culture news Dragana Jovanović Guarnerius 24 May @ 20.00 Young flautist, student of the Faculty of Music in the class of Prof. Ljubiša Jovanović, is winner of numerous awards at prestigious competitions,
among which are the first prize and the title of laureate of the International Competition “Davorin Jenko” 2010 and 2011. Program: Telemann, Bach, Nielsen, Martin Sanja Prgonjić Guarnerius, 29 May @ 20.00 After countless awards and performances at Serbia’s prestigious concert halls and one of the best students of the Faculty of Music and also the winner of the Katarina Aćimović Fund, young Belgrade pianist Sanja Prgonjić will perform for the first time in Guarnerius on May 29th. Program: Chopin, Schumann, Gershwin THEATRE Gospođica Yugoslav Drama Theatre May @ 20.00 Theatre play Gospođica will be performed with English subtitles in Yugoslav Drama Theatre on May 7th, 13th, 21st and 29th. OPERA European Opera Days Madlenianum 11-13 May @ 11.00 ‘Kopriva, Kopriva’, opera for children @ 12.30 ‘Dodirnimo Prirodu’ exhibition @ 13.30 Workshop on ecology and music ‘Instruments from Nature’ @ 16.00 ‘Alice in Wonderland’, musical @ 17.00 Workshop ‘Bojanka’, drawings from opera ‘The Magic Flute’ @ 19.00 ‘The Magic Flute’, opera For more information, please visit www. madlenianum.rs
OTHER Velika Pobeda nad Fašizmom Sava Center, 8 May @ 20.00 The musical spectacle ‘Velika Pobeda nad Fašizmom’ (Great victory over fascism), will be held in the Sava Centar on May 8th and includes performances from more than 200 participants. Contemporary dance, combined with elements of Russian and Serbian folklore, as well as youthful hip-hop, is designed to introduce the struggle between good and evil, black and white, Mephistopheles and White Cranes: Hitler’s Army and the Soviet and Yugoslav partisans. With the dance ensemble ‘Dream Team’, KUD ‘Nikola Tesla’ with their 70 members, the most beautiful Russian and Serbian songs will be performed by their Belarusian counterparts - the famous singer Dmitri Sergeev, actors Nebojša Kundačima, Miloš Biković, Jelena and Ivana Zigon and opera singer Marijana Šovran. 11th Belgrade Festival ‘Vitezovo Proleće’ Sava Center, 11 May @ 12.00
At the ‘Vitezovo Proleće’ festival for kids, writers of children’s books will present their readings. Well know Serbian writers such as Dobrica Eric, Radomir Andrić, Milovan Vitezović, Rasa Popov, Nedeljko Popadić, Miodrag Jaksic, Ljubomir Ćorilić, Slobodan Stanisic, Svetislav Vukovic and others. In addition to the forty of our most important writers for children, there will be an entertaining program with famous actors, and singers: Dejan Pantelić- Pedjolino, Bora Đorđević, Goca Trzan, Tijana Dapčević, prima donna Aleksandra Angelov, Dara Đuričin, Minja Subota, Boda Ninković as well as the Children’s Choir of RTS and many others. At the Festival, the Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution for children will be awarded. 1,000 prizes at the Festival are awaiting to be given to the most talented children in arts.
10th Night of Museums 18 May @ 12.00 Artistic Production Group ‘Night of Museums’ announces the 10th annual Night of Museum to be held on Saturday 18th May. In Serbia, so far, 68 cities and towns, 55 museums, galleries and exhibition spaces Belgrade and altogether nearly 150 cultural institutions will participate in the 10th Night of Museums. This Jubilee Museum Night will be joined by a larger but younger, European Night of Museums, in which 40
countries and more than 3,000 museums will participate this year. For further info, please visit www. nocmuzeja.rs
Days of Belgrade 16-19 April
The traditional the ‘Days of Belgrade’ program was this year held, in addition to the city centre, in other city districts as well. The program in Belgrade’s downtown took place at Kalemegdan, the Music Pavilion, in front of the Belgrade City Library, at the corner of Knez Mihailova and Vuka Karadžića Street, on the plateau in front of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade, and on Nikola Pašić Square. The traditional 6th Festival of Russian & Serbian Culture RKB Gallery Stari Grad 15-22 April The Festival of Russian-Serbian culture ‘Пасхальная неделя (Easter Week)’ was held from April 15th to 22nd at the RKB Gallery Stari Grad in Knez Mihailova. The works of decorative and applied arts and national crafts from Russia, as well as traditional art, crafts and handicrafts from Serbia were presented. This was the sixth edition of the festival of Russian folk crafts held in Serbia, organized with aim to make Serbian people more familiar with the richness of Russian artistic skills.
music program featuring talented students of Belgrade’s music schools was enriched by attractive street entertainers this year. The Tourist Organization of Belgrade this year again hosted a number of attractive strolls through the capital - “The Ancient Singidunum”, “The footsteps of Ivo Andrić”, “Panoramic view of Belgrade in an open bus” and others.
Josip Broz Tito for 27 years and is remembered as a photographer who was accredited in his Cabinet. However, he also captured with his camera various community, social, cultural and sporting events. At the exhibition which is titled “Živorad Vučić - time witness”, only a small part of what this sharp-eyed photographer captured with his lens will be represented. Aside from the famous Sophia Loren, photographs of this Tanjug photojournalist also feature Carlo Ponti, Mira Sanjina, Mira Stupica, Fidel Castro, Josip Broz Tito, Jovanka Broz, Louis Armstrong, Che Guevara, Leonid Brezhnev and others. The exhibition will also feature Vučić’s portrait of Tito which, after the death of Josip Broz, was in all the newspapers, buses, and was a photo which the citizens of former Yugoslavia held in their hands and hung on the walls while mourning the death of the president. Easter Book Fair Vaznesenjska Church 15-28 April
The organizers are the Association of Folk Arts and Crafts of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region and the NGO ‘Hall of Crafts’, with the support of the ‘Good Hosts’ Association. Exhibition of Tito’s photographer O3one Gallery 19 April A retrospective exhibition of works by legendary Tanjug photojournalist Živorad Vučić Žika opened at the O3one gallery. Vučić accompanied then-president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Bishop Atanasije opened the Easter Book Fair, organized by the Publishing Foundation of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The event, which was held from April 15th until 28th, also gave the opportunity to visitors to purchase items showing the artistic and spiritual creativity of the Serbian Orthodox Church and to attend lectures and workshops of calligraphy. The fair is dedicated to the Emperor Constantine, Cyril and Methodius, since this year two anniversaries are celebrated - 1700 years of the Edict of Milan and 1150 years since the beginning of the mission of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius.
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