yeah just about five years. ago i did ok thank you. guys we need to buy cloths. when you two meet all the guests and think about their accommodation used everyone should be comfortable. then we should finish the staging and rehearse the role it's a pity we don't have thirty six hours in a day then we have plenty of time for everything that fills. our words we're putting on the flying kids festival for the sixth time i thought we needed an event that would stir everyone up out of service or something to make people eager to work till midnight painting the building and solving administrative problems across a festival seemed a good idea well also just one. life

conditions were tough that life was hard because a man's life was worthless murder and violence were considered very good things have you ever heard the word. so you know what that is they wrote to anyone they mad on the road and. that would join my school i was skipping classes for six months. i was dating a girl then and had no desire at all to study i just wanted to go out with her. so i had to repeat a year then i came here i think i'll finish this year and then try to join a circus school.

strain your legs. push with your arms. and your but it also works is made up of kids from socially disadvantaged groups of people the self-esteem is usually love and they don't have any relevant physical skills. i've almost done three because some of these guys sniff glue but they were very out they are easy going boys and girls that's very assertive. to teach them from scratch you first have to stab a report with them because if they're not willing to listen it will all be in vain to begin with. one more time. your bell is sticking out. this wasn't my idea it was a berlin university student as to it sure and who brought it to st petersburg. actually the concept behind the absolute circus was her graduation project. and the

university students can go anywhere in the world to set up a project that was how the circus was created. our children come from disadvantaged backgrounds their children with various behavior problems and disorders. we take new students once every three years we find most of our kids in saint petersburg crisis centers you know that number will get us inside our ward social workers bring them to us sometimes our friends call and say we know who he done and he's just what you need company at him one popcorn get to be right to. the police brought me here i played football and tennis at first and then i heard about the circus because i didn't take it seriously but came to have a look anyway until i saw the kids who were really doing something so i decided to try and i really liked it even brought my sister and two friends here but that's just. not reaching across look at the audience my life is pointless.

for and sure it's fine it's fine as our play on don't ruin your own act. see here problem you guys remember your places i've got and our you're running like a little rat like a rat if you want to grab it and it should be like this this girl has just turned my life upside down and you're like hey dude should we go somewhere watch clone bomb bomb bomb. and the more expressive. that you are is facing the dilemma now i think you'll struggle with it for a couple of years he has to choose between behaviors it's.

own will be what's typical in street culture isn't acceptable at the xcel a circus and the other is fine for us but wouldn't be tolerated on the street he has to. it's like a difficult choice but it's important for him to make it. and it's not that i broke i think i wanted it myself. because we always choose what we identified this i allowed myself to be weak. would be more. of a bore i'm talking about drugs. i took the wrong road and i thought i could leave it just as easily. go i was a fool. then i made a choice because i saw that these people really wanted to help and i was turning my back on them it's bad. or bad about that hurt i guess is the kids and to

this room they turn into actors that they're not children anymore the professionals who play a role in the performance i always tell them they should leave their problems behind that door did some way during rehearsals we were when we talk about what's happening in their lives after the rehearsal but when you're on stage you have to work there's certain rules and penalties because it's like a kid might be banned from the next week her still as a punishment if he steals from other kids it's most likely he'll be excluded from the circus. if he starts taking drugs again and comes here while he's high then the door will be closed to him. i play a street cleaner who's in love with a waitress. in one of the scenes i imagined that my dream is the girl i'm in love with. it was different

in real life i was writing on the metro and so a girl and we were just looking at each other for half an hour she missed her stop and they looked into her eyes plucked up the courage and spoke to her it's like we've been going out for three months now. and the circus i've gained lots of experience that i couldn't get anywhere else i never had that before. people offer you a lot and you choose whether or not you accept it you just have to listen to older people who work with you then everything will be fine.

no i should my more time. and. i really wanted to go to russia and get to know what's happening here and i really wanted to help the kids because. i really like gymnastics and circus and things. but. i came here for the project and some assumed i was because we met five years ago. you know superstitious about it and i was very controlled by the project by the children in the state and i own two or nursling. my running to save them cameron bianco ukraine your bank. there was there was. so.

i've worked with a log before but they were all like normal kept more than also normal their skin yeah but it's ok sometimes it's difficult but in the meantime when they're here you don't really know that they're different that they come from modern are difficult family is when they hear it's a little easier for the moment sometimes you get to know it that they react different than other kids sometimes. oh they don't want anything they really don't want to see if them to do things. that. you know the notion that english and i don't want to be distressed homeowners volunteers from germany have been coming here almost since the beginning of the stream me helpful because every time they bring a breath of fresh air and new stories often they take on a lot of responsibilities to me. now we have two volunteers

christina and evelyn and he's helping with smaller kids just. we her source and. christina doesn't only help with classes but with political ration is for the festival and accommodation for the guests. will be plenty of workshops and performances outside the various teams will perform inside the tent. there will be a team that from france and our friends from finland and the moscow team will also be here we. will be there to be today will be very busy. we're getting ready for the festival look we have cool new t. shirts let's go to the tent now. are you taking pictures let me see so are you afraid. just a little of course to. take down with the event yes well try well.

yes they are let's get to work to let's stop filming.

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when they don't have anything to do put on street performances i do it all the guys

and we perform together i enjoy it. and sometimes they give money. i know one thing i have told him something and i think happens to him his family or he has financial difficulties here on the street with his. living with his act and they'll be no shame in that. i believe everything you do comes back to you if you heard someone or did something bad it will come back to. cost a lot of trouble i broke into apartments and stole things from people. yeah i was once going home from school when a guy approached me and ordered me to give him my phone when i refused and hit me in the face hit him back and we started fighting then two of his friends joined the

fight and i just stood up every time so that they could knock me down of course they didn't beat me badly. everything comes. down i think in two thousand and seven and then we have. a venue bench and me germany i'm no different places. every time we speak that yes we should meet we said do projects together.

i meant don't sell us interests in london seven years ago and this is the sixth time i'm at the festival in st petersburg and. the biggest difference between cell service and the ones that i know in europe is the fact that they have a very tight group it's small and they're very committed to the project the social sectors in general it's more like. circus being taken in to. kindergarten. to different institutions but here it's different when children come here and they become like a family so in that way it's very different. because

they ask what to do when you gave when i look at the audience i think the old look so nice to get them up to me i think about twenty percent of them have no idea what the oakleigh circus was sold to yallop i stood almost every performance by explaining what kind of circus we are before the performance tomorrow i'll do the same thing for the us goes with. the horse also think about the city codes i don't know i don't know it from home i did not from any other place and it's nice just to sit up on the roof and say you i think just like you feel so free and i really want. i'm going to go back to germany in africa waits and it's already like so close and

i would really love to stay here one longer because i really got so long with the kids and the. people. with my record i would say. yes it's money for training in the new you go home after training day stained suitcase and so i speak with them i play with them i'm much closer to them. way in the van. yeah it's quite far away from the sick and that's what you're in noise made to mars than i am and such a long way to the circus to the city center. but it does believe come here every day. every hour three police cars go around the block and pick up drug addicts. that's. the way in terms of drug trafficking.

people here killed here you can't go outside after turn without a knife or a gun but i've got my friends so i'm not worried. i think after the army moves away to sochi maybe. i'll have a rest then come back earn some money and go to europe for a good bit of what. i just need to serve in the army and everything will work out fine i'm sure of it. show you a trick. these guys already have some experience but the circus world introduces them to completely different experiences and values and they're tearing them apart. the kids have had a taste of success. they've come to grips with their own body c. ock. they have the energy and well developed muscles now so if they suddenly

realize that they are strong and can use the strength on the street. it was this mission that's that's what triggers an internal conflict and you getting through it is really difficult for them do you think you may have to make a choice where one can you go and they can either go out with this experience and these muscles and become fugs in the street or develop themselves as artists but which. this is my audience you know i'll tell you one thing i'm very scared whatever you may think i'm actually very scared are you scared.

and that's a good luck to everyone. so what do you wish me nothing what do you wish for and so would i should love. what do you wish me good luck with love yes indeed luck is what i need. good morning once in winter in a small bookshop i run across postcards by alexander. a look through them and saw something gentle kind open to everyone. who has

a set of postcards called a walk with my nephew. my guy and i instantly decided that i would adapt it into an interesting absoute little story consisting of several episodes human. thought that i was looking at the nephew thinking it will like get such a boy no one in the group will match it to be a very strange character and that's when he started working with a group of special kids something i came to our classes mostly children with down syndrome. and one day the door opened and in came anton that was two years ago and he was even smaller then he's now national he wore a cap with ears like a bear skin and pink glasses still is the final piece of the puzzle. oh oh.

i don't like to write on the star so i could see he would develop it's the most important thing for us at the moment but it's even more important than school. he spends nights and days here he knows every character has lines in every of promise and practices at home every day. right here my heart misses a beat when they discover they can actually do something when they've just learned a difficult trick and try to perform

a trick. you don't call children and teenagers need adrenaline to do all it's crucial for them if they're to face danger. all more they can find it out on the street or hear the circus the choices they're saying. thank. you last summer our graduates who know like cordwood have become skinheads and dogs will turn into regular people eager to think and develop and make up most of what some of our kids choose a different destiny is incredibly important to me to want to meet or.

thank. you. hello i'm on my way back from the festival that just ended. i'm going into my apartment. ted to sleep a lick say. i was at the festival. do you know how much you missed is that. he didn't you come. this is alexei.

my mum's at work and dad's asleep is just back from work and mind. you can see that i. i really enjoyed the festival. it was magic and for me it was much more than just a festival which. oh no it was cool. they look like bounty islands where the local can enjoy the sun and the ocean. but what was buried here years ago. means these people are suffering the consequences.

how much more poison lies on the ground. behind this zone there is what we call the callet bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of radio nuclides despite previous cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock and the coral reef about ten meters down. tests a never ending legacy. i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. and i just knew that everything would be fine if for some reason they were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back because the mere thought of it never crossed her mind. when the militants

decided to try and break through to her new guinea epic screaming grenade. explosion blew them all run his back toward. a loser and it was all over all she we know that our call on our commander won't leave us no matter how tough it gets we're a team. there who are both just getting was a senior in his military trio. he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of just comrades would die he gave his own life to save his friends. when you talk about working with the society of one who do you think should be in charge of determining which we use to tell the truth to the people who shouldn't be

the governments this is not the issue right or left it's an issue about the fundamentals more extremist. so what we need to avoid these hate speech is to avoid. this excessive radicalization that can lead to even to terrorism.

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