Category: “Come Together” Sessions

Dear colleagues and friends from Europe and other areas

We cordially invite you to the 100th Session – Danube-Networkers invite: “Come together! Connecting people by culture”  

Time and date: Sunday, 19th of October 2025, 06.30 pm (German time), in some of your countries 07.30 pm, in other ones 05.30 pm.

This Sunday you are invited to our 100th Come Together Session where we will have a review of the Highlights from the last 99 Sessions and you have the opportunity to share with us what Come Together means for you! We are honored that Mrs. Gisela Erler will share some opening greetings with us and that we can welcome the Vice Mayor of Slivo Pole, Mrs. Borislava. Discover with us the beginnings of Come Together, what effect the Sessions had on confirming community building and how they helped to fostering European Identity. Together, we will also take a moment to remember those who shaped the sessions with their presence and passion but are no longer with us. Poems and songs from different countries will accompany the entire session, a true celebration of connection, culture, and togetherness. 

Carmen Stadelhofer (ILEU e.V.) will moderate this session.

The program:

Language: The session will be in English with translation into German, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian.

Access to the session:

Danube Networkers invite: Come Together – Connecting people by culture!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88667915552?pwd=RGxOMnRkd0lXQWpsTm83bHZoVmJCZz09

Meeting-ID: 886 6791 5552

Kenncode: 569068

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Program:

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• “Processes of historicization in European contemporary art” – presentation by Dr. Vincentziu Puscasu, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Faculty of Arts (Galati, Romania)
• Discussion in groups – Traces of Europe in your town
• “Caledonia” – Scottish folk ballad,  music and lyrics by Dougie MacLean, performance by Gabriele Flemming (Ulm, Germany)
• “European Soirée – Who am I?” – meet two interesting European personalities: game performance by Pavlina Ivanova, Union of the Third Age (Slivo Pole, Bulgaria) & Rosemarie Kurz (Graz, Austria)
• Surprise song from Bulgaria!

Thank you to all the people who participated in our Come-Together-Session on the 25. February 2024! We had aproximately 70 people all over ten countrys join us. These sessions would not work without you and we are grateful to all of you.

There were many lovely people who presented songs/poems and told us their story. We also had two presentations about Trench Candles by Anastasia Smetanyuk and Camouflage Nets for the soldiers by Svitlana Boyko.
The trench candles are very importand for the soldiers fighting in the Ukraine for their country, but even more importandly, for their lives. These Candles help them to keep warm and not get recognized by the enemy.
The camouflage nets are made by volunteers and help the soldiers to cover dugouts, trenches, and equipment. The materials are financed through donations and by selling various handmades.
If you would like to support these projects please contact them under:

Anastasia Smetanyuk: Candles for the defenders
Need in paraffin or donations
PayPal tkozurak@gmail.com

Svitlana Boyk: Camouflage Nets
Need in material/can sell handmade
PayPal dz.bilonoh@gmail.com

Again a big thank you to all the participants and we hope to see you join our next sessions.

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Program

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“Improvisation”, a song at electric violin, composed and performed by Dan Voss (Timisoara, Romania)

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The advent calendar can be found here: https://codanec.eu/adventskalender-2023/

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In this session we also introduced and worked together with our online-platform ViMA danube. Participants were put into groups and discussed either about “cities” or “wild herbs”. If you are interested in those materials please visit our platform and take a look into our interest groups!