Urban Gorillas is proud to have been part of the flagship project 27 Neighborhoods which was one of the initiatives of Rijeka 2020 European Capital of Culture. The project brings together 27 neighbourhoods throughout Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and connecting each of them with a neighbourhood from one of the 27 member states of the EU, residents of …
Urban Playground was a design thinking workshop led by Urban Gorillas for the CreaToyo event of Toyo University. Urban PlayGround has addressed the issue of Social engagement at times of Social distancing through the use of Play. The idea of Play was used to create a framework around the topic of community building at times …
Vertical Gardens was an action of the A-Delicious Place* project and was the launch event of Pame Kaimakli Festival 2020. It took place in the form of a community-garden planting event. Urban Gorillas envisioned and constructed a structure to activate the main church square of the neighbourhood through the active participation of the community concerned. …
One of the video documentaries produced as part of the A Delicious place* actions in relation to the topic of food follows the stories revealed through the workshops conducted in collaboration with We circle Collective. We circle collective is heterogeneous collective undertaking social action through art projects, while tackling socio-political and ecological issues. The workshops …
Pame Kaimakli* is a neighbourhood festival launched in 2013 by the residents of the Kaimakli district and Urban Gorillas. From a series of ad-hoc informal events that were taking place in the private houses of the neighbours, the Festival has grown into a well-known event, welcoming acclaimed artists; it became a cross-disciplinary place where local …
A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival’s main theme revolved around the topic of food as a socio-cultural, artistic and placemaking activity. Overall the festival*, initiated two, two-month long workshops, three theatrical performances, two film screenings, …
On the closing night of the Pame Kaimakli 2020 Festival, “A Delicious Place”* pop-up cinema, screened a series of eleven short video stories/documentaries relating to the thematic of food and communities. These were produced by A-Place partners and their extended network and focused on the role of food, at a time for environmental, social, economic, …
Trattarisma is the third of the video documentaries produced for the A Delicious Place* activity and presented in Pame Kaimakli 2020. It followed the stories revealed through the theatre workshops with retirees from the neighborhood led by Natalia Panayiotou of the Jasmine collective. The Jasmine (Γιασεμίν) group designs its activities in order to give space …
A Delicious Place is a placemaking activity composed of a series of actions that were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival in Nicosia. The festival’s main theme revolved around the topic of food as a socio-cultural, artistic and placemaking activity. Overall the festival*, initiated two, two-month long workshops, three theatrical performances, two film screenings, …
Within the framework of A Delicious Place activity and the celebration of different notions of food, Urban Gorillas have collaborated with the local cultural space in Kaimakli, Thalami for the organisation of food workshops. Two tagliatelle workshops were organised and led by Gaia Zaccagni with assorted music and film screenings related to food. The two events which …
