The Legacy of Queen Jelena 2024 event will be held from June 1st to June 9th in Raška and the gate of the Gradac monastery.
The event, which has been an integral part of the rich cultural offer of the municipality of Raška since 2006, is dedicated to Queen Jelena, who was the wife of the Serbian king Uroš I and the mother of kings Dragutin and Milutin. Queen Jelena still today, so many centuries later, causes as much attention as she received during her lifetime. Her character and works are a great inspiration to artists.
Famous artists, writers, spiritualists, actors, musicians take part in the event and in the new year.
Program of the Legacy of Queen Jelena 2024 event
SATURDAY | 1.6.2024.
Sports hall Baljevac
12.00 – AWAKEN THE WINNER IN YOU – panel Lecturers: Andrija Gerić and Vasa Mijić
SERVE FOR JOY – volleyball tournament Organizer of the tournament: volleyball coach Dragiša Živković
TUESDAY | 4.6.2024.
House of Culture Raška
12.00 – SPEAK TO SEE WHO YOU ARE Speech culture school for young people Lecturer: Milan Bosiljčić, B.Sc. an actor
WEDNESDAY | 5.6.2024.
House of Culture Raška
10.00 – SPEAK TO SEE WHO YOU ARE Speech culture school for young people Lecturer: Milan Bosiljčić, B.Sc. an actor
THURSDAY | 6/6/2024
House of Culture Raška
10.00 – SERBIAN MANUSCRIPT HERITAGE – workshop
The workshop is led by: Milena Davidović and Jelena Slavković, PhD students at the Department of Serbian Literature at the University of Belgrade
Gallery of the Gradac Culture Center
19.30 – Opening and author’s interpretation of the exhibition GABRIJEL MIJE AND RESEARCH OF OLD SERBIAN ARCHITECTURE Dubravka Preradović, Ph.D., scientific associate of the Balkanology Institute SANU
FRIDAY | 7/6/2024
House of Culture Raška
10.00 – SERBIAN MANUSCRIPT HERITAGE – workshop
The workshop is led by: Milena Davidović and Jelena Slavković, PhD students at the Department of Serbian Literature at the University of Belgrade
12.30 – NEMANJIĆI – THE DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE
theater performance for children Children’s Cultural Center Belgrade
Gate of the Monastery of the Holy Annunciation – Gradac
11.00 – KAMENČIĆ ALONE IS NOT WORTHY – mosaic workshop
The workshop is led by: Ljiljana Rivić
11.00 – THE BEAUTY OF GOD’S CREATION IN OUR HANDS making flower arrangements
The workshop is led by: the Sisterhood of the Gradac Monastery and professors of the Forestry School from Kraljevo
Gallery of the Gradac Culture Center
19.30 – THE STORY OF GROWING UP AND RELATIONSHIPS – panel Lecturer: Professor Bojana Cvejić, Doctor of Psychological Sciences in the field of clinical psychology
SATURDAY | 8.6.2024.
Gate of the Monastery of the Holy Annunciation – Gradac
12.00 – KAMENČIĆ ALONE IS NOT WORTHY – mosaic workshop
The workshop is led by: Ljiljana Rivić
House of Culture Raška
19.00 – THE ROLE OF MEMORY IN OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE
lecture by father Miloš Vesin, professor at the Theological Faculty of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Libertyville
20.30 – YES, THOSE WERE THE DAYS of musical poetic cabaret
Participants: Nebojša Dugalić, Boris Pingović, Nina Ćosić and Vojislav Savić
WEEK | 9/6/2024
Gate of the Monastery of the Holy Annunciation – Gradac
9.00 – HOLY LITURGY
The Holy Liturgy will be enhanced by the singing of the children’s choir of the Church Municipality of Novi Sad and the children’s church choir “Đurđevak” at the church of St. George from Užice.
10.30 – GASTRONOMY OF THE RAŠKA DISTRICT
Guests: Ivo Andrić, Stambol Geštamov, international culinary judges
KAMENČIĆ ALONE IS NOT WORTHY – mosaic workshop
The workshop is led by: Ljiljana Rivić
THE BEAUTY OF GOD’S CREATION IN OUR HANDS – humanitarian exhibition
11.00 – FREE TRKULJA & BALKANOPOLIS
concert
14.00 – WEDDING FOR ETERNITY
collective wedding
source and photo: TO Raška
