The festival will be opened by Csaba Latorcai, deputy state secretary in charge of ethnic and civil society relations at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice. Serbia?s Minister of Religion and Diaspora Srđan Srećković will attend the opening.
Milan Gyurity, who heads the Serbian Cultural and Documentation Centre of Hungary, which is organising the festival, said the centre would cover part of the cost of the events with its own resources but would also have the support of sponsors.
The centre, operated by the Serbian National Council, will open on Friday an exhibition of paintings by Ágnes Sz. Varga, a Serbian artist who lives in Pomáz, near Budapest, and Snezana Davidovic, who lives in the Serbian town of Kula.
The choir of the Kragujevac Lyceum will perform at the Saint George Serbian Orthodox church in Budapest?s Szerb Street on Wednesday.
Budapest?s Vörösmarty cinema will screen a documentary about Serbs living in the capital.
The Krug art group will open an exhibition of paintings in Hercegszántó, near Hungary?s border with Serbia.
A mini folklore festival will take place in Pomáz.
Serbian writers and artists from Romania will introduce themselves at the Nikola Tesla Serbian primary and secondary school in Budapest.
The village of Battonya, near Hungary?s border with Romania, will host an exhibition about the life of Sava Tekelija, who was born in nearby Arad in 1761, when the city was part of the Habsburg Monarchy. Tekelija came from a wealthy Serbian family and studied law in Pest and Vienna. He later financed the construction of dormitories for Serbian students studying in Pest. The dormitories, dubbed the Tekelijanum, stand in the capital?s Veres Pálné Street till this day.
Professor Dragan Nikodijevic will give a presentation at the Tekelijanum about Serbia?s cultural development strategies.
A Serbian children?s theatre will entertain at the culture centre in Budapest?s Nagymező Street.
The institute will host an evening that puts contemporary women?s literature from Serbia in the spotlight. The centre will also present Péter Milosevics?s book Serbian Literary History.
The DocuArt cinema will show new Serbian films early in October.
The Serbian Theatre of Hungary will host the Teatar Levo from Belgrade.
The festival will wind up with concerts by the opera singers Aleksandra Angelov and Misha Jovanovic, and by the folk musician Branka Basic at the Serbian embassy on October 14.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
