Tag Archives: Bulgaria

Exploring Abandonment at the Goat Milk Festival in Bulgaria

In late May, Carl and I went to the Goat Milk Festival in the small, shrinking village of Bela Rechka, Bulgaria. It was my second time there but Carl’s first. I was very glad Carl could come this year – … Continue reading

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The Dark Place

Artist David Cerny upset pretty much all of Europe with his hoax artwork Entropa, with its cliched representations of each European nation, but it managed to particularly outrage Bulgaria by portraying it with a series of connected Turkish squat toilets. … Continue reading

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A strange and slightly sinister Bulgarian folk song

Above is a very short film (my batteries ran out) of people singing a Bulgarian folk song we all learned in a Singing Society Workshop of Bela Rechka Songs at the Goat Milk Festival.  Of course, we sang it in … Continue reading

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Bread-making workshop at the Goat Milk Festival

Last month I was lucky enough to go the amazing Goat Milk Festival in Bela Rechka, Bulgaria with Friction Arts: …an event that tries to put the questions about personal memories and collective memory (a ?high voltage? question in our … Continue reading

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