Saturday, August 16, 2003

Today was a very long day which for the most part, I was in Stepanagert and Shushi on NKarts work.

Today I hired two people to work on the NKarts festival, one a coordinator to oversee the general operations for the next 30 days and one to oversee and work with all the labor people in doing the cleanup and construction of the site. Both very good people who seem to get along with each other well.

Tonight we had a meeting that Raffi Niziblian, LOC representative and Cilicia logger organized so we could discuss LCO’s participation in helping to prepare this years festival site. For the most part it was short and to the point, with everyone understanding what they must do.

I know there is a ton of work to be done, but I really feel very good about all the people involved and their dedication to making this years festival something much bigger and better than past years.

The biggest part of this years site preparation is a café, performance stage and pond. All these we are going to try to have ready by September 12th, which is our target date to start the festival.

Raffi and I were also talking about maybe next year to have a Karabagh Woodstock in the open field on top of the Shushi cliffs. All kinds of art performances to go for 3 days. Could you see all the Armenian hippies coming from the 4 corners of the world, camping out in Shushi?

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