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Black SEAS 2008/09
20 - 28 March 2009 SEAS Istanbul, Turkey
4 - 14 June 2008 SEAS Coastal Varna/Balchik, Bulgaria, Mangalia, Romania
23 May - 1 June 2008 SEAS Odessa, Ukraine - World Launch
A significant difficulty facing nation states in the Black Sea region is a simple ignorance of one another. Since the fall of the communist states, the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, many new areas of collaboration in the political, economic and environmental spheres have been built up, however, the Black Sea is a region where the citizens of neighbouring countries know very little about one another socially, culturally and artistically. Black/North SEAS is an attempt to open up cultural communication lines and new networks, not only with Northern Europe organisations, but between Black Sea neighbours.
 The Black Sea shores shores reveal archeological traces of cultures vanished long time ago and a postindustrial debris of recent downturns and failures. Commercial harbors, seeking to keep their cranes busy, compete with new important trade centers and shipping routes. Tourism is on the go and yet the danger of overbuilding and making sandy beaches shrink under concrete and neon looms everywhere. Mighty tributaries bring a constant polluting water mass and make fishing boats rot idle in the harbors for once ample fisheries are severely depleted nowadays. While strong memories of invasions, wars, siege and exile remain vivid in the region, the European Union stretches since recently to the shores of the Black Sea but peace cannot be taken for granted at its every spot since there are still places of tension and some contested borders, and the rifts created by exclusivist demands, hostility and mistrust.
"Black/North SEAS: Making the waves of inspiration and trust" Read the article by Dragan Klaic on Media. |
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