Zagreb Meetup, March 13-16, 2010

[liverpoolken]

Tom

you naughty man you and paul promised me beautiful Zagreb spring weather..........there's going to a break from today's snow before it all starts again next monday......looking at the bbc zagreb weather chart below for the next 5 days the line from shakespeare's hamlet comes immediately to mind...............

[b]o woe is me to have seen what i have seen, see what i see[/b]

....of course we have the possible lufthansa strike to worry about first before we have to start to worrying about struggling thru snow storms on the streets of zagreb next week..... ta ken


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[tomsakic]

Yeah, I am also worried. Spring's already two or three weeks late this year, very strange. Last week we did have Spring days, but suddenly the Winter tries to break back again.

[tomsakic]

Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen #2
TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN
SAX, 15.3.2010. u 20h
TOWER OF SONGS (ZAGREB) feat. HENNING FRANZ (NJEMAČKA)


Premda Leonard Cohen ne nastupa u zagrebačkoj Areni 15. ožujka, nego 25. srpnja, to nije spriječilo njegove međunarodne fanove da se okupe u Zagrebu sredinom ožujka u organizaciji sajtova leonardcohenforum.com (svjetskog fan-kluba) i leonardcohencroatia.com!

Na dan odgođenog koncerta, 15. 3. 2010. u klubu SAX održat će se "utješni program" Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen No. 2, s videoprojekcijom rijetkih snimaka te koncertom zagrebačkoga cover-benda Tower of Songs, dok kao poseban gost nastupa Henning Franz iz Njemačke (producent svjetske konvencije fanova Leonard Cohen Event - Berlin 2006), sa svojim uglazbljenjima pjesama iz Cohenovih zbirki pjesama (CD Energy of Slaves objavio je 2003, a projekt Book of Longing promovirao po fanovskim skupovima). Među stranim gostima nalazi se niz fanova te webmaster Cohenova svjetskog sajta The Leonard Cohen Files, gosp. Jarkko Arjatsalo, koji će sudjelovati u promociji hrvatskih izdanja o Cohenu (biografije Ire Nadela i Tima Footmana, specijalni broj časopisa Quorum).

20h videoprojekcija
21h Henning Franz (Njemačka) http://www.tea-and-oranges.de / http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/hfranz.html
22h Tower of Songs (Hrvatska) http://www.towerofsongs.net

Pod pokroviteljstvom: http://www.leonardcohenforum.com i http://www.leonardcohencroatia.com


Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen održan je prvi put u rujnu 2009, kao iznimno posjećeni pjesnički recital i tribute-koncert u zagrebačkom klubu Booksa, a po uzoru na slična okupljanja koja se svake godine u rujnu, povodom rođendana kanadskog pop-glazbenika i pjesnika, organiziraju diljem svijeta.

Tijekom Cohenove svjetske turneje, koja je započela u svibnju 2008, takvi su se skupovi počeli odvijati povodom koncerata u većim gradovima u organizaciji Cohenova web-foruma. Zagrebački koncert trebao se održati 15. 3. 2010, a tribute-programu dan prije prisustvovati članovi Cohenova benda, kao i velik broj fanova iz inozemstva te Cohenov webmaster.

[Paul Zagreb]

Yeah, I am also worried. Spring's already two or three weeks late this year, very strange. Last week we did have Spring days, but suddenly the Winter tries to break back again.

As I sit in Pristina airport in a terrible snowstorm waiting to get back to Zagreb, what can I say, Ken? When I moved to Zagreb in 1994 I kept saying how great it was to live somewhere with seasons instead of weather. These days it can be plus 15 degrees one day and minus 4 the next. But Ken, last time I was in Sax club it had a roof so you should be ok. And the nearby mountain Sljeme (well mountain by british standards!!!!) is great when the snow falls! Paul

[liverpoolken]

Yeah, I am also worried. Spring's already two or three weeks late this year, very strange. Last week we did have Spring days, but suddenly the Winter tries to break back again.

As I sit in Pristina airport in a terrible snowstorm waiting to get back to Zagreb, what can I say, Ken? When I moved to Zagreb in 1994 I kept saying how great it was to live somewhere with seasons instead of weather. These days it can be plus 15 degrees one day and minus 4 the next. But Ken, last time I was in Sax club it had a roof so you should be ok. And the nearby mountain Sljeme (well mountain by british standards!!!!) is great when the snow falls! Paul

Panic over....global warming will not be affecting our meet-up after all.....the sun will be shining on us all.....hallelujah!!

paul ...you seem to spend an awful lot of your working week hanging around in vip airport lounges....no doubt luka will have grown another 2 inches and mastered 5 more leonard songs by the time you get home from this trip.....are you on a dry run for mr dylan's belgrade concert on the 6 june ?.....if only leonard's management and promoters knew how to organise a tour in an orderly and proper fashion.......se yall in sunny zagreb......ta ken

[liverpoolken]

anybody heard what's happening about the possible lufthansa strike on monday?....i've just googled but found no information about how the talks are going......ta ken

[liverpoolken]

sorry everybody i'm still having problems with our group emails......just arrived home to see that folk are starting to make plans......i looked up some info awhile back but with the lufthansa strike pending i thought i would hang on to it....however seeing as we all now seem to be feeling postive this is what i found......

.......as has been already said don't use the airport taxis....the bus from the airport to the bus terminal in zagreb takes about 20/30 minutes depending on traffic....when you come out of the bus terminal in zagreb turn sharp left and walk until you come to the overhead railway bridge then turn left along Branimirra until you come to the rail station entrance then cross the road and walk up the road opposite keeping king tom square to your right you will the cross paval hatza and then you will see jj strossmayern square on your right the palace hotel will be on the next corner...walking time aboout 20/30 minutes but if pete needham is reading this then 18 /27 minutes...or as paul has suggested you can take the number 6 tram from oustside the bus terminal and get off outside the hotel......

click to enlarge and the blue line is your route from the bus terminal to the palace hotel

[liverpoolken]

margaret......both marks and spencers and the post office sell croatian currency.....not too sure if you have to order it...i will check it out tomorrow....buses to and from the airport seem to be about every half hour......with the last regular bus at 8pm both ways......after 8pm there are special buses for each flight see info at bottom of timetable....all we need now are those very nice people at lufthansa not to go strike next week....btw tom i've never been in a mcdonald's nor do i ever intend to...you naughty naughty man.......ta ken

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[liverpoolken]

using a photo that tom used in another thread...click to enlarge

[Paul Zagreb]

Ken seems to know the city better than we do. Tram map is here http://www.zet.hr/media/58085/tram%20mr ... %20web.pdf

Tickets can be bought from kiosks (8.50kn I think) or by mobilephone text zg to 8585 ... or from the driver

[luka467]

It seems as snow is going to ruin or meetup.

If your in Zagreb look out your window

[Paul Zagreb]

I think 'ruin' is a bit of an exaggeration (that's my boy!!!!) .. it will just be a rather flexible interpretation of what we meant by Zagreb spring

[Mabeanie1]

it will just be a rather flexible interpretation of what we meant by Zagreb spring

I hope the interpretation of "Zagreb summer" will be a little (a lot ...) less flexible for those of us who will be there in the summer!

Wendy

[liverpoolken]

.....during the last few months i have attended a number of cohen meet-ups where i have endured torrential monsoon rain storms in venice....climbed mountains in a blistering welsh heatwave....and almost froze to death in the coldest liverpool on record....so i'm sure the expected 25 ft. high snowdrifts in zagreb will not deter any of us from having a very enjoyable time in Zagreb.......

......cohenites do it in all weathers.......ta ken

[tomsakic]

PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE (TO BE DISCUSSED AT THE SITE)

Friday evening:
night out (pub, beer)
Friday is the day for going out here, with all clubs open, so we will see...

Saturday:
Museums open 10-13 during weekends...
The City Museum of Zagreb runs the exhibition Modernization at the periphery of Austro-Hungarian Empire
http://www.mgz.hr/en/
Also, 4 levels of the city history from prehistoric times to medieval Zagreb (founded 1092) to the 1990s.
This museum is open until 7pm on Saturday.

The Mimara Museum of Old Artists - famous for many fake stuff > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimara_Museum
I'd 100% recommend small gallery of Museum of Croatian Naive Art > http://www.hmnu.org/en/default.asp - we can make stop there as it's in the middle of old upper town, and it has only 5-6 rooms (museum waits the new building to be finished).

city-seeing

17h: Leonard Cohen Screening (moderated by me) in the biggest city bookstore, Profil Megastore, Bogoviceva Street, part of their Multimedia Week

dinner
night out (pub)

Sunday:
Museums open 10-13, except Museum of Contemporary Art which works until 19h
morning walk to the flee market downtown (Britanski trg - British Square) and city seeing

Archaeological Museum (Jarkko's good idea) > http://www.amz.hr/home.aspx
This museum has the world most famous Etruscan manuscript and the mummy > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Linteus
Also, the Roman statue of Apoksiomen.
Note: this museum is 50 meters from the Palace hotel.


lunch - possibly on the mountain at the Medvedgrad fortress, if weather is fine
17-19h: guided tour at newly opened Museum of Contemporary Arts at 5pm > http://www.msu.hr/#/en/

Monday:
Museums closed.
If weather is fine, possible trip to the Plitvice National Park.
Rockmark - rock bookstore - Leonard Cohen Day (all Cohen books in Croatian on special sale)
20h: tribute concert at the SAX! club: Tower of Songs feat. Henning Franz

The main disadvantage is working hours of museums during weekends - 10-13 - so we can make one on Saturday morning and another on Sunday, plus our guided visit in MSU at 5pm.