Thanks to everybody who visited us, stayed with us and made our programme interesting and lively in 2011. The Year 2011 was our birth year and we were and we are still building our identity and community with the help of all our guests.

In the end of the year we are summing up what have happened, who stayed in the Colony and in Nida Residency programme. It was only 9 months of activity but because of all of you who stayed with us they were challengingly intensive and fruitful.

The main numbers for Nida Residency programme (2011 March-December):

-        3 calls for application were distributed

-        5 artists/curators were applying to one studio

-        41 artists have stayed in the residency longer than 1 month (1/3 of them were from Lithuania, the rest form abroad)

-        9 open artist studios were organized;

-        16 grants were distributed from the Colony and their partners (Nordic-Baltic mobility programme, TRACES project, Dutch Fund BKVB, Austrian Vorarlberg Region)

See the artists list http://nidacolony.lt/en/residence/artists
and the photo and video archives http://nidacolony.lt/en/residence/studio-day

Projects in the Colony (2011 March-December):

-        28 projects (9 of them international) were organised and hosted;

-        364 participants took part in them

-        261 students were taking part in the workshops with professors and artists

And much more interesting things have happened. Among them:

-        artist curated show in supermarket “Maxima” in Nida;

-        collective research trip through Baltic Remote Art&Residency centers – see the blog http://remotenet.nidacolony.lt/;

-        Interformat Symposium: Reinventing Interdisciplinarity

-        A few residents were making live talks and playlists on local radio radio www.NeringaFM.lt

-        The Colony magazine was started http://nidacolony.lt/en/colony-log

Colony was taking part in:

-        Res Artis regional conference, Debrecen, Hungary, 2011 05 (participant Vytautas Michelkevičius);

-        Shaping the NEW. International conference about the impact of residencies on artwork and the social environment, Košice, Slovakia, 2011 06 (presentation by Vytautas Michelkevičius);

-        Seminar on Mobility and artist residencies - new possibilities for art and culture in the future, KIASMA, Helsinki, 2011 09 (presentation by Rasa Antanavičiūtė);

-        Nordic and Baltic AirFair (Residence Fair), HIAP, Helsinki, 2011 09 (presentation by  Vytautas Michelkevičius);

Contribution to the book RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES (Conversation between Vytautas Michelkevičius and Rasa Antanavičiūtė on Nida Art Colony and the context of residencies in Lithuania and Eastern Europe). The PDF can be downloaded here http://re-tooling-residencies.org).