About what is important for young people – the festival “Autumn of the Patriarch” / Article is approaching

Performing Arts and Audiovisual Arts of the Latvian Academy of Culture (LCA) Patriarch’s Autumn Festival this year will take place from 30 September to 9 October, focusing on performances, films and even centuries. The festival provides more than one opportunity to meet, and perhaps the most important of these is the meeting between the work of art and its viewer. –

“This year, despite various complicated things, a very large ensemble of young artists of the Academy of Culture graduated and continues their studies. As already in “Patriarch”, we choose, we will not say the best, but what is more relevant and successful at this moment, ” , Professor Jānis Siliņš. According to him, it is important for young artists to be in contact with the environment, and not only with the theatrical: “We need to cover a much wider spectrum – not only our own theater, film – but also

is the whole art to go, and not only contemporary, but also traditional, historical. It seems to me that it appears in different ways at this festival. ”

When asked whether “Patriarch’s Autumn” is a story about the meeting of different fields of art, Emil Alps, a student of film directing at the Latvian Academy of Arts, answers: “In a way, yes. However, we are “scattered”, at least for the time being, in different rooms, buildings (which, of course, come with their pros and cons), but this festival is a place where different industries meet. “

Participation in the festival Alpam is like a festive moment, because the work meets its spectators:

“What matters in the context of the Patriarch’s Autumn is that they are really young artists who show what is important to them at that moment.”

The opportunity to see all this is also what makes the festival special, “the young director is convinced, whose growth story” Mia “will be shown in one of the three student film screenings on October 5, 6 and 7.

At the festival, of course, there is not only a program of films, but also a program of performing arts – five performances by young directors, ten performances by contemporary dance choreographers and two diploma works by acting students – one for the Valmiera course, the other for the Liepāja course. Siliņš continues: “We also invited the young artists of Liepāja Theater, with whom I had the opportunity to work for three and a half years, going to Liepāja every other week. Very gratifying that we were able to show [..] diploma thesis show Arbuzov’s “Cruel Games”, which is very successfully localized nowadays. It is a known Soviet-era play, a good play, a well-known author, a favorite author in Latvian theater, but it has such a taste for the present – it is very important. ”

“These shows – both theatrical and non-theatrical – are such a wonderful opportunity to go to the lottery – whether there will be something to talk about for a very long time, or maybe we will stay somewhere further.

(I don’t think there are any such jobs), ”says Alps. Siliņš adds that after the screenings, sometimes it is possible to send a film to an international festival.

The twelfth anniversary of the Patriarch’s Autumn Festival highlights the centuries of two theater directors – Olgerts Kroders and Tina Hercberg. From October 4 to 7, a series of lectures-talks dedicated to Kroder will take place, which will end on October 8 with proposals for the reconstruction of performances staged by the director in three different decades by students specializing in “Audiovisual Art” theory. But in honor of Hercberg’s creative life, everyone is invited to an exhibition at the Eduards Smiļģis Theater Museum.

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