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Brestovo

Cooking design only. Traditional recipes were collected from the inhabitants and cooked with them. From those encounters, other activities will be developed: a dance workshop, celebrations, storytelling. Cooking started many other opportunities for meetings and activities.

Particularity of the village : portraits of the loved-ones are displayed in front of the houses, to such a point that there are more portraits of dead people than inhabitants, and more women than men among the living. Women mourn until their own death.
The action of the Colab Quarter opened up oportunities, offered vitality and joy among the population. An elderly woman stopped grieving after the dance party, as a way for her to show she was coming back to life.

Mourning process

Meeting and sharing