ISSP 2018 - Daily Programme

Saturday, July 28
12:00 - 14:30 arrival to Pelči boarding school, registration
15:00 - 16:00 ISSP 2018 Opening
16:00 - 17:00 first get-together in the workshops
17:30 - 18:45 introductory tour of Kuldīga town
19:00 - 20:00 dinner
20:30 - 22:30 International Summer Quizz of Photography (by Nico Baumgarten)

Sunday, July 29 
07:30 - 08:30 morning exercises *
08:30 - 10:00 breakfast
10:15 - 13:00 workshops, individual work
13:00 - 15:00 lunch
14:30 - 18:30 workshops, individual work
18:30 - 19:30 dinner
20.00 – 20.15 Evening programme: "The ISSP story: an express intro" by Julija Berkovica, Artist talk by Jason Fulford (US) - “The Modern Prometheus”

Monday, July 30  
​07:30 - 08:30 morning exercises *                         
08:30 - 10:00 breakfast
10:15 - 13:00 workshops, individual work
13:00 - 15:00 lunch
14:00 - 18:30 ISSP Portfolio reviews
18:30 - 19:30 dinner
20.00 - 22.00 Evening programme: Artist talks by Lisa Barnard (UK) - "The Canary and the Hammer", Salvatore Vitale (IT/CH) - "The seen and the unseen", Sarker Protick (BD) - "Time will Tell" 

Tuesday, July 31 
07:30 - 08:30 morning exercises *
08:30 - 10:00 breakfast
10:15 - 13:00 workshops, individual work
13:00 - 15:00 lunch
15:00 - 18:30 workshops, individual work
18:30 - 19:30 dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Evening programme I: Natasha Christia (ES) "The Family of No Man and Me: On power, Gender and Curating" 
21:15 - 22:30 Evening programme II: John Fleetwood (ZA) "On Photo: and positions on African Photography"

Wednesday, August 1
07:30 - 08:30 morning exercises *
08:30 - 10:00 breakfast
10:15 - 13:00 workshops, individual work
13:00 - 15:00 lunch
14:30 - 18:30 workshops, individual work
18:30 - 19:30 dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Evening programme I: Artist talk by Yumi Goto (JP) and Jan Rossell (BE): "Photobook as an object / Photobook who cares" 
21:15 - 22:30 Evening programme II: Artist talks - conversation with Federico Clavarino (IT), Nico Baumgarten (DE), Nicolas Polli (CH)

Thursday, August 2
07:30 - 08:30 morning exercises *
08:30 - 10:00 breakfast
10:15 - 13:00 workshops, individual work
13:00 - 15:00 lunch
14:30 - 18:30 workshops, individual work
18:30 - 19:30 dinner
20:00 - 22:30 Participants' Portfolio Night I – Portfolio presentations by ISSP Resident artists: David Fathi (FR), Hilde Smetsers (NL), Ilaria Di Biagio (IT), Jan Cieslikiewicz (PL/US), Maki Hayashida (JP), Mikhail Bushkov (RU), Olivier Brossard (FR), Paola Jimenez (PE), Torsten Schumann (DE) and ISSP participants: Adelīna Darviņa (LV), Alexandra Soldatova (BY), Alina Sanduliak (UA), Anastasia Soboleva (RU), Anna Hornik (PL), Daria Minina (RU), Darya Trofimova (KAZ).

Friday, August 3 
07:30 - 08:30 morning exercises *
08:30 - 10:00 breakfast
10:15 - 13:00 completing individual projects and planning the exhibition
13:00 - 15:00 lunch
15:00 - 18:00 submission of the final works
18:30 - 19:30 dinner
20:00 – 22:30 Participants' Portfolio Night II – Portfolio presentations by ISSP participants: Elena Anosova (RU), Fabiola Cedillo (EC), Frank Biringer (DE), Georgs Avetisjans (LV), Gregory Collavini (CH), Hikaru Hyashi (JP/DE), Indre Urbonaite (LT), Jinsil Truth Leem (KR), Katherine Longly (BE), Lukasz Rusznica (PL), Mārīte Lempa (LV), Mark McGuinness (IR), Mieke Strand (US), Phelim Hoey (IR), Sheila Zhao (CN), Sheung Yiu (HK), Yulia Krivich (UA)

Saturday, August 4 
08:30 - 10:00 breakfast
10:00 - 13:00 installation of the ISSP exhibition in Kuldīga 
13:00 - 15:00 lunch
15:00 - 17:00 installation of the ISSP exhibition in Kuldīga
17:15 - 18:30 quick dinner
19:30 - Opening of the ISSP 2018 Exhibition at Kuldīga Arts Hall
22:00 - Screening of the ISSP final works at Kuldīga Open-air Cinema 
from 23:30 - ISSP Gala Party in Pelči Castle

Sunday, August 5  
10:00 - 11:30 breakfast 
12:00 - 13:15 final roundtable “The Future of (Learning) Photography”
13:30 - 14:30 last workshops get-together
14:30 - 18:00 Picnic outside
18:00 - farewell and departure 

* optional parts of the programme, morning exercise led by Volunteers
The events in bold are open to the general public

The aftermath - Riga programme:

Tuesday, August 7
18:00 – Opening of Jason Fulford exhibition at ISSP Gallery 
from 21:00 - ISSP Riga afterparty