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Speaking at the panel CHF director Marić pointed to the seventy years of experience the CHF has in this area and noted that language was an integrative means of preserving identity, and identified the learning and study of Croatian as important factors in preserving awareness of one’s origins.
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The forum pooled over thirty participants from seven countries lecturing on identity and its historical roots in the Croatian minority enclaves and broader communities. The opening lecture was given by Stjepan Blažetin of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs in neighbouring Hungary.
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Ivan Horvat’s photography, eternalizing the rural architecture in the area around the village of Lemeš (Svetozar Miletić) and the town of Sombor, are on exhibit at the Croatian Heritage Foundation.
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The second last of this year’s issues of the Croatian Heritage Foundation’s Matica magazine features the island of Vis, which some say has the greatest concentration of natural monuments in Europe. Along with our regular columns and the diaspora stories of families with ancestral roots on the island of Vis and in the Kvarner Bay region, this issue shares the Book Month fever and offers a bevy of book promos covering diaspora themes.
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The exhibition features the work of Emil Bobanović Ćolić, Vedran Grabovac, Jasmina Runje, Josip Škerlj and Nada Zec Ivanović. Professor Antun Karaman, the exhibition organiser and author of the catalogue foreword, spoke at the opening of this exhibition.
Joining Croatian Writers’ Association president Vidmarović to welcome everyone were CHF director Mijo Marić and foreign and European affairs minister Gordan Grlić Radman. On hand to promote the book were Croatian studies professor Sanja Vulić, and writer and editor Božica Brkan of publishing house Acumen.
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The event was sponsored by the Croatian National Assembly of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Central State Office for Croats Abroad and the Croatian Heritage Foundation, and held under the auspices of Marinko Čavar, the president of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bojan Domić, the education, science, culture and sports minister of the Central Bosnia Canton, Mirjana Plavčić, the canton’s finance minister and the Prsten association of Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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The luxurious edition was presented by editor Željko Ivanković, illustrations editor Mladenko Marijanović, and deputy president of the Vareš chapter of the HKD Napredak Croatian culture association Anto Jelić on behalf of the publisher. On hand to welcome everyone was CHF director Mijo Marić.
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The Bunjevačko kolo Croatian Culture Centre in Subotica staged a presentation at CHF headquarters that included workshops on traditional Bunjevo Croatian heritage.
The event was organised by the Hrvatska Uzdanica association with co-organiser the Croatian Heritage Foundation and was held under the high patronage of the Croatian President, and with the patronage of the Speaker of Croatian Parliament and of the Central State Office for Croats Abroad
