Belgrade, Feb. 17, 2010 (Serbia Today) – “Life and death of Porno Band”, a movie made last year by young Serbian director Mladen Djordjevic continues to win the awards on the international film festivals.
Originally premiered on the last year’s FEST film festival in Belgrade where it received Award “Nebojsa Djukelic”, it continues its success on the domestic and international scene. The latest award for the movie is “Royal Reel Award” that will be presented to the authors in the second part of March on the Canadian Film Festival in Vancouver.
The provocative story of the Serbia today seen through the lens of the porno band brings a particular look of the Serbian society and its issues, particularly in relationship to the prototypes of Serbians as they were understood by Westerners.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Valentine’s Day Serbian Style
Vrnjacka Banja, Feb. 13, 2010 (Serbia Today) – As a part of the celebration of the Valentine’s Day ( in Serbia it is called “A Day of Lovers”) on the 14th of February, the event called “Kiss me in Vrnjacka Banja” will be again held in the spa of Vrnjacka Banja.
This traditional event is held annually in Vrnjacka Banja on the “Love Bridge” located in the Vrnjacka Banja City Park. Officially, the event is organized on Valentine’s Day in the memory of the tragic love story from the First World War.
As it is expected, the major attraction of the event is the “kissing competition”. The couple with longest and most attractive kiss will win the competition. Nevertheless, all of the competitors will receive some type of reward. After all, is it not the best of rewards the kiss of the loved one. This event is organized by the Tourist Organization of Vrnjacka Banja and sponsored by the local businesses.
This traditional event is held annually in Vrnjacka Banja on the “Love Bridge” located in the Vrnjacka Banja City Park. Officially, the event is organized on Valentine’s Day in the memory of the tragic love story from the First World War.
As it is expected, the major attraction of the event is the “kissing competition”. The couple with longest and most attractive kiss will win the competition. Nevertheless, all of the competitors will receive some type of reward. After all, is it not the best of rewards the kiss of the loved one. This event is organized by the Tourist Organization of Vrnjacka Banja and sponsored by the local businesses.
Hundred Years after the birth of Mesa Selimovic
Belgrade, Feb. 12, 2010 (Serbia Today) – The Serbian Ministry of Culture decided to mark hundred years since the birth of famous Serbian writer Mesa Selimovic with the several events and programs that will give to the general public more of the insight into the work of this prominent author.
The comittee founded with the purpose to organize and co-ordinate programs intend to have as a central event a two day conference that will have for a subject the work of Mesa Selimovic. The winner of the Mesa Selimovic Literary Award for this year will be announced in March.
At the end of March the Museum of Theatrical Arts will present exhibition of the works inspired or done by Mesa Selimovic for a theater.This exhibition will then be traveling thorough several towns in Serbia. Ministry of Culture will try to tie to Selimovic Anniversary another of its programs titled „The year of Book and Language“.
It is also planned to publish complete works by Mesa Selimovic in several volumes and to make documentary movie about the time and life of the famous writer. The members of the Committee are Minister of Culture Nebojsa Bradic, a special adviser in the Ministry of Culture Zoran Hamovic, Prof. Predrag Palavestra, National Theater Director Ivana Dimic, Director of the Museum of Theatrical Arts Ksenija Radulovic abd several executives from the Serbian media.
The comittee founded with the purpose to organize and co-ordinate programs intend to have as a central event a two day conference that will have for a subject the work of Mesa Selimovic. The winner of the Mesa Selimovic Literary Award for this year will be announced in March.
At the end of March the Museum of Theatrical Arts will present exhibition of the works inspired or done by Mesa Selimovic for a theater.This exhibition will then be traveling thorough several towns in Serbia. Ministry of Culture will try to tie to Selimovic Anniversary another of its programs titled „The year of Book and Language“.
It is also planned to publish complete works by Mesa Selimovic in several volumes and to make documentary movie about the time and life of the famous writer. The members of the Committee are Minister of Culture Nebojsa Bradic, a special adviser in the Ministry of Culture Zoran Hamovic, Prof. Predrag Palavestra, National Theater Director Ivana Dimic, Director of the Museum of Theatrical Arts Ksenija Radulovic abd several executives from the Serbian media.
Friday, February 19, 2010
“Lecture Performance” – New Trends on the Serbian Art Scene
Belgrade, Feb. 11, 2010 (Serbia Today) – Multimedia art project and exhibition titled “Lecture Performance” opened up its doors on three locations in Belgrade - in the Legate House, in the Salon of the Museum of Modern art, and in the Center for Cultural Decontamination. Sponsored by the Belgrade Museum of Modern Art and Kölnishe Kunstferain from Germany, the project was realized by art curators Jelena Vesic and Radmila Joksimovic and in cooperation with Anja Natan-Dorn and Catherine Jentjens.
The idea behind “Lecture Performance” was to deal with the issues related to the power of artistic language and expressions and with the purpose of the art expression itself. Project emphasizes the blurry borders between education, communication, esthetics, political expressions, and entertainment in the process of art making.
A group of international artists brings to Belgrade a fresh look at the meaning and purpose of the art process and on its place in the society. Political undertones are ever present but not visible to insensitive eyes of those who are not initiated in the ways of multimedia art expressions and symbols. Those who can recognize the message are touched with the depth of the applied art processes.
Movies, photo and video installations, and performances all prove that art scene in Belgrade is fertile ground for all kinds of innovations with educated and thankful public. The validity of the new trends are yet to prove themselves as the lasting art legacy or experiment not to be remembered. Time will show, but if you find yourself in Belgrade before the end of February, the visit to any of the locations of the “Lecture Performance” will certainly broad your horizons.
The idea behind “Lecture Performance” was to deal with the issues related to the power of artistic language and expressions and with the purpose of the art expression itself. Project emphasizes the blurry borders between education, communication, esthetics, political expressions, and entertainment in the process of art making.
A group of international artists brings to Belgrade a fresh look at the meaning and purpose of the art process and on its place in the society. Political undertones are ever present but not visible to insensitive eyes of those who are not initiated in the ways of multimedia art expressions and symbols. Those who can recognize the message are touched with the depth of the applied art processes.
Movies, photo and video installations, and performances all prove that art scene in Belgrade is fertile ground for all kinds of innovations with educated and thankful public. The validity of the new trends are yet to prove themselves as the lasting art legacy or experiment not to be remembered. Time will show, but if you find yourself in Belgrade before the end of February, the visit to any of the locations of the “Lecture Performance” will certainly broad your horizons.
Guitar Art Festival
Belgrade, Feb. 10, 2010 ( Serbia Today) – The Eleventh Annual Guitar Art Festival has been opened last night with the concert by the Swedish world renown guitarist Joren Solsher at the Kolarac Concert Hall. The very same night public was able to see and hear Cavatina Duo and Camerata Serbica group.
This year’s Festival will feature famous French group Air as well as legendary Paco De Lucia who will start his new European tour with the performance in Belgrade with the concert on February 12 in Sava Center.
On February 11 Serbian guitarist Zlatko Manojlovic will have a concert in Belgrade Dom Omladine Hall. Manojlovic resides in Germany already for some time and this concert at the Guitar Art Festival is an opportunity for this virtuoso to come home.
This year again Guitar Art Festival managed to bring music artists and performers not only from Serbia but from over the world. Artists from Cuba, Russia, Morocco, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Sweden were all part of this unique music festival which presents the richness of music styles and artistic expressions with one common denominator – guitar.
This year’s Festival will feature famous French group Air as well as legendary Paco De Lucia who will start his new European tour with the performance in Belgrade with the concert on February 12 in Sava Center.
On February 11 Serbian guitarist Zlatko Manojlovic will have a concert in Belgrade Dom Omladine Hall. Manojlovic resides in Germany already for some time and this concert at the Guitar Art Festival is an opportunity for this virtuoso to come home.
This year again Guitar Art Festival managed to bring music artists and performers not only from Serbia but from over the world. Artists from Cuba, Russia, Morocco, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Sweden were all part of this unique music festival which presents the richness of music styles and artistic expressions with one common denominator – guitar.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Serbian Philosopher and Educator Michail Markovic died at age 87
Belgrade, Feb. 08, 2010 (Serbia Today) – One of the most prominent Serbian philosophers of the 20th century, Professor Michail Markovic died yesterday . He was 87 years of age.
Professor Markovic was the follower of the materialistic school of the philosophy and as such has been deemed for a years as one of the pillars of Marxist philosophical concepts of Serbian society. The author of numerous books , he thought philosophy in Belgrade, and in numerous schools in Europe and USA. He was member of the Serbian academy of Science and Arts.
Member of the Communist Party from the early age, he fought in the Second World war on the side of Tito’s partisans.
In the sixties, he became one of the major critics of the politics of Tito’s government, and in the following years he was one of the most prominent Serbian political dissidents.
Markovic was one of the founding members of the Serbian Socialist Party in the early nineties, but after confronting the authoritarian regime of Slobodan Milosevic, he was forced out of the party membership in 1995. After that Markovic was not any more politically active.
Professor Markovic was the follower of the materialistic school of the philosophy and as such has been deemed for a years as one of the pillars of Marxist philosophical concepts of Serbian society. The author of numerous books , he thought philosophy in Belgrade, and in numerous schools in Europe and USA. He was member of the Serbian academy of Science and Arts.
Member of the Communist Party from the early age, he fought in the Second World war on the side of Tito’s partisans.
In the sixties, he became one of the major critics of the politics of Tito’s government, and in the following years he was one of the most prominent Serbian political dissidents.
Markovic was one of the founding members of the Serbian Socialist Party in the early nineties, but after confronting the authoritarian regime of Slobodan Milosevic, he was forced out of the party membership in 1995. After that Markovic was not any more politically active.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Models of good practice in inclusive education presented
Belgrade, Feb. 05, 2010 (Serbia Today) – Assistant Minister of Education Vesna Fila opened the “School tailored to children’s needs” Conference on Wednesday, Feb. 04, which presented models of good practice in inclusive education and the possibilities for their further implementation at the national and local level.
Fila said that the Ministry of Education will always support projects in which fairness and accessibility of education represent a strategic goal. Program manager Ljiljana Dosen pointed out that the “School tailored to children’s needs” project (part of the “Inclusive education in Serbia” project) began with the support of the organization “Save the Children UK” ten years ago. The conference, organized by Save the Children UK – Program for Serbia, was also attended by British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth and Senior Education Advisor for Mentally Challenged Children at the Montenegrin Ministry of Education and Science Tamara Milic.
Fila said that the Ministry of Education will always support projects in which fairness and accessibility of education represent a strategic goal. Program manager Ljiljana Dosen pointed out that the “School tailored to children’s needs” project (part of the “Inclusive education in Serbia” project) began with the support of the organization “Save the Children UK” ten years ago. The conference, organized by Save the Children UK – Program for Serbia, was also attended by British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth and Senior Education Advisor for Mentally Challenged Children at the Montenegrin Ministry of Education and Science Tamara Milic.
Matic presents project of using Facebook for educational purposes
Belgrade/Paris, Feb. 03, 2010 (Serbia Today) – Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society Jasna Matic presented a project of using the internet social network Facebook for educational purposes at UNESCO on Monday.
In a telephone statement to Beta news agency, Matic said that the pilot project was implemented by Serbian language teacher Violeta Kecman at the Fifth Belgrade High School in her literature classes. When covering the teaching unit of Serbian poets of romanticism, Kecman called on students to make Facebook profiles for poets of this movement and to include facts about their lives, work and achievements. The Minister said that the project was welcomed with great interest by UNESCO because it does not involve any additional costs, moreover it stimulates students to use their free time - which they would spend on the internet anyway - to acquire knowledge. According to Matic, this model can be applied in the teaching of all social subjects, so students can create profiles and communicate about various historical figures and discuss different topics. Matic said that the turnout at the presentation of the UNESCO project was excellent and added that this model will be recommended to teachers across Serbia, while UNESCO will place a similar recommendation on its website and recommend this model to its members. This project is supported by the Serbian Ministry of Education. The presentation in Paris was also attended by Serbian Education Minister Zarko Obradovic.
In a telephone statement to Beta news agency, Matic said that the pilot project was implemented by Serbian language teacher Violeta Kecman at the Fifth Belgrade High School in her literature classes. When covering the teaching unit of Serbian poets of romanticism, Kecman called on students to make Facebook profiles for poets of this movement and to include facts about their lives, work and achievements. The Minister said that the project was welcomed with great interest by UNESCO because it does not involve any additional costs, moreover it stimulates students to use their free time - which they would spend on the internet anyway - to acquire knowledge. According to Matic, this model can be applied in the teaching of all social subjects, so students can create profiles and communicate about various historical figures and discuss different topics. Matic said that the turnout at the presentation of the UNESCO project was excellent and added that this model will be recommended to teachers across Serbia, while UNESCO will place a similar recommendation on its website and recommend this model to its members. This project is supported by the Serbian Ministry of Education. The presentation in Paris was also attended by Serbian Education Minister Zarko Obradovic.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Placido Domingo at the Sava Center
Belgrade, Feb. 01, 2010, (Serbia Today) – As we learn from the daily Blic, the concert of Placido Domingo, one of the greatest tenors of all time, will take place on April 12 at the Sava Center. Domingo will conduct our orchestra “Camerata Serbica” and will present young opera artists from the whole world. This concert is only one of the top four art events announced yesterday by the Minister of Culture Nebojsa Bradic.
It is interesting to point out that Placido Domingo will conduct for free and the ticket price will be affordable. Concert of Milos Mihajlovic, Vladimir Milosevic and Vladimir Gligoric, winners of the international piano competitions, is scheduled for February 3. Svetlana Zakharova, the ballet star, will perform with eight stars of the Russian ballet from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev on March 20. Pat Metheny, the jazz guitarist and composer, will have a concert on June 26. All concerts and the ballet “Carmen” will be held at the Sava Center.
It is interesting to point out that Placido Domingo will conduct for free and the ticket price will be affordable. Concert of Milos Mihajlovic, Vladimir Milosevic and Vladimir Gligoric, winners of the international piano competitions, is scheduled for February 3. Svetlana Zakharova, the ballet star, will perform with eight stars of the Russian ballet from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev on March 20. Pat Metheny, the jazz guitarist and composer, will have a concert on June 26. All concerts and the ballet “Carmen” will be held at the Sava Center.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
50,000 people saw Paja Jovanović's exhibition
Belgrade, Jan.25,2010 (Serbia Today) - The exhibition organized by Belgrade National Museum "Paja Jovanović” which has been set on December 23rd, 2009 in the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) in Belgrade, has received its 50.000th visitor
Nikola Milosavljević, being the 50.000th visitor, was awarded with exhibition catalog that provides a framework for understanding Paja Jovanović (1859-1957)and his artistic opus. The exhibition "Paja Jovanović", which was held on occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the painter, was represented with his 97 works. To the audience was presented Jovanović's creativity, emphasizing motifs from the lives of Balkan people with historical compositions, illustrations of folk epic songs, portraits, landscapes, nudes and studies.
Presented works come from the collections of the National Museum, the Museum of the City of Belgrade, Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, Art collection of SANU, the National Museum Pančevo, National Museum of Zrenjanin, endowments of King Peter I from Oplenac, the Historical Museum of Serbia, as well as from private collections. The Author of study texts in the catalog is professor of the University of Philosophy in Belgrade Miroslav Timotijević.
The exhibition will be opened until February 21, 2010 and during its duration different programs were organized– lectures, expert guidance through the exhibition, film screenings and activities.
Paja Jovanović was born in Vršac in 1859. He graduated painting on Art Academy in Vienna. He traveled frequently to the Balkans, particularly Montenegrian coast, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the southern and eastern Serbia and full of impressions after those trips, he painted his famous genre pictures.
The image "Wounded Montenegrin", exhibited at the annual exhibition at the Academy in Vienna in 1883 was awarded with first prize and then he also got the imperial scholarship.
In 1895 Jovanović received two significant orders for the Millennium exhibition that was to be held in Budapest in 1896. The first order came from the Patriarch George Branković to paint a grandiose historical composition, "Migrations of the Serbs under the Patriarch Čarnojević”, and another from municipality of the Vršac for the picture "Vršac triptych''. The Government of the Kingdom of Serbia asked him in 1900, for the World exhibition in Paris, to create a historical composition, "The Coronation of the Emperor Dušan April 14,1346", which won the gold medal.
Paja Jovanović died in 1957in Vienna. According to his wishes, the urn with his ashes was transferred to Belgrade.
Nikola Milosavljević, being the 50.000th visitor, was awarded with exhibition catalog that provides a framework for understanding Paja Jovanović (1859-1957)and his artistic opus. The exhibition "Paja Jovanović", which was held on occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the painter, was represented with his 97 works. To the audience was presented Jovanović's creativity, emphasizing motifs from the lives of Balkan people with historical compositions, illustrations of folk epic songs, portraits, landscapes, nudes and studies.
Presented works come from the collections of the National Museum, the Museum of the City of Belgrade, Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, Art collection of SANU, the National Museum Pančevo, National Museum of Zrenjanin, endowments of King Peter I from Oplenac, the Historical Museum of Serbia, as well as from private collections. The Author of study texts in the catalog is professor of the University of Philosophy in Belgrade Miroslav Timotijević.
The exhibition will be opened until February 21, 2010 and during its duration different programs were organized– lectures, expert guidance through the exhibition, film screenings and activities.
Paja Jovanović was born in Vršac in 1859. He graduated painting on Art Academy in Vienna. He traveled frequently to the Balkans, particularly Montenegrian coast, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the southern and eastern Serbia and full of impressions after those trips, he painted his famous genre pictures.
The image "Wounded Montenegrin", exhibited at the annual exhibition at the Academy in Vienna in 1883 was awarded with first prize and then he also got the imperial scholarship.
In 1895 Jovanović received two significant orders for the Millennium exhibition that was to be held in Budapest in 1896. The first order came from the Patriarch George Branković to paint a grandiose historical composition, "Migrations of the Serbs under the Patriarch Čarnojević”, and another from municipality of the Vršac for the picture "Vršac triptych''. The Government of the Kingdom of Serbia asked him in 1900, for the World exhibition in Paris, to create a historical composition, "The Coronation of the Emperor Dušan April 14,1346", which won the gold medal.
Paja Jovanović died in 1957in Vienna. According to his wishes, the urn with his ashes was transferred to Belgrade.
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