Cardboardia national celebration

Day of Tyran’s Giant Creatures

during Yilan International Lohas Festival 2013

28 july - 10 august, Chongsheng St.Yilan City, 11-00 - 17-00

The Country of Cardboardia can boast very strong traditions! For the second year we are now going to have our National Celebration - "Day of Tyran’s Giant Creatures”. In 2012 we celebrated it in Gorky Park, in the City of Moscow. This year personages of Cardboardia will hold the celebration on the island of Taiwan on a usual large-scale extent from June 28th until August 10th. 

We are inviting residents and guests of Yilan city to join Cardboardia personages for the creation of Giant Creatures and Smaller Creatures, so that on 10th of August several thousand people could attend the Celebration and the Grand Parade in honor of Yilan city and commemorate presence of Cardboardia at the International Lohas Festival 2013. 

Everyone can join workshop, creation of objects, costumes and masks from cardboard supported by Cardboardia personages.  Please note that number of places is limited. Workshop will take place at the following address:
No.4, Chongsheng St.Yilan City, Yilan County 26043 Taiwan (ROC)

Cardboardia is a country without territory but with a very creative population. Wherever we come to build Cardboard towns or to organize Parades, Performances and Celebrations we are inviting all and everyone to join us in order to share creative experience in designing, building and improvising with cardboard and ideas. Join us to experiment and explore the amazing world of cardboard! Create, Earn, Play! Make your artistic dreams come true with Cardboardia!
http://www.cardboardia.info/

You can forward your questions in English to the Tyran of Cardboardia at tyran@cardboardia.info 

To register please fill in an online form. 

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The“Complete Cardboard” school based at workshop “Made in Cardboardia”(www.facebook.com/madeincardboardia)

We launch international internship at workshop “Made in Cardboardia” (based in Moscow, Russia) and offer people who want to learn how to work with cardboard or upgrade their design and art skills to join this program.

Autumn training program connected with celebration of jubilee of S.Ya. Marshak(russian children poet). After passing the course in September-October you’ll be able to make by yourself: Divan, Suitcase, Grip, Picture, Basket, Cardboard... and even little dog (objects from famous Marshak poetry) . Objects will be placed in exhibition hall of State Museum of Literature from 15th of November till 31th of December, 2012 (Moscow, Trubnikovskij lane, 17). 

Traditionally, successful passing of the training give a possibility to participate us in Cardboardia materialisations (www.cardboardia.info) around the world and job placement in workshop «Made in Cardboardia» if you live in Moscow. It is possible to choose a week, 2 weeks or full month internship program. You can be designer, architect, artist or just a person who have ideas and want to develop it in cardboard. 

We begin a new admission to the school of cardboard design “Complete Cardboard”  on base of workshop «Made in Cardboardia» (madein.cardboardia.info).

During one month you’ll test yourself in projecting and creating of decorations, furniture and art-objects, elements of spaces’ design and craft and paper events. You’ll work by yourself and with permanent participants of the program. 

The winter season of training 2012-2013 will be devoted to simple and short stories. We’ll create topic and characters, project decorations, conduct photography.

After successful passing the course in January-February our world will become richer on one bright story and you’ll get new friends, experience and a possibility of permanent or planning job in workshop «Made in Cardboardia» (Moscow, m.Ugo-Zapadnaja, BP “Rumjancevo”).

We suggest more intensive course of training “Exchange of experience” for participators from another towns and countries. Full immersion into cardboard for two weeks (from 12 days). Possibility of realisation of joint project with our masters. Applications for intensive course are accepted on the basis of contest from persons who will be especially liked by Tyran of Cardboardia for something (www.cardboardia.info).

The program is free.

You can place an order to the training mail on madeincardboardia@gmail.com

In November 2013 the workshop by "Made in Cardboardia" (http://madein.cardboardia.info) took part in exhibition "Soviet design"(Moscow "Manege"). We made reconstruction of furniture of cardboard using the sketches of designer A.P. Ermolaev, amazing in their simplicity and originality of constructivism that correlates well with the policy of our workshop. This chairs and tables was made by Aleksandr Ermolaev for decoration of international forum in Soviet Union times (1975).

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"A lady sent in the van
A bag, a box, a divan,
A hamper, a sampler, some books
And a wee little doggy named Snooks.."

Game cardboard scenery for exhibition, which presents the characters of the poem SY Marshak "Baggage" in illustrations of young professional artists in Moscow. Exhibition is held at the State Literary Museum in Moscow from 20th of November to 30th of December 2012.

During the competition everyone could undergo our free practical course of projecourse of corrugated cardboard design "Complete Cardboard". After completing the course, participants will present their projects to the competition: art objects made

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