Buratinas @Festival Kanal

Mon 9/7

In the morning the road is set out. We’ll be going to a nature reserve, where a former army settlement was based. First some bikes get a proper check up and then we go, leaving Nowa Sol behind and heading for the forest.

The roads are difficult, but the Peregrini push through… Buildings seen on Google earth that morning don’t seem to be there anymore, but this cannot influence the fun. Another chapel is set in this beautiful forest without mosquitos.

During Festival Kanal FoAM and nadine participated with a special Buratinas taxi service. The wooden boat Buratinas fitted with solar panels and an almost silent motor sailed on a canal used practically exclusively as a transport route for goods. The captain/taxi driver welcomed the passengers with authentic, fantastical, old, and new stories. This special taxi service offered a completely new view of the canal.

The Buratinas boat is an artistic project developed by nadine, FoAM and interested individuals to question several issues in Brussels: renewable energy, slow mobility, ecology, public space, and water in the city. Buratinas moves beyond the realm of the cultural infrastructure and explores the possibilities of a mobile platform in a specific part of Brussels – the Brussels–Charleroi Canal.

Buratinas is part of Resilients, a project supported by Culture Program 2007-2013 of the European Union