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Vol. 14 - issue 01 tuesday July 22nd
Welcome!
Meet the Umbrella team 2014 Theme:
Beginnings Q’ of the day:
How did your romance with EASA begin?
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Nielsine Otto
Eva De Bruyn
Sofie Devriendt
Haris Bulic
Pauli Rikaniemi
Editors’ note Most of you are aware of this fact, the rest of you will realise it soon enough: explaining what easa is, is close to impossible. But it keeps being interesting trying to. This might be the reason for the expanding media group and workshops focusing inwards. We are all by different means and media trying to document and understand what exactly is happening to us during the assembly. Some of it we are in control of, some of it is of a more abstract nature. Every year umbrella has been providing news on the progress of the workshops, important information and extensive fieldwork and reviews at the site by night. The team behind this years Umbrella
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promises you not to go down on those fields, but we also hope to extend the fieldwork beyond the site and look at the context we are in. Being only five of us – Sofie (Be), Eva (Be), Pauli (Fi), Nielsine (Dk) and Haris (BiH) – however proactive we will not be everywhere at once. We are adding some of the layers to the picture, but counting on all of you to detail it. One of the workshops contributing a layer of the full picture that is easa, is EASA Stats. In this issue, and hopefully in more to come, they will give us a sneak peak into their investigations. We hope to see more of you in the Umbrella headquarters on the first floor of the bar.
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#01: Beginnings 2. Editors’ note 3. Contents and Opening night 4. Workshops, workshops, workshops 5. It’s party time! 6.- 7. Question of the day 8.-9. EASA FM 10.-11. Your hungover faces - City is my playground 12. EASA stats 13. Photo of the day 14.-15. Lectures 16. Bulgaria 17. Humans of Veliko Tarnovo 18. Будилникъ - wake up 19. What’s on? / Lost and Found / Wanted / Weather 20. It’s a fact
Opening night Burgers, speaches and some Balkan psychedelic music extravaganza The opening ceremonies yesterday launched to a great start with a dinner and speaches up by the castle ruins. The free beer that was offered was the perfect reward after a hot hike uphill. It was hard being annoyed about the long queue time for the beer when behind the tap there was a 5-yearold little boy pouring the frosty ones.
Afterwards, the castle was lit up for a light show. Even though it included some quite disturbing sound effects - or possibly because of them - the show made quite an impact on easians. After a walk trough the city the of ficial opening party was ready to begin at Club Spider. We were entertained by Kottarashky & The Rain
Dogs who combined authentic recordings with electronic music, jazz and other music genres. It took a while for the crowd to warm up but in the late hours the party was hitting the roof as usual. Some even managed to continue the night at a HIPHOP-afterparty at the EASA-bar where our own David Lukacs was hitting the decks.
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Workshops, workshops, workshops There’s so much to choose from! Remember the marathon of presentations on Saturday? It was a long haul but you’ve got to appreciate all the work the tutors have been pouring out from their hearts. The temperature in the room didn’t make it any easier to concentrate on the presentations but the sauna-like ambiance of the hall made at least the Finns feel right at home. 4
And no worries if you missed one or two presentations, you still got the chance to meet all the beautiful tutors at the workshop fair on Sunday. The party house got quite hectic at times when the aspiring participants were fighting to get in to their favorite workshops and trying to sway the tutors’ minds, with sweet smiles and patriotic feelings.
There’s an impressive amount of workshops so for sure everybody found something they liked. But maybe you’re are not quite sure you ended up in the workshop you were dreaming of the night before? Just relax and throw yourself in the fun – all the workshops come with surprises and will offer you something you didn’t even think of before! umbrellanewspaper@gmail.com
It’s party time! EASA just wouldn’t be the same without the constant hammer in your head. You might not remember it the next day but there’s been a lot of partying going on these past days. And as you’ve surely noticed, the party mansion is a perfect setting for fun filled EASAparties. The first night, everybody was having so much fun that the police came for a friendly visit up to nine times. But that didn’t
stop us from having fun! Let’s just keep in mind that we should stay away from the front yard and drink our refreshments at the back garden in stead to keep the neighbours and the police - happy. After workshop selection was done on Sunday the ice was easily broken between tutors and participants by yet another excellent party.
The dancing floor was full more or less till the morning hours and new connections were forming front and back.
“Lets do it again! It’s always fun seeing your tutor having a shot at 4 AM, so you know you can sleep an extra 15 minutes.
“free beer , free beer, free beer” “he [the little boy] was so concentrated drafting very bad beer” “child labour!”
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Question of the day:
How did your romance with EASA begin? Jade (Belgium), 1st EASA I was sitting on the bus with a Vitra bag, so an older lady on the bus asked me if I was an architecture student. Apparently she was an architect as well. She told me to google EASA, “something she used to take part in, many years ago”, and that’s how I got here!
Elena (tutor of Antiroom, Switzerland), 3rd EASA I really wanted to travel to Scandinavia, but it’s so expensive. When I was looking up information for my trip, I found out about EASA in Helsinki. So I found a cheaper way to go to Scandinavia! Now I’m addicted, I need my yearly dose of EASA. Sabina (Azerbaijan), 3rd EASA Some of my friends went on EASA and it sounded amazing. But when I googled it, I couldn’t find so much information. It was before the Kononchenko-era (our amazing photographer Alexandra, ed.), so there were less pictures available than today.
Magda (Poland), 1st EASA There was this guy at my university who went on 5 EASA’s and always returned super excited. He’s not here this time, so I grabbed the chance to take his place!
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Royo (tutor of Skywalk, Slovenia), 1st/2nd EASA I’m actually not an architect, nor architecture student. I’m a beach-volleyball referee from Zuzemberk. Last year when EASA was in my town, I observed the guys from the Endor workshop. They were really having some problems with their construction, so I brought them beers and offered help. I organised them a forklift, a truck,... and we became friends. Later I joined some EASians for New Years Eve in Paris, and now I’m tutoring Skywalk with the French guys. Unknown Rumours reached Umbrella that someone found out about EASA when he was searching where his favourite band would play a concert. We wonder if it was the Tuomas Toivonen concert at EASA Wastelands in Helsinki! (vimeo.com/6621826)
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Dear Easians, Almost everything is ready and set for the EASA FM to start airing the best of music and up-to-date information about what’s going on in Veliko Tarnovo. The radio will start flowing to your ears as soon as the quest for the lost antenna is completed. (Guess we just have to make a new one.) Once the shows begin (if not today then early tomorrow) we’ll spread portable radios to workshops. And we want YOU to symbiosa with us in making the EASA
FM. Feel free to come by and wish for your favorite songs or even do a small show of your own. You can share your taste in music, your thoughts about EASA, or come tell how great your workshop is! And musical talents beware – we will hunt you down to get some live shows on the air. You’ll find our studio at the back of the IT lab. You can also contact us via Facebook, just write on the wall of the EASA FM page.
Remember: YOU are EASA FM 2014! EASA FM tutors Maja, Matija & Joonas
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Your hungover faces By City is My Playground
City Is My Playground, easa’s graffiti workshop, started off with an exercise to get to know each other and loosen up those drawing hands. Without looking at the paper, participants started drawing each others’ faces, with these hilarious results:
Lado by Hugh
Peter by Lucia Andrej by Laura
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Andrej by Kitty
by Laura
by Kuba
If you want some artwork by this workshop on your freshly built pavilion, look for these faces! But maybe allow them to look at the art board this time...
WORKSHOPS, Umbrella wants you! Look for us on the first floor of the party house or e-mail your work-in-progress to umbrellanewspaper@gmail.com.
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AVERAGE OF USED AVERAGE OF TOKENS USED TOKENS AVERAGE OF USED TOKENS
21,5 160
00 1 100 WE ASKED
WEASKED ASKED WE
EASIANS
EASIANS EASIANS
31% 160 31% 160 31% RECORD RECORD RECORD IN SPENDINGTOKENS
58 %
SURVIVED SURVIVED SURVIVED EASIANS OFOFEASIANS
WITHOUT TOKENS
WITHOUTTOKENS TOKENS WITHOUT
IN SPENDINGTOKENS IN SPENDINGTOKENS
IT’S MY IT’SMY MY FIRST IT’S FIRST EASA FIRST EASA EASA
OF EASIANS
MY SECOND TIME MY SECOND TIME MY SECOND TIME 26 %
THIRD! THIRD! THIRD! 8%
4TH
I AM DINO, I GUESS
34TH % 4TH
I AM DINO, I GUESS I AM DINO, I GUESS
HOW EXPERIENCED ARE EASIANS THIS YEAR ? 3% 8% 26 % 58 % 8% 3% 26 % 58 % HOW EXPERIENCED ARE EASIANS THIS YEAR ? HOW EXPERIENCED ARE EASIANS THIS YEAR ?
3%
3% 3%
POWERED BY EASA STATS
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POWERED BY EASA STATS POWERED BY EASA STATS
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Photo of the day Umbrella is an old lady, dating back many easa years. But keeping up with the spirit, and the young hearts and minds of easa, we have created an instagram. We will be exploring Veliko Tarnovo and beyond, so follow us on umbrella_newspaper. As the serious journalistic team we are, we are investigating and interested in all angles of every story. You can help us to get the full picture by tagging your photos with #umbrellanewspaper on instagram. Lucky photographers will have the honour of getting printed.
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Lectures
TODAY @ 20:30 Todor Krestev in the Vazrajdane Museum
Today’s lecturer Todor Krestev will talk about the potential of contemporary architecture to connect past, present and future. In his projects the traces of the past get the chance to be preserved for the future, while the contemporary architecture receives id e nti t y, d e pt h and meaning. Symbiosis! One of his recent proje cts is the re habilitation of the historical city of Philippopolis in Plovdiv. During the Roman Empire, an entire city was located here below the current street level, unknown until 1986 when the sports field of the Pedagogy Institute was going to be expanded, which involved digging deeper into one of the city’s three hills. The Institute never got its field,
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because what the diggers found underneath were the curved marble seating rows of an perfectly preserved outdoor Roman theatre. More research revealed that several monuments lie hidden beneath the streets of Plovdiv and parts of the monument are even found in basements of nearby commercial buildings. In 2007, an urban renewal scheme for the city of Plovdiv pro-posed to create an ‘Underground Muse um of Philippopolis’ to present the archaeological space to the larger public. A system of underground passages will connect ancient monuments, combined with attractive public functions. One of these monuments is the stadium
of Philippopolis, where the Romans held games and contests for 30.000 spectators. It is located under the city’s most pro mine nt sh o pping avenue, but its potential for cultural tourism remained undiscovered. The team led by Todor Krestev proposed to remove part of the street to reveal the monument and integrate it in an urban plaza. Today, the project is a big success and visited by many tourists. The city plans to install a sound and light spectacle in the stadium, so those who liked the trippy show at Tsarevets Fortress, should definitely visit Plovdiv (although we can’t promise they will also include an “is the princess being raped?” scene).
TOMORROW @ 20:30 Nikolay Marinov in the tutors’ accommodation
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Bulgaria It is not accidental that Veliko Tarnovo is chosen for this year’s EASA since students of architecture can certainly appreciate large for tresses, picturesque streets and evident mix of different i nf l u e n c e s i n l o c al architecture as well as a rich cultural and historical background of the places they visit. However, not all par ticipants were very familiar with history Veliko Tarnovo or even the country they are visiting until coming here. But once here, after being left in awe, learning about this stuff helps to understand and discern cer tain story behind something beautiful and makes you like it even more. Bulgaria (България) is another Balkan country to welcome EASA and as one of the oldest states in Europe it has a lot to
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offer to those in search for beauty. Although it is not visited as much as some other European countries Bulgaria has almost everything: hot summers, winters with snow, lowlands and mountains, Black sea beaches and winter sport opportunities. B ulg ar ian c ul tu re contains mainly Thracian, Slavic and Bulgar heritage, along with Greek, Roman, Ottoman, Persian and Celtic influences. Affluent architectural legacy from most points in Bulgarian his to r y re mains as petrified clash of these influences and a witness of time. But the most popular and common architecture are residential buildings from 18th and 19th century made from wood and stone. Nine historical and natural objects have been
inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Madara Rider, the Thracian tombs in Sveshtari and Kazanlak, the Boyana Church, the Rila Monastery, the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo, Pirin National Park, Sreburna Nature Reser ve and the ancient city of Nesebar. Nestinarstvo, a ritual fire-dance of Thracian origin, is included in the list of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Bulgarian food is just like that of other Balkan countries and shows a strong Turkish and Greek influence.Yogurt, lukanka, banitsa, shopska salad, lyutenitsa and kozunak are among the best-known local foods as well as some oriental dishes such as moussaka, gyuvech, and baklava.
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Humans of Veliko Tarnovo
Shopkeeper, Borislav Tzanev and his son, Teodor Tzanev.
BT: ” The days are ver y
the evening.
three employees.”
different. It’s very difficult, because
I’m not normally working here.
there are so many people. But the
I’m in the building business - An
BT: ”I have a wife, yes. She is
pay is good. Good business. Hehe.
engineer. But in this moment, no.
not working here. In Bulgaria, the
It’s hard work. From 6 in the
There are not many things to do.
people work many things.”
morning until 2 am. That’s not
So I help out in this shop.”
normal hours. Normally from 7
TT: ”We are me and my father,
o’ clock in the morning until 10 in
my uncle (Nedico Tzanev) and
And you, Teodor? ”No. Haha. I’m younger.” 17
Будилникъ - wake up
Будилникъ or Budilnik was a revolutionary and satir ic al newspap e r, which literally translates as ‘alarm clock’. The newspaper ran for three issues and was published during a very turbulent time for Bulgaria. It’s history dates back to 1873, a time where alarm clocks probably didn’t exactly sound like the dozens of ringtones going of in the morning here at the easa site, but the paper just as well was meant to serve as a ‘wake up call’ aimed at wealthy Bulgarians who had stayed aloof of the revolutionary movement. The pivotal figure of 18
this newspaper was Hristo Botev, an important Bulgarian poet who actively contributed to several revolutionary Bulgarian newspapers, sometimes in collaboration with fellow writer Lyuben Karavelov. Mainly by way of poems and feuilletons – several of which appeared in Budilnik – he addressed sensitive subjects such as politics, society, scientific progress and so on. A translation he made around that same time, of a Russian textbook about arithmetics, was banned and destroyed because of the political message it supposedly contained.
T he revolutionar y movement eventually led to the creation of the Principality of Bulgaria in 1878 and its independence from the Ottoman Empire, which was officially declared in our dear Veliko Tarnovo in 1908. With a background like that, Umbrella and easa in general have pretty big shoes to fill. Nevertheless, we’re hoping that our short stay in the city won’t pass by unnoticed - or at least not just be remembered by the serious bump in beer and air mattresses sales that one time in July 2014. umbrellanewspaper@gmail.com
WHAT’s on? program tuesday 22 july 8:00 AM courtyard behind БИОЗА 9:30 AM 12:00 AM from the tutors 18:00 PM
lost:
sobriety Rob’s phone
breakfast
found:
500 new friends workshops lunch NC meeting
19:00 PM courtyard behind БИОЗА
dinner
21:00 PM Vazrajdane Museum
lecture
23:34 PM EASA-bar
Lost and found:
Wanted: Contributions for Umbrella [text, drawing, pictures, whateva] Other lindy hoppers to join passionate dancing evenings with Team Greece
party
Empty water bottles for Guerilla Gardening
weather tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
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IT’S A FACT.
HOW TO ENJOY A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT
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