It's About Carlo..

Just finishing up my article for Denver News about Italian activist Carlo Petrini, who I had the chance to interview during the Slow Money Gathering Boulder this April.  I came on this trailer about a documentary coming out exactly today featuring the Italian environmentalist/bio gastronome rock star himself!

A Story of Love

And for Valentine's Day, I have the most beautiful story for you. Related by Gular Orgun, in a lovely little film by the same about her multi cultural family heritage. These kind of stories make my heart beat faster and with happiness, because I have always been proud of my family heritage & marriages -  cross cultured and tolerant.  It is my pleasure to relate the creativity of others & share that point of view.

Here is -  "A Turkish-Jewish-Muslim Tale:

                                     film is 18 minutes long w subtittles

Enjoy and leave your comments below, I would love to start a dialogue here.

Please also visit Tara Agacyak's website  where she relates her own multi cultural marriage and how this expanded her world view in so many positive ways and then go over to GlobalNiche where good discussion is up about the same.

A Film: Balkan Melodie

A Film by Stefan Schwietert

I haven't seen it yet but will be looking for it, sounds and looks splendid!

Sant'Anna in Caprena - Travels with Anima

Views of the outside of Sant'Anna in Caprena, where we arrived just a few minutes too late to visit the fresco's that the Monastery is so famous for. Oh, yeah - and the English Patient.

Nothing Gained

I saw this video posted on FB, via Almir Imsirevic a professor at the Preforming Arts Academy in Sarajevo. I love this kind of documentation, this type of subject.Of course to think of the ramifications...that not one thing had really changed since 1914 - that is pretty devastating. Interesting.

Crazy Balkan Mother F*ckers

Happy Full Moon