About Alicja's questions

[Saba Salvemini]

Hello to everybody
About the questions that Alicja send us:

1. Do you know of any space that could be interested in and suitable for hosting Cosmonauti?
At the moment not.
I'm seeing that a possibility is the "countryside". In the Festival of Biarteca - Biella -that we do each year they found the solution choosing a place where some of the partecipants have some houses. And the festival is in summer and we use the spaces of this small village. It is clear that is another kind of festival where people meet to start some new work and sharing the first sketches, for free, with the public and the partecipants. For a research it is better a theatre or a indoor space.

2. Who is willing to take part in an administration-group, and in what function?
it is possible for me take part of the administration group not with a big role. I can, with pleasure, have a specific task and take care of it.

3. Do you have any idea how to search foundings, other as the european union?
no idea at all.
4. The Blog http://cosmonauti.ning.com/ ... how to use it?
I'm agree with Annika and use to do this conversation in a Forum
5. Make Cosmonauti as a biennale: every two years, (and alternating with the Methodika), 2009, 2011, 2013... ?
Yes.
It sounds a bit more easy to realise. With more time it would be easier realise Cosmonauti,

6. Your organizative and artistical ideas for developing the project?

Concretely I have not suggestion:
We just need a space where to meet and work together.

Un abbraccio ed una buonagiornata
Saba

[Markus Herlyn]

Dear all friends,
just coming back from some days vacation and see the news about cosmonauti.
What can I say: first of all I am somehow sad. Everywhere the same or somehow a similar situation. That it is more than difficult for us to find a space for our work, to find some money, to find interest in cooperation, to find people which can help to overcome the difficulties.
I think, that we all really must wake up and to understand the situation! I mean, that we
have to prepare ourselves to overcome that problems together!. Cosmonauti is clearly that kind of chance for us and we have to spend a lot of energy for loose it not!

I think, there must be a change! We can´t change the world, but we can change our problems. I mean, that we have to give up in some parts our dreams obout ourselves,
to see more realistic, what is happening around us and in cooperation with others.
For my impression our main problem is, that we all somehow isolated 'fighters' or 'dreamers'
and not able enough to build an strong community or Ensemble, which could be able to create a strong voice or meaning or project.

Jurij often spoke about the importance of the ensemble, everyone of us now. But to be open,
he was in that point not able to teach us or make us understand, what it really could mean for us and how we could organize it under todays condition.
This we have to develop by ourselves! And I am shure, that we are able for it, if we are prepared to spend enough energy and attention for this not easy process/project.

I am ready to give up all here to fight for and help for, that the Cosmonauti idea becomes a strong and reliable pilgrimplace for our kind of the artistical work. And I see clearly, that another chance like that will not so easy come again. Somehow now or never...

Yours
Markus

[Alicja Ziolko]

Dearest all,
thanx for all nice mails last week! Sorry for not responding on many yet,
there has been really thight days, will write next days, for sure.

I promised to come back to you with news today before 24:00:

Have found, through Ian, a really beautifull theatre, the "Supercinema", see the enclosed image,
in Tuscania, 90 km from Rome,
that is interested in hosting us.

Here are some more questions to us:
1. They would open the theatre for us for free! but sleeping, food, lights and cleaning we must cover ourselves as following:
- 15 euro a night per person in nice flats with kitchen
- 10 euro pr participant for lights and cleaning of the theatre for the whole periode.
Are these costs sustainable for you?
(- maybe also possibility to cook for everybody in the theatre, but must be confirmed.)

2: Dates: they are not sure if it is possible in the periode we hope for, between 5th and 18th octobre, they shold know by coming friday... WOULD 20th-25th of Octobre be an alterantive date for us?

Big hug,
Alicja