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By Nigar Orujova

Yarat Contemporary Art Space, based in Baku, will host an educational workshop titled "Triggering on (y)our creativity".

The workshop will be open for four weeks from March 31 to April 27.

Registration deadline for the workshop is March 15.

The course is primarily focused on artistic creativity, although this kind of training could be useful for people of any profession given a wider interpretation of creative thinking and action. Various levels of personal, interpersonal and impersonal creative processes will be analyzed and modeled in a relaxed and playful way.

The workshop expects applicants within the age limits from 18 to 36 of any walk of life and professional orientation with strong commitment to unleash his/her own imaginative force, to learn about current discussions regarding individual creative output and collaborative practices, and to try on formulating and articulating innovative ideas and solutions.

Throughout the course selected students are expected to run an individual blog, to read and summarize a substantial amount of literature (mostly in English) and to contribute to a web-site to be constructed and enhanced alongside the course.

The event will be directed by musicologist Jahangir Selimkhanov.

Selimkhanov has made a reputation among colleagues as an 'idea generator', a person who is able to ignite and encourage with creative concepts or just precisely point to an emerging trend or a hidden opportunity.

He has educational background in musicology and professional record track of dozens of projects across various artistic disciplines and segments of cultural domain - from a juxtaposition of two traditional music cultures in an evolving concert show premiered in India to reconstruction of a ballet performance in a prehistoric rock engravings landscape to a series of community/public art works commissioned to five Nordic visual artists for culture houses in suburbs of Baku to a festival on gender issues in theatre.

Applicants may register at http://www.yarat.az/education/46/.