The cultural event Višnjić Days will be held from Friday to Tuesday, 4 to 8 November in Bijeljina to mark the jubilee of 120 years since the founding of the Serbian Educational and Cultural Society Prosvjeta and 130 years since the birth of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić, said the president of Prosvjeta Bijeljina, Slaviša Mikić.

Its central event, the ceremonial academy will be held on Monday, 7 November, at 19:30 hrs in the Semberija Cultural Center.

The oration will be delivered by the author Milivoje Mlađenović, and performances by the Srbadija Choir, actors of the Semberija City Theater, and students of the Filip Višnjić Gymnasium Bijeljina.

The highlight of the event’s rich program will be the play Hasanaginica by the Semberija City Theater, which will be performed on Saturday, 5 November at 20:00 hrs.

Admission to this first performance after the recent premiere is free, but the number of seats is limited and the audience should take the tickets in advance at the ticket office of the Cultural Center.

The 29th Višnjić Days event is organized by Prosvjeta Bijeljina, and sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska and the city of Bijeljina. Mikić says that a feature of one of the oldest and largest cultural events is the high artistic quality of the program.

– Repaying the debt to Filip Višnjić, Bijeljina is creating a pledge for the future, investing in young generations, educating future professionals in the field of art and culture, as well as the future audience, to protect from oblivion the value of literature and the entire intangible cultural heritage of the Serbian people – said Mikić.

Višnjić Days will include promotions of the books Pansion gospođe Hadživuković (Mrs. Hadživuković’s Boarding House) by Tihomir Nestorović and Dnevnik ratnog hirurga (The Journal of a War Surgeon) by Miodrag Lazić, a poetic gusle evening dedicated to Višnjić, the exhibition Papir govori (paper speaks) about the paper money of Serbia and Yugoslavia from 1887 to 1996 from the archives of Vranje, and a program prepared by blind and partially sighted persons of the Republic of Srpska.

Traditionally, there will be a reciting and oration contest for primary and secondary school students, and a roundtable on the state of culture in Bijeljina.

Višnjić Days begin on Friday, 4 November at 10:00, by laying of flowers on the monument to Filip Višnjić and raising of the flag of the event on the town square in Bijeljina.

The event will end on Tuesday, 8 November, with a festive liturgy and commemoration of Višnjić in Bijeljina temples, and presentation of prizes to the winners of literary contests and reciting and oration contest.

Source: RTRS-SRNA

Photo: Semberija info