After 10 years of the initiation of Café Europa they met again in Sarajevo so that in a literary form, artistic expression they could share their experiences gathered during wars in Yugoslavia and the meaning of this experience in contemporary Europe struggling with the crisis of multiculturalism in Europe.
Meetings of Café Europa take place in a unique atmosphere of a literary cafe lasting till late at night, with the audience at tables, discussions, reading of poetry and creative manifestos, accompaniment of live music and singing. The meeting in Sarajevo was accompanied by discussions and authors' nights in other cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mostar, Banjaluka), exhibitions and art installations, performances, book publications and special issues of culture magazines.
The subject of the Café Europa in Sarajevo was "Bosnia Generation". The guiding subject was the issue of intercultural dialogue, torn bridges, refugees and emigrants, of a new face of Europe’s contemporary cultural identity. We were also looking for answers to the question of what characterized the Bosnia generation and what was the lesson of this experience to Europe today. Writers and artists related also to reflections and questions mailed to them by children working on the Old Bridge Project, and carried by the Neimar .
Café Europa Meeting
Sept. 20, 2011, 1:51 p.m.
The idea of a flying literary-art cafe was developed by the Borderland Foundation as a response to the need to create a discussion forum and a creative cooperation of writers and artists who first met during the war in former Yugoslavia. To authors such as Aleš Debeljak form Ljubljana, Chris Keulemans form Amsterdam, Peter Jukes from London, Mileta Prodanović from Belgrade, Paweł Huelle from Gdansk, Magda Carneci from Bucharest, Christopher Merrill from Iowa, Nino Žalica from Sarajevo/Amsterdam, Ana Pejcinova from Skopje and Krzysztof Czyżewski from Sejny – the tragedy of Bosnia, symbolizing a failure of a multicultural world and values which constitute the world, has become a generation experience. They wrote and created about this subject, took part in public debates and social actions.
Galleries
Café Europa Meeting 2006
