Category: Culture
Culture 15.11.22 | 19:18

Albania will return 20 icons stolen from Macedonia

Albania agreed to return 20 icons which were taken from Macedonia a decade ago. The icons were seized in Albania in October 2013 in a large raid. Experts soon determined that the artefacts were not taken from churches in Albania, but from Macedonia. The culture ministries of both countries reached agreement...
Culture 14.11.22 | 11:16

Nikola Ristanovski wins Grand Prix award at Niksic festival

Nikola Ristanovski is the winner of the Grand Prix award for the best male role at the 18th International Actor’s Festival, Niksic 2022, Montenegro, for the role of Dr. Stokman in the play “People’s Enemy” directed by Nina Nikolic. It is the third award in a row for the same...
Culture 12.11.22 | 21:04

Hristo Petreski, president of the Writer’s Association: Macedonians have one language, it was not, is not, and cannot be a dialect of another language

Today we cannot tell anyone what he will be called. Is his language his own or someone else’s, says the president of the Writer’s Association of Macedonia, Hristo Petreski, who, contrary to the modern Bulgarian denials of the Macedonian language, warns that Macedonians have one language,...
Culture 10.11.22 | 13:56

After a break of 15 years, Macedonian Language Department opens at Ankara University

With the first, promotional class that was held yesterday at the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, the Department of Macedonian Language with a lectorate at the University of Ankara started working. The new lectureship was opened almost 15 years after the previous one – at the University...
Culture 21.10.22 | 14:56

Cuareim Quartet, European Creative Orchestra to give chamber concert

The European Creative Orchestra at the FAME’S Institute and the Cuareim Quartet will give a concert at the Philharmonic chamber hall, featuring percussionist and vocalist Natascha Rogers and vocalist Zarina Prvasevda as guests. The concert will present original compositions inspired by dances from...
Culture 14.10.22 | 12:10

Culture Minister unable to name one major infrastructure project she is working on

Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska Stojceska was stumped when a journalist asked her to name at least one major infrastructure object that she is constructing. Новинарот ја прашува министерката за култура:КОЛКУ и КОЈ КАПИТАЛЕН ПРОЕКТ...
Culture 02.10.22 | 19:53

Culture Ministry employees preparing a strike after their request for salary increases was rejected

The Culture Ministry is faced with a strike after the Finance Ministry refused a request to increase the salaries of its employees. Vecer is reporting that the Culture Ministry union is especially angered after reports that the Finance Ministry approved a 30 percent salary hike for its own workers, but...
Culture 26.09.22 | 13:48

28 professors, theater, film and music artists from Balkan and European culture support the opening of film and music studios in Skopje

28 academic professors, theater, film, and music artists, and ambassadors of Macedonian, Serbian, Balkan, and European culture sent an open letter to the Macedonian Government in which they express public support for the STP/Stonebridge Studios project, with which they support the opening of film and...
Culture 15.09.22 | 21:21

Trpceski promoted the “Makedonissimo” music project

Simon Trpceski and friends promoted the musical project “Makedonissimo” on the plateau in front of the National Opera and Ballet in Skopje. After this promotion in Skopje, there will be concerts in Stip and Bitola on September 25 and 26. This project, which in the meantime conquered the world...
Macedonia Culture 28.08.22 | 12:22

International seminar on Macedonian language: Bulgaria’s claims that the Macedonian language is a dialect of the Bulgarian are pointless and political

More than 300 undergraduate and postgraduate students and doctoral students in Macedonian studies in 20 centers around the world study the Macedonian language and culture and are the biggest ambassadors for its promotion. Some of them are improving their knowledge and skills these days in Ohrid at the...
Macedonia Culture 15.08.22 | 13:44

Macedonian language seminar to welcome scholars from 17 countries

Sixty Macedonian language scholars from 17 countries will attend the summer school of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University’s 55nd International Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture. Classes begin Aug. 17 and will run through Sept. 2. ISMLLC announced that compared to previous years,...
Culture 12.08.22 | 11:42

Virtual monument of Grigor Prlicev in Ohrid vandalized

Last night, the virtual monument of Grigor Prlicev downtown Ohrid was vandalized and disabled from its function. According to Prof. Dr. Anis Sefanidis, who worked on the monument for years, unknown persons cut the electricity supply, removed the Macedonian flag and teared down the writings. They also...
Culture 10.08.22 | 12:09

Macedonian poet Zoran Ancevski wins Struga Poetry Evenings award

“Confused Compasses” (Ili-Ili), the latest poetry collection by Macedonian poet and literary translator Zoran Ancevski, was awarded the 61st Struga Poetry Evenings festival’s Miladinov Brothers award for a best poetry book published since August 2022. He is the winner of this highest recognition...
Macedonia Culture 25.07.22 | 12:51

Archaeologist Risteski: Markovi Kuli complex devalued and forgotten by the state

The archeologist from the Institute of Old Slavic Culture from Prilep, Branislav Risteski, warns that the process of adopting a plan for management and reanimation of the Markovi Kuli complex, as a natural rarity and a cultural entity, is stagnating. Risteski, who in 2006 was actively involved in the...
Culture 27.05.22 | 15:23

Bisera Kostadinovska Stojcevska: The “Open Balkans” countries are working on establishing a joint film fund to which co-productions initiated by the three countries will apply

Ministers of Culture, representatives of film agencies, youth cultural centers, major state and private music festivals, museums, philharmonic, opera and ballet as well as theaters will take part in the “Open Balkans”, which will be held on June 7-8, 2022 in Ohrid, Macedonia. This initiative...
Culture 07.05.22 | 23:20

Dzambazov given the “Petre Prlicko” award for lifetime achievement

Actor and musician Igor Dzambazov was given the “Petre Prlicko” award for lifetime achievement. Legendary actor Prlicko was Dzambazov’s grandfather. The award will be given to Igor on May 18th, at the newly-founded theater festival in Veles.
Culture 18.03.22 | 16:49

US fund will support protecting the ancient Theodosian Palace in Stobi

The US J. M. Kaplan fund will fund a project to protect the Theodosian Palace in Stobi, one of Macedonia’s main archeological sites that dates from the Roman period. The philanthropic fund will donate 300,000 to the site. Site director Spase Perovski said that it is receiving support from the European...
Culture 07.03.22 | 11:37

Arsovska: The entire Government is trying to cover up Silegov’s botched reconstruction of the Universal Hall

Skopje Mayor Danela Arsovska accused the ruling SDSM party of politicizing institutions and architect associations in an attempt to defend her predecessor Petre Silegov and his botched project to reconstruct the Universal concert hall. We can’t allow a facility where the safety of workers is not...
Culture 25.02.22 | 14:20

Mayor Arsovska and Minister Kostadinovska publicly debated the failed Universal Hall reconstruction

Skopje Mayor Danela Arsovska responded to Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska – Stojcevska over the reconstruction work of Skopje’s Universal Hall concert venue that was botched by the Culture Ministry and the previous City Hall administration. Arsovska invited Minister Kostadinovska for...
Culture 24.02.22 | 19:36

Writer Luan Starova has died aged 81

Noted writer and Francophile Luan Starova has died today aged 81, his family informed the public. Starova was born in Pogradec in Albania, and the family moved to Macedonia when he was just two. He worked in Television Skopje as an Albanian language editor, before leaving for Paris to study literature....
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