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On Saturday morning when the sun was rising at the Rue Nestor de Tiere, some extraordinary guests were gathering in the CD house in Brussels. Creative, motivated and open minded AEGEE members were looking forward to brainstorm, plan and discuss everything related to Culture Working Group.
After being welcomed by the CD members, the directions have been made clear for them: down to the basement, the dungeon of the CD house. They entered in a small, dark and cold room. Between old AEGEE publications like a big tower of “AEGEE 20 Key to Europes” and the Address Books from 1992 the meeting was supposed to take place. But the brave hearts of CWG board members made them not to give up. Soon an Angel with dark, long hair coming from the North of Europe was sent down to them in order to facilitate the meeting.
Projects, meetings and events! After the first ideas were presented, nothing seemed cold and dark anymore to them in the basement of the (in)famous CD house. Maria from very urban Warszawa took the computer in her hands and didn’t let it go until everything was written down and kept in protocol as a true secretary should do. Olimpia was warming the room with her optimism and smile and promised to bring the same into her responsibility as IT responsible. Michael as a former board member and advisor was maybe lazy to give a proper knowledge transfer, but never lacked the will of giving his comments to all issues discussed. What would they do if Anna wouldn’t make changes to the budget even while cooking dinner and if Michele wouldn’t bring some relaxed Italian spirit to the meeting?
Even the speaker Maria and PR responsible Tural were joining the meeting in a very futuristic way through Skype.
No wonder that in such a creative atmosphere events about alternative culture and culture in border regions were approved to be organised by the CWG. Didn’t you even want to dive into the world of subcultures? Learn how to make graffiti and street art and go to a real punk concert in a squatted building? Also find out the ways how culture behaves in regions where two or more cultures border on each other. Explore better the meaning of identity and the definition of culture. Not to forget that CWG this year will mark some Summer Universities with the “Recommended by CWG” button showing you that these SU will be serious about culture! If this won’t be enough, then events about LiteratureLive and improvisation theatre will be waiting for you!
After two days of living in the dungeons the CWG board members were released by Angel (that came out to be not so Angel-like as supposed to be) and they took the chance to explore the bright and dark sides of Brussels, discovered a communist style Euro-monument near the European Parliament and ate meat with an incredibly spicy and hot sauce, which resulted in burned tongues making it inevitable to have the next meeting online typing and not talking.
Stay tuned for upcoming CWG activities as we have the passion for culture!
Written by guest blogger Michael Makowiecki