The twelfth “Days of Srpska in Serbia” event will be officially opened on September 20 at the National Theatre in Belgrade, with programs from Srpska being showcased in 12 cities across Serbia.
The Representative Office of Republika Srpska in Serbia, which is organizing the event, expects that the manifestation will be inaugurated this year, with the blessing of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije, by the President of Srpska Milorad Dodik, and will be attended by numerous high-ranking officials.
Mlađen Cicović, the head of the Representative Office of Republika Srpska in Serbia, stated in an interview with Srna that this event, through various programs, will contribute to preserving the Serbian national identity, language, script, Orthodox faith, culture, and traditions.
He mentioned that the opening program this year will reflect the unity of the Serbian people, inspired by the idea of the All-Serbian Assembly held on June 8 in Belgrade.
“The message we will send from the opening ceremony and all the programs of this year’s ‘Days of Srpska in Serbia’ is that unity and togetherness have never been more necessary,” Cicović emphasized.
He highlighted that the exceptionally rich cultural program of the event will be complemented by accompanying activities, including meetings between entrepreneurs from Republika Srpska and Serbia, where the investment opportunities in Srpska will be presented to potential investors from Serbia.
“A special focus at these business meetings will be on the cooperation between small and medium-sized enterprises of Republika Srpska and Serbia. Delegations from cities and municipalities in Republika Srpska that have signed cooperation and twinning agreements with cities and municipalities in Serbia will visit the host cities, led by representatives of the Government of Republika Srpska and the Representative Office of Srpska in Serbia,” Cicović said.
He stressed that the Representative Office has strived to ensure that this year’s edition of the traditional “Days of Srpska in Serbia” event contributes to the overall cooperation between Srpska and Serbia.
Cicović noted that the poem titled “Togetherness,” which will be performed at the opening, is a developed stage form in the realm of drama and artistic performance, best characterized as a dramatic musical based on intangible cultural heritage and pivotal historical moments.
According to him, the mosaic structure of the opening ceremony’s program will be based on the interplay of stage performances and the narrative dramatic interpretation of actors, connected by traditional Serb “gusle” music and operatic arias that will enhance the development of the dramatic action.
“A special value to the opening ceremony’s program will be given by the stage direction of light and sound effects, and that important message of the much-needed unity and togetherness of the Serbian people,” Cicović reiterated.
He mentioned that the opening program, directed by Dragan Elčić, will be executed by top professionals, including the choir and artistic ensemble of the Serbian Ministry of Defense “Stanislav Binički,” vocalists Ana Stanković, Nevena Đoković, and Filip Vučić, Biljana Đurović as the narrator, actor Željko Erkić, while Bojana and Nikola Peković will perform with gusle and accordion, and the dance-ballet troupe “Una Saga Serbica” will also perform.
On September 21, “Days of Srpska in Serbia” will take place in Kragujevac, Kraljevo, and Subotica.
In Kragujevac, the theatre from Prijedor will perform “Cowboys,” in Kraljevo the Banja Luka-based ethno group “Trag,” and in Subotica, the monodrama “A Grief That Lasts a Lifetime,” which was performed this year in Donja Gradina on the Day of Remembrance for the breakout of the prisoners from the Jasenovac concentration camp, one of the largest and most terrifying death camps in Europe, which existed in the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945.
The Symphony Orchestra of the National Theatre of Republika Srpska will hold a concert in Subotica on September 23.
On the same day, in Kruševac, the Banja Luka Student Theatre will present the comedy “Milka and Neđo,” and in Požarevac, the Trebinje City Theatre will perform “Titanic Orchestra.”
On September 24, the Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade will host the Belgrade premiere of the documentary film “Fog in Hands,” about the life and work of the writer Đuro Damjanović, while at the National Theatre in Belgrade, the City Theatre “Semberija” from Bijeljina will stage “The Singing and Silence of Sofka Nikolić.”
On the same day, the National Theatre from East Sarajevo will perform the stage omnibus “Actor” in Novi Sad, while in Sombor, the joint play “Through Life with Velja” will be presented by the City Theatre “Јazavac” from Banja Luka and the City Theatre from Gradiška.
A concert by the Ethno Group “Iva” from Doboj will be held in Niš.
The Representative Office of Republika Srpska in Serbia, the Representative Office of Srpska in Greece, and the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts will present the monograph by Gordana Blagojević, titled “Invisible Heroes of Greece,” on Wednesday, September 25, in Belgrade, which discusses the selfless help that the good people of Greece provided to children from Republika Srpska and Serbia during the wars of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia.
On the same day in Belgrade, the documentary films “Јeni, a Little Light from the West” and “The Seal of the Ljubojević Brothers” will also be presented.
On September 25, the people of Vranje will be able to enjoy a concert by the Banja Luka group “One tri,” while in Sremska Mitrovica, the play “The Poet and the Ambassador,” which honors the character and work of Јovan Dučić, will be performed.
The “Days of Srpska in Serbia” event will be officially closed at the Cultural Center in Zrenjanin on Thursday, September 26.
Source: RTRS
