The three-day programme will see the poets visit Makarska, Zaostrog, Živogošće and Biokovo Nature Park. A gala evening of music and literature will be staged at the hall of the Arte music school in Makarska, with HIL poets joined by local poets from the southern Croatian region of Dalmatia and many guests.
DetailsOn behalf of sponsor the CHF the event was open by the head of our culture department, who noted its contribution to the local community and its cultural and societal life, and the bridges created with painters abroad, primarily those coming from the ethnic Croatian enclaves in other European countries, the Croatian national component of Bosnia-Herzegovina and in the many diaspora communities elsewhere.
DetailsThe University of Split will award honorary doctorates to two of our prominent scientists, Igor Rudan DSc and Ivan Đikić DSc, on the 14th of June. The ceremony will coincide with the University of Split Day. There can be nothing more logical than this decision considering that both men worked at the University of Split’s School of Medicine for extended periods and that they remain associated with the School of Medicine.
DetailsTaking part in the dance pairs Croatian folk dance competition were Lydia Novak and Mathias Hoeld of the Kolo Slavuj Gradišće Croatian folklore ensemble, performing the Racko round dance, and Jutta Binder-Schoretits dancing with her partner Michael Navratil.
DetailsThe latest issue of Matica magazine looks ahead at upcoming CHF summer programmes and focuses on the history, nature and prominent figures of Brač, the sunniest island off the seaboard of our southern region of Dalmatia.
DetailsIn Padua to join the numerous ethnic Croatian community living in Italy and pilgrims from the homeland and from other diaspora communities were our ambassadors in Rome and the Vatican, our general consul in Trieste, and our consuls and the representatives of Croatian associations in Italy.
DetailsNine folklore ensembles from the Croatian Catholic missions, communities and parishes in Essen, Darmstadt, Nürnberg, Düsseldorf, Offenbach, Ludwigsburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt and Wuppertal gathered at the Martinsee culture and sports centre. The 28th Croatian Folklore Festival was staged in Heusenstamm near the German city of Offenbach am Main on the 4th of May. The event…
DetailsThe CHF played host to a group of students studying international business relations at the university in Željezno (Eisenstadt) in Austria. The group was led by Ivan Rončević of the University of Vienna’s Institute of Slavic Studies.
DetailsThe monograph on Nenadić near Sombor, a salaš (farmstead) type village typical of the region, was promoted by Frane Parać, vice president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, academician Dragutin Feletar, Vladimir Nazor Croatian Culture and Arts Society president Mata Matarić, Sombor mayor Dušanka Golubović, Mario Bara, Croatian Writers’ Association president Đuro Vidmarović, Stjepan Sučić and Carmelite friar Mato Miloš.
DetailsThe April/Easter issue of our monthly Matica magazine features a diversity of events, both at the Zagreb headquarters of the Croatian Heritage Foundation and around the world.
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