By Yoana Stoyanova | Project Leader
Hello, dear Baba Supporter!
Hope your summertime is smooth and light and it brings nourishing rural experiences!
As we shared in the last report, our Baba Residence journey took a new experimental direction throughout the whole 2024 and we finally have the visible result of it - after the unstoppable efforts of our resident artists and creative professionals, the 3 local chitalishte (village cultural hubs), the local coordinator Desislava Bozhidarova, the curator Dima Stefanov and our small 3-some team!
At the end of June we had an expedition in the 3 Vlach villages Deleyna, Koshava and Yasen and made an opening of the artistic installations and we experienced 5 local experiences, led by local people, part of our newly born platform Naselo.bg!
We had the travel blogger Jivko Konstantinov throughout the whole journey and he documented and reflected every experience with his tender perception. We will let you have a taste of the opening of our artistic installations and the 5 experiences, led by local people in the 3 villages:
The mighty storyteller - BABAPHONE - an old-school phone, which tells local stories, presented by one of its creators Velizara Karaivanova
Militsa Dzhandzova from our 3-some core team tells more about the Vlach wonders and the opening event in Yasen village
A vlach dances workshop, led by the local dance group of Deleyna, part of our Naselo.bg platform
A storytelling workshop for fishing net weaving, led by Ventsislav Dionisov from Koshava, part of our Naselo.bg platform
The singing group from Koshava, presenting at the Celebration of 100 years Chitalishte in Yasen village
You can find the whole article of Jivko here.
You are also welcome to become our monthly supporter at GlobalGiving by clicking here and choosing Donate monthly on the right side. This will help our small team continue do our field work with different rural communities and not remain dependent solely on project fuinding, which limits our work and efforts immensely!
Another important resource we'd like to share with you all, if you want to dig deeper into the topic or rural revitalization policy and efforts is the Rural Pact report, which our work is part of as a good local example!
Be well, be healthy
and share with us some feedback on the newly re-discovered Vlach wonders!
Yoana and Ideas Factory team
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