The CHF is a traditional sponsor of the festival, which this year gathered eighteen ensembles and 500 performers from Germany, Switzerland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Most of the heads of the dance and tamburitza sections and a number of the members of the ensembles have attended the CHF School of Croatian Folklore.
DetailsCHF executive secretary Diana Mašala Perković opened the exhibition on behalf of director Mijo Marić. She was joined by Snježana Jurišić, head of our culture department, and by academy trained painter and emeritus professor Emil Robert Tanay, who discussed the canvases on display.
DetailsJoining the author to discuss the book at the headquarters of the Croatian Writers’ Association was writer and essayist Željka Lovrenčić, literary critic Branimir Romac, and event moderator Lada Žigo Španić.
DetailsZagreb mayor Bandić presented the Medal of the City of Zagreb to Roman Catholic bishop Živković for his contribution to connecting ethnic Croatians living in other countries with their ancestral land of origin. The bishop for his part presented gifts as a sign of gratitude to Zagreb and Vukovar and to Croatian Government as sponsors of the concert.
DetailsThe latest issue covers the fifteenth anniversary of the opening of a CHF branch in Vukovar and a visit by the Croatian president and a CHF delegation to Pittsburgh for the 125th anniversary of the Croatian Fraternal Union. Matica also covers a number of book promos and publications dealing with diaspora issues.
DetailsEminent Croatian philosopher Edo Pivčević was at the National & University Library in Zagreb where he donated copies of the British-Croatian Review he founded in the UK.
DetailsCHF director Marić presented a handcrafted image in straw from Tavankut to CFU national president Edward Pazo. Mr Pazo presented Marić with an inscribed glass trophy as a symbolic expression of gratitude for many years of successful cooperation.
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This unique poetry event is now in its 22nd incarnation and is organised by the Rešetari Literary and Arts Association and the Croatian Heritage Foundation. It is much more than simply a gathering of poets. Nurturing the ancestral mother tongue, Croatians around the world hold on to their identity in the countries they now call home and create bridges with Croatia.
DetailsVukovar mayor Ivan Penava joined CHF deputy director Ivan Tepeš at the opening of the new office of the Vukovar branch of the CHF, with the new premises blessed by Vukovar guardian friar Ivica Jagodić.
DetailsThe latest issue of Matica magazine is fresh off the presses. The cover of the July issue of our monthly magazine features the Korana River and the land it lies in as we mark the 440th anniversary of the founding of the city of Karlovac. This issue of Matica focuses on the island of Korčula.
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