At the session of the Belgrade City Assembly, 56 officials were appointed to management positions in cultural institutions and events. So now Lazar Ristovski is on the Festa Board, and the president is Jelena Medaković, Secretary for Culture of Belgrade
"Yes, like all the secretaries until now, I am formally the president of the Festa Committee," she confirmed for "Vreme". Jelena Medakovic, secretary for culture in Belgrade.
She also stated that the board members are an actor and a producer Lazar Ristovsky, professor of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Goran Peković, director Marko Novaković and Cebef representative Jelena Stošković.
Fest got a new Board at the session of the Belgrade City Assembly on December 22 last year, although the current mandate expires only in September of this year. As we found out, no one informed the members of that board that they had been replaced.
At that session, 56 officials were appointed for management positions in cultural institutions and events. Their names have not yet been officially announced, and in recent days unofficial but accurate information about the changes in Terazije Theater, Vuk Theater, Bemus i Bitefu.
Opera singer Aleksandar Stamatović and culture manager Milan Stojković have been appointed acting directors of the Terazije Theater and Vuk Theater.
Bitef, Fest and others: The survival of the festival in 2026 is uncertain
Playwright and recent director of the National Theater in Nis Spasoje Ž. Milovanović was elected president of the Bitef Board instead of Svetozar Cvetković who resigned, Uroš Mijatović and Bitef theater director Miloš Latinović replaced Borka Golubović and Đorđe Kosić who also resigned as members of the previous Board, while Ana Veljković and Srđan Obrenović remained from the previous convocation.
In the future, Bemus will be led by cellist Jelena Mihailović, better known by her stage name Jela Cello. She was born in Valjevo, and lives and creates between Belgrade and Los Angeles, performing classical and contemporary music. She was also an MP elected from the list of Ivica Dačić SPS - JS Dragan Marković Palma, and during an address in the Assembly she rapped.
More than 20 festivals were not held last year and this year, the FCS has not announced competitions for two years, the Ministry of Culture rejects projects of art associations, the removal of successful directors and the appointment of people who do not promise... all this is evidence that we are living a culture of destruction, according to the research of the Center for Cultural Studies
In the Viennese auction house Doroteum, a painting by the Croatian author Vlaho Bukovac was sold for half a million euros, it will soon be exhibited in Zagreb, and the public there does not know the name of the buyer
The play "Professional" is performed for the 50th time. "It is incredible that in forty years - since writing about the then government and communism, little has changed," says its author, Dušan Kovačević.
The world-famous "Aesthetics of Film", memoirs by Srećko Džamonja, books by Aleksandar Dimitrijević, award-winning novels and other new Clio publications that will not be at the Book Fair
The performance of "Balkan Spy" was canceled last night just before the meeting of the Student List at Slavija - due to the indisposition of the actors. "I am not indisposed," says the director of the play, Tatjana Mandić Rigonat
There is, literally, no difference between the one who claims it is day in the middle of the night, or the one who claims to be a giraffe, from the claims we read on billboards: that Vučić is working to unify Serbs and that Serbia is doing better and better day by day.
The pre-election arrests due to the alleged "overthrow of the state" testify to the regime's panic. The bad news for them is - they can't arrest the whole people who decided to defend themselves from progressive beatings and election theft
The ring that tightens around Ćaciland Student list is getting narrower. Because there are more and more spoiled people who see the false prophet for what he is: a street obscener who is fighting Serbia
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