Dear Eszter, warm welcome to you and to Bódvalenke! It just starts and it will take some time before all artists involved will have signed up! But we do have our common meeting place now! Els

Dear Eszter,

Names of all artists involved have been listed and they should have received an invitation today, just like you. Only, there was a problem with the address kökenyrobert@freemail.hu, due to the ö.... I think we need a couple of more days to organize better and get used to all possibilities. Me for example, I had difficulties in choosing the profile photo. I uploaded 4 or 5 times, but it "landed" somewhere else. We will overcome these difficulties. Main thing is the site is born! Best wishes, Els

Dear Eszter!
Tomorrow I will add some more information about Bódvalenke: the artists, the village, international attention. Do you have additional information for me? And please, if necessary, you might help by translating the english for the artists. All 5 painters have received an invitation, which they need to use this website for video, proposals, events and further interaction. But the address of Róbert Kökény does not function, maybe due to ö. And Gábor Váradi has no e-mail. Please, help us here to realize the communication! Thanks a lot for the mediation!

Thanks, Eszter, for the support!

Dear Eszter,
Sorry for the error in the name! I make many mistakes as I am too busy, but that is no excuse, of course. We need better structures to work more efficiently. I want to focus on things that I hardly have time for now. I lost a lot of energy in solving technical problems, since Marko is absent and I had to take over his job. Great if they would do this video film project!

Dear Eszter,

I hope you had some time to follow all the discussions. Today we started a new Group Coordination, the engine room of the Initiative, where we focus on PR, fundraising and preparation of the first events. Do you want to take part, or do you prefer to join the Cultural Group? All Groups stay in close contact.

Kind regards and best wishes for 2011!!!

Els

Dear Eszter,

Not all painters on this site know English. That might explain why you hardly got reactions. Below I give you names. You can find all with searching screen: Alain Mathiot (Fr), Fabio Patronelli (It), Zoran Tairovic (Serb.), Kasum Cana (Croatia), Gabi Jimenez (Fr), Maja Ljubotina Antonescu (Slov.). Visual artists and sculptors: Omar Karavdic (Serb.), Tamara Baltzar (Sweden). And Lada Gaziova (Cz) had already reacted, I understood from Lukas.

I hope you will manage to contact them, maybe through Romanes. I will soon publish names of helpers.

Kind regards, Els

Hello Eszter,

How was Brussels? How did it go? Have the women had interviews? And what about the painters? Are there people interested? I am finishing a list to have better access to all different arts. This can be helpful to all us. Simultaneously I am doing logistics. Very busy times, very tired too now.

Kindest regards, Els

 

Hello Eszter,

The contribution to the discussion on activities you wrote was not printed. Maybe you forgot to press "add comment". It is very important when you are there to help. So, please let's discuss the possibilities and priorities.

How is the Bodvanke project going? What about the painters? And how was Brussels? Please, tell me!

Kind regards, Els

 

Dear Eszter,

Great that you joined! We can only be effective in July when this working (!) group is huge, with many people from Hungary. You are the first to join. How can we help you, if you yourself are not there? We also badly need contacts with Roma artists from Hungary. Do you know Artur Balogh (baloghartur@freemail.hu)? He joined this special secret group on FB. I asked him to join this site. It is much more convenient if we have 1 central meeting point, but perhaps he has communication problems with the English. Same goes for Roma artists from Hungary. We would like to involve musicians! And what about your painters? Wouldn't it be a great idea to arrange an excursion to Bodvalkene? Maybe you already suggested this, but I could not find your comment on this site (in the discussion in the IRADL group). It is also due to us. There are too many discussions on too many places. That is also why I started this new group, to stop the confusion. Now I hope that more people will join. Thanks a lot for doing that yourself. Do you have Skype? Mine is el4711ly (+31-318-414 797). Two more weeks, then I am moving.

Best wishes, Els