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Highlights

Highlight photos and videos from Act I 2022

Athens · September 2022

In a live music and dance performance entitled Movement Kipseli, all ages and backgrounds came together to celebrate different cultures coming together – and fitting together – in the city, deliberately out of step with the restrictive rhythms of national citizenship.

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Marseille · October 2022

This participatory multi-disciplinary performance on the theme of immigration, porosity and integration, was open to the local community and visitors alike. The public were both spectators and co-creators. An intimate, immersive experience; the audience was enveloped by the human reality of the stories of exile and embodied, for a moment, the heroes, the swimmers and the drowned, the survivors and the disappeared, the hundreds of thousands caught in their movement, suspended outside community and time, within a system that offers uncertainty, anxiety, violence and still, somehow, hope.

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Trieste · October 2022

Italian actor, Andrea Germani, was a special guest at the Nestory symposium as Trieste’s response to episode 2 of Ulysses exploring the theme Weight of History.

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Trieste · October 2022

Riccardo Cepach, Museo Joyce Trieste’s Director, led the open discussion with a deeply engaged audience during the Nestory symposium in Trieste. The Trieste symposium on the theme of Weight of History actively engaged people of varying ages. The discussion was inspired by Joyce’s book and found themes and resonances which were simultaneously universal, global and local: trade, liberalism, epidemics, peace, language, economics, debt, coexistence, feminism, freedom.

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Trieste · October 2022

During the first Partner Gathering in Trieste, the partners met for the first time. A wonderful occasion when partners finally got to meet each other in ‘real life’ after developing the project digitally during the Corona epidemic.
At this first Partner Gathering, project partners discussed the episode theme of Weight of History. Inspired by the Ulysses quote ‘History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake’, each partner presented on a defining moment in their city’s history which shaped their city and how they viewed it.

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Vilnius · October 2022

Vilnius City Museum approached their symposium on the theme of Urban renewal and the reinvention of the city through holding a series of walking tours around the city where the various historical and modern neighbourhoods were visited with guides. The Vilnelė River connects different urban Vilnius settings, from post-industrial landscapes to the Old Town. It is a metaphor of the city in perpetual change, a connector of different socio-spatial environments, different scenarios of future development of neighbourhoods.

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Budapest · September 2022

Budapest kicked off their episode with workshops and a symposium which will feed into their public events in spring 2023 and 2024. The role of neighbourhood communities was explored and discussed as citizens are together in the first step to creating the Budapest Grand Novel – a reminding and exploring of the city on its 150th anniversary.

The core output of the Budapest episode, the Grand Novel of Budapest is based on shared thinking and collaboration, and to this end, potential partners were invited to an interactive workshop as the first step in a nearly two-year process.

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Paris · February 2023

On 2nd and 3rd February 2023 all the partners met for a second consortium city gathering.

During the gathering we discussed how we maintain a creative dialogue with the dead, inspired by the Hades episode (Episode V) of Ulysses. We shared reflections on the influence individually chosen past inhabitants of a city – in particular its creative figures – have on its present and future.

We discussed in detail various aspects of the project and saw presentations from Act II and Act III cities, updating us on the creative development of their projects. 

Most crucially we discussed the Charter 309 – our Arts & Society Symposia publication. They were fascinating sessions, unpicking the themes of the project and the questions they prompted regarding the role of Arts & Society in a Better Future Europe. The charter will be published on this website in the Autumn of 2024.

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