Thank

you.

I'm a bit nervous and I've been told that the scope of the arts needs to grow all the time so this is my growth to public speed which is not at all what comes easy.

So I'll just give you a brief history and how I came to be here today.

I grew up in Belgium with a Belgian mother who suffered through and lived through the Nazi occupation.

in Ghent.

She shared many stories of those times with my brother and I. I have Russian Jewish heritage and grew up seeing copious films, documentaries, mockumentaries, photographs and was taught at school all about the Nazi Holocaust, fascism, Franco, Hitler, Pinochet.