Podgorica[from Ivan Kucina] I have been in Podgorica during the last week. I had to have final workshop for the students of architecture faculty and I use that opportunity to deal with organization of LHE Podgorica Days together with Boro and Slavica. Four days students workshop was dedicated to develop Podgorica alternative guiding tours. I had six groups and each was developing sites for selected profession: architect, philosopher, artist, jobless, economist and writer. Idea was to have independent guiding routs classified through proffesion identity that is very appreciated in independent Montenegro.

However during work these all started to be connected and final result is that we shall have collection of id cards describing about 50 sites in the city and to let people who are interesting to be guided to choose some number of this cards and create their own routs. Then there will be students around to take them either individually or in small groups. That is possible because in Podgorica hou can get anywhere in 15 min. This cards will be finished until July 13 which is the day of montenegrian independency and everything they are working on last months have to be finalized for that celebration. They will be in digital and paper copied version so that can be shown before actual event in Podgorica.

Another important thing is that we manage to settle Karver bookstore to host these two days. We had meeting with Varja Djukic, actor who is running this place and she was very supportive to us. Space is very comfortable, with park and caffe around house under bridge and with inside meeting hall. Karver is very unic space in Podgorica and we are happy to get it.

On Wednesday we made open working meeting that was announced in daily newspaper Vjesti, where Boro works. We used Karver address book and we call some people directly. Few of them came, about 15 all together, and I elaborated LHE to them and respond was great from Milan Popovic, sociologis who recently published book about transitioni in SCG and is in the network with Rastko Mocnik. Other one is Svetlana Rackovic who was curator for montenegrian artist in last Venice biennale. They are willing to take part in these two days, to talk with people and to bring some art production documents. My impression is that there will not be problem to make these two days there.

First day: meeting in karver, guiding tours, shadow hunting, night film watching (like one boro presented in Ljubljana), then second day: bazar exchange in carver, shadow hunting, art work presentation. Independecy as theme is marking situation in Montenegro but people that I met are ironic on it knowing that it is just fasade for having nothing else. On Friday newspaper report from our open meeting was published again in Vjesti and on Saturday Bore made article about Balkanization based on interview with Srdjan, Marjetica and me. For one week we were mentioned three times although news are full of large scale institutional European political projects.