Boris Kačan’s cover photography features the portal of the 1686 Lantana family baroque period palace on the issue’s featured island of Ugljan.
The October issue of Matica magazine features a twenty-page spread focusing on the island of Ugljan. The cover features the portal to the 1686 Lantana family baroque period palace on the island, photographed by Boris Kačan. The back-cover photo by Silvije Butković celebrates the European Heritage Days. Željko Rupić provides our coverage of events, sports and news out of the State Office for Croats Abroad.
In her The Sociological Puzzle column Nina Sorić looks at what is shaping up to be one of the showpiece museums in Croatia, the baroque style former administrative building of the Rijeka sugar refinery from 1752 currently undergoing a remodelling. In our new section on Croatian language instructorships Nataša Veinović leverages jargon to relate her experience in Beijing. We consider the long history of the interrelationship between the island of Ugljan and Zadar on the mainland (Marin Knezovića), our endemic flora and fauna (Darko Mihelj) figures like publicist Vjekoslav Mavro of Kukljica (Vesna Kukavica), and how a brief visit by writer Petar Preradović to the summer residence of his first wife in Lukoran inspired him to pen his best known poem.
In his column Croatian Musicians Davor Schopf writes of the 135th anniversary of the birth of composer Dora Pejačević. In Vienna a Croatian civic centre has opened ahead of schedule and in Belgrade the local authorities have provided premises for Croatian community ethnic and culture associations. We cover Vladimir P. Goss’ new book on the identity of Srijem Croats, and look at the lives of Michael Palaich and Mile Rupčić. Along with her regular column Vesna Kukavica covers a significant exhibition on 800 years of cultural heritage shared by Croatia and Hungary. We also look at Branko Baf, a tireless emigrant from Istra County, a new film workshop in Orašje, and the Insieme/Zajedno magazine of the Croatian-Italian Association of Rome. Our editor Ljerka Galic invites readers to enjoy these and other articles in this month’s issue.
03 Content – October 2020
Columns
13 Global Croatia
14 The Sociological Puzzle
20 Croatian Musicians
24 Click: Going Home
32 Croatia’s Endemic Flora and Fauna
39 Cues in Communication
62 Movement/Aberration
4 In Focus: News from the State Office for Croats Abroad
6 New premises for Croatian associations in Belgrade
8 Croatian civic centre opens in Vienna
9 The Ars et Virtus Croatia-Hungary: 800 Years of Shared Cultural Heritage exhibition
12 The Zajedno/Insieme magazine
18 170th anniversary of the merger of Gradec and Kaptol
19 Croatia Outside the Homeland III Promo event
26 23rd Rešetari poetry meeting
27 50th Varaždin Baroque Evenings
28 A look at the history of Ugljan island
30 Ugljan’s points of interest
36 A chronicle of emigration out of Kukljica on Ugljan island
40 The Little School goes virtual
42 A database on teaching Croatian as a foreign language
44 A Croatian language instructorship in Beijing
46 A new book by Vladimir P. Goss
48 Books: The Identity of Srijem Croats Through the Prism of Tradition Heritage
50 A Spanish translation of Šenoa’s The Goldsmith’s Treasure
52 Voting rights anniversary
54 A book by Michael Palaich
56 Mile Rupčić’s latest album
57 Recognition of emigrant Gordana Bećirović
58 The projects of emigrant Branko Baf
60 A film workshop in Orašje
64 Crorama
66 Sports news
By: Ljerka Galic