 The next piece is a short and very beautiful video by Rosanda Kurka who is an Arts Link International Fellow a few years ago and she made this beautiful video a couple of years ago so it's a little, I think outdated now perhaps, but what I wanted to show with this video is just the beautiful relationship she has with the land that she's inhabiting, the community in which she's based and the artistic community across the country. She's based in Moldova, in a rural part of Moldova. The video is in Moldovan so if you're Moldovan's a little rusty you might want to be able to be closer to the screen to read the subtitles, but Rosanda Kurka. My name is Rosanda Kurka, I'm from the city of Khartop, Raiono, Cimnišlija, Republica Moldova. In 2015 I carried out cultural projects as the director of the Arts Center for Cultural Projects and in March of 2021 I'm the director of the Moldova Independent Cultural Sector Coalition, a national advocacy platform in the field of culture. As a coalition, we work to improve the working conditions for the independent cultural workers and in addition to that, for a few years we've been doing civil activism and in the middle of my native city. Even though the need to coalesce the independent cultural sector for 10 years in a row, we managed to do it only now due to the crisis. Independence has always been a crisis, but the pandemic has made it worse. I wrote a petition to the Ministry of Culture through which I sought social and medical protection for independent cultural workers, to which the State Secretary replied that the majority of the independents are engaged in the public sector and that no one actually helped us. I couldn't answer this answer because there is no statistics or database about this sector. In response, my colleagues from the UBERLIFT association launched the Fund for Solidarity project. As part of the project, they offered, through an open appeal, small grants of support to the artists in trouble. And the Arts organization today tried to pay off all the collaborators at the time, over 20 people. I was among the few who managed to adapt the projects to the pandemic and had resources that we could share. Even though this was a sporadic act of solidarity, we realized that if we didn't become vocal and visible, nothing would change. And the work of a team, with very different people, in non-hierarchic structures, is quite complicated. At least for me, who got used to making decisions on their own, or together with my colleague. And it's a lot of work. Yes, a lot of work. In a few months from the foundation of the coalition, we managed to implement more international projects that predict the cartography of the individual cultural sector, create an online database and organize more public discussions to see the importance of independent culture. About the solidarity between artists in the foundation of the pandemic, and the need for a legal framework that offers social protection, about decentralizing the culture and creating an internal mobility program that offers access to culture in rural areas. In addition to creating and improving the financing mechanisms of the sector, we will insist on creating the legal framework for the partnership of the civic public, which predicts that the public institutions will be involved in their spaces. We will collaborate with experts, artists and organizations similar to the countries of the old age to create mutual media. For example, in the year we will find in the residence more artists from Belarus, because you know the situation with the freedom of creation there. But it is also about politicians, and bureaucracy, and things that are thought to do the necessary work. We will provide valuable resources for time and emotions. The logic of the political class has never been based on the political creation that offers sustainability and resilience to all sectors. And this is what we want from the campaign that we started. We want to develop a cultural sector in a resilient environment. In addition to this, we will coordinate together with other two organizations from different regions of the country, the Rural Platform for Art, Art in Makala, which takes place in 10 villages, including the Martial Arts. For a few months, we organize classical music concerts, documentary film projects, community theater workshops, artists' books, paintings, ceramics, tapestries, photography, documentaries, DJs, performances, etc. It is a very beautiful and very dear project because we reach our goal in the community where it has not been reached in other contexts. It is a project that gives us hope that we will change the attitude much faster, that we will be able to create a community ready to act solidly in the face of the challenges that will confront them after the change in the media. Unfortunately, Moldova is at the top of the country with a risk of drought, and here everything is massive, I hope that we will learn to appreciate, protect and reuse the resources. Until then, we do not need thermal leaders and resilient communities. That is why I work together with my colleagues. Because that is what I see the senses. And to find the senses in the 21st century is a great happiness. My name is Kruzanda Kurka, I live in the village of Khartov, and I am an agricultural artist.