Balkanbarroompolitics Performance by Niku Alex Muçaj and Sanja Lukanović Every wednesday in November from 19.30 h

As part of CULTURESCAPES The Balkans 2013, we wish to indulge in bar-room politics without bar-room language and at a cut above normal bar-room offerings. The accessible installation ‹Burning Bridges› acts as the backdrop. A common, former reality that still seems to be present throughout the Balkan region.

Albania had isolated itself from the rest of the world and the multinational state of Yugoslavia tore down the internal bridges in a civil war during the 1990s. Both the totalitarian isolation of Albania and the ‹Third Way› of Yugoslavia were doomed from the start. We know the common past: But what does the common future hold? Together with artists and culture-makers we wish to dream of this future through lectures, film screenings, as well as mutual cooking sessions, held over four evenings.

BalkanBarRoomPolitics Program
Opening times: 19.30 h - open end 
We always offer warm soup. 

06.11 
‹The Border Post› (Bosnia: Karaula) is a comedy-drama starring and directed by Rajko Grlić, produced in cooperation between the countries of the former Yugoslavia. (2006)

13.11.
An Evening with Demian Bichsel, photographer and filmmaker from Basel. Demian will report on his trip to Serbia and show works that have emerged in this period.

20.11.
An Evening with Bashkim Dyla, an architect from Basel. Bashkim will talk about tourist trips in Albania and Kosovo.

27.11.
An evening with Ingo Starz, publicist from Basel. Ingo explores with his Viennese friend Senad Halilbašić the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. They have implemented a radio feature and edited a literary anthology. They went to the question of how one can tell Sarajevo. 

Entrance free

The complete festival program can be found HERE.