CULTURE CALENDAR

2CELLOS

23 May - Stark Arena

After spending the last ten years together as 2CELLOS, releasing six studio albums, collecting billions of streams, performing at cult locations around the world, and selling almost a million tickets for their live electric performances, the duo Luka Šulić and HAUSER announce the next part of their world tour. It will be their last joint tour.

2CELLOS is an eclectic, international sensation made up of two classically trained cellists who gained viral fame on YouTube by performing Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” in 2011. The duo, Luka Šulić, and HAUSER, have since gained a name for their electric and dynamic playing style. Together, 2CELLOS garnered an incredible 1.3 billion YouTube views, 5.5 million YouTube subscribers, 1 billion streams, and sold nearly 1 million tickets. 2CELLOS have raised the cello to unimaginable heights as their style signs the breaking of boundaries between music genres, from classical and film music to pop and rock.

17th Belgrade International Architecture Week

26 May – 7 July

This year, the 17th edition of the Belgrade International Architecture Week - BINA 2022 will be held from 26 May to 7 July. The focus of the event will be the presentation of current competitions for the city of Belgrade (2021/2022) and the European Union Award for Contemporary Architecture - Miss van der Rohe (2022) at representative exhibitions in the Art Gallery of the Cultural Center of Belgrade. With an interactive approach, BINA will bring closer to the public

current events on the architectural scene, which will affect the physiognomy and future of life and appearance of cities in our country and in the world. Other activities that will accompany the exhibition programs will include walks, workshops, discussions, lectures by the authors of the awarded solutions, and more.

Guitar Art Festival

17-21 May

Internationally celebrated Greek singer George Dalaras will hold a big concert on 17 May in Kombank Hall at the opening of the 23rd Guitar Art Festival. It will be the fifth Belgrade concert of one of the greatest singers of traditional rebetiko music of all time and a proven

artist with a lot of humanitarian work behind him. Dalaras will perform numerous timeless hits from his career of more than 40 years in Belgrade, the singer will be accompanied at the Belgrade concert by an ensemble of 16 best Greek musicians, including famous singers Violeta Ikari and Aspasia Stratigu. The concert at the opening ceremony of the International Guitar Festival will be a trip to Greece through the music of bouzouki and rebetika on guitar.

The Tiger Mom’s Tale

Lyn Liao Butler 1903rsd

The Tiger Mom’s Tale is a heartfelt, delightful read. Lyn Liao Butler’s story of Taiwanese and American identity had me turning pages and laughing (and drooling over the delicious descriptions of food). - Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award Named one of the best summers reads by Parade and PopSugar! When an American woman inherits the wealth of her Taiwanese family, she travels to confront them about their betrayals of the past in this stunning debut by Lyn Liao Butler.

Emotional Intelligence For Sales Leadership

Colleen Stanley 2065rsd

Chronic complainers, no accountability finger-pointers, or learning-resistant laggards - these culture-killers costs sales organizations more in productivity than being weak in the so-called hard skills of selling. Learn how emotional intelligence and the development of these critical soft skills improve sales leadership effectiveness and outperform doubling down on more sales technology tools and fads.

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice

Randall Munroe 1295rsd

The world’s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there’s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It’s full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.

The Modern Explorers: Epic Journeys To The Ends Of The World

Robin Hanbury-Tenison 1417rsd

Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. Most of the accounts are written by the explorers themselves, and they all vividly describe challenging and extraordinary expeditions to some of the remotest parts of the world, in extremes of temperature and aridity, often alone and on the edge of danger.

Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

Tom Fletcher 1943rsd

We all know there are major, overlapping, global crises ahead of humanity: climate change, mass migration, new warfare, big tech, further pandemics, and authoritarian capitalism. Rather than be daunted, this book charts a way that we can respond. With expertise from his work at the highest levels of international politics, education, activism, and business, Tom Fletcher offers a practical manifesto that can help us transform the way we learn, live, and work together.

An Ugly Truth

Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang 1943rsd

An Ugly Truth is the definitive story of Facebook’s fall from grace, following the embattled company from 2011, when its power and positive influence was undisputed, to 2020, when it will face its biggest test yet-the US presidential election. What are the ultimate ramifications when a few individuals are in charge of the technology used by half the world’s population? Can they control the technology they’ve unleashed into the world? And if not, can we, as individuals and as a society, control them?