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Dubrovnik Summer Festival 10 July -24 August
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During 45 hot Dubrovnik summer evenings the Festival embraces music, theatre and dance performances as also exhibitions, book presentations and special events. Old architecture and rich cultural heritage makes a fine base to shape Dubrovnik in various artistic platforms where musicians, actors, dancers as well as the ever-increasing number of visitors revive the tradition of Renaissance theatre and bringing the wonderful atmosphere to the City. The Festival was founded in 1950 and since 1956 has been a European Festival Association member. With 3,778 performances at 50 different open-air venues such as City streets, squares, churches and public gardens the Festival has welcomed an impressive number of artists from the domestic and international music and theatre circuit. Many doyens of the international scene have taken part in this manifestation: Karajan, Richter, Menuhin, Janigro, Mehta, Rostropovich...Montserrat Caballé, Kremer, Denyce Graves, Emma Kirkby, Ramon Vargas. Performances of world’s names of theatre (Brook, Ronconi, Nekroshius) ballet (Béjart, Martha Graham) and classic music made Dubrovnik Summer Festival to become the most celebrated cultural event in Croatia. Play like Hamlet preformed on Lovrijenac is unforgettable experience, but also other famous medieval plays written by Sheakespeare, Molliere and Držić truly revive on this authentic stage - Dubrovnik. |
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St Blaise Festival 3 February
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As St Marco is important to Venice, St Blaise matches for Dubrovnik. In tribute to the Saint that stood watch over Dubrovnik for centuries, the St Blaise celebration that take place every year on 3 February lively preserving Dubrovnik’s folklore heritage. During the festivity the Saint’s relics are carried out in the procession, and numerous plays and folk performances unite people from all over the world to celebrate the freedom. In times of the Republic the prisoners that didn’t commit any serious crime could also join the feast, and for the permanently expelled citizens, those were the only 14 days during which they could freely move around the City. St Blais had allegedly appeared to some old vicar Stojko and worn him of the Mletian planed night attempt to attack the City. After examining the story by the Senate, St Blaise became the City’s patron saint. |
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International Dubrovnik Film Festival
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The very first International Dubrovnik Film Festival opened in May 2003 and has since grown with each year. The Dubrovnik Film Festival 2005 honored Christopher Walken and Peter Medak with the Libertas Award and Emily Watson received the Argosy Award. Previous years DIFF honored Branko Lustig in 2004 with the Libertas Award, and in 2003 Deborah Kara Unger received the first Libertas Award and Jonathan Tucker was honored with the first Argosy Award. |
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Libertas Film Festival 25 July - 3 August 2006
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The 2005 Libertas Film Festival kicked off its inaugural season with a palate of intelligent and provocative cutting edge films from around the world! Nestled in the breathtaking sea-side city of Dubrovnik, this cozy and intimate festival offered over twenty features and a number of short films from cultures and countries dedicated to enriching the spirit of independent film. With strong support from one of the most beautiful and enchanting settings in the world, in 2006 come and join us again in discovering intriguing films of today, as well as exploring the richness and majesty of this historical city built in the 7th century. |
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Blues Festival |
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New Year's Eve party
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Dudrovnik New Year's Eve is maby the most popular New Year's party in Croatia, when the City became a body of forty thousand, moving to a single rhythm, the rhythm of good entertainment! Locals, Slovenians, Italians, Germans, British...and people from all around the globe together count down the last few seconds under the Bell Tower waiting for Maro and Baro to strike midnight. |
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Masquerades after 4 February |
The Masquerades in the Old town begin after the St.Blaise festivity at the beginning of February, culminate during three days preceding Ash Wednesday and ends at the closing of carnival night. |
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| Dubrovnik Historical Festival 23 -30 June
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The Dubrovnik Historical Festival is taking place for the fourth time in a row in Dubrovnik. From June 23 to 30, it attracts participants from Croatia, Macedonia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Knights, jugglers, actors, plebeians and aristocrats dressed in lively medieval costumes take over the city in that period. A traditional handicraft fair, or rather a medieval market is placed at Bošković Square. |
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Nicola's Festival & Public Holiday 6 December
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Remembering the biggest destruction of Dubrovnik during the Serbs and Montenegro’s aggression in the Croatian Homeland War which took part on 6 December 1991, but also followed with the remarkable defense of strategically important Dubrovnik’s defense spot Srdž and Sustipan, that finally turned over the course of the war, Dubrovnik recollect and pay homage to all the death ones, wounded ones and their families, specially all those who defended the City. Memorial room is placed in the ground floor of the Sponza Palace. This multimedia space showes pictures, biographies and other exibitis that vividly talk about the nature and course of Dubrovnik's defense in the War. |
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Karantena Festival 25 Aug - 06 Sep 2006
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Established in 1996, this international multimedia festival pushes the boundaries of theatre, modern dance, performance, music, new media, film and video. The festival was initiated by the Lazareti Art Workshop, non-profit organization that promotes urban and modern approach to culture. In particular, it encourages independent projects and new modes of artistic expression. Very much a "Fringe" festival, it gives the smaller, more esoteric and alternative acts a stage they would not find at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival |
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Julian Rachlin & Friends Festival Sep 2006 |
Julian Rachlin and Friends is a festival of chamber music in the beautiful ambiance of the Rector’s palace in Dubrovnik – a series of six concerts of world renowned artists gathering together with violinist Julian Rachlin. |
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Dubrovnik EVENTS CALENDAR |
Daily review of all Dubrovnik events; Theatre, Cinema, Concert,Local Fest and Other events |
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