The summer school is organized as the team workshops led by international and local tutors to work out the ideas on spatial arrangements for a pop-up festival centre, develop the design proposals, and construction process.

The intense workshops are enriched by inspiring lectures, guided excursions, visits to the local construction material factories, discussions, and feedback sessions, as well as cultural and leisure activities, concerts and performances, cinema screening, exciting parties together with the Valmiera Summer Theatre festival.

NEW programme of the summer school in 2019 >>>

Wednesday, July 24

Arrival

Thursday, July 25

9.00 Meeting & greeting of the participants
(9.30) Welcome session & opening of the summer school (Vecpuišu park)
10.00 Introduction to theatre festival by VVTF Kids creative director Jānis Znotiņš
11.00 Briefing & project preview by mentors
12.30 Lunch break
14.00 Site visit
15.30 Practical warm-up task
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Guided visit to Valmiermuiža Brewery

Friday, July 26

9.00 Lecture by architect and tutor Kārlis Melzobs
After lecture – Workshop on first ideas
12:30 Lunch break
13.30 Workshop
18.30 Dinner
19.30 Discussion & evaluation

Saturday, July 27

9.00 Lecture “Wood, tools and technologies” by Rudolf Bekic
After lecture – Workshop
12:30 Lunch break
Instruction on work safety
Workshop
18.30 Dinner
19.30 Presentation & revision of the ideas
Valmiera city festivities & Culture session

Sunday, July 28

9.00 Morning briefing, workshop on design development and on-site testing lab 
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Workshop on design development and on-site testing lab
18.30 Common dinner
Valmiera city festival and culture program

Monday, July 29

9.00 Morning briefing, construction workshop
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Construction workshop
19.00 Dinner
Social activities

Tuesday, July 30

9.00 Briefing and construction workshop
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Construction workshop
19.00 Dinner
Workshop and evening session on Problems & Solutions
Social activities 

Wednesday, July 31

9.00 Briefing and construction workshop
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Construction workshop
19.00 Dinner
Workshop and evening session on Problems & Solutions
Social activities

Thursday, August 1

9.00 Briefing (on-site) and construction workshop
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Construction workshop
18.30 Dinner
Finishing of construction
Open-air cinema screening

Friday, Aug 2

9.00 Last finishing of the construction works
12.30 Lunch break
From 14.00 Festival centre open for public
16.00 Opening of the Summer Theatre festival center
Culture session: Program of the Theatre festival
18.30 Dinner and closing ceremony of the summer school
Culture session: Program of the Theatre festival
Open-air cinema

Saturday, Aug 3

Culture session: Program of the Theatre festival

Departure

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The VVTF has so far three years of experience in discovering the city spaces for theatre performance. By joining the forces with RISEBA the plans to generate more ambitious ideas and construct the festival city in the center of Valmiera has resulted in the cooperation to organize the summer school already for second year.

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Parallel to the summer school, Valmiera city festival will place from July 26 to July 28, 2019.