The Friends project. Open Call

What does the Friends project want?

A new project starts on the Colt. In which you can also find yourself, if only you want.

The project is called "Friends", and now we will tell you how it is arranged.

Of course, you noticed that the run of time in this decade changed speed: from a lazy jog - to a sprint jerk. The XXI century is furiously gaining momentum, and this does not allow us to linger at least for a short while and think: and, in fact, where are we? What new landscapes did we reach?

The Friends project is an occasion for a break on the edge of the road, for a picnic with a conversation. With whom? Well, of course, with the running nearby, with a friend or girlfriend. Not with Frend, but with a person with whom we have a divided experience, a divided life, to which we are trusting from which we are waiting for answers.

In the “Friends” column , Real Life Friends conversations will be published (social networks subjected this word such corrosion that it is useful to respusion again and again). It will always be two conversations. Friends sit behind a glass of something or for a glass of tea and they say. About what?

The editorial office has some wishes here, but the experience of the first conversations shows that these wishes are the first to die in the conversation. And wonderful. They are needed only as an impulse. And he is like that.

What is to live in Russia today? What fears and hopes are connected with? Why are we still here, and not somewhere far away? What does politics have to do with it? What does the place of action of your conversation have (Moscow, Peter, Kazan, Ryazan - or are you in Minneapolis and look at Russia's life at a distance? Also interesting). What does the economy, understood, and specifically - from the crisis as a whole to your situation with money? And success is now about what? And art - is it in your life? And religion? And the war? What does the past have to do with it - yours and this country? Do you have a sense of your generation and if so - what is it? What does the future have to do with it and what is there in it, in this future? How did the air around have changed, how do you breathe? Easy, difficult?

In other words, we hope to publish sincere conversations about the present and future, past and thoughts of two people who are not afraid to tell each other pleasant and unpleasant, important and disturbing, are not afraid to think together about things that you can’t even think about.

The editors have already organized several such friendly meetings for the seed (without the direct participation of the editorial office, which would only interfere under the feet). We will familiarize the public with their results in the very near future.

At the same time, the editorial office announces Open Call .

Open Call

Wherever you live, whatever you are, whoever you are friends with, if you are interested in sitting, talking with your friend or girlfriend about something more and see this conversation published on the Colt-you can do it.

Write down your conversation on a recorder, turn it into a slender, exciting text (strictly up to 25,000 signs) - and send boldly to the address Crowd@colta.ru - marked "Friends".

Immediately, please, please introduce yourself in the file, tell me how much you are and your friend or girlfriend, than you are busy, just in case leave your phone.

And be sure to attach two to your letter, and better even two photographs signed by your surnames (ideally if they are the same format: two portraits or two photos in full growth.)

The most exciting conversations will be published on the Colt, which the editors will inform you in advance.

Meanwhile, the Friends project starts today from the conversation of Yuri Saprykin and Ilya Oskolkov-Censer , who do not need performances.

Do not be afraid to talk with friends about life! This is important both for you and for us.

Continuation very soon - we hope with your participation!