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The idea oflowis to branch out andopen new channels o communication,orming a network among artists andscientists that brings the countries o

the Danube Region closer together:Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Republico Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia,and Ukraine.

This initiative o the Austrian Ministryor European and International Aairsis designed to produce direct and long-term connections between individuals

in dierent domains concerned withthe arts and sciences. The core o theestival is sustainable conversation andnetworking with concrete outcomes: itsaim is to initiate multinational, interdis-ciplinary projects in diverse elds.

Sine 2009 the Institute or the DanubeRegion and Central Europe (IDM) in

Vienna is responsible or the organiza-tion and coordination oflow. For flow2012 the IDM collaborates with the Inter-national Elias Canetti Society in Ruse.

The rst edition o the flowestival suc-cessully took part in Novi Sad, Serbiain May 2008, the second in Chisinau,Republic o Moldova in September2010. The goal is to bring flowevery two

years to a dierent city in the DanubeRegion, creating a local impact and atthe same time present the local artsand science community.

The next flowestival will take placerom October 18th 21st in Ruse, Bul-garia. The general topic is ActivatingSpaces, Activating People by Micro

Imagination. One essential part o theestival will be the common creativework on dierent subtopics in severalworking groups. And beside this, flowwill oer attractive estival events onthree evenings or the participants andalso or the local audience.

Abandoned urban spaces and locationswith a rich and exciting past will be re-

activated and transormed to unusualestival venues. Representatives othe contemporary science and culturescene rom Bulgaria and the DanubeRegion will not only have the chanceto meet during the estival, but also toexchange and develop new ideas andinterdisciplinary collaborations. flowaims to develop various micro-projects,which are to be realized in dierentcountries o the Danube Region in 2013.

The flowcommunity is digitally connect-ed by a dynamic social media platorm.The platorm gives all participants theopportunity to communicate with eachother beore the estival will start. Aterthe estival the platorm will be trans-ormed to a digital working space or

the several groups to develop concreteprojects on the basis o their discussedideas and prepared concepts.

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Ruse (also transliterated as Rousseor Russe; Bulgarian: ) is the th-largest city in Bulgaria. It is the mostsignicant Bulgarian river port, serving

an important part o the internationaltrade o the country. The Ruse-GiurgiuFriendship Bridge, the only one in theshared Bulgarian-Romanian section othe Danube, crosses the river here. Thecity emerged as a Neolithic settlementrom the 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE,when pottery, shing, agriculture, andhunting developed. The later Thraciansettlement developed into a Roman

military and naval centre during thereign o Vespasian as part o the or-tication system along the northernboundary o Moesia.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, dur-ing the time o the Second BulgarianEmpire, a ortied settlement emergednear the ruins o the Roman town. Itlater strengthened its position as animportant trade centre with the landson the opposite side o the Danube,until it was conquered by the Ottomansin 1388. Ater it was liberated rom theOttoman Empire on 20 February 1878,Ruse was one o the key cultural andeconomic centres o the country. In thenewly-liberated Bulgaria o the late 19thcentury, Ruse was a cosmopolitan city

with a multiethnic population. BetweenWorld War I and II, ater Southern Do-bruja was lost to Romania, the econom-ic signicance o the city decreased.

The return o Southern Dobruja to Bul-garia in September 1940 ostered goodconditions or restoration o the citysleading role. It became a provincialcentre, and economic activity revived.

The construction o the Ruse-Giurgiubridge in 1954 and the ast industrializa-tion gave a new push to development.Ruse emerged again as an importanteconomic, transport, cultural, and edu-

cational hub. Engineering, chemical,and light industries expanded; a largeharbor was built; and the city becamea university centre. In the early 1980s,

Ruse entered a dark period o its his-tory. The Verachim actory was built inGiurgiu, which polluted the air between1980 and 1987, impacting the citys de-velopment. Population decreased, and15,000 people moved out between 1985and 1992. During the 1990s, the econom-ic crisis in Bulgaria aected Ruse. Mostbig companies suered a decline andunemployment increased, which led to

renewed emigration waves. Since 2000,the city has been continually regainingits ormer leading status.

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activatiNG sPaces,activatiNG PeOPLe bYMicrO-iMaGiNatiONis the main topic oflow

2012. By inspiring our mi-cro-imagination we aimto deconstruct the notiono group or nationalsolidarity and constructa new understanding ous as active micro-agentso change. There will beduring the estival sevenworking groups on the

ollowing seven subtop-ics. In each workinggroup flowparticipantswill deal with their sub-topic and develop ideasand concepts or interdis-ciplinary and internation-al projects. Presentationo the group outcomes at17:00 on October 20. Fordetails see programme.

1. soldy Mopol nd ind-

dl rponlySolidarity reers to de-gree o integration withpeople, to our ability tobuild ties with people

around us, to show pas-sion and empathy andto take responsibility orus and or others. Whilethe world has becomemore and more complexand global solidarity andresponsibility oten re-duced to political phrasesused in an empty and

shallow way, the newmicro-sphere o solidar-ity has emerged. Themotto here is to changethe global reality by

micro-engagement, bytaking responsibility inour individual lives andlocal communities, and

to change the world bychanging its own micro-cosmos.

2. rponly,sppo nd Po

Protests today belongintegrally to all lives weprotest against socialand economic injustice,

corrupt politicians, injus-tice and authoritarianreduction o public spaceand violations o humanrights. By protesting weshow responsibility, weormulate a quest orchange and announceour will to ght or it. Evenwhen we decide to staywithin our private worldswe express some kind oprotest against the worldout there. Protests canspark new energies, reecreative potentials andestablish something new,either within us or in oursocieties.

3. commnono aon

We live in the age o per-manent and non-limitedcommunication. Thepermanent character ocommunication brings anew concept o activity tothe ore. As long as we

communicate we remainactive and vital. Such anunderstanding o activitygoes hand in hand withHannah Arendts notion

o vita activa composedo three undamentalhuman activities: labor,work and action. Vita

Activa is Arendts termor anything active, ac-tion is what humans dowhen they communicatewith each other. Has vitaactive in Arendts sensechanged in the era o glo-balization and new web-based communication?Do we exist beyond the

act o communication?Are there another ormso activity beyond the acto communication? Andnally, what does it meanto be active nowadays?

4. Pl sp ndvl commny

Free and vivid publicspace is the nucleuso democracy, is themodern agora. Publicengagement based onree will, right o assem-bly and media ree-doms creates a sense odemocratic community a community o ree

exchange, open commu-nication and deliberation.Democracy today is rap-idly changing, it is evencontested by new ormso so called competitiveauthoritarian regimesthat try to reduce thepublic space and limit theree spirit o communi-

ties. In both democra-cies and authoritarianregimes digital or evenvirtual web or social net-works based realities has

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emerged and changedthe way we communicateand create communities.

Virtual communities have

started to replace theclassic notion o publicagora, they have creatednew spaces or delibera-tion, they even shape anew orm o community.

5. Gng o o hc alneonom

Crisis, crisis, crisis! Mediaare ull o crisis-stories,the crisis has becomean integral part o ourlives. Still, the term crisisremains diuse, or atleast ull o contradic-tions. Have we ever livedin times without crisis?Is the crisis itsel not theengine o democraticchange, the guaranteeor permanent renewalo our societies? Finally,the crisis is said to be asource o creativity, anenergy flowthat neverruns dry and createsalternatives. I we ol-

low the argument thateconomics in its pres-ent capitalist orm andnancial markets havelargely contributed tothe crisis we ace today,we obviously have tolook or alternative eco-nomic models. However,alternative concepts or

economic and socialdevelopment ace hardtimes at the beginning othe twenty-rst century.Have we arrived at the

moment in history wherewe should start debatingthose alternatives thatdo question the existing

power relations o thecapitalist system? Dowe need new economicutopia?

6. Who eopn eopnzon ndblknzon

The sense o belongingin times o European up-

heaval and crisis is in theprocess o rapid change.Europe is changing itsace, conronted withinternal crisis and ratherdicult search or its ownidentity. The Europeanperiphery, an integralpart o Europe but still at least in the case othe Balkans let on theEuropean periphery, re-calibrates its own notiono belonging. To whom tobelong, is the questionasked nowadays? Whois European, who has tostay outside o the diuseconcept o EUropeannes?

Europeanization as aprogressive and Bal-kanization as retrogradeconcept? Beyond theclichs o Europe and theBalkans there is a needor reconguration o thenotion o belonging andsearch or new Europe-annes.

7. (ex)chng cong bod

Crossing borders seemsto be obvious in global

age, permanent ex-change the only way tochange ourselves and(re)shape the world.Crossing borders and(ex)changing evenconstitutes the globaliza-tion and contributes tounderstanding o ourworld as a global village.

But, is crossing bordersnot only a privilege o thevery ew, o those livingin the West that haveaccumulated enoughwelare and do not haveto ear the negativeconsequences o global-ization? There is a needto broaden the notion oexchange and bordersin general, to rethink ourcertainties and to createalternative concept o(ex)change. Where arethe invisible borders thatwe need to cross?

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thdy, Oo 18h

The ollowing events are opento the public, entrance ree.

18:30 Ol opnngWith representatives rom Austria,Bulgaria, and the Municipality oRuse. flowparticipants and flowAd-visory Board members will presenttheir work and the concept oflow. Historical Museum

20:00 so undgond 2012Exhibition opening with YovoPanchev and Ivo Ivanov rom Soa Dom Canetti

Soa Underground PerormanceArt Festival 2012 was dedicated tothe memory o its creator and di-rector Ruen Ruenov, art critic, jour-nalist and curator (1958 2011). Cre-ated in 1997, the Soa UndergroundFestival has won a reputation o amajor art event in the interdisciplin-ary genres o visual perormanceart, actionist art, happening andnew media in Bulgaria. From Octo-ber 18th to 28th Soa Undergroundwill present in Ruse a selection oworks rom their last estival.

Topic o this edition have beenbased on a concept by RuenRuenov: Justied Actions. Herefected on the current culturalsituation raming the artistic lie andthe conditions or artistic practices.He arrived at the result that Con-temporary Bulgarian art is not lessprovincial and aceless than the one

characterizing the regional stagebeore 1989. There are no alterna-tives to the ramework-status-quo,which prevents uture develop-ments in the near uture. For artists,

beginning to work now there is alack o any perspective and senseor continuing to work in contem-porary arts outside o the given

conormist parameters.

21:00 Kohky nd h rn DogLive concert Dom Canetti

Kottarashky is the stage name othe musician and architect NikolaGruev (born 1979) which startedas a solo project and evolved into

a music band Kottarashky & TheRain Dogs. Vintage Balkan rhythms,classic jazz and blues, psychedelicsounds, club beats, gypsy motivesare mixed together and the resultis the unique style o the electronictrip-hop-infuenced music o Kot-tarashky. Kottarashky is also parto the Berlin label Asphalt Tangoand their music is included in thesoundtrack o the movie Love.Net.Two albums have been released soar. Opa Hey! is Kottarashkys debutalbum, released in November 2009.The second album Demoni was re-corded together with the musicians

Aleksandar Dobrev (clarinet), HristoHadzhiganchev (guitar, synthe-sizer), Yordan Geshakov (bass) and

Atanas Popov (drums) unied in theThe Rain Dogs.

23:00 DkonkAudio-visual perormance Pulp Fiction Bar

Dekonstrukt: dkstrkt is a group oexperimental artists: Y_NOT (one o

the ounders and ormer membero the band Ambient Anarchist),Yves_O (visual artist and eventorganizer rom Studio Dauhaus)and riends. dkstrkt deals with the

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preliminary processing o analo-gous and digital works or art in anattempt at creating a new audio-visual product; this is a constant

process o conscious deconstruc-tion o a moment.

Fdy, Oo 19h

The ollowing events are open tothe public, entrance ree.

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Do r! Starting point: Hebros BankaWalks end at: Restaurant Pontona

to 1: L Go shoppng!

The tour will deal with commercialhabits o Ruses citizens. From theold bazar to new shopping malls,rom broad boulevards to thesmall shop on the corner, the tourdiscovers the city in the eyes o theconsumer. It will also show dierenturban environments and visual con-tradictions. Guide: Bernd Janning

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Past and present the tour will

show not only the history and ves-tiges o the many dierent ethnicgroups and communities thatenriched the citys lie and culturebut also their current situation anduture perspectives.Guide: Svetlana Kirova

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The tour will guide the participantsa bit out o the city centre, just pass-ing by the beautiul Mladezhki Park,entering an unknown and not well

visited area o the city, ull o spacesand places in need o reactivation.1866 was the huge hall built in whichthe rst Bulgarian locomotives and

rails were constructed. The tour o-ers a view o what Ruse was, whatit became, and what it could be.Guide: Elisa Calosi

21:00 P.O.box: unomTheatre perormance o thegroup 36 Monkeys rom Soa Dom Canetti

P.O.Box Unabomber uses ecologywith terrorism. And it seems theresult is an exciting piece o theatreeco-terrorism that asks importantcontemporary questions but ina light manner, without losing itssense o humor. The structure o theplay rather resembles a puzzle, inwhich the roads o Ted Kaczynski(a promising math proessor whoabandoned his academic career tobecome a social critic, genius andlong sought-ater terrorist) and theProechidna (an ancient, intelligent,egg-laying mammal who is about togo extinct) intersect and overlap atdierent levels. And while Kaczynskibegins to apply his radical means

in order to warn society about thedangers o the rapidly-developingtechnology to human dignity, theProechidna, who probably lived onEarth even during the Ice Age isnow doomed to wander in searchor a mate o its kind. Texts: ZdravaKamenova and Gergana Dimitrova.Director: Gergana Dimitrova / 36Monkeys.

36 Monkeys is an independentNGO established in 2007. It is largelyknown or its long-term initiativeProText in which the team o theatre

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directors renders a specic dy-namic orm o set-specic readingperormance (an action in-betweena plays stage reading and com-

pleted perormance) and presentsa selection o new European dramaauthors and titles in their rst Bul-garian translation. Convinced thatcontemporary theatre can happeneverywhere their shows have beenperormed in places as dierent asbasements and corridors, operat-ing and abandoned bars, tnessand Internet halls, museums, art

galleries and libraries.

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The ollowing events are open tothe public, entrance ree.

17:00 low nl pnonPresentation o the group outcomes Rechna Gara

One essential part o the estival isthe common creative work on di-erent subtopics in several workinggroups (or details see flowtopics).The flowworking groups will pres-ent on Saturday their project ideas

and concepts.

21:00 Nkomx,wd sp D JmmLive concert Rechna Gara

Nasekomix are a Bulgarian musicalgroup rom Soa. Their style could

be described as an avantgardeminimalistic mixture o electronicmusic, jazz-rock, punk, indie, usionand trip-hop. The group themselvesdene it as melodramatic pop

with drum & bass and electonicainfuences. The band had publisheddigitally one multimedia album Insectomix with the single gra-

dAD, meanwhile gathering popu-larity with the songs Inject me withLove and Lady Song includedin the soundtrack o the criticallyacclaimed lm Eastern Plays byKamen Kalev. Aterwards (approx.23:00) open speed dub jam andelectronic jazz o tomorrow with theteam o SDJ Space Dub Jammers.SDJ are Mr.Smi - trumpet, vox,

JIB bass, vox, chello, zazizazi synths, DIY electronics, Moonkey drumz, perc. and FunKiro synths.

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The Canetti House was built and used

as a business and commercial buildingby the Canetti amily (grandather andather o Elias Canetti). It was construct-ed in 1898, planned by the architectNikos Bedrosyan. The store dealt withwholesale groceries. In his memoires(The Tongue set Free) Elias Canettireconsiders his early childhood memo-ries o the store. Ater the Canetti amilyhad let Ruse, a urniture store was

situated in the building. Since approxi-mately 1993 the building is vacant. Atthe moment the house is used in its un-restored state as an alternative venueor concerts, perormances or visualarts events. The International Elias Ca-netti Society succeeded in establishingit as a popular orum or contemporaryart and culture in Rousse and Bulgaria.

Ho bnk ulitsa Olimpi Panov

Its all about passion and power, moneyand sex. The old bank building has arich history. It housed at the turn o the20th century one o the rst Bulgarianbanks. Later the bank was converted to

Bulgarias rst house o pleasure. AterWorld War II the established communistregime considered that the brothel is apublic nuisance and expression o thebourgeoisie which has to be eliminat-ed. Finally, the ormer bank became abank again this time state-owned. A-ter the all o the communist regime allBulgarian banks were privatized and abranch oce o Hebros banka moved

in. Since bankruptcy respectively buy-out o the Hebros company in the 1990sthe noble building is abandoned.

rhn G (om ho on) at the end o ulitsa Slavjanska

Ruse is still the most important Danube

harbour in Bulgaria. Beore World WarII the old city port at the end o Slavjan-ska street used to be the urban epi-centre o Ruse. Boats rom all countriesalong the Danube landed their goodshere. Merchants checked their ordersand negotiated prices, internationalpassengers departed and arrived bytrain at the harbour station. The cityport became useless ater opening two

new ports out o the centre, and the artdeco building lost its unction.

Hol Mm r Ploshtad Battenberg

The Ruse Regional Historical Museumis one o the eleven regional museumso Bulgaria. It was established in 1904.The museum is located in the buildingo the ormer local court (also calledBattenberg Palace), built 18791882 byFriedrich Grnanger.

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One essential part o the estival will bethe common creative work on dierentsubtopics in several working groups.

And beside this, flowwill oer attractive

estival events on three evenings orthe participants and also or the localaudience.

thdy, Oo 18h

until 15:00 Arrival o participants,check-in Hotel Cosmopolitan

15:30 Rereshments or participants Dom Canetti

16:00 Welcome,presentation o participants Dom Canetti

18:30 Ocial openingc Historical Museum

20:00 Soa Underground 2012(exhibition opening)c Dom Canetti

21:00 Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs(concert)c Dom Canetti

23:00 Dekonstrukt(audio-visual perormance)c Pulp Fiction bar

Fdy, Oo 19h

08:00 Breakast Hotel Cosmopolitan

10:00 flowworking groups Hebros Banka

13:00 Lunch or participants

14:00flowworking groups Hebros Banka

16:30 City walksc

Starting point: Hebros BankaWalks end at: Restaurant Pontona

19:00 Dinner or participants Restaurant Pontona

21:00 P.O.Box: Unabomber(perormance)c Dom Canetti

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17:00flownal presentation(project ideas developed in theworking groups)c Rechna Gara(ormer harbour station)

19:00 Dinner or participants Restaurant Chifika

21:00 Farewell party: Nasekomix,Space Dub Jammers (concert)c Rechna Gara(ormer harbour station)

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