After a brief introduction to composting, we will focus exclusively on hot compost on site with our four-chamber simple composting system, which works on a manual drive. Using a specific example, we will explain exactly what such composting is all about, how we can achieve up to 70 degrees Celsius, everything we can spoil, how dangerous it can be and especially how important it is for our existence.
On one of the composts, we will test what it is like to work with and look at what is going on in it. Finally, we will briefly introduce our project for an automatic composter, which we are developing.
Is organizing a festival without waste possible? The popular street market and festival Dobry trh (Good Market) made radical changes in their waste management in 2017 and since has taught more than hundred organizations in Slovakia what they have learned. This workshop is for anyone who is interested in reducing their waste production on events in a fun, and most important, effective way.
(The workshop is a follow up from the lecture: Your festival without waste: How we did it – but attending the lecture is not required for joining the workshop.)
Speakers: Illah van Oijen, Zuzana Macurová, Jana Vašáková
Chi-kung morning warm-up – activates and mobilizes your body and energizes it. Together with the dancer and choreographer Katarína Brestovanská, you will be able to handle these simple exercises even without previous movement experience. Cultivating the body through qigong allows you to walk joints, increase body flexibility, move mental processes and replenish energy.
Walk-in workshop for everyone who wants to personalize their TEH conference bag. We got the tools, materials and experience. You know what it takes to make your bag fit your needs and meet your deepest desires. You can also come by for any repair: together we fix lost buttons, torn t-shirts, broken hearts. Reclaim your trust in your broken parts.
Pottery workshop led by Nikola Čemanová can be a combination of clay work techniques, one-time meditation, craft therapy, a romantic date (for couples), rehabilitation of heart fractures or a gift for your mother.
During the workshop, she will guide you through the mysteries of this archaic mass, guiding you through the basics of spinning on a potter’s wheel and / or hand modeling.In the studio there is a potter’s wheel, basic tools for working with ceramics, modeling materials and kiln firing.
Trust – everyone wants it. But very few have it. Why? Human beings are incredibly smart at detecting even the slightest flaw in the way someone speaks. But most people are so concerned about WHAT they are saying they never pay attention to how they SHOW UP for others. Almost all leadership and communications training are about what to say and how to say it. Very little training deals with how you “show up” for others. As a result, most leaders wind up saying the “right” things and making logical arguments, but in the end are still viewed as ordinary, as unremarkable, as someone that doesn’t really stand out. These leaders might even be seen as smart, or driven, or compassionate, or like-minded, but still not held as someone who is profoundly trustworthy. Those that choose to follow them, often base their decision on the fact that they are “better than the alternative” or “think like me” – not because of a deep sense of trust. What if it were possible for you to show up in such a way that your trustworthiness was unmistakable. What if it were possible to create immense trust in seconds and minutes with complete strangers? This is what this talk will explore and even make possible.
Speaker: Vik Maraj (President at Unstoppable Conversations, Business Culture Transformation, Executive Performance)
When working in an organization it all boils down to trust. You have to have confidence in your own abilities and capacities; you can do your own work well when you can rely on others; is it necessary to be sure about the others or is it sufficient to believe them; how to deal with mistrust or even suspicion; and how to restore trust when it is violated. These and others aspects in relation with your own experiences define what you can expect when working in teams to make your organization run well. After my introduction on these issues I will suggest dealing with some cases that can be brought up by the participants of this workshop.
Speaker: Erik Backer (Interim manager Melkweg, Ambassador of TEH)
At the workshop, visitors will be able to try out the process of traditional graphic techniques, namely linocut, woodcut and hand typing – letterpress. During the time spent in the studio, people get a basic overview from the design through implementation to the result itself in the form of a printout. The visitor will leave with theoretical and practical experience in the field of traditional graphic techniques.
Pressink is a letterpress and creative workspace based in Nová Cvernovka. The Studio was established in 2016 by graphic designer Kristína Uhráková and its first functional space dedicated to letterpress in Slovakia. Studio works with limited collection of metal and wood type and two german proof presses FAG Standard AP 510 and Korrex Hannover. As well as using traditional printing techniques, the studio uses new technologies like laser cut and polymer to produce bespoke limited artworks. Workshop will mainly focus on a traditional printing technique, from manual typesetting, manual layout experimentation, inking and it will also teach you how to operate a proof press. After the design process, the participants will produce a letterpress printed typographic poster.
A morning warm-up can look completely different than you would expect!
Get to know the hand-held mowing tool – the scythe which was used by our ancestors thousands of years ago and is still used today. We will explain the individual components and their influence on the almost perfect ergonomics, which ensures minimal effort with the correct mowing technique. We will show how to sharpe the scythe and why it achieves such sharpness. We will try the mowing technique on demanding autumn grass – thus ending a short workshop.
“How can cultural workers keep their spark alive?” This question has been at the heart of the Penguin Project and will be the lynchpin of this workshop. We will use some core metaphors of the project – among others obviously the famous penguin metaphor – to inspire introspection, provide you with a new perspective on your relationship with your culture centre, and facilitate group discussion and sense making.
After the workshop you will hopefully be more aware of what charges and what drains you at work and maybe you’ll even have some initial ideas about what to change to make the deal a bit more fair and sustainable.
Speakers: Florian Cope-Ladstätter and Shawn Antoni Wright (Die Bäckerei – Kulturbackstube)
Chi-kung morning warm-up – activates and mobilizes your body and energizes it. Together with the dancer and choreographer Katarína Brestovanská, you will be able to handle these simple exercises even without previous movement experience. Cultivating the body through qigong allows you to walk joints, increase body flexibility, move mental processes and replenish energy.