“Going to vote, Domnul Vasile?” I lean from my bedroom window, looking down towards our elderly neighbour. Vasile pauses in the lane below me, glancing about. He’s...
Tag - Culture
“There is a bus stops on the square next to an oak tree close to the port,” I am told when I try to find out how to get to my apartment in Sarandë, a resort on the...
The Bulgarian NGO, ZaTeb (For You), has launched the first app in emerging Europe dedicated to helping women stand up against domestic violence. The app connects all...
The only walls we should build should be those which teach us how human freedom must be our greatest achievement. With these words, Bosnian artist Mladen...
“Music was a part of me since before I can remember. There was never any other desire other than to pursue it.” This was the answer from Kosovar composer and conductor...
Mixed identity or no identity at all? This overarching question is raised whenever visitors talk about Prishtina, Kosovo’s capital. And the longer the debate lasts, the...
A pioneer and role model for Azeri women almost 40 years since her death, Izzat Orujova is a name that should be far better known outside of her home country than it...
Dutch duo Telmo Miel, as well as up-and-coming Lithuanian artist Eglė Žvirblytė, are just some of the latest creators to add murals to the increasingly essential Open...
Climate change is today undoubtedly the world’s main concern. And although it is easy to address this topic through words, essays and laws, it is a little bit more...
Can you sit there, in the next row? I am here with my family. With those words, a Reese Witherspoon wannabe lookalike asks me to make room for her as she takes off her...
Ukrainian start-up Ochis Coffee has found a highly creative and fashionable way to produce frames for glasses with an environment-friendly material: coffee grounds. The...
If the roaring success of the opening night on September 8 is anything to go by, then the Tsinandali Festival of Classical Music can already be acclaimed as an absolute...
