This year, our event consisted of three days of workshops held as part of the BOK – MCC “Clay Bridges” project. Together with the Bella Vida Decoration Studio, we created decorations for the town (avenues of flowers and installations among the trees), which attracted crowds of photographers. With a stylist, we made outfits and accessories for them; the youngest participants could try throwing clay on a potter’s wheel, enjoy rides in a fairytale rickshaw, and have their makeup painted by the Artistic Ceramics Artistic Handicraft Cooperative. There were also two fire-walking workshops and the Glina Show parade combined with the Festival of Colors.
We would especially like to thank you for taking part in the parade, which required preparation and presentation. We did everything in our power to make you feel as comfortable as possible and enable you to express yourselves. You were wonderful and incredibly creative. And that is all that matters. This experience belongs to you.
Finally, a quote from Theodore Roosevelt for all of you:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without shortcoming and deficiency; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”