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Introducing: Stanica (Zilina-Zariecie, Slovakia)
 Martina Filinova, Director of Theatre Programming and Production at Stanica, answers our questions about the host centre of the next TEH Meeting.
Interview by Marian Söderholm, photos by Stanica.
Published in May 2009
1. What is unique about your centre?
Stanica Zilina-Zariecie is located in a small building that is part of a former train station. Even though it is a cultural centre now, it still functions as a waiting room for passengers because trains still stop here.
2. Give some examples of your key activities
Running the centre's cultural programme, which consists of theatre performances, concerts, exhibitions and artistic residencies - and community projects.
3. Stanica are hosting the next TEH meeting in May. How are the preparations coming along?
At the moment, we are completeing and confirming the programme. We are also quite busy with building the new theatre venue, which should be ready in time for the TEH meeting.
4. Tell us more about the new building!
It is built out of beer boxes and straw bales and the entrance will be made from a container. So far the container and most of the beer boxes have arrived... The building will be round in shape and it will be totally recyclable. In case it loses its function or is prohibited by local authorities, we can deconstruct it down to its building materials and use it for other purposes.
5. What does TEH membership mean to your centre? Can you give a concrete example?
Mainly that we get to know other people and centres who are also involved in this crazy and slightly utopian line of work. It means having many new experiences, and the possibility to compare what we do to others who work in the same field. We have also been involved in some exchange projects, hosting or sending theatre productions, exhibitions and so on. But the people are the most interesting aspect of being in TEH.
6. What are your centre's future ambitions?
To survive. To finish building our new venue and the garden area around it. And also to continue this luxury - producing and running a good artistic programme.
7. And finally, if Stanica were a song, what song would it be?
”Before After Midnight” by Punisher. Punisher is our half-illegal, half-secret and half-mystified band, like Stanica itself. So we are great fans of them!
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' Member in Focus' is a series of interviews with TEH member centres, which gives the network, and other interested, the possibility to get to know our members better. If you work in a TEH centre and would like your centre to be highlighted on the website for a month, just drop a line to the Coordination Office. We are especially interested in featuring centres with important upcoming events, centres in times of change, challenge, celebrations etc.
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Member in Focus:
Laznia Nowa
(Cracow, Poland)
Trans Europe Halles member Laznia Nowa hosted the first TEH meeting in Poland in October 2009.. Magdalena Podziewska at Laznia Nowa told us about their center, activities and hosting the meeeting.
"The thing that’s most unique with Laznia Nowa is our
cooperation with the local community. Our neighbors are the actors in
our shows. Everyone from little children to older people. There are
also a lot of good musicians in Nowa Huta that we use in our shows"
says Magdalena Podziewska. read more...
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