Open Day Fortress

Hanging chairs, fruit, floating balloons and colourful drawings on the one end, a bare wall adorned with a piece of aluminium foil and letters saying "Today was not a good day for art ... but the pizza was tasty" on the other side, this was the spectrum one could discover at the open day at the Fortress Hohensalzburg this Friday. One of the teachers, Mladen Stilinović, even participated in his own class's exhbit, even though he had previously stated he never makes new works for group shows. The students were all in good spirits as they made some last preparations in the afternoon, some of them working until the last minute as their class had only started this Monday, completely unperturbed by the visitors wandering around and looking at the art.

In the evening the crowd seamlessly entered into party mode after a legendarily short speech by Hildegund Amanshauser who simply chose to thank everybody for their participation, especially the teachers, wished them safe trips back and expressed the hope to welcome some of the participants of this first term again next year.

I can only fall in line with this. It has been a fantastic first period at the Fortress Hohensalzburg. Now, let's get ready for what's in store as the second term will start this coming Monday. [mp]