A Light at the End of Corridor

To get to the print workshop “Fear your friends?” one simply has to take the walkway on the third floor to the Willy Brand House, walk to the back, take the elevator to the second floor, and walk to the very end of the corridor, where the rooms have no windows. If you expect to find a group of tired, unmotivated people dying to go outside and discover the streets of Brussels, you are wrong.

 

The participants of the workshop are as excited as the workshop facilitators. Everyone has already started working on one of the seven articles they want to produce. The topics are regionalism, discrimination, and fear between European countries and how to overcome them. Out of the seven posters full of ideas, they have chosen topics like homosexuality, or music and football as a means to overcome fear of others. The format will be a “mini indigo magazine”. Indigo is a European print magazine, issued in seven languages, and made by a team of over a hundred European volunteers. It is a perfect example of what European media could look like.

 

None of the participants had heard about Indigo before the workshop, but they are excited about what they have learned today. “We will make a mini version of an Indigo magazine and if the articles are good enough, they might even make it into the real Indigo”, explains one of the participants. The table is covered with lose papers, and several posters full of ideas decorate the walls. It looks like serious work – a creative chaos.

 

“We didn’t really have time for an introduction today, but we already had a drink together last night”, says workshop facilitator Irene Sacchi, the chief editor of the Italian Indigo. The work will go on until “at least nine o’ clock”. But no one really seems to mind.

 

More information about indigo you can find at www.indigomag.eu

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