The subtitle of this event was "Plea for Humanity: What next?" (click here for my gallery and impressions from the said concert/plea). Wednesday's event in Stará Tržnica provided the much needed context and space for debate in regards to Slovakia's role in helping developing countries in the midst of a refugee crisis.
Even though I couldn't attend the actual discussion, I am making it up now (as you can do too) by watching this video:
What I actually arrived for was much noisier, Jamadan, Slovakia's response to world music.
After it, I was treated to lots of very interesting photographs and discussions with (photo) journalists. I was in particular, pleasantly surprised by seeing a fellow photographer from my hometown, Vranov, Andrea Kerestešová. Here's her blog. She was among the winning photographers! Please, do check out the winning articles: Pavol Štrba's The Boy Who Survived His Own Death" from Srebrenica, Magdaléna Vaculčiaková's Cambodian sugar doesn't taste sweet and Tomáš Bella's How did the immigrants radicalise me in one week
While all this was very interesting and important, the best part of the evening was the performance given by Katka Koščová from Prešov, with Daniel Špiner on the piano/pepper-shaker, Jozef Lupták on the violin/mandolin and Michal Matejčík (of Depeche Mode/George Michael fame) on the harp. It was simply splendid, and really heart-felt! Look and listen for yourselves:
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