Category: Culture
Culture 10.03.23 | 11:46

New exhibit showcases Macedonian artists influenced by School of Paris

As part of events marking Francophonie Month, an exhibit aiming to explore the Parisian influences on the great Macedonian painters opened at the National Gallery’s Chifte Amam on Thursday. The paintings will be on display through March 25. Organized together with Skopje’s French Institute, “Paris...
Culture 09.03.23 | 13:21

MoCA opens ‘Landscape of Anxiety’ exhibition

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) will open on Thursday evening the exhibition ‘Landscape of Anxiety: Culture and Art for Future Coexistence With Environmental Crises and Climate Change”, which refers to climate conditions and environmental challenges. The landscape of anxiety refers...
Culture 25.02.23 | 16:08

World premiere of Darija Andovska’s work in Switzerland

Macedonian composer Darija Andovska’s work Songs of winds, roots and scattered storms, performed by Macedonian pianist Ana Velinovska, had its world premiere on Friday at the “Salquin” concert hall in Lucerne, Switzerland, as part of a closing concert of the Academy of Contemporary...
Culture 20.02.23 | 11:51

Charity concert for people affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

Today, starting at 19 h at the Faculty of Music Arts, students and professors will hold a charity concert for the people affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. When humanity faces such tragedies and temptations, everyone, starting from themselves, should give something of their own for a new...
Music Culture 15.02.23 | 10:35

OFFest 2023 canceled: We don’t intend to file a complaint to the second-level commission and expose ourselves to further humiliation

The million denars allocated for OFFest at the annual contest for projects of national interest in culture, reduced by half from last year’s amount, do not provide even the most minimal financial conditions for holding OFFest (scheduled from June 7 to 10) as a (multi-day) festival. Unfortunately,...
Culture 15.02.23 | 10:11

State Archives to digitize Struga Poetry Evenings papers

All Struga Poetry Evenings festival papers and book releases from 1963 to 1990 will be digitized as part of an archival project to preserve the vast cultural heritage of the poetry festival, according to a memorandum signed by the State Archives and the SPE. The Ohrid historic archive has started digitizing...
Film Culture 14.02.23 | 11:34

Milcho Manchevski holds a series of masterclasses at Arizona State University

Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski is holding a series of masterclasses and lectures at the Arizona State University, US, also featuring screening of his films Before the Rain, Mothers and Bikini Moon. The series of masterclasses are taking place at the Sidney Poitier New American Film School,...
Macedonia Culture 14.02.23 | 09:55

Culture Ministry approves only 6% of the necessary funds for the reconstruction of Goce Delcev’s memorial house in Bitola, which has been closed for years

These days, the problem with honoring the apostle of the Macedonian national struggle, Goce Delcev, is still ongoing. But in addition to the sale of his ideological legacy, Delcev’s memorial house in Bitola has been closed for years. The reason why it is closed is the alleged bad condition of the...
Culture 08.02.23 | 09:59

Kostadinovska-Stojcevska: Ohrid UNESCO Office confirms policies to preserve its status

Minister of Culture Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska met Tuesday with Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO, Ernesto Ottone, and UNESCO Director of World Heritage Lazare Elondou Assomo during her official visit to Paris. Minister Kostadinovska-Stojcevska announced the opening of a UNESCO office...
Culture 03.02.23 | 10:16

Kostadinovska Stojcevska meets US Ambassador Aggeler at Heraclea: We have a unique heritage which we are working hard to preserve

Minister of Culture Bisera Kostadinovska Stojcevska and US Ambassador to Macedonia, Angela Aggeler, met Thursday at Heraclea in Bitola, where the project for conservation and promotion of mosaics and architecture of the site was presented. Kostadinovska Stojcevska posted on Facebook that a grant from...
Culture 26.01.23 | 10:24

#AllForMKC movement to stage protest in front of Skopje City Council

The “All For MKC” movement is staging a protest at 10:45 h in front of the Council of the City of Skopje as a sign of revolt against the budget cuts and the change of the temporary leadership of the city institution. The organizers say that the purpose of the action is to show the culture...
Culture 24.01.23 | 20:52

Key youth cultural institution in Skopje faces collapse over political infighting

More trouble in the Youth Cultural Center (MKC) in Skopje, where city management replaced the director against the wishes of the employees. The stubbornly independent institution that serves as a concert and exhibition hall for often politically active groups is again falling victim to a dispute involving...
Macedonia Culture 21.01.23 | 20:11

Three years, two prime ministers, the same project: Zaev and Kovacevski will “preserve” the Macedonian language in Ljubojno

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski and Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska – Stojcevska today visited the old school “Dimitar Vlahov” in the Prespa village of Ljubojno. Kovacevski announced that this school will be reconstructed and revitalized into a Center for the Promotion of the...
Culture 18.01.23 | 14:34

Bogoev: I was dismissed as MKC director because I didn’t want to sign employment decision for Beni Shaqiri

I didn’t want to sign the employment decision for Beni Shaqiri and that’s why I was removed from the position of director, Vanco Bogoev, the now dismissed director of the Youth Cultural Center (MKC), told “Republika”. The MKC program board sent a press release to the media saying...
Culture 17.01.23 | 15:45

Old school in Ljubojno to be repurposed into Center for Macedonian Language Promotion

The old Dimitar Vlahov School in Ljubojno will be repurposed into a Center for the Promotion of the Macedonian Language. The Government reviewed the report on the implementation of a project for reconstruction and revitalization of the school at its session on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture is tasked...
Culture 16.01.23 | 12:11

Baukultur department to be set up within Culture Ministry

Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska told the second Conference of European Ministers of Culture “Baukultur Alliance” that she sees Baukultur as a necessity, while shared experience and joint action are the right path to good solutions, the Ministry of Culture said in a press release. I...
Macedonia Culture 14.01.23 | 20:53

Vevcani Carnival ends with burning of the masks

The consequences of the economic and energy crisis and bad governance in society, represented by the creative people of Vevcani, were symbolically burned this afternoon in the center of Vevcani, as part of the final part of the Vevcani Carnival. People danced the traditional dance and burned the masks,...
Macedonia Culture 12.01.23 | 10:04

Vevcani Carnival kicks off

In the spirit of the 15th-century tradition, Vevcani vibrates in the sign of the carnival. Inspired by the daily events in the country and abroad, but also by the political situation of the past 12 months, the people of Vevcani are preparing their masks in anticipation of, for them, the most exciting...
Culture 10.01.23 | 13:10

Vlajkinoski: Vevcani carnival is in the process of being included in the list of cultural intangible heritage, and will be held without support from the Culture Ministry

Bisera Kostadinovska once again shows a complete absence and lack of interest in Macedonian features. The Vevcani carnival was left again, without support from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, said Gjorgi Vlajnkinoski, president of the VMRO-DPMNE branch in Vevcani. The Vevcani carnival...
Culture 09.01.23 | 12:11

The proposed draft law on culture is a kind of precedent typical of dictatorships, quasi-democracies and hybrid states, SKRM reacts

Although announced with great PR as putting the salaries in the public sector on the agenda, the proposed draft law is a kind of precedent typical of dictatorships, quasi-democracies and hybrid states, and not of countries from the EU territory, reacts the Union of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia...
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