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April 17 (Saturday), 18:00
Ukrainian Canadian Social Services of Toronto
2445 Bloor Street West
Free admission
Art initiative "With the Stool to the Ocean" presents
adventure documentary
"Three Days in the Life of the Stool"
(UT-1 movie production, director - Slava Popov)
There were 4 stools around one table in ordinary kitchen of Kyiv city in Ukraine. “Let us take it ang bring each one to the ocean!”. First one will be Atlantic, and the fourth - Pacific.
Young street artists wander from Ukraine to the island of Spitsbergen (Norway) - just to mount ordinary stool on the shores of the Arctic Ocean - as a monument.
Discussion after the movie : "With the stool to the ocean - That is what we call freedom."
15 countries. 16 000 miles. 365 days. 6 people. 1 stool.
From the North to the South. Across all America.
Three stools are already installed on the shores of three oceans. There is a last stool and the last ocean - the Pacific. And the stool is on the way already!
4th art expedition travels from Ukraine to Cape Horn across America - from Canada to Chile.
Ask them, why they carry Stool - ztaburetom
"With the Stool to the Ocean" - art initiative, founded in 2004 by the Lizard Films' director Leonid Kanter and his associates.
4th expedition of street artists from Ukraine last 356 days and pass through 16 countries: Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile to Cape Horn .
Approximate Stool Way - 16 000 miles.
Visible substance is - 4 stool from ordinary Ukrainian kitchen should to be attributed to the 4 oceans, showing the residents of cities and towns through the Stool Way street performance in the style of theater "buffoons" times of the Ukrainian baroque.
Invisible substance - the implementation of the aspirations of all people in the world for freedom and love, direct and sincere cultural dialogue between Ukraine and the world, bypassing the big-time politics.
"With the Stool ..." - fusion of cinema, theater and high technology. We erase the borders between genres and art forms, between the director and actors, between actors and spectators.
What has been done? The Stools are already on the coasts of:
- - Atlantic Ocean. La Rochelle. France. 2005 (Ukraine - Poland - Germany - France)
- - Indian Ocean. Kirinda. Sri Lanka. 2006 (Ukraine - Mongolia - China - Tibet - Nepal - India - Sri Lanka)
- - Arctic Ocean. The archipelago of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Norway. 2007 (Ukraine - Belarus - Lithuania - Latvia - Estonia - Russia - Finland - Norway).