This coming Friday, which is the first Friday in June, we continue with our regular pub events. However, this time we'll put ballet in the same evening - very obvious, isn't it?  

On Friday the ballet troupe Croatia from Zagreb will perform Tchaikovsky's ballet 'Hamlet' in the Lilian Baylis Theatre (Sadler's Wells). More info on here. 

We are pleased to announce that CSYPN has arranged a Croatian Concert of the classical music at the prestigious Wigmore Hall on Sunday 29 May. The concert is dedicated to all Croatian heroes.

This is a charitable concert for the benefit of the Adopt-A-Minefield (UK) and it will undoubtedly be the Croatian cultural event of the year in London, and indeed world-wide.  

On Thursday, 5th May there will be the opening of a photo exhibition entitled 'Trapped', by three young artists - a CSYPN member Jelena Blagovic and her colleagues Frederic Huska and Erika Hayashi. It would be great if you could join us and support Jelena.  

A CSYPN member Stephanie McNamara has already entertained us with her lovely voice in the past. And there will be another opportunity quite soon.

Steph and her friends, clarinettist Helen Cowmeadow and pianist Nathalie Topalian, are organising an afternoon of modern and popular music entitled "Our Trio On the Town".

The concert includes pieces by: Michael Head, Arnold Cooke, Joseph Horowitz, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and more. 

Year 2004 has been a tremendous success for Croatia's efforts to join the European Union. In April Croatia received a positive avis from the Commission; in June it became an official EU candidate country; and in December it got a (somewhat conditional) confirmation of the beginning of negotiations on the 17th of March, 2005.

The Croatian Ambassador Mr Josko Paro will give a talk entitled "Croatia between the Balkans and Europe" which will take place on Wednesday at 6.30pm at The British Association for Central and Eastern Europe.

Dr Tomislav Sunic, Minister Counsellor of Croatian Embassy, will give a talk about British-Croatian Cultural Links.

The talk will take place in the Croatian Embassy, London. Refreshments will be provided.

A CSYPN member, Suncica Perisin, will have an exhibition of her paintings in Macondo, a gallery cafe located on the west side of Hoxton Square.

Suncica is a fine art student of prestigious Saint Martin's College of Art & Design and was Sandro Botticelli in one of her previous lives (as she says with a smile on her face). Enjoy cappuccino in one of Macondo's comfortable sofas and see Sunci's paintings.

A Croatian artist Josip Zanki will exhibit some of his works in The Violin Factory which featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs. 

If you enjoyed Croatian films we brought you earlier this month, there is another Croatian film to be screened soon as part of the London Film Festival. The film is "Here/Tu" by Zrinko Ogresta. Its selection for the London Film Festival is a great success for the director. 

Closer Croatia

Festival, entitled 'Closer Croatia', will take place over 7-10 October 2004 at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London.

We are delighted to announce that the patron of the festival will be Vanessa Redgrave, who will open it on Thursday, 7 October at 7.30pm.

There will be 9 great Croatian films, including both classic and new films. It will also feature two programmes of animated films - a field in which Croatia is world renowned. Simultaneously, there will be an exhibition of Croatian cinema art at the same venue.

Join us at the opening of the exhibition of paintings by our Josip Lizatovic. Refreshments will be provided. 

A British archaeologist Jill Cook, of the British Museum, will give a talk about Neanderthals from Krapina and theories of their cannibalism. 

London has a lot to offer, probably more than any other place in the world. Numerous exhibitions, festivals, concerts, etc. So, we have decided to give you an excuse and motivation to join us on our tour of London. Every month we'll try to attend a concert, performance or exhibition in the capital, which will help you to get the best out of this place. Of course, that will be an opportunity to meet each other and socialise. 

Maya Albina Morella is a young Croatian artist, resident in London and Paris and a student at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design in London. 

We are pleased to announce, in conjunction with the Croatian Society at Imperial College London, a major CSYPN event. We are delighted that Robin Harris, author of the acclaimed 'Dubrovnik: A History' will be giving a talk to us about the "Pearl of the Adriatic", followed by a Q&A session. 

Predavac ovog predavanja je Roland Jovanovic Barolda, predsjednik Matrix Croatica UK. Uvodnu rijec odrzat ce Krsto Cviic. Od 18.30 i nakon predavanja imati ćete priliku razgledati izložbu akvarela i crteža s motivima iz Hrvatske britanskog arhitekta i slikara Sir T.G.Jacksona (1835 - 1924). 

Studio LILA, multi-kulturalna umjetnicka organizacija koja se bavi stvaranjem i predstavljanjem djela vizualnog kazalista i multimedijalne umjetnosti namijenila je ovu predstavu hrvatskoj djeci koja zive u Londonu. 

A lecture by academic Dalibor Brozovic will be held in the Croatian Embassy. The lecture is third in our series of the Language Project . NB: Lecture will be given in Croatian.

Dalibor Brozovic is a distinguished Croatian Linguist. He lectured at universities in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Zadar, Michigan and Regensburg and is a member of Croatian, Macedonian and European Academy of Sciences, as well as editorial board of pan-slavic and European linguistic atlas.

Dr. Branko Franolic, a distinguished linguist and retired professor from York Univerity, will be lecturing on the Croatian language in a roundtable discussion at Trinity College in Cambridge, as a part of our Language Project.

The roundtable discussion has been organised by the CSYPN Language Committee, and the Cambridge Croatian Society will host the event at Trinity. By combining the lecture with other cultural events, we believe that we have improved the content of this promising Day Out and increased its appeal to members interested in Croatian culture.