Balkan Events in NYC
Issue #2: Saturday, May 31st, 2014
Benefit for flood victims in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia - Saturday, May 31st, Gallery MC in NYC
Please join us and support our efforts to help thousands of people in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia whose lives have been affected by the heaviest rain and worst floods in 120 years.
Choice of TICKETS or DONATIONS for this event - Red Cross Serbia, Red Cross Bosnia and Herzegovina or Red Cross Croatia.
Program
6 - 7 PM – WELCOME SET
Milica Paranosic, with Lauri Galbreath, voice and Margaret Lancaster, flute
Ana Tanasijevic, flute
Ivana Ristovska Kovach, piano
Milos Raickovich, piano
7 - 8 pm JAZZ / CLASSICAL SET
Alma Micic & Rale Micic, voice & guitar
Marko Djordjevic, drums
Dimitrije Vasiljevic, jazz piano
Milan Rakic, voice & Djordje Nesic, piano
Sava Vemic, voice & Djordje Nesic, piano Djordje Nesic, piano Marko Stuparevic, piano
8 - 8:45PM – MULTIMEDIA SET
Zlatko Filipovic, recitation/poem
Ana Milosavljevic, Viper electric violin
Jasmina Sinanovic, burlesque
Suzana Stankovic, dance
9 - 10PM – WORLD / JAZZ / ETNO SET
Valentina Janjus & Srdjan Ivkovic, duet, accordion & voice
Jan Kus, saxophone, Dimitrije Vasiljevic, piano, Dan Martinez, bas & Marko Djordjevic, drums
Vasko Dukovski, clarinet
Vladimir Cetkar, guitar & voice
Duke Bojadzijev, piano; Krste Rodzevski, vocals; Aleksandar Petrov – percussion; Aleksandar Ikonomov - bass.
Odglasi (Echoes) / Vedran Borkovski: gajda, kaval, tambura, tapan, voice
Art by (funds will be raised via silent auction):
Stephanie Albertson Jewelry, Robert Dandarov, Predrag Dimitrijevic, Ivanco Ivanovski, Brian Novatny,
Marko Markovic, Marija Pavlovska, Dalibor Plavsic, Gorazd Poposki, Sandra Vucicevic, Ivan Stojakovic, Djordje Skendzic, Marko Gavrilovic, Christina Z Antonio, Shoba, Maja Cule, Branka T. Andric, Olja Stipanovic, Andrej Urem, Emil Shulajkovski, Goran Veljic, Amela Parcic, Ivan Butorac, Igor Mandic, Jelena Butorac, Mauro Nicolini, Mila Vesovic. Slavko Djuric and others.
Refreshments by Olio e Piú, Cibo e Vino, Balkanika, Kafana, Harlem Shake and others.
Donated items for the auction: Racquets from Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki and also a signed shirt from Djordje Djokovic from Drordje's sponsors Tamka Sport and its owners Kathleen DeRienzo and Branislav Grujic
Organized by: Milica Paranosic, Danijela Milic, Gorazd Poposki and Gallery MC
Special thanks to Vera Arsova for connecting Danijela Milic / LeitmotivArts and Gallery MC thus creating a bigger and more diverse event.
SARAJEVO 1914-2014: ONE CENTURY REVISITED IN THREE ACTS - Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC
As part of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York's 1914-2014 remembrance activities and in response to the recent natural disaster in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in honoring its victims, the ACFNY presents "Sarajevo 1914-2014. One century in three acts," a unique cultural-intellectual evening, elaborating across disciplines on the state of art in Bosnia and Herzegovina one hundred years after the June 1914 events.
Following a literary-musical and video introduction, outstanding experts and artists from Austria, Bosnia, and the US engage in a high-level panel discussion moderated by the ECONOMIST’s Balkans correspondent Tim Judah. This unique evening will end with a musical potpourri of traditional Sephardic, Bosnian folk and contemporary music. With Atilla Aksoj, Damir Arsenijević, Šejla Kamerić, Janko Ferk, Mario Knezović, Wolfgang Petritsch, Daniel Serwer, and Adrian Nathan West.
Tickets are free. Please RSVP online at www.acfny.org or call (212) 319-5300x77
For more information, please visit:
http://www.acfny.org/event/sarajevo-1914-2014-one-century-revisited-in-three-acts/
and
https://www.facebook.com/events/243728322486997/
Movie Night at Global Kids - Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Human Rights Watch Film Festival in NYC
Check out this Bosnian film screening at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in June in NYC.
Jasmila Zbanic's 'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' will be screening, along with many other films.
The screening times are below, as well as more information about the film.
http://ff.hrw.org/film/those-who-can-tell-no-tales?city=5
Monday, June 16, 2014
9:00 PM / Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater
Presented with: The Harriman Institute, harriman.columbia.edu
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
9:15 PM / IFC Center
Presented with: The Harriman Institute, harriman.columbia.edu
Jasmila Zbanic's For Those Who Can Tell No Tales follows an Australian tourist as she discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities in a seemingly idyllic town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. On a summer holiday through Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kym is the picture of an average tourist: visiting the sites promoted in her guidebook and keeping a video diary. Yet her stay at a hotel in Visegrad inexplicably gives way to anxiety and sleepless nights. Upon returning home to Australia, she finds out that the Vilina Vlas hotel was used as a rape camp during the war. Questions around the region's atrocities begin to haunt her, as does the question of why the guidebook, or the town itself, made no mention of the event. The testimonies she later finds online compel her to return to Visegrad and investigate this hidden history for herself.
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Rape and other types of sexual violence against women were widespread during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, including Bosnia-Herzegovina. Human Rights Watch documented thousands of rapes, killings, and acts of sexual violence against women by all warring parties. In the town of Foca in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Human Rights Watch documented mass rapes of Bosnian women by Serb soldiers and police in various detention centres as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign between 1992-1994. In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled the Foca mass rapes as war crimes for the first time in history.
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