Borders and Bridges Festival – V4 Authors, translators and books on display

During the 4 day festival we will operate an open community co –working space (a literary hub) in the place of the Lumen Kávézó café, that will be open to the public daily, in an appointed time scale where the festival goers and participants will get a chance to meet the authors and writers of V4 region face-to face while they’ll be at work. The writers will be sitting at their desks (with little national flags indicating the country they’re coming from), and working on the new piece of writing to be born directly on spot, including a written reflection of their experiences of the city (following the ‘Feel the City’ event). The themes and issues touched upon: How they see the Hungarian citizens? How they see the Hungarian culture? What impressions did the historical and cultural site-specific city tour make on them? The works will be partially translated and published on the project’s facebook page as well as read out and reflected upon at the open debate scheduled at the later festival program. As accompanying program to this event, there will be a constant exhibit of the V4 author’s books and their already existing translations in several languages of V4 and English, that will be available to wide public to take a look at and scan through. There will be public readings of the works of V4 authors organized all through the festival, at several venues, including Lumen Café, PIM literary museum, Gdansk bookstore & café, Városfal etc. http://miszje.hu/tartalom/borders&bridges

Workshop

The Workshop consists of two parts. The first part is a presentation on natural values of the Małe Pieniny (including protected elements of living nature, methods of plant and animal protection, care for specific ecosystems in which protected species live or there is a threat from anthropogenic activity - improper management by agricultural entities, illegal storage of waste, spread of invasive species, climate change as a global phenomenon, pollution of watercourses and water springs). The second part of workshop is a practical part using the experimental station. The experiment will be based on demonstration of water cycle in various conditions of land development. The youths will be able to create an experimental station on their own, under the supervision of an instructor. The first task will be arrangement of the soil layers in containers. The second task will be to reflect various forms of management of the top layer - such as vegetation, roads, wells, residential buildings, parking lots and arable lands. For this purpose, green plants, pebbles and artificial materials will be used. Next, two experiments will be carried out showing how a human being influences the water circulation in his environment by shaping the land development. In the first experiment, pupils will simulate atmospheric precipitation by applying water. The second experience will be to apply the contamination in the form of a food color solution directly to the well. The pupils' task will be to observe the effects of experiments, measure the volume of drained leachate and a discussion combined with drawing conclusions from the experiments. http://www.nppc.sk/index.php/sk/?option=com_content&view=article&id=35

Screening at Kežmarok

Screening best of Azyl 2019 for high school students. www.festival.azyl.sk