I am Olga, a traveller who is exploring the world, documenting culture, and studying the customs of people all around the world

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing provides travelers a method to connect with local people and to learn about places and things that a tourist would not find in a Fodor's Travel Guide.

Let's share stories, secrets, and songs together. What's the point of being strangers?

I am pursuing museum curation and recently opened my own independent art space in Cleveland, OH. I focus on exhibiting underexposed contemporary artists and my primary goal is creating a sense of community by bringing artists, musicians, and filmmakers together to share ideas and grow.

Interests

documentary filmmaking ~ surrealist filmmaking
globe trotting travel
exploring new sounds // making music
mixed media art
flea market hunting
medicinal herbs
trading recipes

• arts
• culture
• film making
• music festivals
• film festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• mexican food
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• painting
• music
• surfing
• film photography

Music, Movies, and Books

lover of all music, be it rock 'n' roll, blues, or bluegrass~

A few favorites include:

Brian Jonestown Massacre // The Velvet Underground // Lightnin' Hopkins // Can // Chicos De Nazca // Frankie and the Witch Fingers // Goat // Imarhan // Lee Hazlewood // Eddy Current Suppression Ring // The Dandelion // Charlie Megira // Os Mutantes // Townes Van Zandt // Tom Waits // Klaus Johann Grobe // William Onyeabor // The Monks // The Murlocs // Jimi Hendrix // Nicholas Jaar

Some ultimate favorite films:

El Topo // Holy Mountain // Sante Sangre // Daisies // The Color of Pomegranates // Mulholland Drive // Only Lovers Left Alive // Dead Man // Death Proof // Kill Bill // Pulp Fiction // The Darjeeling Limited // Natural Born Killers // Fear and Loathing

Some absolute must-reads:

Dostoevsky // Bukowski // Solzhenitsyn // Pirsig // Palaniuk // Krishnamurti // Castaneda // the 'Beat' writers of the 1950s

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

During my first road trip across the United States, my banjo-swinging best friend and I found a full case of beer in the middle of the desert in the American Southwest . . .

A hallucination? A figment of our imagination? A mirage?
Real or fiction,
it was the most refreshing and delicious surprise
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What I Can Share with Hosts

laughter
advice
music
art
recipes
adventure
secrets of the universe

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, England, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States