Nomadic School Public Session # 1
THE PLACE FOR ADVENTURE
September 5 14.00 / In English
Discussion with Philippe Quesne, Director of Santarcangelo Festival Silvia Bottiroli, Director of the School of Visual Theatre Guy Gutman (Jerusalem), choreographer Tami Lebovits (Tel Aviv), researcher Livia Andrea Piazza (Brussels), architect Paride Piccinini (Forli).
The Nomadic School sets the ground for its theoretical work on shipbuilding and other joint efforts by taking the ship as its point of departure. Together with Philippe Quesne, the school will engage in a discussion on today’s places for adventure; keeping in mind, as Foucault wrote, that “in civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police takes the place of pirates”.
The school or the theatre, like ships, may let us navigate the space between reality and fiction, their frictions and the possible adventures rising in between them.

Nomadic School Public Session # 2
JOINT ADVENTURES
September 6 11.00 / In English
Collective reading with Mammalian Diving Reflex, Benjamin Verdonck, Pieter Ampe, Director of Santarcangelo Festival Silvia Bottiroli, Director of the School of Visual Theatre Guy Gutman (Jerusalem), choreographer Tami Lebovits (Tel Aviv), researcher Livia Andrea Piazza (Brussels), architect Paride Piccinini (Forli).
In the school’s reading seminars, a relevant text is read and discussed together. Theory is placed next to performances and a dialogue between the two is opened up in order to contribute to the group’s work. On Sunday 6th the school opens this session to the public and invites some artists of the festival dealing with collaboration and togetherness, to join the reading seminar. The invitation starts from sharing a reflection on one text in order to raise some questions on collaboration, conflict and the possibilities of working together, which constitutes the base of every joint effort.

Public session hosted by online magazine Satori
GROWING UP
September 6 17.00 / In Latvian
Discussion between Ilmārs Šlāpins, editor in chief of online magazine Satori, and experts of different fields after watching the performances of the programme, Twenty
Transition from childhood to adulthood is one of the most important events in the life of human being. What traces it leaves in the formation of our personality? How to get over it?

Nomadic School Public Session # 3
SHARED SPACE – THE PIAZZA IS MINE!
September 9 14.00 / In English
Discussion with Heine Avdal, Yukiko Shinozaki, Gaetan Rusquet, Olivier Coulon-Jablonka, Director of the School of Visual Theatre Guy Gutman (Jerusalem), researcher Daniel Blanga-Gubbay (Brussels), choreographer Tami Lebovits (Tel Aviv).
Nomadic School’s third public session will touch upon the slippery notion of Common Ground. Taken literally, a common ground can merely mean a space where we are all present at the same time. That is in some respect the very essence of a live event- that we are all here, all together. Yet, who delineates this so called shared space? Who is placed in the center of the Commons? Who marks its edges? The discussion will journey from performance as a mode of assembling, joining and rearranging – to a larger debate about theatre as a political and social gathering, as a Piazza where spectatorship and citizenship are renegotiated.

Public session hosted by online magazine Satori
REFUGEES
September 9 16.00 / In Latvian
Discussion between Ilmārs Šlāpins, editor in chief of online magazine Satori, and experts of different fields after watching the performance, 81 Avenue Victor Hugo.
The world is shrinking and the global migration let us meet people who have left their homes in search of better life elsewhere. How to learn to live together and understand each other? Where to find strength and wisdom for hospitality?

Festival talks are part of the performance space and scenography programme Shared Space: Music, Weather, Politics supported by the EU programme Culture.