At the moment, together with ”Creative women’s club Aarhus”, I organize an art exhibition with the theme ”WALKING” at the local library Dokk1, as part of working on UN’s goals of sustainable development.
Kari Gale
As the topic can have various angles, I wanted to interview people, who hiked long distances and hear their expiriences.
So today I present you an artist and illustrator (with Danish roots😆) Kari Gale from Portland, USA.
Camino de Santiago
Kari took some hiking trips in her area, but never thought seriously about walking long distances. In 2013 she divorced her husband after 10 years of marriage. Kari felt the need to change her surroundings and after talks with her sister they decided to take a pilgrimage walk to Santiago de Compostela.
Today I am happy to present my first guest in 2022, Cecilie, one of the newest participant of the exhibitions at ”Creative women’s club Aarhus”.
Participation at the exhibitions
Cecilie participated at our exhibition at Aarhus Arab Film Festival in 2021, her painting was inspired by a trip to Marrakesh, where she was completely captivated by the beautiful vaults all over the city. ”These magnificent shapes and colors are infinite, representing perspectives, possibilities and inspiration”.
During lock downs at ”Creative women’s club Aarhus” I started to organize online weekly art challenges with different topics, mostly inspired after the interviews with my blog’s guests.
It got me occupied and gave motivation to paint more.
When I knew I would travel to Porto, I wanted to get in touch with the artistic life in the city.
I learned about watercolor workshop at Hugo do Lago’s art gallery.
It looked like a fun activity, and I booked a place.
In this post I would like to share experience with you.
Today I want to present another edition of ”Corona talks”, with an Ukrainian artist and an art teacher Victoria from ”Art Dreams”.
Actually it was the first time I met offline during corona pandemic for an interview.
It was quite a spontaneous meeting.
Due to family matters I needed to travel from Denmark to my home town in Ukraine.
I was walking around and saw an ad for an art school. Out of curiosity I checked the instagram page and there were some colorful and tasty works of the young artists.
I managed to arrange meeting with the school’s founder Victoria, who herself is an artist.
Because of quarantine in Ukraine we were sitting outside and drank delicious coffee while we chatted. It doesn’t compare by sitting at the café, but the weather was nice and sunny, so one couldn’t wish for more these days.
These past weeks I think I’ve been more productive with my hobbies, than in the whole 2020.
I am really enjoying ”corona talks” with fantastic people from all around globe.
I started to know people behind instagram pages, and I feel grateful both for their time and trust, when they let me in their inner world.
I followed Elena’s page for some time now, and I got inspired by the beautiful toys she was making.
Elena is a person with an inner light, that makes world better. We talked for almost 2 hours. I have almost forgotten about the world pandemic, so exiting was the interview with this talented person.
It took me a time to write this article. It is a hard challenge to describe Elena’s inner world with my simple words. But hope you will get the impression about this versatile woman.
I got an exclusive online tour in Elena workshop, she showed me her working room, paintings, hanging there, and the inspirational items.
Elena lives near Ekaterinburg, and she was creative for all her life, graduated from a collage with a degree as a technologist in sewing.
She was working in the profession till retirement.
Previous jobs
One of the jobs she has was to design and sew gymnastic costumes.
When she told me how she started her little business, it seems to me there were many small steps to her current life.
It started with the dress. In Elena family they have a folk dress, that was transferred from generation to generation. Elena’s mother got it from her great grand – mother. The dress was even buried, when Germans occupied Orlov region in the Soviet Union during Second World War.
She treasures the dress and it waked her interest to the traditional folk dresses in general. In one of her visits to Moscow Elena attended an exhibition dedicated to these dresses.
It inspired her to sew dolls in Russian dresses.
After she retired, there was more free time to dive into the doll making.
Magdalena comes from Croatia, she moved to Denmark to study software engineering in Horsens in 2014. 2 years ago she graduated and got a job at ”Systematic”, which she changed to an opening position at start up company in Aarhus.
Living in another country can be struggling, but also it gives a lot of interesting meetings and surprises.
Several weeks ago at meeting at a museum I met Joanna. We talked and it appeared that she has her own company.
I met her and her business partner for an interview and I am looking forward to share their story.
Joanna came to Denmark from Poland 4 years ago, she is married to a Dane. In Poland Joanna was an English teacher.
Her partner, Jandira, is from Guatemala. She has been married with a Dane for 23 years. Before they lived in Mexico, Venezuela, where she worked in an export industry. In total she has been living in Denmark for 7 years.
As most of the internationals, the women had the same problems: integration into the Danish society, learning the language, inability to use their educations in potentional jobs.
This July I visited Leiden and by accident attend international tournament there. I discovered that for some people chess can be a real job, and for others just a nice way of travelling, experiencing new places with combination of their favorite hobbies. Here I want to share with you some of the things I discovered in Leiden.
For me it was a new experience in attending such big international events.
Where is Leiden?
Leiden is situated in South Holland, around 40 km from Amsterdam. There is the oldest Dutch university in Leiden, the oldest botanic garden in Holland. History of the city can be tracked to Roman times, Leiden got its city rights in 1266.
In general, it is small, cozy city. I adored its channels and bridges.
Hello, my dear reader, it’s been awhile when I wrote post on my blog. Now I am visiting Denmark and had a lot of things to do here.
In today’s post I want to write about incredible festival I visited on Fanø island. Continue reading →
Today I want to present you story by Elena. She struggled in her life, but her optimism and hope helped her to achieve new goals and dreams.
Living in another country can be struggling, but also it gives a lot of interesting meetings and surprises.
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