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Adversities and silence. Ways to celebrate and thanks the Mother Earth

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     Adversities and silence. Ways to celebrate and thanks the Mother Earth Text by Francesca Romana Rietti – Photos by Teatret Om   Ringkøbing, 8 th of August 2026 We spend our long last day of work mainly at Brogaarden, a cultural incubator and a residence for artists of Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality. It is here that, during Art-Nature Lab, many of us have not only slept and eaten, but also shared our free time. Brogaarden has been the headquarters where our temporary community experimented forms of coexistence, weaving professional and human bonds, beyond the opportunities created by the programme of activities. Today we began by attending a talk – The Art of Darkness – by the Jordanian artist living in Denmark, Dina Abu Hamdan Cultural Consultant in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, who told us about her experience as curator, since 2023, of the Danish open-air Festival Vinterlys which in Danish means Winter’s Light. Dina shared ...
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Mud/adobe- Dragana Kojičić workshop

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Journey to oneself

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  Journey to oneself Photos and text by Francesca Romana Rietti   Ringkøbing, 6 th of August 2026     The third day of the Art-Nature Lab began with a talk by Taijiquan and Qigong master Gianna Sabatelli (Technical Director for the Chen Xiaowang World Taijiquan Association in Italy, Il Campo del Cinabro) dedicated to the Way of the Tao – that is, the way of naturalness. What follows is a montage of notes taken during a much more complex presentation in which the master immediately managed to show us the deep connection between her practice and her teachings and the themes at the heart of the Art-Nature Lab sessions, as well as the strong ties with theatre life and scenic presence. «To understand Taoism and its resonance with our practice, it is necessary to place it within the context of Chinese thought, which is associative and intuitive, unlike Western thinking, which is analytical and tends to separate the observer from the object. Chinese thou...
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Layers

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    Layers Photos and text by Francesca Romana Rietti     Ringkøbing, Friday 7 th of August 2026 On our fourth day of work, we are back in an open-air space. We are at the entrance of the Ringkøbing Fjord Museum, Natur Kraft ( https://ringkobingfjordmuseer.dk/en/museer/naturkraft/om-naturkraft/ ) and we gather around a wooden structure built for the 2024 edition (see in this blog Tuesday 13 th of August 2024) which has withstood the harsh weather and today we will restore it adding new layers and putting colors.  The sky is overcast and the wind of the West Jutland’s coast is blowing steadily. We’re all bundled up, and many of us are wrapped in woolen blankets. We all seem a bit sleepy, and the tourists passing by on bicycles look at us with curiosity and puzzlement. The title of today’s workshop is Mud/adobe (a brick of sun-dried earth and straw/) and it wil...
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Weaving

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  Weaving   Photos and text by Francesca Romana Rietti   Ringkøbing, Tuesday 5 th of August 2026     The second day of work has been lengthy planned in close collaboration with Vestjyllands Højskole, a reference point of the Danish pedagogical system based on a democratic vision of the leadership and the integration across different disciplines. In particular, in this high-school a great importance is always been given not only to the study of artistic and cultural subjects, but also to the biodynamic farming, forage food and communal cooking. At the roots of this model of pedagogy there is an holistic vision that underlines the importance of the interaction and of the interdependence among different fields of knowledge. Therefore, all the activities of today took place in the high-school’s indoor and outdoor spaces letting us move from the main room, where students and teachers gathered singing a song in the morning, eating their meals and atte...
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5. 08. 2026. Installation made with willows

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"Hard work & smiles", watercolour  
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Nature’s activists squaring the circle

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Nature’s activists squaring the circle   Photos and text by Francesca Romana Rietti   Ulfborg, Tuesday 4 th of August 2026       We are sitting around a big table in the semi-darkness of the living room of the cultural centre Lystbækgaard, founded by the Danish shepherd Berit Kilerich. Here today the third edition of the itinerant Art-Nature Lab will begin. Outside the Danish sky is blue, full of light and of fluffy and withe clouds constantly moved by a strong wind. Inside we are a bunch of people, still quite sleepy, arrived from Argentina, Denmark, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Serbia and Sweden to learn and exchange techniques and knowledges with masters and artists coming from different fields. Antonella Diana (Scenographer, Visual Artist and leader of Teatret OM’s Scenographic Lab) presenting them found the way to evoke with an image their common ground: “They are all nature’s activists”, she said. “When, walking in a forest, you...
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Art and Nature Lab 2026. 3. & 4. August

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 Art&Nature Lab 3. 08.  4. 08. - Lystbækgaard farm ET4U
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Wu Xing  Text and photos by: Francesca Romana Rietti     Ringk ø bing, Sunday, 18 th of August 2024 - Teatret OM   Today the itinerant “Art-Nature Lab” came to an end. After 4 days spent out in nature, we came back to the starting point: the headquarters of Teatret OM, at Buen number 15. In this industrial area, not far from the city centre and the harbour of Ringk ø bing’s Fjord, beside the entrance of the workshop of the theatre, there is an old petrol station. Closed many years ago, it has been abandoned and fenced with an iron grating. In the course of time, some roots cracked the concrete base: trees, brambles and bushes, literally, invaded the space. Uncultivated plants started to grow; a wild vegetation gained the upper hand. Ivy climbed everywhere: on the trunks, on the walls of an elevated brick structure and of a wooden-iron platform, around rusting bins and tubes. As defined by Leo Valentin Lindblom - who yesterday led a w...
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