(28 Oct 2024)
KOSOVO HALLOWEEN
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pristina, Kosovo – 26 October 2024
1. Tilt up from a spooky doll wrapped in artificial cobwebs to masked club DJs
2. Young woman in Halloween makeup dancing
3. Two young women in Halloween makeup dancing
4. Various of revelers
5. Gas heaters outside club
6. Various of ghost decorations outside club
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Donika Berisha Rizaj, journalist and former spokeswoman for the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo:
“Growing up in the 80s and 90s, we didn’t really celebrate Halloween. But soon after with globalization, digitalization and emergence of social media, influences, trends and the way we communicate significantly changed. Kosovo is also a very unique example, and a very unique environment because for 25 years now we’ve had an enormous presence of the international community and in many ways we became one, and in this way we adopted also new holiday traditions such as Halloween. So, as a teenager, I started celebrating Halloween and I continue now as an adult and you’ll see tonight a very vibrant club scene and very creative, chic and people coming not just from Kosovo but from all over Europe and the world to celebrate Halloween here.”
8. Gas heaters outside Noya Club
9. Zombie doll outside club
10. Various of woman putting Halloween makeup on man’s face
11. Close of man’s made up face
12. Hand fixing makeup on man’s face
13. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Petrit Kllokoqi, Noya Club co-owner and party organizer:
“Young people account for 70 percent of Kosovo’s population and they are very energetic and love the nightlife. This holiday is growing in popularity and we want to compete with European and world destinations for celebrating Halloween. We imagine Kosovo as the Ibiza of the Balkans.”
14. Various of young people in Halloween makeup and costumes dancing
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ceyda Safci, club-goer:
“So, we are at Noya tonight and the atmosphere is crazy, I love the decoration, everyone has amazing costumes, so thank you everyone who made this happen tonight.”
16. Safci and her friends dancing, turning to camera and shouting, UPSOUND (English) “Happy Halloween!”
17. Two men in nun costumes dancing
18. People in club
19. Various of bartender in Halloween makeup shaking and serving cocktails
20. Various of people in Halloween makeup and costumes dancing in club
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
Before U.N. and NATO peacekeepers arrived in Kosovo after the 1998-99 war, few here celebrated Halloween.
Since then, however, Kosovars have embraced the occasion, and now young people pack the capital’s clubs to dance the night away in costume.
STORYLINE
Cobwebs, masks, and scantily clad zombies – welcome to an early Halloween celebration in downtown Pristina.
Most of the youthful crowd here at the Noya nightclub were born around the time Halloween was first introduced to the country by international peacekeepers.
Many of these grown-up revellers first encountered the occasion as children through fancy dress parties organized by international cultural outreach projects.
Now, they see no reason to end the fun.
"For 25 years now we’ve had an enormous presence of the international community and in many ways became one and in this way we adopted also new holiday traditions such as Halloween," explains Donika Berisha Rizaj, a journalist and former spokeswoman for the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo.
"As a teenager, I started celebrating Halloween and I continue now as an adult."
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