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New on Festival Bytes: What resonates in the word Balkan?

18 February 2014

I had this question in mind when we started with the preparations for the CULTURESCAPES 2013 edition. War? Disorder? Corruption? Poverty? Serebrenica? Kosovo? NATO? And/or BalkanEkspress, -Karavan, -Beats Balkanology? Land of Blood and Honey? The Black Mountains? 100 years after the beginning of World War I and during our stay in Sarajevo (at the occasion of EFA’s General Assembly and Sarajevo Conversations) we should use the opportunity to ask ourselves: how can we continue this re-adjusting of the image(s) we have of one another? What can we do to further connect cultures and not divide the continent and its people? Read the full blog by Jurriaan Cooiman on Festival Bytes.