With the signing of the Art Manifesto – Sarajevo Culture Olympics in the Markale City Market, the jubilee 40th international Sarajevo Winter Festival was opened. Numerous cultural events involving local and foreign artists have been prepared.
The Sarajevo Winter International Festival was first held in 1984 in Olympic Sarajevo. Over the decades, the festival developed, together with the city, and became one of the synonyms for continuity in cultural work. Today, Sarajevo Winter is the largest art festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“The first year, this holiday lasted until April 6 of that year. And there is no mistaking why it is now 40 years old. Because the festival was born from the poetics of space, from the meeting of the Academy of Music, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Philosophy, Architecture, Performing Arts… And he was building a story that is still the poetics of space today. And this is a very poetic space,” said Ibrahim Spahić, director of the Sarajevo Winter International Festival.
The International Sarajevo Winter Festival was attended by 45,700 domestic and international artists and cultural workers, and almost five thousand events were realized.
“This is the fortieth time that Sarajevo Winter has been held, and I have known Ibrahim Spahić for a very long time. We were once in Korea together. It is a whole peaceful world of artists from all over,” said Jessy Rahman, a visual artist.
“We are participating in this exhibition with our non-book material. These are various programs, tickets, posters, which represent the programs that have been held during these forty years of Sarajevo Winter,” said Esma Bajraktarević-Rožman, Head of the Homeland Collection Service of the Library of Sarajevo.
Visitors and citizens will have the opportunity to attend numerous cultural programs over the next seven days. This holiday of art and culture will traditionally last until the first day of spring, March 21, Federalna writes.
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