cardboard creations. The Tyran of Cardboardia will oversee events and lead a procession of people through the town to create a carnival atmosphere on 30 June between 12am – 4pm

Whether you’re an artist, a builder, a performer or a policeman, we’d like to invite you to join us on Slough’s High Street to meet and join the Citizens or Personages of Cardboardia!

 How to Get Involved

There are three ways to get involved:

1. Join us for a 2 hour public workshop on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 from 6pm - 8pm. Email info@homeslough.org.uk to get involved. For everyone aged      14+. Just 20 places.    

2. Join us on the day for a workshop - and participate and play in our Official Cardboardia Orchestra on Saturday 30 June 10am - 6pm, info@homeslough.org.uk        to say you’re coming. All ages.

3. Apply to join the Cardboardia Internships and learn new skills from Tuesday 26 - Friday 29 June 11am - 7pm, and on Saturday 30 June 10am - 6pm.    Readmore below and sign up online. Ages 18+.

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Here is open call for everyone who wishes to take part in “Made in Cardboardia” workshop programme 16-24 June in the framework of  the XXIV International Festival of Street Theatres  in Arkhangelsk (Russia).

From 16 June we will developing Official Cardboardia Orchestra show to present together on the International Festival of Street Theatres that will be held this year in Arkhangelsk from 19 to 23 June. The festival opens with a carnival procession along the Northern Dvina. Each day the city will turn into one big open-air scene.  Illusionists, swindlers, magicians, clowns will coexist with musicians from Spain, drummers from Colombia and street theaters.

Personages of Cardboardia are preparing the tour of Official Cardboardia Orchestra which was founded at the "Festival of Imagineers" (Coventry, UK) last year. The improvised Official Orchestra of Cardboardia caused a storm of emotions, because the performers tried to make a high classical work of art, and at the same time did not have any opportunities for this. An action that can unite people to create something together is the ultimate aim of personages of Cardboardia. This creative process is the core of our workshop, which is hold in two directions:

Module 1. Performance Design

Module curator: Olesya Kandalintseva (Minister of Education)

we will research some basic skills of working with cardboard, developing the concept of objects and set design.

Module 2. Street performance, organization and communication with public for beginners

Module curator: Sergey Korsakov (Tyran of Cardboardia)

Together we will learn how to plan an event and create an event scenario based on a proposed concept.  We will acquire public speaking skills and develop way of communication with an audience.

WHEN: 16-24 June 2018 from 11am to 8pm.

If you want to get and give a lot from this time, we count on your participation and full engagement in workshop and event process. But if you have any circumstances for this dates, feel free to indicate it in advance and we will take it into consideration individually.

WHERE: Arkhangelsk, Russia, venue TBA

WHO may be interested:

Module 1 - "Performance design: costumes, props and objects for interactive performances"

We invite to participate: beginning artists, designers, architects, photographers, students and everyone who is interested in making art. Take part in our intensive practical course - which will teach you the basics of cardboard-modelling and making performances with people. The course is ideal as a practice internship for students.

 Module 2 - "Street performance, organization and communication with public for beginners"

Suitable for actors, performers, directors, clowns as well as event managers/producers who would like both get a new interesting  experience of creating performance from the very beginning and improvisation and take part in the organization of the process. Organizers who would like to develop skills interacting with the public in the process of street and spectacle performance are welcome to apply. Your training in performance and management is considered but not critical in our selection.

This is an opportunity to take part in creating real projects where you will deliver unexpected tasks with delightful consequences.  The way you are involved in participation depends on your desires, talents and diligence. For the experienced specialists the internship can become a base for experiments, public realization of art plans, research for new directions. For the students and beginners the internship can become an opportunity to make first steps and a place where you will be evaluated by your results, not your diploma and portfolio.

What we are doing

During our internship program participants will learn and improve their skills:

-    creating a visual concept of objects/costumes

-    sketching

-    making objects

-    working with cardboard

-    working up some plans of realisation an actions

-    making a script of an action based on offering conception

-    realisation of an action according to script

-    public performance, improvisation and communication with the audience

SCHEDULE:

The internship lasts from 16 to 23 June,including the process of preparation and participation in the festival, without days off.

We are expecting your full engagement at work for the whole period of the workshop.

TERMS:

If you want to join you need:

-      fill out the application form online -

http://goo.gl/forms/liswI7jiTQ

It limited numbers of participants we accept

-      accomplish a task, that you will receive within 7 days after sending the form

-      go through offline or online interview (time and date will be confirmed individually) 

-      arrive to place of internship according confirmed schedule.

Participation is free. Participants are responsible for their own food and travel costs (include visas if needed) to place of internship. The project schedule will be specified during the online interview.

According to the results of internship our participants get a chance to become part or full-time members of "Made in Cardboardia team"- in UK, Europe or Russia. 

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Source of article: https://www.voluntaryarts.org/cardboardia-forming-new-communities

Ten years ago Sergey Korsakov and his fiancée Viktoria didn’t want to have an ordinary wedding and decided to build a cardboard wedding palace during the Afisha Picnic Festival n Moscow where couples could make public acts of marriage. Sergey remembers: All of the guests liked this ceremony so much that I had the thought of building a second, bigger and longer existing cardboard town with its own traditions, institutes and economy. We materialized this idea in Moscow in January, 2008 to great public and press acclaim.

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Cardboardia is a country without territory. It was founded 10 years ago and we're celebrating our tenth anniversary this year! Our state is independent and not connected with any natural resources, just people's creative energy! We are always searching for new creative energy supplies in humanoid form!

This year in Cardboardia’s laboratories we are research sounds a lot. It connected to our invention Alchemical Music Box (www.ambox.me). To celebrate Cardboardia 10th Anniversary much more loud Personages of Cardboardia decide to create Official Cardboardia Orchestra! The Tyran, elected leader of the country, put forward his candidacy to direct this process!