Winners announced for the "Ask Your Grandparents 5" competition
MEMORY DAYS 2023 could not conclude any better than with the announcement of the winners of the coolest youth competition, "Ask Your Grandparents".
10 Prizes awarded:
- 2 First Prizes
- Ejda Qojle – Të zbrazësh një pagur
- Iris Boshnjaku – An Unfinished Story
- 2 Second Prizes
- Alba Lloshi – Njeriu që gdhendte kujtimet
- Alketa Çipi – Silent
- 2 Third Prizes
- Nexhiana Molla – Sad Sounds
- Rigers Budlla – Faji trashëgohet
- 1 Network Prize
- Rei Ahmetaj – Spaci's Forced Labor Camp
- 3 Motivation Prizes
- Gesiana Kurbala – Painting
- Greis Kanani – Heshtje
- Trevis Halilaga – Desire and Fear
The first 7 winners will have a trip through sites of memory in Europe, and more. Meanwhile, 50 young people, whose work the jury selected in the second phase, will also make a trip to similar sites of remembrance in Albania.
Girls and boys from around Albania competed with over 150 works in total, in multimedia, visual arts and storytelling, "inspired by an object".
At the closing ceremony we had the honor and pleasure to have the First Lady Armanda Begaj present to award the first prize. Mrs. Begaj thanked the students and teachers for the emotions conveyed with their works, as well as for their help in making sure history is not forgotten.
German ambassador to Albania, Mr. Peter Zingraf, expressed excitement over the work of the second place winner, saying that a similar object brought to mind his father. While Katja Fausser proposed to all the winners to apply for the European History Competition, in the fall of this year.
In closing, we thank all the participating students and teachers for their tireless work, the creative and reflective process to achieve quality entries.