EDUCATION programme
TRAIN B

E1 - FAMILY WEEKENDS
Artists’ Workshops (will take place in October). The authors will present their projects and welcome participants to the interactive creative process. Artists’ workshops will take place on weekends from 11 AM to 4 PM on October 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, and 25. Workshops will also be available during the week at designated times during museum working hours:

Oct 1^st-4^th from 11am to 5 pm Kakuko Ishii (Japan) MIZUHIKI WORKSHOP for every who is interesting in traditional Japanese technique. Kaunas Picture gallery. 

Oct 3^rd-4^th, 10^th-11^th and 18^th-19^th Marijona Sinkevičienė, Rūta Narvydienė, Sigita Saulėnienė (Lithuania) invite to weave tapestry from recycled materials.  M. Žilinskas art gallery.  

Oct 4^th, 11^th, 18^th, 24-25^th  Daiva Zubrienė and animators Vilija Ratautienė, Daiva Dovydaitienė, Rita Puidokienė, Laima Kytrienė (Lithuania) invite to interact creating textile patterns.
Oct 3^rd-4^th, 10^th-11^th and 18^th-19^th Virginija Kirvelienė (Lithuania) invites to leave your prints on handmade paper strip. M. Žilinskas art gallery.  

Oct 10^th-11^th group TRY3: Vladas Daškevičius, Aleksas Gailieša ir Audrius Lašas (Lithuania) invite to remind a history of Lithuania – a misery school tradition. Kaunas Picture gallery. 

Oct 18^th-19^th and 24^th-25^th Jūratė Kazakevičiūtė and Živilė Muraškienė (Lithuania) invite to workshop of three-dimensional textile objects‘ sewing. M. Žilinskas art gallery. 

Oct 18^th-19^th and 24^th-25^th Noriko Yamaguchi (Germany) invites to twist tweaks from used newspapers and to make exciting installation. M. Žilinskas art gallery. 

Oct 18^th from 11 am to 3 pm Lina Jonikė and Lina Gutauskienė (Lithuania) invite to painting on silk workshop.  M. Žilinskas art gallery. 

Oct 24^th-25^th Suzanne Husky (French/American) invites to sew together a colourful covering for architecture object and to dress it up with love. Kaunas Picture gallery.

Oct 24^th-25^th Kaarina Kellomaki (Finland) invites children to remember ancient devices and things and to create / construct future objects. Kaunas Picture gallery. 

Oct 25^th  Nadja Verena Marcin (Germany / USA) invites school children to draw ... lonely Elvis Presley. M. Žilinskas art gallery. 

Art Labyrinth (will take place in November). The families will be guided by biennial educators. The program will take place on weekends at 2 PM on November 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, and 29^th.
Location: Kaunas Picture Gallery, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery.

Diary of the Journey. After accomplishing special artistic activities the family will create it‘s own personal book which will compile the experience of biennial interactions. This book will enable children and their parents to know better artists and projects of the exhibition and to become co-authors of the book as well as of the exhibition. Sheets of the book will be placed at participating artist projects.
Location: Kaunas Picture Gallery, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery.

E2 –  SPECIAL TOURS
Different Viewpoint. Special tours guided by famous Lithuanian cultural agents. Will take place on Wednesdays during November (4th, 11th, 18th and 25th at 3 pm). Advanced booking required, tel. 8 37 22 94 75.

Live Contact. Guided tours and activities for school classes, groups of children and adults. Will take place in November. Advanced booking required, tel. 8 37 22 94 75.
Location: Kaunas Picture Gallery, M. Žilinskas Art Gallery.

E3 – CRITICAL REFLECTION
Debates.  Art critics, artists and art students will discuss about actual art tendencies, up-to-date cultural problems and the issues raised by artists of the biennial. Discussions will take place on October 9 and 23, November 27.
Location: Conference Hall at the M.K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Train Kaunas – Vilnius, and exhibition place.

Hemispheres: worldwide project for international solidarity.
October 30th, 12—3 pm. Daiva Šniraitė, Eglė Majauskaitė WELCOME TO NOBODY CARES.
Location: Laisvės avenue, Kaunas.  
November 11th, 12—3 pm. Lina Žalpytė, Aura Ganusauskaitė USE? DO NOT THROW AWAY! REUSE! 
Location: Kaunas Picture Gallery.

Lectures. Artists talk on a topic based on a theoretical background for art and art history students will take place on Mondays during October at 4 AM (English without translation).
Oct 5^th Scott Townsend, Oct 12^th Tracy Allen and Ruth Marquez, Oct 19^th Glenn Loughran, Oct 26^th Nadja Verena Marcin.
Location: Vytautas Magnus University Art Gallery 101 (Laisvės al. 53, Kaunas).

TERMINUS. Artists and publics are invited to presentations by Biennial artists about their practice. During October (Monday - Thursday only) at 8 pm, artists will talk about and discuss their work.
Location: Cafe place at the Biennial Hotel Reval Neris (Donelaičio g. 27, Kaunas).

Oct 5^th  (Monday) – Monika Järg (Estonia).
Oct 6^th  (Tuesday) – Nena Skoko Snežana & Group (Serbia).
Oct 7^th  (Wednsday) – Elena Balsiukaitė Brazdžiūnienė and group KNOT (Lithuania).
Oct 8^th  (Thursday) – Virginija Kirvelienė (Lithuania) / group TRY3 (Lithuania).
Oct 12^th  (Monday) – Carol Kavanagh (Ireland) / Marijona Sinkevičienė, Rūta Narvydienė, Sigita Saulėnienė (Lithuania).
Oct 13^th  (Tuesday) – Lina Jonikė, Lina Gutauskienė (Lithuania) / Mariëlle Videler (The Netherlands).
Oct 14^th  (Wednesday) – Daiva Zubrienė (Lithuania) / Inga Likšaitė (Lithuania / Germany).
Oct 15^th  (Tursday) – Tania Candiani (Mexico) / Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė (Lithuania).
Oct 19^th  (Monday) – Jūratė Kazakevičiūtė and Živilė Muraškienė (Lithuania) / Irene Anton (Germany).
Oct 20^th  (Tuesday) – Annika Ekdahl (Sweden) & artists of the project SHELTER (Lithuania, Finland, Norway, Denmark).
Oct 21^st  (Wednesday) – Kaarina Kellomaki (Finland) / Noriko Yamaguchi (Japan /Germany).
Oct 22^nd  (Thursday) – Andrea Sampaolo (Italy) /  Suzanne Husky (France/USA) / Nadja Verena Marcin (Germany / USA).
Oct 26^th  (Monday) – Yda Walt, Cheryl Rumbak & Philip Miller (South Africa).
Oct 27^th  (Tuesday) – Deirdre Cunningham (United Kingdom) / José Carlos Teixeira (Portugal).