CULTURE CALENDAR

Imagine The Future Of Europe!

16 February - French Institute in Serbia

The French Institute in Serbia is organizing a prize competition “Avenir - Future” and invites all elementary and high school students to show how much they know the French language and how much they care about the future of our continent! This competition gives young people the opportunity to participate in building the European future by presenting their views and ideas in written works in French, which also contributes to promoting French language teaching, strengthening the sense of belonging to the European family, and the conclusions of Serbia. during the Conference on the Future of Europe. Topics of works can be climate change and ecology; health; economics, social justice; European values; democracy and the rule of law; digital transformation; security / safety; migration; education; culture; young; sports; other ideas.

Concert by Nemanja Radulović

4 February – Kolarac

At the Belgrade concert, Nemanja Radulović will perform as a soloist with the Belgrade Philharmonic, led by the Russian conductor Daniel Raiskin. The program will include works by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Radulović had two sold-out concerts at Kolarac at the beginning of autumn 2020, and the last time he played was at the grand opening of the BEMUS festival, in the same hall in October 2021, also with the Belgrade Philharmonic.

Concert by Giulio Biddau

6 February - Kolarac

The Italian Cultural Institute of Belgrade and the Music Center of the “Ilija M. Kolarac” Foundation present the concert by the Italian pianist Giulio Biddau, scheduled for Sunday 6 February at 11.00 at the “Kolarac” Foundation, who will perform music by his last disc dedicated to Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas on piano and other pieces by Johannes Brahms. Giulio Biddau, born in Cagliari in 1985, began studying the piano at the age of twelve and graduated from the Conservatory of his city. He continued his piano studies in Paris, where he obtained the Diplome Supérieur de Concertiste. Later he obtained the specialization diploma from the National Academy of Santa Cecilia with honours. As a soloist, he has always accompanied chamber music, with prestigious singers and instrumentalists. He has given numerous concerts all over the world. In 2018 he received the Estimulo Prize of the Argentine Music Critics.

Chasing The Light

Oliver Stone 1295 rsd

Chasing the Light is Oliver Stone’s intimate and groundbreaking filmmaker’s memoir - and a razor-sharp insider’s tour of Hollywood during its 70s and 80s upheaval. With disarming honesty, he takes us from childhood on New York’s Upper East Side through the combat zones of Vietnam, inside the clandestine worlds of Chinatown’s gang lords and Miami’s cocaine trade - and behind the glittering and often drug-addled Los Angeles movie society scene. And from Midnight Express through Scarface, and Salvador he discovers his own dogged determination, a marked rebellious streak and a drive to make controversial films that matter.

The Power of Women

Denis Mukwege 1943 rsd

Over the past two decades living and working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he has stood up to soldiers and warlords, survived massacres and multiple assassination attempts, never swayed from his mission. In this book, Dr Mukwege interweaves his own dramatic story with the experiences of a range of extraordinary characters: the women he has treated - many of whom, after suffering unspeakable brutality, have had the strength to heal and rebuild their lives - as well as the people he has worked with, and survivors of sexual violence whom he has met during his years of advocating for women’s rights around the world.

1984

George Orwell 388 rsd

Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania – one of the three totalitarian blocks dominating the world – ruled by a mysterious leader called Big Brother who keeps the population in thrall through strict surveillance and brutal police repression. In a society where the individual is suppressed and turned into an “unperson” for not conforming and were not only personal thought, but also historical records and language itself are constantly being manipulated by the ruling regime, Ministry of Truth worker Winston Smith tries to make sense of the rebellious thoughts and passions that are stirring inside him, and finds himself impotent against the inexorable machine that surrounds him and threatens to crush him at any time.

Pride And Prejudice

Jane Austen 647 rsd

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most cherished love stories in English literature; Jane Austen’s 1813 masterpiece has a lasting effect on everyone who reads it. The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable. This edition includes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Jane Austen’s life and works.

Snow

Orhan Pamuk 1498 rsd

Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides, the bleak, impoverished border city of Kars, is also home to the beautiful Ipek, a friend of Ka’s youth whom he has never forgotten and whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm descends, cutting them off from the world, violence between the military and local Islamic radicals begins to explode, and Ka finds his sympathies drawn in unexpected and dramatic directions.

Wintersmith

Terry Pratchett 1700 rsd

Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance — the crossover from summer to winter — she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there ever is. And draws the attention of the Wintersmith himself. As Tiffany-shaped snowflakes hammer down on the land, can Tiffany deal with the consequences of her actions? Even with the help of Granny Weatherwax and the Nac Mac Feegle — the fightin’, thievin’ pictsies who are prepared to lay down their lives for their “big wee hag.”