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e-Newsletter: No. 43 - July 2012.
NEWS
AUDIENCE OF MAYOR PERISIC WITH JOVAN, BISHOP OF NIS His Holiness Bishop of Nis Jovan met with newly elected Mayor of Nis Zoran Perisic. This was the occasion for two officials to meet and discuss the matters of importance for the citizens of Nis. This meeting represents the first formal meeting between the Mayor Perisic and Bishop Jovan.
Mayor Perisic and Bishop Jovan
WELCOMING PARTICIPANTS OF 5TH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL Nis City Mayor Zoran Perisic organized the reception at Nis City Hall for the organizers and participants of the 5th International Students’ Falk Dance Festival which has been traditionally organized by Students’ Culture Center.
5th International Students’ Falk Dance Festival
This year festival gathered folk dance groups from Bulgaria, Italy, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Romania, Macedonia, Turkey and Serbia. On this occasion Mayor Perisic said that the organization of the festival was excellent and he reminded the participants that, next year, the City of Nis would be the host of the European Festival of the Folk Dances which would gather folk dance groups from Serbian Diaspora all over the world and he invited all
the participants to join this event next year. The director of Students’ Culture Center Miroslav Jovic thanked Mayor Perisic for the warm welcome and the support from the city and he promised that SCC would continue to be active in the organization of the cultural events and the promotion of our city. Mayor Perisic presented the coins with the portrait of Constantine the Great to the participants of
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the festival with the wish that this symbolic gift would always remind them of the time spent in Nis. Mayor Perisic presented the first edition of Nis City Lexicon to the organizers of the Festival with the promise that he would personally lobby for including the Students’ Culture Center as a part of the future issues of this modern lexicography which represented Nis as modern city on one side and it gave historical genesis on the other side.