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10 CuLture & events
Libertas Film Festival
February - July 2012
Saint Blaze in history and art
D-3, Rector’s Palace, Pred Dvorom 1 and Žitnica Rupe
(Granary Rupe).
When strolling around the Old City of Dubrovnik simply count
the amount of times you pass an image of Saint Blaze, patron
to Dubrovnik. You’ll be left dumfound! He lives not only in
the walls but in the hearts of city folk and has so since the
10th century. A huge insight is given into his life, his works,
his martyrdom and visions that saved this city from imperial
attack. As a symbol of the city, his images in art, banners,
money, stamps, medals through to statues on city buildings
and walls are everywhere. City museums will hold exhibitions
that portray the importance of Saint Blaze as seen through art
and culture, a true adornment to a much loved Saint.
May 2012 - June 2012
Steve McCurry - Photographs
L-5, Dubrovnik Art Gallery, Frana Supila 23.
See the work of New York based photojournalist Steve
McCurry who is best known for his award winning photograph
‘Afghan Girl’. Having covered international conflicts from all
over the world, this renegade with a camera presents several
of his series from the 1980s until today. Themes differ from
landscape shots, portraits to images of war.
Special events
03.12 Saturday - 07.04 2012 Saturday
Metropolitan Opera
B-2, Visia Dubrovnik 5D Multimedia Museum, Poljana
Paska Miličevića 4. Opera devotees ought to be jumping
in queues to see some smashing shows broadcast live in
spectacular 5D vision from New York’s famous Metropolitan
Opera. If you cannot be there in person, then this is second
to none! Choose from the following shows -
Faust by Charles Gounod - 10. 12 2011
Enchated Island - 21. 01 2012
Manon by Jules Massenet- 07. 04 2012
Four days of carnival
18.02 2012 Saturday - 21.02 2012 Tuesday
Four days of Dubrovnik carnival
As in most other Mediterranean countries, the carnival
season occupies a hugely symbolic position in the
Dubrovnik calendar, representing the last great party of
the winter and acting as something of a season-opener
for the coming spring.
The days leading up to Shrove Tuesday have been a
time for dressing up and playing the fool ever since the
medieval era, when the carnival period was the one time
of year when the lower orders were allowed to make fun
of their rulers without being locked up. In Croatia this
satirical tradition still lives on, with many locals opting for
carnival disguises which satirize personalities who were in
the news over the course of the previous year.
This year’s Dubrovnik
carnival spans four
days, kicking off on the
morning of February
18th in front of Saint
Blaise’s Church with
the šporke makarule
cooking competition - in
which chefs from the
city’s hotels compete in
preparing the traditional
dish of the title. Literally
“dirty macaroni”, šporke
makarule consists of locally-made pasta drenched
in delicious beef-goulash sauce. It has long been a
mainstay of every self-respecting Dubrovnik housewife’s
culinary repertoire, even if it hardly ever appears on local
restaurant menus.
Over the next three days a series of fancy-dress parades
weave their way through the Old Town, and charity balls
are held in Revelin Fortress. The carnival culminates
with the main parade on Tuesday 21st, when groups of
locals (including school-children, work colleagues, and
sports teams) file along the Stradun dressed in disguises
that they may well have been working on for the whole
of the previous year. For most of the participants this is
a thoroughly modern exercise in fancy dress, although
recent years have seen the re-emergence of some of
the more ritualistic carnival characters of old - strange,
shaggy-haired monsters such as the gaping-mouthed
Coroje and the long-necked Turica are unique to the
Dubrovnik region.
Info: Dubrovnik Tourist Board D-2, Brsalje5, tel.
(+385-20) 32 38 87, info@tzdubrovnik.hr, www.
tzdubrovnik.hr.
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