Postcards from Berlin
I would not consider myself a poet by any stretch of the imagination. Although I am very taken with rhymes. While scrolling through my...
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Petra Zlatevska
Nov 17, 2011
Global Faces of the Future : Aleksandra Nasteska – National Director at We Canada, Actress and TV Ho
This is one of those rare encounters that could only have taken place in the twenty first century. A few months ago on twitter, on the...
Petra Zlatevska
Nov 8, 2011
Why You Need to Learn To Dance and 9 Other Things My Grandmother Taught Me
Growing up, many of my friends did not understand what it meant to be a grandchild. Their grandparents had either passed away or were in...
Petra Zlatevska
Oct 6, 2011
Get netted – my weekly web picks
I haven’t done one of these in a while, there is alot that has been happening around the Internets (still not sure why it’s plural but...
Petra Zlatevska
Oct 5, 2011
Food glorious food – the Berlin way
Schrill Spanish notes from the band could be heard from the street outside. The smell of fresh baked bread and gooey French cheeses also...
Petra Zlatevska
Sep 29, 2011
The importance of authenticity
I had heard about Kenyan environmental campaigner and human rights activist Dr Wangari Maathai before she died yesterday. Whilst I had...
Petra Zlatevska
Sep 26, 2011
Health Buzz: Is our genetic map our destiny?
If we are to believe popular science, we are who we are because of our genes. Our appearance, our character traits, susceptibility to...
Petra Zlatevska
Sep 13, 2011
Global Roaming in Wolfsburg
The 14th century Knights who founded this little blink-and-you’ll-miss-it-place could not have imagined that in 2011 their little burg...
Petra Zlatevska
Sep 8, 2011
Coming soon: My new blog series on prominent Gen Yers changing the world
Since moving to Germany in 2009, I have been privileged to meet so many wonderful people and Gen Yers from all walks of life, who are in...
Petra Zlatevska
Sep 4, 2011
My Global Faces of the Future Series Launch : David Mikkelsen, Co – Founder of Refugees United, Cope
Sometimes you have no idea where life will take you. Back in 2010 I was in Munich, having been invited to attend the DLDwomen conference...
Petra Zlatevska
Aug 27, 2011
On Creativity
“Creative imagination awakens early. As children, we are all ‘makers’. Later, as a rule, we’re broken of the habit; so the art of being a...
Petra Zlatevska
Aug 24, 2011
Syrian Bread Propaganda and Prank Pizza Calls – 10 things I learned at my first ever geek conference
I recently embraced my inner streber or geek by heading to re:publica, one of, if not the, leading European conference on society, social...
Petra Zlatevska
Aug 19, 2011
My write up of NEXT11 Conference as a hand-picked blogger: There’s more to maps than meets the eye
On my way to my first ever NEXT in a huge former power station in the no-man’s land known as Gleis Drei-Eck, the first thing that struck...
Petra Zlatevska
Jun 27, 2011
Kultura: Music, featherboas and rollerskates means carnival in Berlin
Fluoro green and gold headdresses worn by bum-shaking Barbadians. Kitschy Hungarian folk dancers calling themselves “The Moustache”....
Petra Zlatevska
Jun 8, 2011
My take on NEXT11 day 2 : Meddling with genetics, using social media and fairy lights for maximum ef
Being stuck inside Station for NEXT day 2 on a stunning Spring day was a little unfair yet the quality of the speakers more than made up...
Petra Zlatevska
May 9, 2011
Understanding Psychology
Carl Gustav Jung, a psychiatrist and the founder of the methodology of analytical psychology (among other things), stated that in order...
Petra Zlatevska
Apr 29, 2011
On Creativity
“Creative imagination awakens early. As children, we are all ‘makers’. Later, as a rule, we’re broken of the habit; so the art of being a...
Petra Zlatevska
Apr 27, 2011
‘Tis Sakura Season – Nature and Catastrophe in Japan
Two years ago this week, I happened to be in Tokyo and went to Ueno Park,cherry blossom central. I marvelled at how nature’s wonders are...
Petra Zlatevska
Apr 27, 2011
What Scientology has to do with pizza delivery and ten other things I learned from re:publica11 Berl
I recently embraced my inner streber or geek by heading to re:publica, one of, if not the, leading European conference on society, social...
Petra Zlatevska
Feb 4, 2011
Keeping in Touch
As brick-like cellphones, Sony Walkmans and Casio Synthesisers of the 1980s are all but relegated to the gadget graveyard, Gen-Y...
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