My Europe in Sindelfingen – Solidarity between generations reflected by European shortfilm
Office | May 8, 2012
During the European week Citizens of Europe presents a special edition of its short film programme My Europe in the Southern German town Sindelfingen. Following the “European year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations” our four selected films show examples of conflicts and solidarity between different generations. Filmmaker Levon Minadian (“The Piano”) will be present for an interview.
Ice Flowers | Germany | 30 min. | by Susan Gordanshekan
Amir doesn`t have a residence permit. When he loses his job, he finds work in the caregiving field: He starts taking care of Mrs Osterloh who suffers from dementia. The lady`s illness gives Amir the possibility to play with his selfmade realities.
Party | Croatia | 15 min. | by Dalibor Matanic
Party shows with an impressive narrative style how the war in former Yugoslavia erased a whole generation and left back the old with the very young.
Plank | Netherlands | 15 min. | by Billy Pols
A Dutch-Moroccan boy puts everything at stake to become a professional skateboarder.This gives him also the possibility to contribute to the living of his whole family.
The Piano | Armenia | 26 min. | by Levon Minasian
Louiinè is talent pianist who lives with her grandfather. To prepare for an international competition the Ministry of Culture lends her a beautiful piano. But when the instrument is delivered, it`s clear that her grandfathers trailer is too small to hold a piano…
Friday, 11th May, 19:00, Großer Sitzungssaal, Rathaus Sindelfingen
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How We Shape Our Past Part 2 -Hungary – Conclusions
Office | April 3, 2012
Our interpretations of the Hungarian forms of Remembrance are based on case studies. Hence we consider our conclusions as not neccessarily representative for the Hungarian society. We rather tried to abstract from the experiences we have made.
What we have reasoned in our discussion though were these five statements:
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How We Shape Our Past – Budapest
Office | April 3, 2012
“Critical artists and intellectuals [in Hungary] are suffering under the regime’s nationalistic and anti-Semitic tendencies and many are leaving the country,” Deutsche Welle has recently reported.
Hungary – I used to only think about it as the birthplace of Goulash, and embarrassingly so. But on the 15th March, the Hungarian national day and the memorial day of the 1848 Revolution, I participated in a workshop named “How we shaped our past” organised by one of our partners, Citizens of Europe, in Budapest and I am intrigued.
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How We Shape Our Past – The Comic
Office | April 3, 2012
How We Shape Our Past is the project which just keeps giving! One of our participants, Arnoldas Blumberg, has decided to illustrate some of the highlights from ‘How We Shape Our Past’ in a very modern medium…a comic strip.
Take a look….
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How We Shape Our Past Berlin: The German Example
Office | April 3, 2012
Introduction
On the 2nd February the selected participants for How We Shape Our past gathered together for the first workshop in Berlin. The workshop in Berlin acted as a foundation for the whole project. Here we gathered a strong and passionate group of citizens to take the project forward. We engaged in interesting and in depth dialogue about the the topic. We created an analytical framework to use during future workshops in Prague, Budapest and Vilnius. We also had oodles of fun!
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Invitation: Panel discussion in Berlin
Office | January 26, 2012
How we shape our past: The German example
2 February 2012, 19:00
Representation of the European Commission, Unter den Linden 78
- What is specific about the German way of rememberance?
- Can there be too much rememberance?
- How does the way we remember affect the present and the future?
This panel debate is the opening event for a seminar with participants from different European countries. During the following days we will visit historic sights in Berlin such as the Topographie des Terrors and Gedenkstädte Hohenschönhausen. Comparable events in Budapest, Vilnius, Prague and Weimar will follow thoughout the next eight months.
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Hunger strike for media independence – in EU!?
Office | December 23, 2011
Declaration by our partner organisation Magyarországi Európa Társaság (Hungarian Europe Society). In support of our friends, we ask you for your kind attention.
The decision of the Constitutional Court of 19 December 2011 has finally brought freedom of the print media in Hungary back but the court has done only half of the job as it failed to examine the anti-democratic legal provisions that affect the electronic media. It did so despite the fact that a radical transformation of the public media Read the rest of this entry »
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