Woodstock Festival Poland Stands with Nice.
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22nd Woodstock Festival Poland stands with all those affected by the tragic events in Nice yesterday.
As La Marseillaise sounded from the Main Stage, the audience, gathered in front of it, raised the red, white, and blue sheets of paper to create a French national flag. It took 120 thousand sheets of paper to create the tricolor flag. Jurek Owsiak, the mastermind, director, and the promoter of the festival said:
We would like to address what has happened in Nice. We won't let anything come between us – we can't build barriers, fences, and dig out trenches. We have to change something in our heads, our minds. It needs to happen all over the world. They way the politicians think, needs to change, first of all. They have to begin making changes. Violence creates even more violence, and you can't achieve anything good if you step on the path of violence. We need to change the way we look at people and their views, we need to change the way we think about religion. What we need to do – we need to respect one-another. Today we stand together with those, who nurse a huge pain in their hearts, those, who suffered a great loss. We stand together with those, who have lost their loved ones to violence, to intolerance, to hatred. We can't fight violence with violence. Peace is the key. Show that this place is all about peace, show that we stand for peace here, together, at the Most Beautiful Festival in the World!
Without any doubt it was one of the most touching and emotional moments in the 22 year history of Woodstock Festival Poland. |
| | | Photo credit: I. Kohutnicki
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Woodstock Festival Poland the biggest European free summer music festival held in Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland. The festival is a non-commercial event. This year it will take place on 14 - 16 July.
The Festival is organized by the NGO Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation to acknowledge all volunteers and supporters who take part in the annual Grand Finale fundraiser in January. The mission of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity is supporting healthcare in Poland, and the festival serves as a demonstration of gratitude for everyone involved in the nationwide fundraiser.
This year's line-up includes: Apocaliptica, Tarja Turunen, Bring Me the Horizon, Vintage Trouble, DragonForce, Chemia, The Rumjacks, Luxtorpeda, Living Colour, The Hives, and Molotov.
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Krzysztof Dobies
Press Secretary of GOCC Foundation
e-mail: rzecznik@wosp.org.pl
Press Office for GOCC
tel. 695 870 020 |
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