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6/2/2006

International Festival Sarajevo

International Festival Sarajevo ''Sarajevo Winter'', Sarajevo

XXII Sarajevska Zima

The International Festival Sarajevo "Sarajevo Winter" is a traditional meeting place for artists and citizens from all over the World. The first "Sarajevo Winter" Festival was held from 21 December 1984 to 6 April 1985. In the course of twentieth years of its existence, the Festival has become an inseparable part of the city life. In the 941 Festival days Sarajevo saw 2,387 performances and exhibitions with over 2.707,723 spectators and 21,211 participating artists from all parts of the world. The "Sarajevo Winter" Festival was not prevented from taking place even in the times of war, and has become a symbol of freedom of creativity and a place for familiarizing with diverse cultures and civilizations.

Together with the International Peace Center "Sarajevo Winter" initiated and organized the project "Sarajevo, Cultural Center of Europe" from 21 December 1993 to 21 March 1994 (i.e. the period between the two Cultural Centers of Europe - Antwerp '93 and Lisbon '94). The idea was supported by the Sarajevo City Assembly and by 11,000 renowned personalities and institutions the world over. The International Peace Center and the International Festival Sarajevo "Sarajevo Winter" plan to renew the same initiative. Twenty years of the Festival Sarajevo "Sarajevo Winter" is dedicated to project Sarajevo, Intercultural City of Council of Europe .

The organizer of the "Sarajevo Winter" Festival is the International Peace Center Sarajevo. International Peace Center is member of the International Societies for Performing Arts (ISPA), European Festival Association (EFA), Association of the Biennial of Young Artist of Europe and Mediterranean ( BJCEM).

The International Festival Sarajevo "Sarajevo Winter" was awarded with numerous international awards and acknowledgments, as well as the highest prize award of the City of Sarajevo "Šestoaprilska nagrada Sarajeva".

The "Sarajevo Winter" Festival has been held under the patronage of the Council of Europe, The Council of Ministers of B&H, The Presidency of B&H, The Federation of B&H, Sarajevo Canton, City of Sarajevo.

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Giorgio Andreotta Calo'
“From Twilight until Dawn"
A Project for Sarajevo
In the framework of XII International Sarajevo Winter Festival

Transition.
Sarajevo of today.
Down its longitudinal axis of the East and the West conjunction, the center of this urban line is the Tower next to the Parliament. From every point in the city, looking, the tower is there, essential, omnipresent. The cement skeleton, stripped down naked, inside and outside, like a big ghost, a spectre of the past but also a reference point for those who are looking at the future of the country. At the reconstruction. It used to be the headquarters of the political life and it will grow to become that again in the near future. From twilight until dawn the sun completes its walk from the East to the West, and the Tower, set in the centre, acts as the meridian. The sun in the horizon is an orange light trapped at the grill-like Tower floors. In the night of February 7th, the fireworks express the metaphor of the passing of time. Dawn and twilight, beginning and end, are being recreated through a horizontal line of the intense orange light inside the two opposing faces, the Eastern and the Western, along the horizon line. The artificial light becomes the expressive mean that once again puts in the context this monument of architecture. It is the light that expresses the condition of the city, of the country in its becoming, between the end of one time and the beginning of a new day, of a new historical time.

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International Festival Sarajevo
"Sarajevo Winter"
M. Tita 9a i Gabelina 16
Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina

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