Author: kate

In Maribor we slept at the Pekarna Squat, a huge complex of bars, music rooms and an anarchist book shop. The following day we met local bike activists at the  CAAP,  – Centre for Autonomous Production and Active Ctizens, where we had the chance to look over our bikes in the DIY bike workshop,  were shown around the cooperative  including a seed library, seminar space, work with Roma communities and the acclaimed Urban Furows project. The centre wishes to promote sustainability, autonomy and active citizenship. One example was empowering people to do something about the issues that mattered to them.…

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…Oh how did that get there ?

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Art Centre Slovenia, a former Border Guard House, was another gem in our trip so far…nestled somewhere between the hills and fruit trees in a secluded part on the border of west Slovenia. We spent three glorious days here helping on the project, learning about the local struggle to keep the project from the eager grips of the municipalities, sampled the local produce from pumpkin seed oil to home grown vegetables from the centre and of course the local ale around the fire. We also had time for some of our own workshops: Most of the help needed was preparing…

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Another days cycling through Hungary, with a quick look in curiosity at a local event, the annual community event, and are all offered drinks from the Major and end up on the stage singing songs from Catalan! – a great applause, and were off again, all in a days cycle!

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