BALKAN GARDEN PARTY

The adventure of SEE Festival began in spring 2011 in Paris organized by the University of Audiovisual Arts -The European Film Theatre and Dance Academy Skopje-Paris-Essen-Rotterdam and the Association. See a Paris, just a decade after the bloody wars on the territory of former Yugoslavia which showed that South-eastern Europe and the Balkans were facing an epochal historic dilemma: Or Balkans turned into a field of massacres, mass liquidations and ethnic cleansings, or into a civilizing space where cultural and spiritual bridges to the future will be built, dreamed by many builders from Antiquity to today: Europe our common home!

Our friendship with Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998) and his prophetic book “The Way of the World” became the basis of the idea that every year may be presented jointly twelve countries of this region which are in the long centuries of animosity, because of the wonderful sentence in this book: “The Balkans is the heart of Europe.”

After four years in Paris where besides L’Entrepot in the organization are included INALCO and LE Palace, turning the event into a true cultural window of the south-eastern Europe in the City of Light-Paris, and an invitation came from the prestigious Humboldt University of Berlin and began SOE in Berlin, in the spring of 2015.

In today’s Berlin as the Eighth World architectural marvel, in Berlin, the centre of spiritual energy that has infinite artistic magic and memory to return to Europe the definition that it is one of the cradles of World Civilization, and not “expensive crypt of the world”as showed in World war I and II.

When the invitation came from the Ningbo Museum of Art and Ningbo Municipal People’s Government, a great Chinese city near Shanghai represents European-Chinese universal highway to the idea that “the whole world is small as a handkerchief” as Cervantes says: “El mundo es un panuelo” actually the adventure of south-eastern Europe and the Balkans, to which includes the Baltic countries and Central Europe, it has turned into the cultural field in which the Seventh art organizes every year in these 3 centres of world culture, an impossible mission called Balkan Garden Party in which blood enemies become spiritual friends.

Thus the Festival in Paris, Berlin and Ningbo opens the vision of Thessaloniki brothers Cyril and Methodius, the greatest humanists in the Balkans and beyond, who were found 1,100 years after their death as Patrons of Europe that the world and our homeland Earth will survive only if the Civilization of Love and the Nostalgia for the Unity dominate.

Action!

Jordan Plevnesh, President and founder of the Festival

May, 2016

Location:

No. 2 & 3 Hall