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49th International Children's Festival in Sibenik Croatia June 20 – July 4 2009

Posted on June 20, 2009August 9, 2026 by Prof.Dr. Darko Zubrinic

Attention during the International Children’s Festival in Šibenik. Photos from www.mdf-si.org

 
Program of 49th International Children’s Festival in Šibenik, Croatia, 2009
Sunday 21th June
Theatre foyer at 10 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Opening of the exhibitions at 12.00
Croatian art competition for primary school children on the subject of
THE BOAT OF MY CHILDHOOD
Studio of St.Krševan Gallery
Silvester Plotajs Sicoe, Ljubljana
St.Krševan Gallery
GROUP EXHIBITION
Nevenka Arbanas, Zagreb
Dora Kovačević, Zagreb
Dragana Nuić-Vučković
City Museum of Šibenik
The exhibitions can be viewed from 10 a.m to 1 p.m and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
CHILDREN’S CULTURAL CENTRE KARPOŠ
Skopje, FYR Macedonia
THE EVENING OF FOLKLORE
Monday 22th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
THE CITY THEATRE ŽAR PTICA
ZAGREB
Waldemar Bonsels:
MAYA THE BEE
Dramatized by: Ana Tonković Dolenčić
directed by: Ivan Leo Lemo
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
THEATRE OF YOUTH, Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
ALADDIN
Author of the project: Kaća Dorić
(setting/text)
Tuesday 23th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
THE CITY THEATRE TREŠNJA, Zagreb
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Directed byj:
Rene Medvešek
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
THEATRE AND CONCERT HALL
IVANA BRLIĆ MAŽURANIĆ
Workshop- In the World of the fairy tales
Slavonski Brod
Fisherman Plunk and His Wife
MUSICAL AND STAGE MAGIC
Directed and dramatized by: Dubravka Zrnčić-Kulenović

Wednesday 24th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
YOUNG MUSIC TALENTS
CONCERT
Performers:
Vanja Sedlak-saxophone
Emilija Minić- solo singer
Vasilije Gagović-double bass
Marija Barjaktarević-piano
Borna Erceg-piano
Bruna Bilać-cello
Adrea Radović-cello
In cooperation with:
The Kotor Festival of Children’s Theatres, Kotor, Montenegro
ŠOSMO Vida Matjan, Kotor, Montenegro
Music school Ivan Lukačić, Šibenik, Croatia
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
db PROJEKTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania
WHAT’S THAT?
„O KAS ČIA?“
Thursday 25th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
CHILDREN’S THEATRE BRANKO MIHALJEVIĆ, OSIJEK
GOLDEN DAYS
Jagoda Truhelka
Dramatized by: Dubravka Crnojević-Carić
Directed by: Dubravka Crnojević-Carić
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
STATE PUPPET THEATRE ULGER,
Buryat Republic, Russian Federation
THE SINGING ARROW
Director: Erdeni Zhaltsanov
Friday 26th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
CITY PUPPET THEATRE, Split
LITTLE FAIRY
Directed by: Slavčo Malenov
author: Slavčo Malenov, based on a traditional story
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
EVENING OF STREET PROGRAMMES
Saturday 27th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
ZAGREB PUPPET THEATRE, Zagreb
Carlo Collodi – Miro Gavran
PINOCCHIO
Directed by: Georgij Paro
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
CHILDREN’S FOLKLORE GROUP KABLUCHOK, Moscow, Russian Federation EVENING OF FOLKLORE
Sunday 28th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
PUPPET THEATRE, Zadar
Lyman Frank Baum:
THE WIZARD OF OZ
Dramatized by: Dražen Ferenčina, Davor Grzunov
Directed by: Dražen Ferenčina
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
I LOVE YOU, ISLAND
KUD Natko Nodilo Babino Polje, island of Mljet
Dances of the island of Mljet: Škampa Boško and Mljetska poskočica with Ťlijericať accompaniment
Guided by: Anko Dabelić
FD Poljica, Poljica, island of Krk
Dances of the island of Krk: Naokolo, Tanac po staru, Kuntra and Polka with sopela accompaniment
Guided by: Marina Brozić
Primary school Vela Luka Vela Luka, island of Korčula
School folklore group Mala kumpanija
Guided by: Marita Hrboka, Mirela Maričić and Milan Oreb
Monday 29th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
Theatre MALA SCENA, Zagreb
Silvija Šesto Stipaničić
THE FAT GIRL
Choice of music, dramatized and directed by:  
Snježana Banović
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
The COMIC OPERA FOR CHILDREN, Bucharest, Romania
Bernard Shaw:
PYGMALION
Choreographer: Mihai Babuska
Tuesday 30th June
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Presentation of Poljska čitanka
– collection of drama texts for children and youth
Publisher: Theatre Epicentre and HC ASSITEJ
City theatre at 7 p.m.
PUPPET GROUP VIRKO, Šibenik
VESELA polLUTKA
(on occasion of the picture book presentation), publisher: ICF
Directed by: Sergej Mioč
Dobrić Square at 8 p.m.
WRITERS AT THE FESTIVAL
Sanja Polak, Zagreb
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
TEATR LALEK, Banialuka, Poland
Liliana Bardijewska:
GREEN PASSENGER
Directed by: Paweł Aigner

Wednesday 1st July
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Presentation of MONTE LIBRIĆ-
Association Sa(n)jam knjige u Istri, Pula MONTE LIBRIĆ
City theatre at 7 p.m.
CITY PUPPET THEATRE, Rijeka
Tahir Mujičić
MORČIĆ
Directed by: Zoran Mužić
City library Juraj Šižgorić at 8 p.m.
WRITERS AT THE FESTIVAL
Mladen Kušec, Zagreb
Thursday 2nd July
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
POETS AT THE FESTIVAL
Mladen Bjažić, Zagreb
Friday 3rd July
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
City theatre at 7 p.m.
WORKSHOP FILM PRODUCTION
Convent of St Lovre – garden at 8 p.m.
KC Vodice
Amateur drama group Vodice
King’s cherries fairy tale
Directed and dramatized by: Pave Čala
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
CIRCUS STUDIO ARLEKINO, Ukraine, Ilyičevsk
CIRCUS BALAGANCHIK
Director: Nadežda Volyk
Saturday 5th July
Theatre foyer at 11 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Summer stage at 9 p.m.
***CLOSING CEREMONY***
Programme of celebrating the anniversary
of CVRČAK (CRICKET) Children’s choir
RUKA SLUŽI DA SE DRUŽI
Participants:
CRICKET CHILDREN’S CHOIR, Šibenik
Guided by: Sonja Bator
CHILDREN FROM THE DRAMA WORKSHOPS, ŠIBENIK
HELLO KIDS CHILDREN’S CHOIR, Šibenik
DANCE ENSEMBLE SJENE (SHADOWS), Šibenik
Idea: Zdenka Kekelić
Script and directed by: Sergej Mioč
Source www.mdf-si.org


 
It has been forty-six years of socialising for Šibenik, me and children! The festival of children or for children? This used to be a crucial question! But today, what importance does it have?!? The only important thing is that this is a festival of play, a festival of joy and goodness and above all a festival of infinite fantasy. Children’s fantasy, no matter how old you are!
Through years I used to leave, to run away to be precise, in order to do some “more serious” jobs. However, I would wait impatiently for June and the first chords of the festival song “Zdravo maleni” (Hello kids). It was a warning. It was an invitation to forget everyday, often unnecessary concerns and to reach a weightless, spaceless and timeless limitation. Thus, for forty-six years I have been witnessing some other children gradually taking over not power and jobs as we tend to think but rather happiness and fun! Some fifteen years ago there was only a puppet show workshop, now there are about twenty different workshops.
When I was a child some of the terms such as roller skaters, skateboarders or surfers did not exist, they could not be traced in the most comprehensive dictionaries of the time! The ceremonial theatrical curtain is a work of children’s fantasy and children’s hands! The motifs of the Krka waterfalls, the cathedral and the islands of Kornati are the subjects of children’s graphics or street mosaics! And the festival bulletin tells its own story! Since it was taken over by children, it has had plenty of critical reviews but without malevolent criticising, plenty of exhaustive reports without boring philosophising, countless witty jokes but without insults!
These children have done something that Pipi did not manage to do. All this without help of a greater celandine! They have managed to grow up but not get old! To get serious without losing the sense of beauty and imagination! To sum up, they have managed to believe and act according to the saying: “Poetry is not in tea but in making tea.”
Zvonko Festini
member of the Festival committee of ICF and president of UNIMA Croatian centre

Source www.mdf-si.org


 
Renaissance Cathedral of Sv. Jakob in Šibenik, top monument of Croatian culture
The St. Jacob’s, the cathedral of Šibenik, built for over a century, is a testimony of persistency, sacrifice and belief of the generations of inhabitants of Šibenik.
By many things it is unique not only in the Croatian architecture, but in the European as well: it is entirely built of stone, no other material being used; it is unique by the brave structure of stone slabs and ribs, with no binding material; it is also unique among renaissance churches by its trefoil front facade; finally, it is unique by the harmony of its architecture and the row of 71 realistic sculptural portraits around the apses.

Renaissance Cathedral of Sv. Jakov in Šibenik, proteced by UNESCO; source hr.wikipedia.7val.com

Documents preserved from the time of building of the cathedral evidence contributions from the entire community to its building, but from many individuals as well, including large number of domestic stone-dressers, builders and artisans. The most important among them is Juraj Matejev Dalmatinac, who came from Zadar and who the town of Šibenik commissioned in 1441 to take over the job of the proto-master of the cathedral of Šibenik.
The cathedral and the nearby renaissance town hall, other churches, palaces, and the Prince’s Palace presently housing the County Museum, make probably the most beautiful town square of the Croatian urban heritage.
Source www.sibenik-tourism.hr


A detail from the most beautiful Croatian cathedral, built in 15-16th centuries; source hr.wikipedia.7val.com

www.sibenik-tourism.hr

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