The first days in August mark Kaliningrad’s big summer event: The Don Chento Jazz Festival.
Hmmmm. Remind me. Don Chento? Didn’t he play bass with Count Basie? Or, just a minute, wasn’t he in Duke Ellington’s horn section?
Er, no. Don Chento is the adopted name of Kaliningrad pizzeria magnate, Vladimir Katzman. There’s usually a Don Chento [...]
Above, the sailing ship ‘Lovis’. Below, the former Soviet sub B-413. Location, the Port of Kaliningrad. The connection is an environmental happening called Moving Baltic Sea, a kind of travelling circus seashow.
Propped by films, fun and festivities, Moving Baltic Sea promotes creative strategies for cultural and environmental co-operation between countries that share the same ecological [...]