12/03/2023
Another chapter of our story has been (un)closed.
We’ve been in Ethiopia for a month, looking for a place where to start the creation of our first show.
We certainly couldn’t imagine how overwhelming being there could have been. We were hosted by Fekat Circus, a reality in Addis Abeba that does a lot to bring kids and people out of the streets.
Life in Addis is not easy: the gap between rich and poor people is way bigger than everywhere we went until now and you can really feel it when you’re surrounded by kids that live on the streets begging for money just outside a tech shop run by some european or chinese multinational.
However, we definitely can't say that people there is poor.
They're rich of culture, traditions and they are willing to share this with the others.
As usual, who has less is able to give more.
This is why in a heartbeat we just put aside our project finding ourselves giving them all we were able to give. We taught during the free evening classes, we helped who was willing to create a new performance or was interested in improving theirs and in the end we made up a show together with them.
And the more we gave, the more we were feeling enriched by them, by their energy.
Without knowing it, we left there some pieces of our hearts, so we must come back one day to take them back and to see the results of the seeds we planted there.
We want to say thank you to all the Fekat Circus family to have made us grow so much in such a short time, we’ll never forget anyone and we’ll keep our promises.
“And they burn so bright,
whilst you can only wonder why”
Common people, Pulp.
Another chapter of our story has been (un)closed.
We’ve been in Ethiopia for a month, looking for a place where to start the creation of our first show.
We certainly couldn’t imagine how overwhelming being there could have been. We were hosted by Fekat Circus, a reality in Addis Abeba that does a lot to bring kids and people out of the streets.
Life in Addis is not easy: the gap between rich and poor people is way bigger than everywhere we went until now and you can really feel it when you’re surrounded by kids that live on the streets begging for money just outside a tech shop run by some european or chinese multinational.
However, we definitely can't say that people there is poor.
They're rich of culture, traditions and they are willing to share this with the others.
As usual, who has less is able to give more.
This is why in a heartbeat we just put aside our project finding ourselves giving them all we were able to give. We taught during the free evening classes, we helped who was willing to create a new performance or was interested in improving theirs and in the end we made up a show together with them.
And the more we gave, the more we were feeling enriched by them, by their energy.
Without knowing it, we left there some pieces of our hearts, so we must come back one day to take them back and to see the results of the seeds we planted there.
We want to say thank you to all the Fekat Circus family to have made us grow so much in such a short time, we’ll never forget anyone and we’ll keep our promises.
“And they burn so bright,
whilst you can only wonder why”
Common people, Pulp.