…”As for development, if I had to choose only one thing, it would actually be to develop respect on all levels! You do not have to force people and environment into doing things”…See full story.
THE TEAM; Eleonora Pauli, Laura Mangunda, Ivana Petan, and Ayane Tanaka
>>> Eleonora Pauli studied literature and languages in Berlin and Cambridge. She loves to listen, and encountered many new and inspiring sounds while travelling with Bojan on Nalu. Eleonora works as a journalist in Berlin, Germany. She writes and produces short radio plays for Deutschlandradio, collects sounds for her next satirical commentary, or just walks the city streets with her microphone in her hand and her ears wide open.
She came to Greece and stayed with the project for the first two months! For me, it was a very bright experience from day one, a very creative, supportive and positive living and working time. She came with small audio and photo-film equipment, as an enthusiast for sound recording and with professional audio journalistic skills. It was very exciting, since I love the sound, too! And it was a perfect match to record (video and sound) “what was going on” during this two months:
Eleonora also did her part in the exhibition “BARKE” (Boats), which already took place in September at the Museum of Stari Grad, Hvar island. It was about the third element of the exhibition, image & soundtrack TRACES OF MEDLAND PROJECT 2019/1, a project on which the creation of this entire exhibition is built on. The soundscape was created by Eleonora!
Laura Mangunda, a law student from Slovakia was formally “the opposite world” from Ayane who was from Tokyo. But in reality, we had all common pools and very informal, easy-going, “MED land” active and challenging life. She was always ready to help and do things I wouldn’t even think of, from research to every task on the boat, transcribing, etc., and was always open to learning. “So young, so good “, could be the title of the song I would write about her!
bits from her fear-well letter;
Dear Bojandzi,
Thank you for this whole experience.
It has meant a lot to me. It has brought me to experiences and realizations that I didn’t expect at all … >>> MORE
Ivana Petan has been IN from the very beginning –from day one, when we sailed Nalu from Bari to Slovenia to restore the boat, back in 2010!
SINCE THEN, she has been continuously collaborating in every possible way, from doing repairs on Nalu, transcribing, supporting the financially and her unique ceramics, sailing on destinations. We also had 3 exhibitions together, related to the MEDLand project:
Dance with Mary – exhibition/installation
Water Dragon of Venice – Exhibition in Zadar
Exhibition “Barke” (Boats) by Ivana Petan – ceramics and BojanB – prints
Ayane Tanaka from Tokyo has been engaged in international business with the focus on marketing and corporate strategy. She had worked for a fashion agency in Paris as a marketing assistant, and got involved with MEDland project as a PR and strategic marketer, as well as a sailing crew member. She is interested in culture, gastronomy and sustainability, which she cultivated by travelling around the world and through various art and sports activities. She joined us on Ikaria and we finished our common trip in the Adriatic – on Hvar island, which took us 13 days. “The sailing journey in the Mediterranean for 13 days was sometimes extremely tough and very much lovely at other times, which gave me an intensive experience of understanding Mother Nature.”
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ayane-tanaka-849a88150Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ayanebby
From Athens to Constantinople and back, through East Aegean sea and as south as Patmos island – here is the list of stories that are “in the fridge”, I hope not for long, since some of them are still waiting from last year:
The first team of the 2019 MEDLand storytelling project was related to the last recorded story in 2018 – Christodoulos is actually the heart of the team now, and the focus of the story. How come? We were four plus one: Eleonora from Berlin – German. She connected to the project through Workaway platform. Her skills are radio/audio journalism, with a touch of video, too.
Bojan-Eleonora-Christodoulos-Makis (Christodoulos skipper) and Odyssey.
Christodoulos decided to do a pilgrimage-ritual trip through historical places in the North Aegean sea, from Athens to Istanbul via Limnos island, also passing Marathon field, the temple above Chalcis where armies got together to attack Troy … then Limnos island, connected to Odyssey karma, where he betrayed his fellow men … and “it is time now to release this pain”. Rituals and conversations with Odyssey were Christodoulos’ occupation, while he was sailing on his own boat at the age of 83! BUT – newly born every day, with plenty of smiles, positive thoughts and joy for life, philosophy, cipora, vine, good food, poetry. The final destination was his home island, Ikaria. Three films about the trip were published along the way on the WGO page.
…“When I’m doing nothing, like right now, I do things in my mind, I think about what to do in the winter. Last year, when I finished the mosaic class, it was my first year, and there was a question … In Greek, it’s called erotima, the main of eros, erotas means love … There must be a question, the important thing is the question, not the answer. There are a lot of answers, every one has one, but there is only one question …”…See full story
…”As for development, if I had to choose only one thing, it would actually be to develop respect on all levels! You do not have to force people and environment into doing things”…See full story.
At the time when Stella felt the need to settle and nest, she moved from Athens to the north part of Chios island, to the village of Volissos. She choose it “for the quality of life”, which she actually achieved since she moved and raised children there. It suited her needs at the time, and the need was “to move out of Athens to a place where I can create something and at the same time learn my living from it.
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“You need to be a dreamer, you need to dream, because dreaming means using your imagination, making up things, things that don’t exist. You make up a journey, a life – you invent a life and then you go towards it …”
Rachel’s life, her dance, never stopped. It started at 15 and still goes on today: “I understand now that life, it’s movement, movement is a dance, so life is a dance. When I feel it, it’s like magic. I imagine myself like a small boat following the waves with believe…They say, ‘Think about what you want’ … I don’t know! … To say, I would like this and this and this … I have no idea.”