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13th Ethno-review in Czech Home in Rijeka
The formal Czech Home opening and celebration of Czech Beseda Rijeka 15th anniversary were a part of the 13th Ethno-review. It is a culture festival of minorities living in Rijeka under the motto "Our fortune is living together," organized by the City of Rijeka. Several events that were a part of this festival took place in the new T. G. Masaryk Czech Home in Rijeka.
On Friday, September 18, at 6.30 PM, the art exhibition by Rijeka minority artists was opened in the Czech Home foyer. Mrs. Višnja Višnjić-Karković, associate in the City of Rijeka culture department, opened the exhibition. The visitors could enjoy the artwork of members of many Rijeka minority organizations – Bosnian, Rusin and Ukrainian, Polish, Roma, Albanian, Hungarian and Montenegrin.
Children's poetry festival took place at 7 PM the same day in the Czech Home big hall. Poet Giacomo Scotti read his poetry in its original, Italian version, and Ms. Jadranka Čubrić read the Croatian translation. Malanija Rimar, a Rusin author from Novi Sad, Tatjana Cvejin, Jewish author from Subotica, and Vladimir Andrić, Serbian author from Belgrade, read their children's poems. Matea Ružička and Dorotea Puž, students of elective Czech language class in Podmurvice elementary school, recited poems about animals by Ladislav Stehlík and Ondřej Suchy, selected and rehearsed by Snježana Herceg.
The main Ethno-review program happened on Sunday, September 20. It was a temperamental folklore collage representing the results of a year's work of 13 national minorities living in Rijeka and their guests. The program had more than 200 participants in four orchestras, three singing groups and eight dance groups. The dance group Hlubina from Ostrava, Czech Republic, participated in the program on behalf of Czech Beseda Rijeka. They stayed in Rijeka, in the Czech Home, for the whole week, as Czech Beseda Rijeka guests.
We are proud of the fact that the City of Rijeka proved its trust in Czech Beseda Rijeka by organizing the Ethno-review in its Home. It is also a sign that the Czech minority, no matter how small, will survive and prosper in Rijeka.
