Sajeta Creative Camp

Launched in 1998 and happening on the peninsula between the mountain rivers Soča and Tolminka, Sajeta Creative Camp is a very special kind of a summer festival. Routinely transgressing the boundaries of the term, it's musical programme forms only a part of the festival's content. It also features a wide variety of workshops, ranging from literature, music and film production to wood carving and Linux programming. Another important aspect of the Sajeta Creative Camp (called Sajeta in short) is it's distinctively diverse and knowledgeable crowd and the laid back, even intimate atmosphere. Regularly a part of Sajeta's programme is set in the nearby city centre of Tolmin, thus subverting the spatial festival convention as well.

The staged musical performances are never genre bound; folk, free improvisation, avant rock, electro-acoustics and dub techno can be all heard on the same stage in the same evening. The peripheral status of the presented sonic acts is probably the most basic conceptual link between them.

As neither the musical programme nor other festival's aspects conform to the norms of commercial viability, Sajeta is having continuous financial difficulties. It has recently shortened the musical programme, more extensively favouring it's creative camp component.

History

Zasnovano by a group of young enthusiasts from the town Tolmin, združeni in Kud Karma Koma association, the creative camp was at firsta weekend long event based on artist workshops. A number of artists and performers gathered there in 1998 and 1999, but then for the next two years the project potihnil. In 2002, the Tolmin Union of Youth Associations relaunched the festival and expanded it with musical and multimedia programme.

After that, Sajeta gradually became a renowned, week-long festival with a (more or less) ambitious musical programme, film screenings, drama performances and literary readings, generating a creative atmosphere unlike any other summer festivals and strongly differentiating from the other, much more commercially successful and genre profiled events that are also taking place on the (idyllic) Sotočje penisula. That in itself has in the last decade became the prime spot for summer music festivals and, among others, hosts Metalcamp

Programme

Groups presented at previous camps have included Fennesz, Radian, Kampec Dolores, Richard Pinhas, Vladimir Vaclavek, Francesco Cusa, Uzgun Uver, Korai Orom, Zakarya and Manufacture, Alexander Balanescu, Zlatko Kavčič and the Vasko Atanasovski Trio.

International collaboration

Workshops involved Serbian film makers Rom Kinodruštvo of Novi Sad and Italian percussionist Francesco Cusa, with their outputs being presented in the afternoons.

Sajeta in Soča 06 by evasja on YouTube

A video of the happening on Sajeta 2006, also capturing some of the sights in the surrounding area.

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Sajeta Creative Camp

Contents

History

Programme

International collaboration

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