KOGUCIK MORE SPACE FESTIVAL

A incredible calm has been breathed in Český Těšín since my arrival, a quiet town of workers and teenagers. Maybe you can see in the Polish side (Cieszyn) more tourist movement, but in general, it's a quiet town, one of those in Czech Republic where the bars close at ten and as soon as turn night the people disappears on the street.

Altough, with the arrival of spring, the longer days and warmer weather appear the terraces in the bars, people walk by the river walk.
Suddenly everything are bicycles, roller skates, and people playing tennis and football near the river. In the park there is a small bar but with a very nice terrace, you can order your drink and sit on the lawn and make your own pic-nic. In the final analysis it is as if the city waking up after the lethargy of the winter, even though we have lived a very warm winter in reality.

With all of this activity and this changes comes a film festival that is celebrated in the two parts of the city, it name "kino na hranici" makes honor to this fact beacuase the meaning is: cinema at the border.
I decided not to attend the festival, for reasons of money, such as European Voluntary always have to think very well to what you are going to spend your pocket money, and because, the films are Czechs and Polish and it's so hard for me understand the argument. But looking at the program we discovered that each day of the festival at the end of the viewing the filmsthey offer a concert in the park in Cieszyn where is the Tower of the castle of Piast.

With this information and being a public holiday the next day, one of May, labor day, stayed for a few volunteers who live in Český Těšín although we work in different organizations for a little open-air music.
In our city, Czech Republic and Poland are separated by the river Olza and these days is being a pleasure the amount of people that you can see crossing the Przyjaźni bridge from one movie to another or simply walking.
When we went to the concert, just behind the bridge we could see a small garage with music and young people chatting outside.After, in the park, the organizer told us that we had to pay 24 PLN (6 €) to see the concert, not overly expensive, but taking into account that did not know the group we thought what if we are going to the local that we have just seen?
Great idea, it couldn't be better the change of plan, arriving in the doors have the poster that you can see on the left of these lines, this is a music festival called "More Space Festival", in a small garage, organized by a small club of friends called Kogucik, a music club and philosophers, as you put on their Facebook page.

This being a great festival, intimate, where we are enjoying all kinds of music from Polish artists, with very friendly people with the power to strike up a conversation, always in English, of course. Yesterday, Thursday, we were able to enjoy three very good acoustic concerts, personally the third was my favourite, two young guys with a guitar and cello, they thrilled us with very creative versions.

Without doubt, this festival has been one of my best discoveries since that I'm in the European Voluntary Service, all what you have opportunity I highly recommend to go and all of you that can come, remember it for future editions, It's such a nice festival. To inspire the organizers and make it alive, we still have two days of music!