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Dear all,

a visit to the EKO 8 Triennial, A Letter for the Future will be a great experience for your pupils and students upon entering the complex of the former Hutter / MTT factory, which richly testifies to the story of a once important industrial city. Even an exhibition where they will be able to see movies, videos, sound installations and other works of art based on a multi-sensory experience will certainly motivate them in itself. Through guided activities, we will deepen the first impression into more creative observation, thinking and linking content, in order to contribute at least one step to greater awareness of students about environmental issues and awareness of their role in it. With guides and creative workshops and an art competition, we will help you to implement some of the contents of the Curriculum of Fine Arts and Art Education, and connect them with other learning areas, such as nature, society or history.

The EKO 8 Triennial is dedicated to the visual arts, which explores and comments on many changes at the global and local level and affects the environments in which we live and on which we depend. The 8th edition of the triennial - entitled A Letter for the Future - is a call to start thinking outside the present and to connect generations and spread knowledge with the help of contemporary art. We are interested in which observations of the wider (artistic) community contribute to a better understanding of what unites us and what connects us. The triennial will present projects by around 30 international artists, both from Slovenia and abroad, who will present the collected visions and proposals dedicated to the central theme of the A Letter for the Future in several rooms of the former MTT factory. An ecologically aware movie from the 1960s will be presented, as well as new works of art, spatial installations and sound installations that raise awareness of the extinction of species, the fragility of the human ecosystem and the necessity of coexistence. More about the exhibition here.

The program will be implemented under the conditions of the NIJZ. In the event that we are unable to run the program live, we will offer you a program that will be accessible remotely.

The program is carried out from Tuesday to Sunday between 9.00 - 18.00.

Sign ups and information: Brigita Strnad, brigita.strnad@ugm.si, 02 22 94 697

PROGRAM
Guided tours
45 – 60 min / price: 2,20 € / for all groups
Guided tour of the exhibition with appropriate didactic support depending on the age level of the group is based on dialogue, exchange of views and ideas about the meaning of works of art.

Guided tour with a workshop
80 – 90 min / price: 2,50 € / for all groups
The guided tour of the exhibition will be complemented by various research and art assignments, which will encourage even more active and in-depth knowledge of the exhibition. Pupils and students will also be able to express their views and ideas on the contents of the exhibition in the language of art.

EKO - culture day
90 – 120 min / price: 3,5 € / for students from 5th to 9th grade and highschoolers
The cultural day will be carried out in several stages: a guided tour of the complex of the former factory + a guided tour of the exhibition + a creative workshop.

The Mean Ant on a visit / online presentation of the exhibition
free / suitable for students from 1st to 4th grade
The Mean An, the mascot of the UGM educational program, also visits children in the form of online material in kindergarten and school. She will present to the children in a playful and simple way what awaits them when visiting the exhibition EKO 8 - The Letter to the Future. At the same time, she will invite them to recreate their art when they return from the exhibition full of different impressions.

Remote program
60 – 90 min / price: 1 € / for all groups
The program will be implemented only if the event and other activities cannot be carried out. We will run the program through the ZOOM application or we will join you in your online classroom.

Art competition A Letter to the future
free / for all groups
The title of the exhibition comes from a memorial plaque marking the loss of the first glacier by Icelanders:  "Okjökull is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it." It is a determined appeal. The glacier obituary throws us into the future. It encourages us to use our imagination.
What would be the letter for the future of today’s children and youth? What would be their appeal? Encourage them and invite them to express it in a drawing, painting, photo, video or any other technique.
A selection of art products will be exhibited in September 2021 in the Pedagogical Room of the Maribor Art Gallery, and all received art products on the Flickr online platform.

We will award the three most original creations. Art products should be sent by 18 June 2021 to the following address: Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva ul. 6, 2000 Maribor - with caption: A Letter to the future.