Four days of culture is a part of the promotion of the City of Novi Sad during for the prestigious title of European Capital of Culture in 2021 under the slogan „4 new bridges.“ Each of the four programs symbolizes one of the bridges and also through cultural and artistic content represents the whole candidacy concept.
After Saturday’s jam sessions held at the ITD Gallery at the Petrovaradin Fortress, under the 6th Summer Jazz Academy Novi Sad-Dortmund, on Monday, July 18th, Novi Sad will be a host to a unique event. In fact, for the first time 100 Symphonic Orchestra Musicians will hold concert outdoors in Novi Sad!
The team of „Novi Sad 2021“, working on the candidacy for the title of European Capital of Culture, in cooperation with the Music Youth of Novi Sad, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad and the Association „Strada“, and with the full support of the City of Novi Sad, will host a concert of the orchestra VU from the Netherlands in the courtyard of the Gymnasium „Jovan Jovanović Zmaj“.
VU Orchestra was founded in 1962 on the initiative of the conductor Otto Klap at the Free University of Amsterdam, and from 2014 it became an independent association. From a small chamber ensemble, as it was at the beginning, in the next 50 years it has grown into a large symphony orchestra. So today VU-Orchestra is one of the largest but also the best and most successful university orchestras in the Netherlands, with a strong spirit of adventure, and it should all thank to its members and the conductor Dan Admiral. Under the maestro Admiral’s stick this ensemble performs very complex and challenging works that go far beyond the capabilities of most university orchestras. Every year during the summer tour, the VU-Orchestra visits a new country. Over the years it has also visited Italy, Germany, France, Bulgaria, The Great Britain, Estonia, Russia, China and Lisbon. This year for the first time they are visiting Serbia where they will perform some of the popular works from Romanticism and Impressionism.
Within the promotion of the candidacy of Novi Sad for the European Capital of Culture 2021, citizens of Novi Sad will be able to see on Tuesday, July 19th, on Ship theater, anchored on the Belgrade Quay, the play „Our place“, as well as to enjoy the concert of Stefan Milenkovic and Ensemble „Camerata Academica“ on July 21st in Katolicka porta.
All events will start at 20 o’clock and 21 minutes (8:21 PM) symbolizing the year 2021 in which the Novi Sad should become a European Capital of Culture, and admission is free.
These cultural events also promote the program concept of Novi Sad candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2021, which consists of four areas collectively named „4 new bridges.“ The first „bridge“ bears the name of Freedom and represents creative industries and youth. „Bridge“ Hope promotes cultural capacities and public spaces. Cultural heritage and hospitality are the topic of the New „bridge“, while the fourth „bridge“ Rainbow concernes with the problems of conflict and migrations.
Be a part of “4 new bridges” and Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2021.
