Monday 9 September
Meeting point: Albești “Ion Creangă” School | https://maps.app.goo.gl/oGGaT6zwWRTvvZWR6
14.30 – 15.30 | Getting to know the community; visits to Albești ancient ruins fortress (very small archeological site) – Walk uphill (appropriate field shoes, hat)
15.30 – 16.00 | Late snack lunch
Tuesday 10 September
Meeting point: Vârtop Village Cultural House (Albești Community) | https://maps.app.goo.gl/YGv6xRP5qoezN31D9 | Location: 43.819146, 28.383719
10.00 – 13.00 | First European Conference on village resilience – part I
Coffee breaks
13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch on site
15.00 – 18.00 | First European Conference on village resilience – part II
Coffee breaks
Wednesday 11 September
Meeting point: Albești “Ion Creangă” School | https://maps.app.goo.gl/oGGaT6zwWRTvvZWR6
10.00 – 14.00 | Cultural Diversity Tour in Albești commune – experience multiethnic community benchmark food and music traditions (light walk + drive) | Make Turkish coffee and “tasseography” | Play toaca (playing toaca consists in hammering a plate of wood or metal, to generate a sound marking the transition from everyday time to liturgical time in Christian orthodox religion) | Play plant music in an orthodox church – TBC- Martin | Opening the Drawings Exhibition – Ana Maria Ștefănoiu– Rural New European Bauhaus beneath the trees and participative hands-on dialogue (light walk) | Green Garden Household Experience (drive) | See bees at work inside a small beehive | Cooking Workshop- “Eat what you made” -Make suberek (aka Dobrogea traditional meat pie) | Workshop of natural wax candles | Making soap Workshop
14.00 – 15.00 | Lunch on site
15.30 – 19.00 | Visit to a local art workshop to experience cultural connections: sculpture, construction, agriculture, natural resources (drive together 4-5 km) | Pairing modern sculpture with local materials and natural remaining | A constructivist approach to old-days earth houses and greenhouses (learning-by-doing) | Pottery Workshop | Make together a Caloian, a symbol of rain in Southern Romania
Thursday 12 September
Cotu Văii School – Meeting point | https://maps.app.goo.gl/m7FmhuBKKzFRBeA5A
Create roots and tradition from empty space (on site)
12.00 – 14.00 | Participative community cultural event
Local authorities’ statements | Popular theater play | Ancient and Folk dances | Ancient and Folk dresses parade
14.00 – 15.00 | Social Lunch on site
15.00 – 17.30 | Community cultural workshops – bind together | Folk dance Workshop-prof. Choregraph Elena Dordea | How to drape like ancient people – Workshop-prof. hist. Mihaela Vilcu | Sewing workshop (prof. Mihaela Vilcu) | Consecration ceremony – immersive experience | Play DJ music to connect generations – participative experience (Martin – TBC)
18.00-19.00 | Visit to a local farm (drive)
19.00-21.00 | Dinner at local farm
Friday 13 September
Meeting point: Mangalia City Archeological Museum | https://maps.app.goo.gl/NwFYWojtw4Gmhemy8
10.00 – 11.30 | Visit to Mangalia City Archeological Museum
12.30 – 15.30 | Enjoy the relation between people and nature – trip to Hagieni Forest – natural area near Albesti Village
