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Serbian Month in Great Britain 2024 – 27th Jan to 9th March
Serbian Month in Great Britain 2024 – 27th Jan – 9th March 2024
London, Bedford, Birmingham, Bradford, Corby, Halifax, Leicester, Peterborough, Tunbridge Wells, Worthing
The 16th Serbian Month begins on the 27th January with a programme of virtual and public events across Britain. It is the initiative of the Round Table of Serbian community organisations managed by the Serbian Council.
A Serbian Month catalogue is published to accompany Serbian Month, and is now available in both print and online. The theme of this year’s catalogue is Serbian culture with a focus on music and folklore and the role they play in the lives of British Serbs. The Serbian Month Catalogue received financial support by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs – The Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region.
We hope you enjoy reading the catalogue and we look forward to see you during Serbian Month.
January
St Sava celebrations in London
Friday 26th Jan, 7pm Great Vespers
Saturday 27th Jan, 10am Divine Liturgy presided by His Eminence Bishop Dositej of Great Britain and Scandinavia and His Eminence Bishop Nektarije of Jegra, auxiliary bishop of His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch.
12.30pm Programme and celebratory lunch at Great Hall, Dom Bishop Nikolaj. The sermon will be delivered by the Very Reverand Miloš Vesin from Chicago
7pm Vespers
7.30pm Folklore performance by ‘Rastko’ and festivities, Great Hall, Dom Bishop Nikolaj
89 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QQ
Saturday 27th Jan
St Sava celebrations in Corby
10am Divine Liturgy followed by programme
Serbian Orthodox Church Hram Svetog Proroka Ilije
47 Rockingham Rd, Corby NN17 1AJ
St Sava celebrations in Bradford
Divine Liturgy followed by programme
Serbian Orthodox Church of Holy Trinity
98 Little Horton Ln, Bradford BD5 0JG
Sunday 28th Jan
St Sava celebrations in Birmingham
10am Divine Hierarchical Liturgy Bishop Dositej and Bishop Nectariе
1pm Feast meal – £5 pp ( Live music by Angela and Zoran)
2pm Children St. Sava performance And Fr. Miloš Vesin speech “St. Sava and diaspora”
Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Prince Lazar
92 Griffins Brook Ln, Birmingham B30 1QG
St Sava celebrations in Leicester
11am Divine Liturgy followed by programme
Serbian Orthodox Church of St George
Rutland Street, Leicester LE1
French Music on a Sunday Afternoon
3pm Recital Violin and Piano with Yana Burova & Mina Miletić
St Luke Eltham Park, Westmount Road London SE9 1XY
Tickets £10; Further details available HERE
Tuesday 30th Jan
Serbian City Club – Zoom event with Prof Slobodan Markovich
Discussion about the Anglo-Serbian relations and cultural influences and transfers, including experiences and influences of Dositej Obradović, John Stuart Mills, William Gladstone, Adeline Paulina Irby, Čedomilj Mijatović, and Vladimir Jovanović
Start: 7pm GMT; Language: English
Further details are available on www.serbiancityclub.org RSVP is required
Contact: info@serbiancityclub.org
Wednesday 31st Jan
Serbian City Club networking event in London
From 6pm onwards; Henry’s Cafe Bar on Piccadilly by Green Park station
80 Piccadilly, London, W1J 8HX
February
Thursday 1st Feb
Jasenovac and Holocaust Foundation
International Holocaust Remembrance Day & A commemoration of Prof. Dr. Srboljub Zivanovic’s life, co-founder & Chair of JHMF
7pm Church Service
7.30pm “Kad mrtva usta progovore”: Dr Dragoljub Acković, General Secretary of European Roma Council, Serbia
Professor Dr Gideon Greif, Ono College Israel
Dr Vladimir Umeljić, Historian Germany
Moderated by Mrs Dragana Tomašević, Director, JHMF
Great Hall, Dom Bishop Nikolaj, 89 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QQ
RSVP on: bookings@jhmf.org.uk
Thursday 1st Feb, 8.15pm
Innocence Unprotected: Reframing the World through Yugoslav Cinema
Liberating Cinema
Curated by Mina Radović, this programme presents milestone Yugoslav films of the 1960s, reframing our perception of rejection, community, creation, and love.
Full programme available HERE
Dvoje/And Love Has Vanished (Aleksandar Petrović, 1961)
Film: Serbian with English subtitles
Close Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater St, London E1 6HR
Saturday, 3rd Feb, 5pm, ZOOM
Mala biblioteka – The Serbian language
The talks will be presented by Lazar Džamić, writer and new age philosopher, Aleksa Gordić, an IT guru working on the Serbian form of chat GPI, and Veljko Žižić, discussing the how, why and when of the Serbian dictionary. The Serbian language has lately been going through an aggressive forms of anglicisation, via direct and often meaningless import of English words. We will discuss what the future holds for the Serbian language, from several angles.
Must REGISTER HERE:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMocuuppz4tEtKdUMquIl3pZ44l3WrUCgSY#/registration
Saturday 3rd Feb, from 6pm
St Sava’s Ball
Njegoš Foundation London
Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington, Scarsdale Pl, London W8 5SY
Patron: The Hilandar Monastery; In the presence of The Very Reverend Archimandrite Methodius and His Eminence Joanikije, Metropolitan of Montenegro
Performers include Ana Bekuta & Band, Milan Mitrović, and Nikola Mijajlović (Folk Music)
Tickets sale is closed!
Sunday 4th Feb, 10.30am
Liturgy and St Sava celebrations in Halifax
Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint John the Baptist Church
Heap St, Boothtown, Halifax HX3 6JE
Sunday 4th Feb, 12pm
St Sava Academy, London
St Sava Church School
Great Hall, Dom Bishop Nikolaj; 89 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QQ
Sunday 4th Feb, 4.30pm
St Sava celebrations in Bedford
Main Hall, St. Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Bedford, MK41 0AN
Day also celebrating 10 years of folklore dance in Bedford
Celebration includes music by Andjelka and Zoki, Bar, Lottery
Monday 5th Feb, 8.30pm (Doors 7pm)
ArHai: composers Jovana Backović (vocals, electronics) and Adrian Lever (medieval dulcimer, Bulgarian tambura)
Contemporary folk music exploring the intersection of cinematic, traditional and electronic
Green Note, 106 Parkway, London NW1 7ANTickets £18I
Info: www.greennote.co.uk
Booking mail@greennote.co.uk
Tuesday 6th Feb, 7pm, ZOOM
Serbian Council of Great Britain
His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia Mr Edward Ferguson
Q&A Session
Further info: info@serbiancouncil.org.uk
Thursday 8th Feb, 6.30pm
Serbian City Club event with Lazar Džamić
Discussion about ethics in digital media and marketing
Language: English
Embassy of the Republic of Serbia, 28 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QB,
Further details are available on www.serbiancityclub.org
RSVP is required: Contact: info@serbiancityclub.org
Friday 9th Feb, doors 6.30pm, stage 7.30pm
Çigdem Aslan (vocal) and Živorad Nikolic (accordion/vocal)
World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, 3 Ponton Road, London SW11 7BD
Traditional Sevdalinka songs as well as urban songs from Eastern Mediterranean, Balkan, Anatolian cities and beyond, exploring the full spectrum of love; from passion and desire to heartache and joy.
Tickets £15 -£25 https://worldheartbeat.org/events/cigdem-aslan-and-zivorad-nikolic-2w/
Saturday 10th Feb, 3pm
British-Serbian Medical Association
Lecture by Doctors followed by Q&A
Film screening ‘Moć žene’ (documentary about Jela Mihajlović fighting cancer)
Serbian church restaurant, 89 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QQ
Info: contact@bsma-uk.org
Saturday 10th Feb, 5pm
St Sava celebrations in Peterborough
Host – Goran & Julijana Jačev with family
Traditional songs, dances & poems will be performed by Oplenac, Podmladak & Sv. Ilija (Corby); Live music with Andjela & Zoran
Entrance £10 / children free; Serbian Buffet
Peterborough Bowls Centre, 19 Burton Street, Peterborough PE1 5HA
info@oplenac.co.uk
Wednesday 14th Feb, 7.30pm
Valentine’s Special at The CakeShed in Tunbridge Wells
32 The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Silva McQueen, soprano and Maya Jordan, piano
Info and bookings: info@thecakeshed.co.uk or 01892457357
Friday 16th Feb, 6.30pm
Serbian Council of Great Britain and St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, London
The Role of the British in Yugoslavia in WW2 Talk and Exhibition by Nick Ilić
Great Hall, Dom Bishop Nikolaj, 89 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QQ
Info: info@serbiancouncil.org.uk
Saturday 17th Feb, 6pm
Innocence Unprotected: Reframing the World through Yugoslav Cinema
Liberating Cinema
Curated by Mina Radović, this programme presents milestone Yugoslav films of the 1960s, reframing our perception of rejection, community, creation, and love.
Full programme available HERE
Uzrok smrti ne pominjati/Do Not Mention the Cause of Death (Jovan Živanović, 1968)
Film: Serbian with English subtitles
Close Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater St, London E1 6HR
Monday 19th Feb
Serbian Council of Great Britain AGM
6pm AGM SCGB
7.30pm Talk by Dr David Norris ‘Serbian Traditions and Cultural Change: Struggle, Negotiations’
Serbian Embassy, 28 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QB
RSVP is required: info@serbiancouncil.org.uk
Wednesday 21st Feb to Saturday 24th Feb, 7pm
Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble & Ensemble OrQuesta Opera Academy
Predrag Gosta Conductor
Le Nozze di Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Cockpit, Marylebone, London
https://www.ensembleorquesta.com/whats-on/le-nozze-di-figaro
Performed in Italian with English subtitles
Thursday 22nd Feb, 7pm
The Serbian Society – Remembering Borislav Pekić
Actor Pavle Pekić will share his personal memories with the audience
The Grove Tavern, Hammersmith, London
Info: office@serbiansociety.org.uk
Thursday 22nd Feb, 7pm
Naše pozorište u Londonu
Concert Hari Mata Hari & Zijo Valentino @ Scala, guest Zlopi
Club Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9NL
Tickets: £44 available HERE
Friday 23rd Feb, 6pm
Serbian City Club
Screening of the film “Next to You” (Pored tebe) followed up by Q&A with the movie director and actors
Film: Serbian with English subtitles
Language (discussion): English
Further details are available on www.serbiancityclub.org. RSVP is required Contact: info@serbiancityclub.org
Saturday 24th Feb, 10.30am
Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Prince Lazar, Birmingham
92 Griffins Brook Ln, Birmingham B30 1QG
Pilgrimage by members of the Russian Orthodox Church to the icon of Three-Handed Mother of God from Hilandar (Mouth Athos)
Saturday 24th Feb, time tbc
Serbian Orthodox Church of St Sava, London and Serbian Council of Great Britain
Celebration of Nikola Tesla and Award Ceremony for Serbian Language students on the Azbukum and Round Table Courses
Tesla talk by Avram Balabanović
Concert by guitarist/composer Branco Stoysin
Great Hall, Dom Bishop Nikolaj, 89 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QQ
Info: info@serbiancouncil.org.uk
Saturday 24th Feb, 6.15pm
Innocence Unprotected: Reframing the World through Yugoslav Cinema
Liberating Cinema
Curated by Mina Radović, this programme presents milestone Yugoslav films of the 1960s, reframing our perception of rejection, community, creation, and love.
Full programme available HERE
Nevinost bez zaštite/Innocence Unprotected (Dušan Makavejev, 1968)
Film: Serbian with English subtitles
Close Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater St, London E1 6HR
Thursday 29th Feb, 7pm
Serbian Council of Great Britain
Mary Novakovich book promotion ‘My Family and Other Enemies’
Serbian Embassy, 28 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QB
RSVP is required: info@serbiancouncil.org.uk
Thursday 29th Feb, 8.15pm
Innocence Unprotected: Reframing the World through Yugoslav Cinema
Liberating Cinema
Curated by Mina Radović, this programme presents milestone Yugoslav films of the 1960s, reframing our perception of rejection, community, creation, and love.
Full programme available HERE
Vrane/Crows (Gordan Mihić, Ljubiša Kozomora, 1969)
Film: Serbian with English subtitles
Close Up Film Centre,97 Sclater St, London E1 6HR
March
Friday 1st March
Lifeline 30th Anniversary Gala Ball
7pm Reception, 8pm Dinner
Claridge’s, Brook Street, Mayfair W1K4RH
https://lifelineuk.co.uk/events/
Friday 1st March, 8.30pm (Doors 7pm)
Paprika Band
A fusion of traditional Eastern European, Balkan, Gypsy and Classical Music
Green Note, 106 Parkway, London NW1 7ANTickets £18I
Info www.greennote.co.uk
Booking mail@greennote.co.uk
Saturday 2nd March, 11am
Tenth Annual Memorial Service for Women in Foreign Medical Missions in Serbia during the Great War
11am Commemoration (Pomen) in English starts after the service
12pm Canapes and talks by Zvezdana Popović and guests who have been supporting these commemorations since 2014
St Sava Church and Dom Bishop Nikolaj, 89 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QQ
Info: zvezdana15@hotmail.co.uk
Saturday 2 March, 7.30pm
Classical concert
Silva McQueen, soprano & Timothy End, piano; guest Maya Jordan, piano
St Paul’s Church, Brackley Road, Beckenham BR3 1RB
Tickets £15 to include refreshments
Info & bookings: silva.mcqueen@googlemail.com
Sunday 3rd March, 7pm
Vremeplov Band Live in Birmingham
Lazarica Church Hall
92 Brook Griffins Lane, Birmingham, B30 1QG
Tickets £25 available via Eventbrite
Sunday 3rd March, 5pm
Round Table Meeting by Zoom
Info: rtsteeringgroup@gmail.com
Sunday 3rd March, 2.45pm
Worthing Symphony Orchestra
Errollyn Wallen’s Triple concerto written for Kosmos Ensamble, conducted by John Gibbons
Miloš Milivojevic, soloist in the Accordion Concerto by Ukrainian composer Igor Shamo
Tickets available online https://wtm.uk/events/wso-kosmos-ensemble/
Assembly Hall, Stoke Abbott Rd, Worthing BN11 1HQ
Thursday 7th March, 6pm
Goldsmiths University Centre for the Study of the Balkans and University College London, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES)
Book Promotion of Professor Dejan Djokić’s ‘A Concise History of Serbia’
Panel discussions Professor Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia and Dr Bojan Aleksov, SSEES chaired by Professor Jasna Dragović-Soso, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths University of London
Masaryk Room, UCL SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/contact-us
The book will be on sale with a discount on the evening and Professor Djokić will be signing copies.
https://www.cambridge.org/de/universitypress/subjects/history/russian-and-east-european-history/concise-history-serbia?format=PB
Saturday 9th March, 7.30pm
Serbian Council of Great Britain – Zoom event with by Nick Ilić
The British who defended Serbia during the Great War 1915-18
Info: info@serbiancouncil.org.uk
Saturday 9th March, time tbc
Serbian Folklore Groups in UK, Smotra in Peterborough