Croatian Heritage Foundation deputy director Ivan Tepeš and the head of our culture department Snježana Jurišić received the members of the Argentinean klapa ensemble, and Jadran Croatian association president Daniel Detelić at CHF headquarters
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The event opened with the presentation of Ms Mesarić Žabčić’s and Ms Tošić Grlač’s Mirisi i okusi međimurskog zavičaja u iseljeništvu (“The Aromas and Flavours of the Native Međimurje in the Diaspora Communities”). The event also saw Slađana Matić Trstenjak and Marijana Mirta open the Svetlobe (“Lights”) exhibition at the synagogue in Lendava, open through to the 31st of October.
The event opened with the presentation of Ms Mesarić Žabčić’s and Ms Tošić Grlač’s Mirisi i okusi međimurskog zavičaja u iseljeništvu (“The Aromas and Flavours of the Native Međimurje in the Diaspora Communities”). The event also saw Slađana Matić Trstenjak and Marijana Mirta open the Svetlobe (“Lights”) exhibition at the synagogue in Lendava, open through to the 31st of October.
(7th HIDIS) which will take place at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from the 14th to the 15th November 2019.
University professor, linguist, writer, historian and Jesuit priest Vladimir Horvat led the Croatian Catholic Mission in the French capital of Paris for a decade, where he joined the effort to found a Croatian studies department at the Sorbonne University. He lectured to his retirement at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies and at the university’s Department of Croatian Studies. He also served as the director of the Croatian Institute of History in Vienna
A delegation of the Municipality of Rešetari and of the Drežnik culture and arts society visited the North Macedonian capital of Skopje. The Drežnik folklore group staged a concert in the local culture centre, while the delegation held a series of meetings with their hosts.
The September double issue of Matica magazine is available. The issue features a twenty-page spread on the island of Hvar, which holds six UNESCO-inscribed examples of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage.
The 2019 assistance funding went to eighty-nine programmes and projects that are of particular interest for the Croatian component of Bosnia-Herzegovina, totalling 25.8 million Croatian kuna (34 programmes and projects in the area of culture, 17 programmes and projects in the area of education and research/the sciences, 12 programmes and projects in the area of healthcare and 26 programmes and projects in other areas).
President Grabar-Kitarović presented Charters of the Republic of Croatia to leading communities and associations in Switzerland, to Croatian Catholic missions and to the association of parents whose children attend Croatian language supplementary schooling.
A welcome address from Rab mayor Nikola Grgurić was followed by Jelena Nadinić, the president of the Jadran culture association of Buenos Aires, presenting the work of the Klapa Valovi group out of Argentina. The concert finale saw Klapa Valovi join forces onstage with local Rab ensemble Klapa Anima Arbae.
Canadian-Croatian a cappella ensemble Klapa Kartolina of Windsor, Ontario kicked off its Croatian tour at the event. Their tour of the country is organised and supported by the Croatian Heritage Foundation. Also performing was the group’s female section the Klapa Fritule, which brings together second-generation Canadians of Croatian ethnic extraction.
