The program for the 58th International Folklore Festival

Lead-up events

Thursday, 4/4/2024

6:00 pm – Ethnographic Museum of Zagreb, Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14

Klapa (a cappella group) Ošjak – five decades of song, a forum of the 58th International Folklore Festival

Participating: Klapa Ošjak, Vela Luka: Tonči Miletić, Marko Gugić, Janes Vlašić, Vlaho Oreb and Nikša Tomašić; dr. sc. Vedrana Milin Ćurin, prof. dr. sc. Maja Povrzanović Frykman, prof. dr, sc. Tvrtko Zebec

 

Friday, 17/5/2024

8:00 pm – Klet, Ilica 73

Lord Čardak’s (Mislav Lešić) exhibition opening and Ukleti dukat’s concert

 

Tuesday, 11/6/2024

6:00 pm – Ethnographic Museum of Zagreb, Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14

Oj, devojko Maro book presentation: A selection of traditional songs from the Festival of Croatian Male Vocal Groups in Ivanić Grad (2002 – 2021)

 

Friday, 14/6/2024

St Peter’s Church, Zagreb

Veseli se o Marijo! concert of church folk songs of the Šokci people

Bački Monoštor, Female Singing Group “Kraljice Bodroga”; Strizivojna, Female Singing Group “Druge”; Zagreb, Male Vocal Group “Sinovi atara”; Zagreb, Female Vocal Group “Zwizde”.

 

Saturday, 15/6/2024

9:00 pm, Komedija – Kontesa Theater Club

Concert: Hojsak & Novosel ft. Thanos Stavridis & Christos Tassios

 

Thursday, 20/6/2024

10:00 am, Markuševac kindergarten, Štefanovec 172 (kindergarten children program)

Presentation of the picture book Priča o jednoj lopti, as well as children’s book presentations Kad bi špence divanilo and Običaji u adventu i Božiću u Drenovcima

 

Monday, 24/6/2024

7:00 pm, Dubrava National University, Dubrava 51a

Vrijeme nade – umijeće slamarske umjetnosti u Hrvatskoj i Ukrajini exhibition opening

Workshops for learning straw art techniques for making objects and pictures on the 25th and 26th June 2024 at 6:00 pm

 

Thursday, 27/6/2024

12:00 pm, Croatian Writers’ Association, Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 7

Šokačka rič – bogatstvo u raznolikosti forum

 

Tuesday, 2/7/2024

12:00 pm, Zagreb City Libraries, Starčevićev trg 4

Fenomen u dva stiha: bećarac photo exhibition opening and introduction of the Museum of Bećarac in Pleternica

8:00 pm – Homeland War Special Police Force Gallery, Trg Žrtava Fašizma 1

Čaje exhibition opening, author: Dražen Bota

 

 

Wednesday, 3/7/2024

7:00 pm – Zrinjevac Park

Folk concert of Croats from Perth, Australia

 

Thursday, 4/7/2024

7:00 pm – Ethnographic Museum of Zagreb, Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14

Umjesto tisuću riječi… – fotografije Marijana Jovića photo exhibition opening

City museum of Županja

 

Friday, 5/7/2024 (postponed for autumn)

6:00 pm – Enzita Kitchen Studio, Zagrebački velesajam

Zalogaj tradicije: tradicijska jela Baranje culinary workshop

Folklore Group “Seljačka sloga”, Gajić

 

Saturday, 6/7/2024 (postponed for autumn)

12:00 pm – Library and reading room Bogdan Ogrizović, Preradovićeva 5

Book presentations: Štitarska fotospomenica (Mate Dominković), Širi mi se, suknjo moja tanka (Antun Lešić), Bošnjaci

 

Wednesday, 10/7/2024

7:00 pm – Cultural Centre Travno, Božidara Magovca 17

Vila Lala – comedy, a play by the Slavonski putujući teATAR folk theater

Friday, 12/7/2024

12:00 am – Ethnographic Museum of Zagreb, Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14

Šokci i baština round-table discussion

6:00 pm – Library and reading room Bogdan Ogrizović, Preradovićeva 5

Monograph presentations: Kulturno-umjetničko društvo Seljačka sloga Gradište 1923. – 2023. and Naših stotinu godina – Folklore Group “Hrvatska seljačka sloga”, Opatovac, also a book presentation: Kako su stari pripovidali – Gradište local speech and speech dictionary

 

Saturday, 13/7/2024

9:00 am – Trg Petra Preradovića

Announcement of a book presentation on bećarci (traditional Croatian folk songs), providing entertainment and Slavonian delicacies

Performing: Folklore Group “Orljava”, Pleternica

12:00 pm – Library and reading room Bogdan Ogrizović, Preradovićeva 5

Knjiga bećaraca book presentation – bećarci of the visitors of the Museum of Bećarac in Pleternica

 

Sunday, 14/7/2024

7:00 pm – procession from the Chapel of the Wounded Jusus to the Stone Gate

Zibala majka zipkicu – a concert of Marian folk songs

Croatian crafts and workers’ cultural and artistic society “Golub”, Bjelovar; Folklore Group “Sloga”, Miklouš; Folklore Group “Prigorje”, Križevci

 

Monday, 15/7/2024

7:00 pm – Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Savska cesta 18

Kad se spremim i malo naredim exhibition opening – folk costumes of Pannonian Šokci people from the Traditional Cultural Heritage Centre collection

 

Tuesday, 16/7/2024

7:00 pm – Ethnographic Museum of Zagreb

Suvremeno odijevanje Šokica project presentation

Marija Gačić and Sonya Darrow (Czechia)

 

 

Festival part of the program

17 – 21/7/2024

 

Wednesday, 17/7/2024

7 pm – Cultural Centre Travno, Božidara Magovca 17, Mamutica plateau

(hall of the Cultural Centre Travno in case of rain)

UNESCO Folklore Promenade –Mreža UNESCO-ovih kulturnih prostora Erasmus+ Project presentation

Performances of foreign folklore groups

 

Thursday, 18/7/2024

10 am – 11am – city centre

Folklore Promenade

 

7 pm – Zrinjevac stage

Performances of folklore groups

 

9 pm – Trg bana Josipa Jelačića stage

Concert: Škura ura

Ethno group Veja

 

8 pm – Sv. Nedelja, stage by the Kipišće lake, Strmec

IFF Zagreb outside of Zagreb

Performances of folklore groups – Erasmus+ project participants

UNESCO cultural locations:

Latviaa: Alsunga, Suiti women of Alsunga; Suitu dūdenieki/Suiti Bagpipers; North Macedonia: Kičevo KUD Racin ;

Other ensembles from abroad: Brazil: Cuiaba Flor de Atalaia Group, Peru: Lima Elenco Artistico Peru Multicolor; Canda: Winnipeg Sopilka Ukranian Dance School

Friday, July 19, 2024

10 – 11 am, city center

Folklore Promenade and the Šokci wedding carriages of the Sikirevci Horse Breeding Association

Performances of folklore groups on the Jelačić Square stage

 

7 pm, Zrinjevac stage

Performances of folklore groups

 

9 pm, Jelačić Square

Formal Event of the 58th International Folklore Festival – Šokadijo sve ti je na glasu – folklore traditions of the Šokci in Pannonia

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Oštra luka, Bok: Ana Zlatunić i Maja Filipović; Serbia: Bački Monoštor KUD Hrvata Bodrog; Croatia: Davor, KUD Matija Antun Relković; Donje Novo Selo Muška pjevačka skupina Spačva, Drežnik, KUD Drežnik; Draž, KUD Baranjski Šokci; Gradište, KUD Seljačka Sloga; Ladimirevci, KUD Šokadija; Našice HKD Lisinski, Hungary: Pečuh KUD Tanac, Croatia: Pleternica, KUD Orljava, Podcrkavlje, KUD Krešimir Šimić, Prekopakra, KUD Seljačka sloga, Semeljci, KUD Lipa, Stari Mikanovci, KUD Šokadija, Strošinci, KUD Seljačka sloga; Tovarnik, KUD A.G. Matoš, Trnjani, KUD Lovor; Valpovo, HKUD Valpovo 1905, Voćin, KUU Voćin

 

10:30 pm, Dance with us! Dance workshop

 

Saturday, July 20, 2024

10 – 11 am – city center

Folklore Promenade and the Šokci wedding carriages of the Sikirevci Horse Breeding Association

Performances of folklore groups on the Jelačić Square stage

 

10 am, Zrinjevac

Workshop for children: Pixel – x– circle – Marija Gačić

 

12am, Multimedia hall of the City Library, Starčevićev trg 4

Project presentation Contemporary dressing of Šokac women

Marije Gačić (Hrvatska) i Sonye Darrow (Češka)

 

6 pm, Zrinjevac

Workshop for children and adults: Bećarac bags – Marija Gačić

 

7 pm, Zrinjevac stage

Performances of folklore groups

 

8 pm, Zrinjevac stage

Mišina Orchestra concert – bagpipe and duda traditions of Pannonia

 

9 pm, Jelačić Square

Performances of folklore groups

Canada: Winnipeg, Ukrainian diaspora;

– participants of the Erasmus+ project UNESCO Cultural Spaces:

Latvia: Gudenieki Suiti, Suitu dūdenieki/Suiti Bagpipers; Suitu sievas; Croatia: Otočac, Otočac folklore group, Gacka Open University; Bosnia and Herzegovina, Posušje, HKUD Fra Petar Bakula; Croatia: Tovarnik, KUD A. G. Matoš; Trnjani, KUD Lovor; Raša; RKUD Rudar, Pridvorje, KUD Stjepan Radić; Podcrkavlje, KUD Krešimir Šimić; Hungary, Pecs, KUD Tanac; Brazil, Cuiab, Flor de Atalaia Group.

 

10:30 pm, Jelačić Square

Dance with us! Dance workshop

 

7 pm, Pleternica

The Zagreb International Folklore Festival outside of Zagreb

Performances of folklore groups: N. Macedonia: Kičevo, KUD Racin; Indonesia: Jakarta, PPST Kencana Mas; The Netherlands: Nijmegen, Kansemble

 

8 pm, Vrbovec

The Zagreb International Folklore Festival outside of Zagreb

Performances of folklore groups: Peru: Lima Elenco Artistico Peru Multicolor; Draž, Baranjski Šokci.

 

 

Sunday, July 21, 2024

10 – 11 am – city center

Folklore Promenade and the Šokci wedding carriages of the Sikirevci Horse Breeding Association

Performances of folklore groups on the Jelačić Square stage

 

7 pm, Zrinjevac pavilion

Performances of folklore groups

 

8 pm, Zrinjevac pavilion

AnnaDel, World music concert of Ukrainian songs

 

9 pm, Jelačić Square

Concert – performances of folklore groups

Canada, Edmonton, Ukrainian diaspora,

The organizer has the right to change the programme do to unexpected circumstances.