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Diving back down into my home country. Will be spending time with my loved ones, attending the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, and working on a short documentary series… Next travel 3rd week of December - to New York and LA. Meanwhile - do you have any suggestions for places you think I should explore next year? Let me know!
Banksa Bistrica’s tourist guide suggests: -’You can enjoy a walk along the city exhibition of World War II heavy armament in the park situated next to the SNP Museum.’ Doing so while visiting the ArtTherapy festival, which deals primarily with war trauma’s, is weird. It serves mainly as a playground where teachers and parents take children out to play.
Catch a glimpse of the heartwarming performance ‘Dance through the Fence’ here at the ArtTherapy festival.
The Allstar Refugee Band is based in Prague - with artists who came to the Czech Republic as immigrants and asylum seekers. In the clip you see performers from Armenia, China, Switzerland, Slovakia and America. Unfortunately, one main actor is missing at the performance, he is a Kurd from Syria who doesn’t have his official papers yet, so couldn’t travel to Slovakia.
I am in Slovakia for the ArtTherapy theatre festival. An hour from now, my film Cowboys in Kosovo is screening. Most artists performing here come from the Balkan and Eastern Europe. The plays deal with feelings of post war trauma and identity issues due to the overthrow of the communist regime, exactly 20 years ago. Yesterday, the main square in the Centre people were praying to commemorate the Gentle Revolution (internationally more known as the Velvet Revolution).
Have a look at one day of travel ….and at one of my biggest travel blunders so far!
1. Marrakech Airport 5.45 AM
Have a look at the rest of my trip…
When I ask Abdellatif from Essaouira what sort of life he was leading in Italy, where he lived for twelve years, he answers: -‘the cliché immigrant life!’
Abdellatif: -’In Italy, I worked in factories from early dawn, then in the afternoon I cleaned houses. It made me realise if you want to acchieve something in life, you have to work hard and be disciplined. But it suffocated me. In the end I realised it was not for me, my marriage with my Italian wife ended, I decided to return home, leaving her and our daughter behind.’
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