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| Tuesday, 26 August 2008 | |
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More than eighty non-governmental organizations
presented themselves at NGO fair. Agora is a stage at the festival dedicated to those
who try to make the world that we live in a better place, just as the
Non-governmental Organizations Fair some twenty metres away. We all wish there
were less injustice, but we do not all protest when we see someone being
assaulted. That is why it is important to recognize and support those who dare
and do. This year, the central topic of the Agora was Serbia on its
way to the EU. The citizens have the right to know what the processes of
accession include; what benefits they may expect to have from these processes;
whether there is something to fear; how these processes have evolved and what
their results are in the countries which have already gone that way. Within the
four days of the festival, appropriate to the place and occasion, we tried to
get all those big stories closer to our little lives. This year, the evenings started with public debates,
discussions and promotions, proceeded with great parties, and ended in informal
conversations with interesting guests at Caf~Aİ Europe. Agora program
Thursday, July 10th19:30 ~Ac??? 21:00 Panel ~Ac??AIs there life after Eurovision?~Ac??? Due to the Eurovision song contest in Belgrade the highest authorities sent a message to the gays and lesbians: ~Ac???cNo one is allowed to hurt you!~Ac???c Have those golden words opened the iron doors of prejudice and intolerance? Is tolerance reserved only for foreign tourists, as the nudist beaches once were, or is it also available for a regular Serbian gay, who will not bring money to the local tourism industry? How many Eurovision song contests will Serbia need so that a boy can love his boyfriend just like a boy loves his girlfriend? Boris Mili~A?!evi~A?!, The president of the Gay-Straight Alliance Du~A?!an Maljkovi~A?!, pop culture theoretician, editor and publisher Bojan Bo~A?!kovi~A?!, founder and chief of the EXIT festival Anja Roglji~A?!, music editor RTS Kebra, rock musician The public debate will be moderated by Rajko Bo~A? 3/4 i~A?!
21:00 ~Ac??? 23:00 Loud and Queer EXIT Party ~Ac??? DJ Flip The best queer party in the country will be a guest at the best festival in Europe! DJ Flip has been the support, friend and the superstar since the very beginnings of this precious manifestation. 23:00 ~Ac??? 01:00 Caf~Aİ Europe The diplomatic representatives of the EU countries, headed by Jean-Fran~A§ois Terral, the French Ambassador to Serbia.
Friday, July 11th19.30 ~Ac??? 21.00 Panel discussion about the OSCE Mission in Serbia ~Ac??AI have the right to know~Ac??? This year at the EXIT music festival, The OSCE Mission is running the campaign ~Ac???cI have the right to know~Ac???c, aiming to promote European values, the rights to access information freely and the freedom of expression. The OSCE Mission was established in Serbia in 2001. Dragana Nikoli~A?! Solomon, Serbia OSCE director This debate will be moderated by Miroslav Jankovi~A?!, Senior Freedom of the Media Assistant at the OSCE Mission 21:00 ~Ac??? 23:00 Super Selek~A?!n ~Ac??? Dovlaman, Ahmed, Pips www.myspace.com/dovlaman Novi Sad-Sarajevo-Osijek axis. Gari, jaro and lega (friend, chum and lad). They break, they scratch and create madness. The most successful (and most dangerous) contribution the Agora to the regional cooperation. 23:00 ~Ac??? 01:00 Caf~Aİ Europe Discussion about the media in Serbia, about the right to access information freely, freedom of expression and the connection between the media and human rights. Dragana
Nikoli~A?! Solomon, OSCE, Serbia OSCE director Saturday, July 11th19:00 ~Ac??? 20:15 Public debate - The EU Integration Office ~Ac??AWhy do we need Europe?~Ac???
What exactly does that famous process of joining the EU mean, and how will it affect the life of an ordinary young person? Which attributes would describe it best? Faster? Better? Easier? More expensive? More open? More versatile? Tanja Mi~A?!~A?evi~A?!, director of
the Serbian EU Integration Office The public debate will be moderated by Rajko Bo~A? 3/4 i~A?! 20:15 ~Ac??? 21:00 Who has it easier and how much? ~Ac??? About visa liberalisation in practice www.grupa484.org.yu Whose life, and to what extent, was made easier by the visa liberalisation? How close are we really to the no-visa regime with EU countries? Miodrag Strestha, the
director of Group 484 21:00 ~Ac??? 23:00 R POINT R Point is a project of the organization by the same name, which helps young Roma people express their talents, potentials, intelligence and their creativity. Many Roma children need encouragement so they would develop the self-esteem and self-respect to help them deal with prejudice they face every day. After the great success at last year~Ac???cs EXIT festival, R POINT give us their best this year again: Male and female dancers, singers, rhyme-makers and true festival atmosphere engineers. 23:00 ~Ac??? 01:00 Caf~Aİ Europe The EU integration office experts Zoran Sreti~A?! ~Ac??? ecology
Sunday, July 12th 19:00 ~Ac??? 19:30 Presenting the Comparative History Textbook of The Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in South-eastern Europe Balkan people share their history, but you could never tell that from the textbooks that the children use in schools. Except in the case of the textbook which will be presented here. Nenad ~A ebek, Executive Director of the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe 19:30 ~Ac??? 20:00 Presenting the Anthology of Rock Poetry from former Yugoslavia 1967 ~Ac??? 2007 ~Ac???cPesme bratstva, detinjstva@svojstva~Ac???c(Poems of brotherhood, childhood and features), by the author, Petar Janjatovi~A?! and the publisher, VEGA media This collection of rock poetry includes about 300 lyrics created in the last 25 years of the existence of SFRY, as well as the most prominent representatives of this period. We needed this anthology, which is a cross-section of rock poetry in the last 40 years, not only as a counterpoint to today~Ac???cs kitsch that most lyrics suffer from in the newly created countries, with no exceptions, but also as a document of the potency of the period, of freedom and vision, as well as the modernity, visible even from a distance of some twenty years. Petar
Janjatovi~A?!, author 20:00 ~Ac??? 21:00 Public debate ~Ac???cHere, quite near~Ac???c (~Ac??A 3/4 Tu, sasvim blizu~Ac??A) As part of the EXIT project ~Ac???cOn the move~Ac???c, TV production Urbans has created 12 twenty- minute programmes aiming to overcome prejudice and introduce the young people of the region. Six Belgrade University students who have never been to any of the countries of former Yugoslavia have, as a result, visited Zagreb, Podgorica, Sarajevo, Pri~A?!tina and Ljubljana, where they spent three days with students of local Universities who have never been to Serbia. The second part of this project will take place during EXIT 08 when both the guests and the hosts are supposed to come to Novi Sad and spend four days together in the camp and at the festival. All of the twelve participants of the series will take part in the public debate ~Ac??AHere, quite near~Ac??? (~Ac???cTu, sasvim blizu~Ac???c). Apart from the first reactions regarding Serbia and reminiscing of the Belgrade students~Ac???c first reactions when they first stepped in neighbouring countries, this round table talk about the ways of overcoming the deeply rooted prejudice, especially among the young in the region, who know next to nothing about each other. 21:00 ~Ac??? 21:30 Samo Sloga Sound System ~Ac??? DJ/VJ set A duo of enthusiasts completely out of modern waters. No prejudice, no preaching the audience, no hidden agenda. Just amity. 21:30 ~Ac??? 23:00 Proyecto Rotilla ~Ac??? a digital insight into the heart of Cuba The alternative production of Havana~Ac???cs Matrak will be serving fresh Cuban culture you will not find on the menu of tour operators. Get to know the underground electronic scene of this mythical island. D Joy de
Cuba 23:00 ~Ac??? 01:00 Caf~Aİ Europe What does the National Youth Strategy have for me? Serbia has finally got its National Youth Strategy. What can be built on this foundation? Seek the answers from the Ministry of Youth and Sport experts. Ivana
Kova~A?evi~A?!, State Secretary of Youth and Sport Agora was made possible thanks to our friends from the American foundation National Endowment for Democracy. We thank them. |
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