Category: Culture
Culture 08.02.19 | 16:36

Culture Ministry cuts funding for some of the best known events, diverts money to Albanian cultural projects

The Culture Ministry decided to cut its financial support for some of the best known cultural events such as the Skopje Jazz Festival and its spin-off, the Off Fest festival. This decision caused outrage in the public, and even some of the Government appointed culture committee members voiced their condemnation. We...
Culture 08.02.19 | 12:07

Berlin Film Festival opening film shows compassion in tough world

The world might have become a raw and isolating place for many, but in the film that opened the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, Danish director Lone Scherfig seeks to show that humans are essentially driven by a sense of compassion. Speaking at a press conference to mark the world premiere of her modern-day...
Culture 07.02.19 | 18:12

Macedonian poets to read in support of ‘World Without Walls’

Joining in the ‘World Without Walls’ international poetry campaign, Macedonian poets will read at Skopje’s Kotur café gallery on Thursday evening. A screening of Dime Ratajkoski‘s documentary about Polish poet Adam Zagajewski will follow. Katica Kjulavkova, Dolores Atanasova-Lori, Gjoko Zdraveski,...
Culture 07.02.19 | 12:45

MOB will perform Libertango in Veles and Bitola

Libertango – the tango ballet show performed by the Macedonian opera and ballet (MOB) company, will perform in Veles and Bitola. The shows are scheduled for February 12th and 14th. Inspired by Astor Piazzolla’s piece, the ballet combines street dancing, tango and ballet over a story of romance,...
Culture 06.02.19 | 20:24

Grigor Prlichev prize awarded to Koviloski

As part of this year’s Prlichev Orations event in Ohrid, Slavcho Koviloski was officially awarded the 2018 Grigor Prlichev long poem prize for his “Krali Marko the Second Time Around” (“Krali Marko po vtorpat”). Koviloski said the award is an incentive for him to continue writing well. “Developing...
Culture 05.02.19 | 13:08

Macedonia and Bulgaria signed Cultural Cooperation Program

The Minister of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, Asaf Ademi, paid a one-day working visit to the Republic of Bulgaria as part of the official delegation led by the President of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, including the State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Valmir...
Culture 04.02.19 | 16:52

Velestovo Poetry Night to launch book celebrating its 30th anniversary

Ohrid’s Grigor Prlichev university library will host a book launch for the newly released 30 years Velestovo Poetry Night on Tuesday. Linguist and writer Dimitar Pandev will introduce the monograph dedicated to the poetry and art festival’s thirty years of existence. Produced by Velestovo Poetry...
Culture 04.02.19 | 16:05

Anna Karenina: Vronsky’s Story to open Russian Film Month in Cinematheque

Film Anna Karenina: Vronsky’s Story by Karen Shakhnazarov will open Monday the Russian Film Month titled Russian Winter in the Macedonian Cinematheque. By the end of February, 25 classic and contemporary Russian films will be screened on the occasion of the 25th anniversary since the establishment...
Culture 04.02.19 | 10:18

Mice, bugs and floods: Mihajlovski lists the dilapidated state of theaters across the country

Actor and political activist Toni Mihajlovski posted a photograph of the dilapidated Prilep theater, where actors and other employees work in dreadful conditions. Mice everywhere, rains cause flooding in the offices, the water running through the electiral wiring. Ceilings are sagging, walls are cracked,...
Culture 03.02.19 | 13:11

Macedonian documentary Honeyland wins top prizes at Sundance Film Festival

Honeyland, a Macedonian documentary directed by Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, has won the top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States. In competition with 11 other documentaries from around the world, Honeyland won the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize, the World Cinema...
Culture 01.02.19 | 18:23

Macedonia’s first annual comics awards, Lift, to be presented at MKC

Macedonia’s first annual comics awards, Lift, will be presented at an exhibition at MKC, the Youth Cultural Center, on Friday at 8 pm. The Skopje publishing house Templum and the civic association OXO founded the awards to recognize local comics artists and promote comics, “a medium largely neglected...
Culture 01.02.19 | 10:17

Breath – movie about the horrendous levels of air pollution in Skopje

Radovan Petrovic began filming Breath – a movie that covers the problem of air pollution in Macedonia. Skopje was again one of the most polluted cities in the world this week, as the widespread use of wood and even solid waste for heating and lack of natural gas, causes acrid smoke over the city...
Culture 31.01.19 | 15:47

Thirty-six hopefuls for 2018 Novel of the Year prize

Thirty-six entries have been submitted for the 2018 Novel of the Year award, contest organizer Slavko Janevski Foundation announced in a press release. Vying for this year’s MKD 150,000 prize are: Virgins and Wolves by Aleksandar Aleksov, self-published Fear of Barbarians by Petar Andonovski, Ili-ili Childhood’s...
Culture 31.01.19 | 13:41

Beethoven’s exuberant Second and other masterpieces at Philharmonic tonight

The Philharmonic is giving a concert Thursday evening dedicated to Beethoven’s choral and orchestral works. Featuring Nina Kostova on solo piano and conducted by Sasho Tatarchevski, the Philharmonic will perform Beethoven’s Name Day Overture in C Major, Op. 115; Choral Fantasy for piano, vocal...
Culture 30.01.19 | 18:01

Short made by Macedonia’s Lynx animation studios to screen at Berlinale

Norwegian animated short Dad (Pappa), produced by Oslo’s Gimpville and largely made in Skopje’s Lynx animation studios, will screen at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival in February. “This is the first time we’ve made the official selection of an A-list festival,” Lynx’s general...
Culture 30.01.19 | 11:11

Performance of the Nutcracker in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet

The Macedonian Opera and Ballet will perform Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker on Wednesday and Saturday. Marija Kicevska Sokarovska and Mimi Pop Aleksova Atanasovska will perform Clara, and Boban Kovacevski will dance in the role of the Prince, in this22 ultimate Christmas ballet.
Culture 28.01.19 | 15:33

Philharmonic to give Beethoven concert Thursday

The Philharmonic will give a concert dedicated to Beethoven’s choral and orchestral works on Thursday. Featuring Nina Kostova on solo piano and conducted by Sasho Tatarchevski, the Philharmonic will perform Beethoven’s Name Day Overture in C Major, Op. 115; Choral Fantasy for piano, vocal soloists,...
Culture 25.01.19 | 14:21

Risto Lazarov releases two new ‘Prague Manuscripts’

Macedonian journalist and poet Risto Lazarov has recently added two new books to his Prague Manuscripts non-fiction series published by Vezilka 2011: The Slánský trial and other Czech fates, and Hrabal: The Sad King of Czech Literature. The Slánský trial and other Czech fates is about the prosecution...
Culture 24.01.19 | 14:04

Promotion of Grape Malt Syrup novel by Vlada Urosevikj

Magor is hosting a book launch for Grape Malt Syrup, the latest novel by Vlada Uroshevikj, at Skopje’s Kultura cinema on Thursday evening. Grape Malt Syrup is a novel of atmosphere and urban setting as much as a postmodern puzzle, according to literary critic Lidija Kapushevska-Drakulevska. Reviewing...
Culture 24.01.19 | 13:17

“Read in one gulp” campaign was real success and people talk about it

At the end of last year, interesting little prints of excerpts from books by world-famous authors were distributed in JSP Skopje buses. Passengers could read while travelling to school, to work, going to a scheduled meeting or having a doctor’s appointment. The idea was to shorten the trip and...
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