The Beginning of New. Now!
4 APRIL – 15 MAY 2022
CULTURE IN UPBRINGING AND EDUCATION
Encouraging and involving children in creating better future of Europe through culture and art are the main goals of the programme arch.
Some of the biggest programmes will deal with alternative models of education (The School of Future), encouragement to critical thinking about social topics (The Flags of Future), modern reading of traditional narratives (The Fairy Tales of Future) and other topics. Children and young people, as a basis for a better future of Europe, are encouraged to think critically, as well as to take an active part in social issues.
Just some of the performers and the programmes you will have the opportunity to see as part the Future of Europe programme arch: Dublin Theatre Festival, the oldest European theatre festival in Ireland; Alfa Theatre from the Czech Republic with the play ‘Three Musketeers’, which is the most internationally successful Czech theater play year after year, as evidenced by the many awards it received, as well as invitations to play in more than 35 countries on three continents; Kokan Mladenović; Yasserstein; Karmina Šilec, conductor and director-author, who developed the unique artistic concept of ‘Choregie’ and brought originality and a breath of fresh air to the world of music and theatre; Panda van Proosdij, who in 2014 created the choreography of the award-winning programme ‘Aarhus Pigekor’ during the World Choir Games in Riga, while in 2015 this choir won the Silver Rose in Munich with its latest programme ‘Let the People Sing’; Stephan Luttermann, artistic director, who launched the first European choir festival, Sing We And Chant It, in 2010, bringing together children’s and youth choirs from Sweden, Hungary and Germany.
You can view the programme book of the Future of Europe here, and the calendar of all events here.
PROGRAMME UNITS
Questioning the system of formal education and promoting the alternative models of education through art, play and creation.
Encouraging critical communication and artistic thinking in children and youth regarding current social issues.
New readings of traditional fairy tales and creating new stories, as an expression of contemporary generations and their needs.
18 MAY – 12 JUN
THE POWER OF FEMALE CREATIVITY
By presenting women’s culture, art and creativity and reassessing women’s historical heritage, we are striving to create a gender-equal society.
Heroines are dedicated to our most distinguished scientists, artists, patronesses, activists, and other women who changed the world. Mileva Marić Einstein, Marija Trandafil, Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja, and Milica Tomić are some of the important figures of national history and culture who inspired exhibitions, plays, concerts, and other events we can expect within this programme arch.
Women have played key roles in the history of Novi Sad and what this city is today. That is why the Heroines programme arch deals with women’s creativity, encouraging and promoting women’s culture, art, and inventiveness. This arch promotes women’s historical heritage for the sake of a more equal society.
Some of the heroines who will make Novi Sad the capital of women through various programmes are accordion heroine Neža Torkar, legendary heroine of performance Katalin Ladik, heroine-director Anica Tomić, gothic heroine Tarja Turunen, classical music heroines – violinist Simone Lamsma and violist Tabea Zimmermann, four heroines making up the band Warpaint, regional heroines Natali Dizdar and Kaliopi, the heroine of the Yugoslav theatre Anica Dobra, and many others.
You can view the programme book of the heroine arch here, and the calendar of all events here.
PROGRAMME UNITS
MATICA
Woman as an inspiration and initiator in traditional art. Innovative presentation of cultural heritage, inspired by benefactress Marija Trandafil and other patrons.
A fairy-tale-like family gathering in nature dedicated to our Fruška Gora fairy, poet Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja.
The premiere of the play ‘Mileva’, whose author is one of the most influential regional directors, Anica Tomić, and in which as many as six local and regional playwrights joined their creative forces, reveals the character and work of scientist Mileva Marić Einstein.
MILICA
A multidisciplinary approach to women’s activism, inspired by the work of one of the first women to bring a spark of feminism to this area – Milica Tomić.
