The title of Miss Croatian Folk Costume in the Croatian communities abroad went to Nikoleta Mariana Vlasić from Romania. The first runner-up was Franka Ivković from Switzerland, followed by second runner-up Klaudija Baturić from New Zealand.
This year’s University School gathered thirty-six students from fourteen European and overseas countries – besides the daily classes the participants also have an opportunity to take part in a rich culture programme and excursions to the Plitvice Lakes and the Hrvatsko Zagorje region. This traditional programme of the CHF and the University of Zagreb is targeted to young people of Croatian extraction and all other students who wish to learn about Croatia and learn or perfect their Croatian.
The panel of judges included the head of the Croatian Heritage Foundation’s department for culture Srebrenka Šeravić. Also on the panel was Iva Cvetko in the capacity of an expert leader according to the criteria of the Zagreb-based Croatian Association of Folklore Leaders and Choreographers. Performing at the festival were folklore ensembles from Mainz, Wiesbaden, Mittelbaden, Hannover, Mannheim-Mosbach, Nürnberg, Augsburg, Filderstadt, Main-Taunus/Hochtaunus, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt and Wupperal.
Eight clubs will face off at the 3rd Croatian World Football Club Championships in two groups, from Canada, France, Serbia, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden.
This year’s sixth issue of Matica magazine covers the commemoration on Bleiburg field, a round table on the return of emigrant Croatians, the Meeting of Croatians in Padua, the Croatian Cultural Garden in Cleveland and much, much more.
The symposium was organised – at the initiative of honorary Croatian consul in Slovenia Šime Ivanjko DSc – for the 3rd of June by the University of Maribor’s Faculty of Arts, the University of Maribor Library, the National Liberation Museum of Maribor and the Croatian Consulate in Maribor.
The exhibition of the Birds (Ptice) series of drawings by Zagreb-based academy educated painter Ivana Vulić is open to the public from the 5th to 23rd of June.
On hand for a lecture on The Significance of the Croatian Home Country for Ethic Groups (National Minorities) with a Special Review / Overview of Gradišće (Burgenland) Croatians were Croatian Ambassador to Austria Gordan Bakota, our soon to be appointed consul in Vienna Vesna Odorčić, Croatian police officer in Austria Krešimir Kovačićek and the head of the indigenous minorities department of the Croatian Heritage Foundation in Zagreb Marija Hećimović.
