Wednesday 16th April

Arrival in Dresden about 8.00pm very warm welcome at the hotel. Met in youth club ready for for broadcast at 2pm, which went very well. We had and interpreter by the name of ‘Emily’ which was a good help as we did not know any German.

Thursday 17th April

We went to Dresden today and it was a mixture of old and new buildings, one church had been rebuilt after the 2nd World War and was beautiful inside. We also saw other buildings which included a palace and then we returned to see the hosts presenting a film being made with green screen technology. Then we had lunch before a panel of people who were having an AGM discussion (pity it was in German)

Friday 18th April

Another trip to Dresden before returning to the community centre for another discussion. Friday night we went by invite to a preview of films by artists (animations) which were very good. We returned to the hotel early hours of the morning.

Saturday 19th April.

Breakfast at 8.30 taxi at 10.00am to take us to Dresden to catch the train to Berlin, lots of football fans and more food before climbing the 3 flights of stairs to catch the train to the airport – thus ending our three day trip to visit idee01239 in Prolis at the conference for Place Based Art. To watch the stream here

Blog written by Mavis Thomas.