ENTER UK, British Social Influences in Serbia/Vojvodina/Novi Sad
YOUTH CENTER CK13, NOVI SAD IN COOPERATION WITH THE BRITISH EMBASSY, BELGRADE is inviting you to attend the event:
ENTER UK, British Social Influences in Serbia/Vojvodina/Novi Sad
Time: 12 – 15. JULY 2007.
Location: YOUTH CENTER CK13
Vojvode Bojovića Street 13, Novi Sad
Within the framework of four-day long program in Youth Center CK13, Novi Sad, “ENTER UK, British Social Influences in Serbia/Vojvodina/Novi Sad”, a series of cultural events, movie projections and public debates will be presented on the subject of influences of British culture in creation of social movements around phenomena of football and punk subculture in our country. The program will gather great number of artists, theoreticians, philosophers and sociologists from Serbia and Great Britain, who will try to give the answers to some of posed questions: In which way the identities of modern European multicultural societies have been formed? Do these identities represent everlasting categories or are they changeable? What is the meaning of subculture phenomena today? How British society has responded to those contemporary challenges and what is experience of Serbian society when it comes to this subject? Guests of the event will, together with the audience, focus on discussions about the meaning of multiculturalism today, anti-racism and anti-discrimination, football as a spectacle, creation of national identities, significance of subcultural phenomena, punk culture as social and political movement of rebellion against authorities and commercialization in general, about Fair-Play, etc.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, JULY 12th
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14:00 - Opening of the event: Nick Groves, Second Secretary of the British Embassy in Belgrade, Head of the Commercial Section, Attaché for the EU, human rights and environmental issues
14:30 – Screening: BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
(2003, Great Britain/Germany, 112', director: Gurinder Chadha), the movie “Band It Like Beckham”: about women in football, gender equality and challenges which contemporary multicultural societies are facing.
16:00 - Public debate: National Identity in Bio-Politics
Speakers:
Aleksandar Bošković, sociologist, Belgrade
Minja Bogavac, dramaturg, Belgrade
Vlada Marko, philosopher, Bratislava, Novi Sad
Surprise Guest!
moderator: Kristian Lukić, art historian, Novi Sad
FRIDAY, JULY 13th
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14:30 – Screening: REAL FOOTBALL FACTORIES, epizode 1
(2006, Great Britain, 120', director: Peter Day), This TV series shows the social history and subculture of football fans and hooliganism over the past 50 years in Great Britain.
15:00 – Screening: FUßBALL WIE NOCH NIE / SOCCER AS NEVER BEFORE
(1971, Germany, 105', director: Hellmut Costard), Documentary movie “Soccer as Never Before” represents unique portrait of George Best, legendary British football player, in Manchester United against Coventry City at Old Trafford in September, 1970. Six cameramen were instructed to follow each step of this player, creating a portrait of a man who was his own worst enemy.
17:00 – Public debate: English Football: Sport, Culture, Spectacle
Speakers:
Uroš Đurić, artist, Belgrade
Miloš Šaranović, journalist, Belgrade
Miloš Perović, sociologist, Novi Sad
Jason Barker, philosopher, Paris, Biel/Bienne
moderator: Vladimir Tupanjac, art critic, Belgrade
SATURDAY, JULY 14th
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14:30 – Screening: THIS IS ENGLAND
(2007, Great Britain, 100', director: Shane Meadows), The movie “This is England” represents the major youth sub-cultures in English at the beginning of 1980s – Mods, New Romantics, Skinheads – a look back at the early eighties of British working-class life and it is dealing with the bitterness of outside influences such as racism, xenophobia and mass unemployment.
16:00 – Public debate: Subcultural Scenes
Speakers:
Jelena Bogavac, theater play director, Belgrade
Peđa Vranešević, artist, Novi Sad
Vladimir Arsenijević, writer, Belgrade
Zoran Janjetov, comics artist, Novi Sad
moderator: Slobodan Tišma, writer, Novi Sad
SUNDAY, JULY 15th
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15:00 – Screening: ONCE UPON A TIME...
(2006, Serbia, director: Jovan Đerić), Documentary movie “Once Upon a Time...” represents punk-rock scene of Novi Sad, during the first half of 1990s. The "mission" of the documentary is to preserve the spirit that kept mentally alive thousands of young people who unfortunately lived their youth during one of the worst periods in history of this part of Europe - Milosevic's Serbia.
16:00 - Public debate: NS Subcultural Scene
Speakers:
Zgro, co-author of the book “NS PUNK VERZIJA”, Novi Sad
Gaga, band “Vrisak generacije”, Novi Sad
Bale, musician, Novi Sad, New York, Alberobello
Sira, band “2 Minuta mržnje”, Novi Sad
moderator: Zoran Pantelić, artist, Novi Sad
Sound installation: Lessons to European English, 2004
Author: Nebojša Milikić in cooperation with Natalie Waldbaum
Production:
Youth Center CK13
Vojvode Bojovića 13, Novi Sad
mail: [email protected]
url: www.ck13.org
www.myspace.com/crnakuca
Tel/fax: +381 (0)21 4737 601
In cooperation with:
The British Embassy, Belgrade
Resavska 46
11000 Belgrade
Tel: +381 (11) 2645 055
http://www.embassy-worldwide.com/country/united-kingdom/
Free admission.
PDF file of the program could be freely downloaded from the attachment of this post.
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