The PUB Project is a two-three weeks residency project that brings an international collective to a local reality. The local reality of this project should be linked to a pub, bar, tavern: A place where usually stories are told.
Pubs, bars, taverns, are contact points and inspirational places where people can meet, share, experience, listen, express, enjoy, get drunk or marry, celebrate, discuss, argue, learn, buy, sell, play, laugh, sing, dance, love... The pub is a platform for a creative process where the collective can stay in constant touch with the community and react on it.
The collective lives and explores the local reality – starting from the cultural background (usually by choosing one piece of national literature in advance as a starting point and guiding line), getting through the everyday life of the place, joining and observing, putting the inputs under a different, international point of view and presenting during and at the end of the residency, at least one performative action or public event.
This action is patterned on the venue and can involve different artistic tools (like performance, multimedia, puppets, visual art) and works with all kind of languages; it gives a new interpretation to usually settled realities and brings art and culture directly back to where it has been born from: everyday life.
The PUBlic Collective fosters performative actions and events in public space. With the P.U.B Project the collective starts its activity by focusing on the pub as a public space to easily reach people.
It is an international, multidisciplinary, non-hierarchical collective.
For more information about the collective and it's members have a look here: the collective
The P.U.B. Project was born during the first FIRESTARTER* Network meeting in Cork (IR), March 2012.
The first PUB Project was held at the “Hospoda pod Kapličkou” in Nahořany, Czech Republic in October 2012 and it produced a theater play and a video production.
The following P.U.B. Project residencies are planned in Forcalquier France in September 2013 and Kilkenny, Ireland for 2014.
The P.U.B. project has been funded so far by:
and other local funds.
