The HKD Jadran president Vinko Stanišić, secretary Dean Bazina, treasurer Željko Resovac and member Ivo Biloglav were received by CHF director Marin Knezović and his staff. The visit to Zagreb included thirty members of HKD Jadran and the Croatian Women’s Society of Malmö.
The radio program Croacia en mi Corazón – Hrvatska u mom srcu (Croatia in my heart) is conducted by Mr. Jure Papac. The program, in Spanish and Croatian, is broadcast by Radio Amplitud AM 660 from Buenos Aires live on Saturdays from 13:00 to 15:00 (Argentine time)
Ariadne’s Thread, a collection of short stories, was presented by the author at the Literary Circle in Split. During her more than one decade long career as a diplomat, teacher and writer Tuga Tarle has worked in Australia, Spain, Chile and Slovakia. She has written about these experiences in two books.
The Split Around the Corner exhibition was presented at the encouragement of the CHF Split with the collaboration of the Museum of the City of Split, the Napredak Croatian Culture Society of Graz, the Association of Croatian Students in Graz and the Austrian-Croatian Initiative.
Under the expert guidance of Monsignor Anton Belan, general vicar of the Diocese of Kotor and author of a monograph on Saint Tryphon and His Cathedral, the pupils were provided a detailed tour of the interior, treasury and sacral art museum and heard a presentation of the phases of the construction of the cathedral of St. Tryphon and about the diverse and valuable treasures it holds.
From the History of Boka Kotorska—The Cravat Among the People of Boka is a three-week exhibition featuring some sixty photographs, for the most part portraits of well- and lesser-known Bokelj figures taken from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. This exhibition has already been shown in Padua, Trieste, Tivat and Zagreb and features the cravat (necktie) as, in the words of Nikola Albaneže of the Academia Cravatica, a global phenomenon.
Featured in the Easter issue of Matice magazine is our coverage of the CHF delegation visit to the Croatians of Skopje, the presentation of the newest edition of the Croatian Emigrant Almanac, the Croatian Popular Theatre Days in Hercegovac and much, much more.
The illustrated monograph by the head of the Split branch office of the CHF Branka Bezić-Filipović was presented to the Croatian community in the province of Ontario early this March, including a screening of a number of excerpts from the eponymous documentary film. The book was also presented in London, Ontario—home to numerous Hajduk enthusiasts.
The majority of research activity in the field of computer and corpus linguistics and human language technology in Croatia is supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport through projects linked with human language technologies and the Ministry of Culture through cultural heritage digitalisation projects.
The CHF will play host to the 47th CFU JUNIOR TAMBURITZA FESTIVAL. Scheduled for the three-day programme are a number of interesting gatherings and concerts. Sixteen CFU-member ensembles are expected to make the trip from the USA and Canada, joined by four local ensembles.
