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Japec Jakopin: Internautica 2018

Our dear friend Japec Jakopin wrote an insightful editorial for 2018 Internautica catalogue where MED Land project is mentioned as well.
Since it’s so beautifully written we wish to share it with you. It manages to capture the essence of the MED as we understand it.
The editorial here is in slovene, but the catalogue is in english and you can find it here.

 

Naše morje

Moje morje je naše morje in morje vseh nas.

Kakor ga doživljamo mi, se je od Piranskega zaliva razlilo vzdolž Istre, po Jadranu, in skozi Jonsko morje do celega Sredozemlja.

In naše morje ni samo za piransko cerkvijo, ampak prav tako ob Mrtovcu ali Jabuki, na Itaki ali Zakintosu.

Sredozemlje ima edinstveno in karizmatično istovetnost.  Povezuje tri celine in je zibelka zahodne civilizacije, na križišču vseh poti  s severa na jug, ali z vzhoda proti zahodu. Tisočletne civilizacije so na tem kulturno rodovitnem substratu zgradile ideje in miselnost, ki je osnova naše duhovnosti – in bivanja.

Miriade lokalnih kultur, zlite v  sredozemsko, so oblikovale vzorce preživetja, trajnostnega načina življenja, ustvarjalnosti in socialne strpnosti. Ti so postali vzor celotnega človeštva. 

Ko se je v Jeruzalemu kralj David še pričkal s svojimi ženami, so Liburni na sredini vzhodnega Jadrana zgradili svoje mesto, ki so ga imenovali Jadra. Bili so odlični morjeplovci in ladjedelci, od katerih so se Rimljani učili gradnje ladij. Oboji so se na naših obalah zlili z Dalmati, Iliri in Etruščani.  Do tega stičišča svetov – in kultur – so kasneje prišla najbolj na zahod razširjena slovanska plemena.

In zdaj smo prišli do čudovitega obdobja,  ki ga niti slutiti nismo mogli .  Bratstvo med evropskimi narodi in državami je zaživelo v skupni povezavi, ki bo kmalu odpravila še zadnje meje in prepreke – med plemeni, narodi in državami. Naše sredozemsko morje je postalo skupni dom vseh, ki imamo morje neskončno radi in ga nadvse občudujemo.  S svojimi slanimi valovi, bleščečo svetlobo, prijaznim podnebjem, vonjavami borovega gozdička, melodijami škržatov, in izbiro najbolj zdrave prehrane nam podarja vse, kar nam v mestnem življenju manjka. Morda – na srečo – ne povsem večnega življenja,  ampak balzam za dušo in korenito zmanjšanje biološke starosti.

O vsem tem razločno govorijo slikovne in besedne pripovedi Bojana Breclja, fotografa, pisca in človekoljuba, ki se s skoraj pol stoletja staro majhno leseno jadrnico odpravlja po Sredozemlju. Zapisuje resnične slike o ljudeh, ki s svojo zgodbo potrjujejo vse, kar smo zapisali o našem morju.

Naša naloga pa je, da morje ohranimo za naše otroke in vnuke vsaj tako čisto in lepo  kot so ga nam zapustili naši predniki.  To je pa že téma letošnje Internautice, ki je skupni imenovalec naše ljubezni do morja.

In želimo ji : na mnoga leta!

Japec Jakopin

3 Days and 3 Nights Trip

>9. 5. 2018<

The journey has begun on Friday the 4th!
Our first “step” was 3 days and 3 nights long, with only one tiny 3h stop on Lastovo, the last island in Croatia.
Our departure was blessed by many friends who came on the boat to greet us goodbye, drank a glass of wine to farewell of our trip and sang “Mala Mare”.  Even the rain and the storms in the nights didn’t  break the harmonious-ness of the trip. We landed on Othonoi – Yiannis Katehis island (Make it Livable) and Yiannis was awaiting for us in Antonis Bar.
Expect the updates of his story with what happened afterwords!

 

Mala Mare, a farewell song

>4. 5. 2018<

Before we sailed away, friends came to greet us on the boat.
We drank a glass of wine to farewell of our trip and they sang “Mala Mare”.

Thank you, Huck – Željko Perović!

>3. 5. 2018<

Huck got hooked a year ago.
He is a pro
fessional sailmaker and everybody in sailing world in a circle of a few hundred kilometers know him. Besides of being a top sailmaker he is  also a very skilled sailer. Huck specialises in making sails for the smallest sailboats  Optimists (dinghy)  and for the top performance racing ones.
But my need was quite the opposite! A big brown, old-styled sail-gaft rig. Hugh got enthusiastic about it and, first of all, made a new design according to the nowaday’s knowledge about materials and possibilities. My unspoken wish, from the very first moment  I laid eyes on Nalu, was having a front sail. Which I could not afford. But Huck liked the boat and the idea of a front sail and generously offered to sponsor it.
A year after, just a day before we head again to the next island, we finally fixed it on Nalu!  

 

 

Bojan speaks of MED in DELO News!

>30. 4. 2018<

Bojan speaks MED as of a plan to (re)present people who bring the spirit of collaboration for sustainable, peaceful and creative development of society to the ancient islands.

Načrt o predstavljanju ljudi, ki na ta starodavna otočja prinašajo duh sodelovanja za vzdržen, miroljuben in kreativni razvoj družbe.

Read the interview in Delo.
*The interview is in slovene language.

NEW Story: Panos Moraitis

>12. 4. 2018<

“I can only get 3 cents per kilogram of wool! So I do not sell it at all. We do this every year anyway, because it is good for the animals.”

Read full story.

Easter in Pitve-Svirče-Stari Grad

As part of 3D>2D photo workshop /bb/ we witness Easter in Pitve-Svirče-Stari Grad

Za križen [za kriʒen] (local vernacular Croatian for “Following the Cross”) is a night Procession that happens every Maundy Thursday on the island of Hvar, Croatia. The event has centuries of tradition and is included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.[1]
The Procession is a unique ceremony of a special piety, and an expression of a religious and cultural identity of the inhabitants of the middle part of the island of Hvar
The backbone of the Procession is the Gospin plač [ɡospin platʃ] (Croatian: Weeping of the Lady), octosyllabic Passion text from the 15th century that in the form of music Dialog sing chosen singers, kantaduri

NEW Story: Gioula Noutsatou

>22. 3. 2018<

“In Ithaca, there are so many trees and herbs around, and nobody knows about them. That was one of my thoughts, to collect herbs and maybe make oil, or sell them to the market. There are so many things we could do…”

Read full story.

 

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