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Nobody is actually even discussing the fate of clubs and event organisers here even bourgeois culture is having a hard time right now, to be honest. Here, clubs reopened for barely a month before closing again in mid-November for an indeterminate period. The reason I am writing about it is that the Volta Boiler Room happened in the middle of a quasi-lockdown in Slovenia, that has been punctuated by social unrest and overshadowed by ongoing political turmoil fuelled by our illiberal (read fascist) government. (Why did Boiler Rooom only "discover" the Croatian scene, bar some UK-financed festivals, during the second year of a global pandemic?) We could also address the whole shit show around the grants given to this brand by the UK Arts Council's Culture Recovery Fund, but there will definitely be another time and place for that. We could of course discuss all the implications of cultural post-colonialism in the (North) Eastern European region here.
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I headed to the Croatian capital Zagreb where my dear friends from the Volta crew organised their first official homeland set as part of Boiler Room's Eastern European Tour. It is true that the list of my rave excursions in 2021 is not worth mentioning (a single hand provides more than enough fingers), but – boy, oh, boy! – at least I got my share of euphoria last weekend right before we all returned back to our caves for the season finale (?) of this global crisis. Akiko Haruna by KT Allen, with direction by An Nguyen