Representatives of the City of Trebinje and city institutions, together with 15 best gymnasium students, members of the Alat City Cultural and Artistic Society and media representatives are spending the next four days in Austria on the occasion of Herzegovina Days in Vienna.

Slađana Skočajić, Head of the Department for Culture in City Administration, says that this is an opportunity to present the potential of Trebinje and Herzegovina in this European country and to interest business people in cooperation.

Together with Miljan Vuković, Director of the Trebinje Cultural Center, and Milosava Supić Vuković, Director of the National Library that preserves the legacy of Jovan Dučić, Skočajić is attending opening of the Šantić and Dučić exhibition this evening, organized by Mostar Prosvjeta.

‘A business forum, where the infrastructure, cultural and family projects of the City of Trebinje will be presented, starts tomorrow. Hospital director Nedjeljko Lambeta will present the largest project at this event, the new Trebinje hospital. The Herzeg House will be presented at our region’s food exhibition, and Herzegovina Evening will take place in the evening, where representatives of the Republic of Srpska, as well as Austrian Serbs, will join us. Austrian businessmen, as well as the ambassador and cultural attaché of Austria, are planned to participate in these events,’ she says.

The Head of Trebinje City Administration’s Culture Department adds that on Friday the Viennese audience will have the opportunity to see a play by Trebinje gymnasium students entitled Welcome, the Decorated Wedding Party.

On Saturday in Graz, Trebinje representatives will be joined by the Alat CCAS, which will perform at the New Year’s concert, and the program will also feature the young guslar Aleksa Ćurić, who will show his skills on the ancient instrument again in Vienna.

The initiator and organizer of the Viennese Herzegovina Days is Mladen Filipović, Head of the Republic of Srpska Representative Office in Austria, and in addition to Trebinjans, delegations from Bileća and Nevesinje should also travel to Vienna, while other Herzegovina municipalities will be presented by promotional materials from their region.

On this occasion, a program entitled Echo of Verse and Faith was presented last evening in cooperation with the Serbian educational and cultural societies Prosvjeta from Vienna and Mostar.

The evening was dedicated to the creation of the renowned Serbian poet Aleksa Šantić, and two exhibitions were presented - the exhibition Aleksa Šantić and the Mostar Literary Circle and the exhibition of photographs of the Žitomislić Monastery discussed by the abbot of the Žitomislić Monastery, Danilo Pavlović.

During the cultural and artistic part of the program, some of Aleksa Šantić’s most famous poems were recited by young Serbian artists from Vienna, and the audience was addressed by the president and vice-president of the SECS Prosvjeta Austria, Marko Sarić and Srđan Mijalković, and the president of the SECS Prosvjeta Mostar, Sanja Bjelica Šagovnović.

‘It is important that we present the best of Serbian culture, tradition and spirituality in Vienna. Herzegovina is special in many ways, and it is an exceptional honor to promote this region’s numerous potentials in Vienna these days,’ said Mladen Filipović, Head of the Republic of Srpska Representative Office in Austria.

Source: Republic of Srpska Representative Office in the Republic of Austria - Radio Trebinje

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