22. September 2024

In the Name of Roots

Have you ever wondered why the artistic motif of this year's festival is a tree? Have you ever wondered why there is a violin hiding among its roots? Final concert of the festival will serve up a program that will explain everything. And moved.
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Drevesa are an ancient symbol of life. Birds nest in their canopies, their branches offer us fruits, and in their roots the life force flows, the eternal cycle of decay and budding, which turns endings into beginnings. And even if their crowns never touch, the trees are always connected to each other. The intertwining of their roots binds them together and makes them stronger. This is the only way they can defy the storms. The stronger they are, the deeper the roots become. The deeper they are, the more intertwined they are. 

Humans can learn a lot from trees. For example, the fact that our roots are not there to refer to when we want to appropriate a piece of the world we live on, to have it only for ourselves and deny everything else. Our roots are here to connect us and make us better, stronger! If we understand them in this way, the world, our common world, will be more beautiful. Calmer.

How to achieve such an understanding? How do you sweep away delusions about "us" and "others"? That only "we" count, but not "others"? How to connect and overcome the logic of separation and differences, the cacophony of harsh words and incomprehensible languages? With a language we all understand. With music. The present concert will therefore not only be a concert, but a call to understanding. To connect. To peace.

Klet's finish with the words we started with: "However different we may seem to each other - we are not. No matter how big the world seems and its corners are so far away - they are not. Everything is connected. Everything is one. We are all one."

 

It says: Maja Pirš

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