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Article: Boskovice--exhaustion?
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- July 1, 2003
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When the Boskovice Festival began eleven years ago, its mission was clear: to draw the attention of the public to the town's Jewish quarter and to help towards its restoration. It was not so much a question of direct financial gain. What the organisers wanted was to hold an unconventionally conceived festival, scattered at various locations and appealingly cutting across the arts, as a way of increasing the interest of the public in the town.
This year's walk through Boskovice showed that the idea had succeeded with flying colours. In deliberately giving visitors more freedom, the festival has even become a model for many other cultural events. You don't have to ...