In this week’s episode, we are getting closer and closer to the opening of the exhibition. After two weeks of a lot of stairs, up and down, up and down! FREE GYM, we love it! The glutes are going to be amazing after the end of the project!
We finalized all the hard work with a bit more painting painting painting, brooming brooming brooming, and mopping mopping mopping. And just like that, our Cinderella era is OVEEEEERRR (we hope)!!! I gotta say teamwork does make the dream work, after all, everyone is always in a good spirit and cheering each other up! HURRAYYY for moral support! It does make a difference!
And now we move on with lighter work but definitely not less important. We started advertising the exhibition, going to the city centre, leaving posters all around the city and spreading the word with people we met on the streets!
“It’s already the third week! Our tasks are changing constantly, and we are trying to adapt to our new responsibilities. Still, we are managing to keep up the pace of work in order to have everything ready for the opening of the festival!” – Armando Koleci from Albania
THE GRAND OPENING
The chaos starts as the opening approaches and the artists are starting to arrive. Dealing with flight delays and lots of rides to the airport, the team in charge of the accommodation has the most pressure to get everything right and make sure everyone gets picked up on time and is going to the right places!
As the artists start to put together all the artwork, we help them with everything they may need to make sure the exhibition will look perfect!
“My experience for that week was really excellent, thrilling, busy and funny, as a person who was responsible for picking up and accommodating the artists who came for the festival. I was running between the youth house and the airport with the poster of Analog Mania. I was the first person who listened to their thoughts about their new experience in Timisoara, the festival, how was their flight and what they were expecting or what they would do for the exhibition. We worked a lot for the opening cause we had only 48 hours left and every artist was so involved. We thought that only the organization of the exhibition was needed, like the art pieces, but nooo, we still had to do cleaning cleaning, sponging sponging and painting painting. Preparing stuff for the exhibition was really exciting cause we assisted them, showing them every needed material and helping in fixing everything. This week was crazy but for real it was so cool.” – Lana from Georgia
April 1st is here, and everyone’s excited about it, running around, and getting final things ready! We started with a tour of the exhibition and moved on as the artists presented their work. We took a break to appreciate a beautiful concert with Armenian music, and after we finalized the amazing tour, it was beautiful to see all the hard work paid off!
The first day was truly a success, with such amazing artwork and artists, and now we move to the second day in another gallery, where we focus more on photography and film, and let me tell you it was AMAZING! Also emotional at the same time, because we know it’s ending!
BESIDES THE EXHIBITION
During this week besides the craziness of the opening, we had more cultural nights, this time Romania, Moldova, France and Spain! Always with amazing food and fun of course!
On the first days we wrote our names on envelopes to put on the office wall so we can write motivational/gratitude messages or whatever we want to each other, and this week we started it and it felt amazing to have some words of support or funny messages!
And since after this week, the work with the exhibition is done we start to plan the activities and workshops for the next stage of the project.
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An article by Carolina Pires