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On 24 April 2024, flautist, democracy campaigner in Belarus and honorary professor at Mozarteum University Maria Kalesnikava will turn 42. However, there has been no sign of life from her for more than a year. Neither her family nor her lawyers are allowed to communicate with her. Despite her fragile state of health following an emergency operation more than a year ago, Maria Kalesnikava is apparently in solitary confinement.
Practicing Care
each breath for maria
Students and teachers of the Mozarteum University will raise their instruments and voices in front of the main building at Mirabellplatz 1 (5020 Salzburg) on Wednesday, 24 April at 12:00 noon to send an unmistakable signal in memory of hundreds of political prisoners in Belarus, but also in Russia and worldwide.
An action within the framework of Practicing Care, a project launched by the Mozarteum University in 2022, which focuses on the transnational social responsibility of an arts university with a variety of activities. The project format was inspired by the numerous new forms of protest and decentralised care networks that found expression in the activities of the Belarusian opposition in 2020 and were primarily led by women.
