24 Jul 2019, 18:48 PM

Of Mice and Men at Theatre City Budva Drama Programme on 25 July

24 July 2019 - Of Mice and Men, a play based on the motives of the same short novel by John Steinbeck and directed by Dino Mustafić, will continue the drama programme of the 33. Theatre City Budva festival on Thursday, 25 July, as announced from the Theatre City Budva.Press. "Of Mice and Men" will be presented on the scene between the churches, starting at 9 pm. The show is a co-production of the Barski Ljetopis and the City Theatre from Podgorica.

Published in 1937, the novella tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, that move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities.

The title is taken from Robert Burns Burns' poem "To a Mouse", which reads: "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley". (The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry.)

Director Dino Mustafic points out: "The novel happens in the thirties of the last century, during the period of Great Depression in America, but it can be read independently of whether we are familiar with the historical background, because poverty and difficult life of the latest social group of people is something that is always a current and significant topic.

Apart from the mentioned, in the center of the novel is the story of about the unusual friendship between George, a good and honest man, and Lennie, a great and powerful man with the mind of a young child. They make up the family, keeping each other to win loneliness and alienation, and there is also the motive of the American dream, as ubiquitous topics in American literature, but also the utopian philosophy that is close to my mind and ethics. For such an experience, it is not necessary to intervene in the literary material in order to bring the epoch closer to viewers. We live the same or worse social and political moment we recognize in our everyday life.

Of Mice and Men is a unique story that speaks touchingly about genuine friendship, the despair and hopelessness of people during the Great Depression and the collapse of the American dream, is has been told both existentialistically and emotionally. This timeless story makes this novel revolutionary for all time as it speaks of the right to life even when we are different from the majority. We are worried about the world that is being drastically dehumanised with every day and aggressive race for profit. We are becoming modern slaves, the donors of neoliberal capital that eagerly eats our fate and search for happiness, our right to dream, utopia, and a vision of a better and more just world."

Dramatization and dramaturgy are by Stela Mišković, costume design by Lina Leković and music by Tamara Obrovac. Tamara Obrovac is one of the most prominent and most versatile personalities in the Croatian music scene. She used the influence of Istrian folk music to make her musical expression, which gained her great popularity in recent years. In addition to the international concert, she holds concerts for ballet , theatre and film.

Starring Mišo Obradović, Miloš Pejović, Branko Ilić, Pavle Ilic, Vule Markovic, Marija Djuric, Dejan Djonovic and Bozidar Zuber.

24 Jul 2019, 16:51 PM

Ban on Bicycles and Electric Scooters in Tivat

The Office for Communal Affairs, Transport and Energy Efficiency for the Tivat Municipality have announced that between the hours of 7 pm and 11 pm daily, the Pine Boardwalk, Marshal Tito Street and Ivo Vizin Boardwalk will be closed to bicycles and electric scooters.

“The measure has been taken in response to an increase in the number of cycle and scooter users on the boardwalk who travel at a speed that is a real danger to pedestrians, particularly small children,” highlights the Tivat Municipality.

electric scooter

Electric scooter, photo: Pixabay

They add that they are in the process of installing vertical traffic signs specifying the ban. These will also be used by the relevant authorities in their response.

“We would, therefore, request the understanding of the users of these two-wheelers, as our primary concern is the safety of children and pedestrians, as well as that of the users themselves,” states the Tivat Municipality.

24 Jul 2019, 12:22 PM

InArt Festival of Street Performers Opens at Pine Promenade in Tivat

24 July, 2019- InArt, the fourth International Festival of Street Performers, starts at 9 p.m. tonight on the Pine Promenade in Tivat, the Tourist Organization of Tivat announced.
InArt will last until July 26, when this town, like previous years, will host numerous local and foreign artists, who come from eight different countries. Their performances will be held on the streets and squares of the town. This year Tivat will live the InArt festival through a perfect blend of different types of art on the following locations: the Culture Square, Pine Promenade, Porto Montenegro and Luštica Bay.

The InArt festival programme will be diverse, and numerous artists will be presented to the audience, where special attention is given to guests from Italy Teatro dei Venti and guests from Chile, the Italian-Chilean duo Companie Depaso, who will present their skills on the trapezoid.

The Montenegrin premiere of the "Pentesilea" of the companyTeatro Dei Venti from Modena will be held at the festival, which will bring the spirit of ancient mythology and events during the Trojan War. "In the background of the Trojan War, two figures, a man and a woman, fight in a duel and fall in love with each other. The two characters are Achilles, the bravest of all the Greek heroes and the Pentesilea, the Amazonian queen, the one who loves peace, but brings the storm, half anger - half grace. The Pentesilea is an actor's show for two beings that are half beast half human, "the organizers stated.

In addition to the mentioned performers, Peppino Marabita will be introduced as a clown with a smile on his face, and Luther Bergant as one of the few representatives of the juggling school.

"The Fire Flow of Serbia is specialized in performing with fire, so their show, full of dynamics and energy, will further warm the atmosphere at the festival”, it has been pointed out.

In the center of interest are fire and acrobatics, and Vojo Cvetanovski from Macedonia will be this year's InArt Festival ambassador.

An indispensable part of the three-day spectacle is certainly the programme for the youngest, in which, besides the performance of the Pilko Pilko troupe from Germany, Montenegrin actor Sejfo Seferović will perform in the show “Clown Business”, written by Zoran Šoškić. On the repertoire of the festival is also the play that will leave no one indifferent, Zalutali Metak - Stray Bullet by the Experimental Drama studio “Flower Children”. In particular, the InArt festival has become part of the European Festival Association, which is of great importance for both the festival and the development of cultural and tourist facilities in Tivat and Montenegro.

The organization of the festival was supported by TO Tivat, Ministry of Culture of Montenegro and NTO – National Tourist Organization.

24 Jul 2019, 12:56 PM

Tamara Radjenovic Held a Solo Concert in Kotor

Within KotorArt Don Branko’s days of music, on the platform that supports young Montenegrin artists who are educated abroad, last night in the crowded Church of St. Spirit, in the concert hall of the music school "Vida Matjan", young opera artist Tamara Radjenovic held a solo concert. In the repertoire, there were the arias of Vivaldi, Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, and many others. Piano was performed by Djordje Nesic, who also performed two solo compositions: Nocturne in cis moll by Frederic Chopin, as well as The Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy. This is Tamara's first performance within the KotorArt Festival. For the encore, they performed the aria La Rosa y El Sauce by Guastavino.

Biography

Young Montenegrin opera artist and soprano Tamara Radjenovic lives and works in London. She graduated solo singing at the Royal College of Music in London in a class of 8 students. She is the first from the ex-YU territory that has been admitted to solo singing at this academy in a competition of 1000 applicants. She was also awarded a scholarship for master studies at the same academy, and from the English Ministry of Culture, she is the winner of the 'exceptional promising talent' status in the UK.

So far, Tamara has had the opportunity to perform at various national and international concerts, festivals, masterclasses in Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, England, Germany, Romania, Italy, Spain, Mauritius, and America.

At the end of last year, she had a debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York, where she presented herself with a solo concert to the New York audience.

Due to the high interest, and at the invitation of Carnegie Hall, Tamara will repeat the solo concert in New York at the end of this year.

In addition to performing in America, this year will have solo concerts in England, Spain, Hong Kong, Montenegro, Serbia.

Tamara was very young when she had her opera debut. She had the role of Mimi in the opera “La bohème” by Puccini at the Mediterranean Opera Studio Festival in Sicily (Italy) with the conductor Leonardo Catalano (July 2017).

The beginning of her international career is associated with the famous opera star Madam Montserrat Caballé. The young artist was chosen personally by the diva to sing at her Gala concerts in Zaragoza, Spain (in 2014, 2015).In Barcelona, she actively worked with the opera legend until her last days of life, and she had a great deal of influence in building the young artist and her singing technique. Tamara recently performed in Barcelona at the theater 'De Sarria' with renowned Spanish conductor and pianist Ricardo Estrada and was presented to the Spanish audience as the last student of Montserrat Caballé.

Tamara actively cooperates with the Russian Cultural Center "Pushkin House" in London for which she held several concerts. Her performance at the Medtner Festival and the concert in honor of the Romanov family (in 2017, 2019) are to be highlighted.

In London, she performed at Britten Theater, Amarilis Fleming Hall, starring Anne in Merry Wives of Windsor, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Romilda in Serse, Helene at Midsummer night's dream.

From the concerts in the region, there should be mentioned the solo concert in the City Hall of Novi Sad last year and the performance at Kolarac Foundation in Belgrade within the opera Gala concert "World in Opera, Opera in the World" in January this year (in 2018, 2019).

At the invitation of the Cultural Center "Nikola Djurkovic", Tamara also had a solo concert in the Church of the Holy Spirit in Kotor (in 2018). At the very beginning of solo singing, she performed with members of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra within the Salzburg Festival at the Opera Project for Youth (in cooperation with the American-Austrian Foundation and the Vienna Philharmonic). She also performed with the Prussian Chamber Orchestra in Beskov, Germany with the conductor Franck Zaher. Her beginnings were also marked by seven first prizes at national and international competitions in Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, as well as the Special Prize-Winner of the Festival- Laureate at the International Competition Bruna Spiler in Montenegro.

Text by CdM, on July 23rd, 2019, read more at CdM

24 Jul 2019, 12:54 PM

Declarations Signed along Bukovica: Citizens will Defend Nature

The Declarations on the Ecological State of Montenegro and the Protection of the river Tara were signed along the river Bukovica. The two declarations were signed by civil activists from several civic initiatives, actions and non-governmental organizations, which joined the struggle for the nature conservation.

At the meeting, they discussed current problems and agreed to joint action.

Participants of the meeting stated that the preservation of natural resources from any destruction must be above all divisions on any basis and the common goal of all of them.

"We must not allow ourselves not to be present where nature calls and we must be assured that we leave the descendants to enjoy what our ancestors left us. No one here is against the state, but for its preservation, because citizens can only benefit if we turn to sustainable development, and not in the way they have imagined - by killing rivers, mountains, lakes and the sea," said participants in the meeting who spoke with media representatives about improving the cooperation.

"We are signing the Declaration on the Ecological State of Montenegro and the Declaration on the Protection of the River Tara, as an act of permanent commitment to sustainable development and protection of the public interest of future generations. Civil responsibility obliges us to participate actively in the decision-making process regarding the environment, and by this act, we want to prove our love for our Montenegro, commitment to the development vision of the ecological state and the determination to preserve natural resources from every aspect of destruction and abuse. By signing these declarations, we are jointly moving to action, turning to the future and with the goal of Montenegro becoming globally recognizable by sustainable development and democratic values," the declaration says. Civic activists from almost all Montenegrin towns before the meeting with representatives of NGO “Ekološki pokret Donja Bukovica” and locals from Bukovica villages cleaned the Bukovica River basin. A letter from the cadastre office in Savnik by Representatives of the NGO “Ekološki pokret Donja Bukovica” arrived yesterday at 9 am and delivered a letter from the cadastre office in Savnik, which enabled them to access land parcel information, where the company "Hydra MNE" started preparatory works on the construction of the mini hydro power plant.

"Vijesti” announced that the head of the real estate unit of the Department of Real Estate, Milojka Stanjevic, ignored the request of the NGO “Ekoloski pokret Donja Bukovica” for a month, where they asked for information on the division of the property.

Text by Jelena Jovanovic, on July 23rd, 2019, read more at Vijesti

23 Jul 2019, 22:02 PM

International Kotor Summer Carnival to be held August 1st to 3rd

The traditional Kotor Summer Carnival festivities will be held from 1st to 3rd August 2019. The International Kotor Summer Carnival is one of the oldest traditions in both Kotor, and the whole of Montenegro. The carnival boasts a rich musical programme over three days, with artists from Italy, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine and Cuba performing alongside carnival groups from Kotor and Montenegro.

Besides the groups listed, representatives of the Board of the Federation of European Carnival Cities (FECC) will attend, together with those representing other European carnival cities.

The International Kotor Summer Carnival is organised by the “Fešta” Association of Kotor and sponsored by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism of Montenegro, Kotor Municipality, the National Tourism Organisation of Montenegro, and Kotor Tourist Organisation (TO Kotor).

Letnji kotorski karneval 2018. foto Boka News

1st August (Thursday)

Carnival Opening Ceremony, Old Town (Stari grad) 9pm.

Concert “Trio Gušt”, Armoury Square (Trg od oružja) 10pm.

Fishing Festival, Muljanska Riva 9.30pm. Organised by Muo Community

2nd August (Friday)

Theme “Best of Carnival” - Call to Carnival (“Veliki Abrum”) and Presentation of International Carnival Groups - Old Town, 9pm.

International Summer Masked Ball. Concert, Group - “Magazin” - Armoury Square, 10pm.

3rd August (Saturday)

18th International Summer Carnival Procession

Main Parade, 9pm

Carnival Night, Group - Cubalcanica, Tri Kvarta - Old Town, 10pm

Carnival Party - Old Town

23 Jul 2019, 20:29 PM

No Border Orchestra on July 28 at Porto Montenegro Yacht Club Pool

No border orchestra will perform under conduction of maestro Premil Petrović on July 28 at the Yacht Club Porto Montenegro Pool in Tivat at 21:00 - their Berghaind inspiration, inspired by electronic music, is the last concert of this year's XVIII Don Branko's Days of Music in the framework of the International Festival KotorArt.

No Border Orchestra is a symphony orchestra made up of top western musicians from the Western Balkans. Established in Belgrade and Berlin, as a non-governmental organization with the aim of initiating positive social development through the power of reconciliation and creative cooperation, it grew out of the desire to create a regional cross-border symphony orchestra that provides the highest artistic quality and calls for a new kind of communication. During six years of work, the orchestra performed at the leading festivals of the Balkan region, as well as at Festwochen in Vienna, Kunsten festival des arts in Brussels, Autumn Festival in Paris, Opera in Rotterdam, Marseille, Brussels, Lisbon. Beginning on two bases - music and society, the Orchestra successfully promotes musical excellence and social awareness.

Seeking ways of deconstructing and transforming social community, advocating positive change for society in order to make it more inclusive, intercultural, more open and democratic than it currently is, the Orchestra serves as a platform for overcoming nationalism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and bloody legacy of the past in the Western Balkans region and wider. In 2018 it started its annual Balkan season by spreading music and messages.

Premil Petrović, the initiator, chief conductor and artistic director of No Border Orchestra, with whom he recorded an album for Universal Music - Deutsche Grammophon in 2015.

He graduated conducting at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler in Berlin, in the class of prof. Winifred Miller. In 1996 he founded Cinema REX Music Theatre in Belgrade. His repertoire includes the interpretations of old music, opera and symphony of classicism and romance, as well as premieres of contemporary music. He premiered the opera by Isidora Žebeljan, one of the most prominent contemporary Serbian composers. He often leads in experimental music theatres, such as the production of Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot lunaire”, ("Pierrot in the Moonlight") directed by Bruno Labruso, for whose film, under the same name, he recorded the second performance. In 2014, he worked with Brett Bailey on the postcolonial production of Verdi's Macbeth, in the arrangement by Fabrizio Kassol in Capetown, which was then shown at the most important European festivals.

He has conducted at the Vancouver and Philadelphia Opera, Colon Theater in Buenos Aires, then the Philharmonic Orchestra of Capetown, the Oklahoma Philharmonic Orchestra and in numerous European orchestras. He was awarded the Hanns Eisler Award for Contemporary Music Interpretation.

23 Jul 2019, 19:18 PM

Mediterano Premiere at Pecka Beach, Lustica

Mediterano will premiere on Wednesday, 24 July at Pecka Beach, Luštica with the support of Luštica Bay. The play was first performed at the Atrium of the Summerhouse Buća in Tivat in 2011, with the late Vlastimir Đuza Stojiljkovic in the role of Priest. The producer, Culture Centre Tivat held a press conference at the Buća Summerhouse today on the occasion of the premiere. Inspired by the eponymous Italian film “Mediterraneo”, the play is directed by Erol Kadić, who made a selection of music, while Dunja Petrović performed dramatization.

For the first time, the Culture Centre comes out ambientally in this show and its partner in this project is "Luštica Development", said the director of the Centre, Neven Staničić.

"We have renewed "Mediterano" and very deliberately decided to make it in natural surroundings, what we talked about to Erol Kadić this winter. The complete show team was very happy to accept the idea, aware of all the risks that it carried with it. We hope that it will pay off, having in mind the interest that this idea it has caused, "Staničić said, hoping to succeed in mastering all artistic and productive difficulties.

He expressed gratitude to Luštica Development Company, because they had expressed their understanding. "What is interesting and significant when it comes to our company and the Cultural Centre and the renowned Purgatorije festival is that our cooperation has been going on a long time, since it is the first festival that we have established cooperation with. Cultural Centre is a renowned institution with an enviable portfolio when it comes to production, said PR Advisor at Luštica Development Company, Dragana Bećirović.

The director of Mediterano, Erol Kadić, said that for the first time in his career he had two conferences on the occasion of the same show.

Talking about the proposed idea of playing on the beach by the sea, he said he accepted it with enthusiasm: "This is very provocative for directing. With a spectacle like Mediterano we will revive a place like this beach is. We could have met enormous production problems there, but when I met the place, I realized that everything I had planned did not work and that we had to go back to the start. The space seemed so provocative and fairytale like. I had to redesign some scenes and to put in some new ones that came out of this ambience, very beautiful and provocative," explained the director, stressing that he was particularly grateful to the Cultural Centre, which provided him with such a rare opportunity to work on this project. Kadić said that this will be a premiere also because from the first performance of the Mediterano, three actors had changed, including the late Djuza Stoiljkovic.

Actor Fedja Stojanovic has a double feeling, first of all a sad experience because he plays instead of an actor who has been his colleague and friend, Djuza Stojiljković. He pointed out that the move made by the Culture Centre was fantastic, because it had brought the show to an incredibly beautiful space. The performance is also linked to the Mediterranean and the sea and it is very good remembering that everything is happening on one coast, which gives a special experience to the whole show, Stojanović said.

The cast is completed by Mladen Nelević, Nenad Ćirić, Tanja Bošković, Goran Slavić, Omar Bajramspahić, Julija Milačić, Stevan Radusinović, Slaviša Grubiša and Emir Ćatović.

After the premiere on Wednesday, July 24, it Mediterano will be played on Thursday and Friday, July 25 and 26 in Luštica Bay, within the International Theatre Festival Purgatorije. The show will begin at 21:30, and the organizer, Culture Centre Tivat, has provided the transport from Tivat, from the old bus station at 20:30.

23 Jul 2019, 13:21 PM

Seawater Great for Swimming and Recreation

The latest analysis of seawater done by the Institute for Marine Biology for the needs of Public Company Morsko Dobro, showed that the seawater on the Montenegrin coast is sanitary and qualitative for swimming and recreation. "The results of the analysis of seawater quality for 100 public baths, which the Institute for Marine Biology conducted in the period from 16 to 17 July showed the sea-water quality of K1 class at 98 bathing places, while two baths are of K2 class. These results confirm that the seawater on the Montenegrin beaches is of excellent quality, that is, it is sanitary correct and safe for bathing and recreation," said the Public Company.

On all 16 baths in the municipality of Ulcinj, the water was of excellent quality K1. Out of 13 locations in the municipality of Bar, where water quality was monitored, 12 of them were of excellent K1 quality, while in one location water was K2 quality.

A similar situation is in the municipality of Budva, where the water quality K1 is on 25 locations, while in one location the water is K2 quality. When it comes to the Bay of Kotor, in Tivat the water was of excellent quality at all 9 bathing areas, and the same situation was in Kotor, where the water quality is K1 class at all 15 sampling locations.

When it comes to water quality on Herceg Novi coast, the analyzes showed excellent quality K1 on all sampling locations, i.e. at a total of 21 beaches.

Text by Vuk Lajovic, on July 22nd, 2019, read more at Vijesti

23 Jul 2019, 13:18 PM

Beats Per Montenegro Service for Local Musicians and Producers

The program "Creative Montenegro", launched by the Ministry of Culture, gave the first results this year.

At the first competition within the aforementioned program, which will establish the Montenegrin cultural product, as a result of cooperation between the creative sector and the business-commercial, a total of 11 authors are supported. There are 10 projects and products, and one scientific study.

By providing basic conditions and means for work - space, equipment, promotions, etc. we can say with certainty that the Ministry together with the authors successfully launched 10 new businesses in culture, which is why we want to motivate other artists to apply for their future contests with their initiatives and ideas. Bearing in mind the significance of the program "Creative Montenegro", primarily in terms of affirming the authors and the significance of their projects for the creation of the Montenegrin cultural product, the Ministry of Culture will endeavor to present to the public each of them, with the projects which they are authors. The author of one of the 11 ideas supported by the contest "Creative Montenegro" is Nikola Rajovic from Podgorica, who have applied for the project of establishing a music label, which should connect related authors in the field of music production and present them to the global market through popular publishers’ channels. The publishing house, primarily focused on the field of electronic music and related genres, will be named "Beats Per Montenegro" (BPM). According to Nikola Rajovic, BPM deals with the creation, design, and packaging of sound as a product. "During the current phase of this project, we are also working on a compilation called "Beats Per Montenegro ", where we will present the work of various artists who mostly deal with electronic sounds. The key mission is to treat sound like a product and distribute through channels that are today dominant in the world, therefore in digital format," Rajovic pointed out. The key objective is to make BPM be a service for local musicians.

"Beats Per Montenegro" was founded to serve as a service and support to local musicians and producers, and that would help with the bureaucracy itself, to help select some foreign labels and other partners in this context, "Rajovic concluded.

He emphasizes that the program "Creative Montenegro" has been of great use in his ambition to bring the project to life.

Text by CdM, on July 20th, 2019, read more at CdM

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