What better than a story to connect two generations? A website designed for times of social distancing and closed borders invites under-12s and over-65s to share their tales and stories. Once upon a time...
This is an active-participation digital project in the form of a website. Come in and you will find a never-ending story that you can enjoy online throughout the festival. Are you under 12 or over 65? In that case, you are invited to upload your video or sound file. Read the instructions you will be given, find a quiet place and tell a tale or story that starts just like a traditional fairy tale. We suggest that children tell a fictional story and elderly people share a true story narrated as fiction. The system will randomly select a child and an elderly person from all the files received and will put them in contact with each other and get them to tell each other their stories. This operation will be repeated until the user decides to leave the page.
This is the proposal of Ça Marche, a company created by Nico Jongen and Oriol López which has previously carried out creative projects with non-professional actors and created works that integrate movement, images, texts and the contemporary mythologies that permeate them. Its most recent creation is born from the social distancing situation made necessary by the Covid-19 health crisis and the need to fight against the crumbling of intergenerational solidarity. The experience, which results in casual and spontaneous relationships between users of the website, connects people who are physically far away from each other and audiences who may not be able to go to a theatre due to the current situation; but, above all, it provides a space where two generations can share stories and experiences and create a narrative put together by everyone, for everyone.
A 2020 Barcelona Grec Festival and Ça Marche co-production.
Project: Nico Jongen, with the collaboration of Leo Kulisevsky and David da Silva Design: Leo Kulisevsky Programme: David da Silva Production and communication: Laura Viñals Acknowledgements: Joaquín Collado, Mercedes Diz, Roberto Fratini, Monique Hull, Pascal Jongen, Judit López, Víctor Molina, Oriol López, Anna Ruppmann Palacios and every person who has contributed their grain of sand to this website.
