The central part of the 61st Ko\u010di\u0107\u2019s Gathering was held at the venue in Stri\u010di\u0107i. In the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Stri\u010di\u0107i, a memorial service was held for Petar Ko\u010di\u0107 and his father Gerasim, in addition to a memorial service for homeland heroes at the monument to the fallen soldiers. Ko\u010di\u0107\u2019s Gathering was officially opened in Banja Luka on 27 August, and during the four-day event, numerous literary, cultural, artistic and traditional events were organized at several locations in Banja Luka, Stri\u010di\u0107i, Gomionica, Jeli\u0107ka and Belgrade.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska, Borivoje Golubovi\u0107, said in Stri\u010di\u0107i that Ko\u010di\u0107\u2019s Gathering was an event that had been preserving the memory of Petar Ko\u010di\u0107\u2019s character and work for decades and reminded us of the values he had stood for \u2013 freedom, justice, human dignity and the power of the written word. \u2013 The homeland is a field where sowing and reaping are constant. We reap what our ancestors sowed, and we sow so that our descendants have something to reap. These words of Ko\u010di\u0107 were spoken more than a century ago, and today, in his native Zmijanje, they strongly resonate in all of us \u2013 said Golubovi\u0107 at the central event dedicated to the memory of Petar Ko\u010di\u0107. He noted it was a permanent obligation of all generations to preserve what their ancestors had left behind, but also to create values to be left to future generations.<\/p>\n
Golubovi\u0107 recalled that Ko\u010di\u0107 had planted deeply Zmijanje and Manja\u010da in Serbian literature through his work. \u2013 At the same time, Ko\u010di\u0107\u2019s work is not only part of our literary heritage. It is part of our cultural and spiritual identity \u2013 Golubovi\u0107 stated.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s laureate of the Ko\u010di\u0107 Award is Predrag Bjelo\u0161evi\u0107 from Banja Luka, while the Zmijanj\u010de award went to Ivona Arsi\u0107 from \u0160trpci near Rudo, a fifth-grade student at the Bo\u0161ko Buha Elementary School.<\/p>\n
The President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska, Nenad Stevandi\u0107, said that the current generation of Serbs lived in the freedom that the great Petar Ko\u010di\u0107 had written about and that, having learned from history, they would never bow down. The Minister of Justice of the Republic of Srpska, Goran Selaka, said it was important to nurture and support such events, because they were not only cultural events, but also a way of preserving historical and cultural heritage. \u2013 It is especially important that people gather here not only from the Republic of Srpska, but also from our homeland Serbia, as well as from all parts of the world where Serbs live. We thus come together, preserve unity and recall the values that our great writers and cultural creators have left through their work \u2013 said Selak.<\/p>\n
Source and photo: RTRS<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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