MEMORY OF ANCIENT TIME

The project has been running for many years with a group of children from our borderland. From Lithuania, Poles and Lithuanians; and from Poland, Lithuanians, Belarussians, Ukrainians, Russian - "Old-believers" and Poles. The fundamental objective of this artistic-educational work with children is to try to answer the question, does tradition matter for the young generation of the end of the 20th century? The settings of the work are the spaces the children experience directly: neighbourhood, natural environment and religious rituals. Hence the titles of individual project stages: House, Nest, Temple; the children participate in a real house, nest, and temple building, which is accompanied by artistic workshops and other activities drawing upon the archetypes, symbols and traditional beliefs concerning those spaces, as well as intercultural activities integrating participants in the context of their own and other's individual traditions.