The Gents Glembays

Gospoda Glembajevi [tabs] [tab title=”Hrvatski”] Gledalište je prepuno, s mnogim sumnjama i neizvjesnostima iščekuje se nadolazeća predstava uprizorena prema djelu „Gospoda Glembajevi“,  jednom od najvećih klasika hrvatske književnosti 20. stoljeća. Cijelo Hrvatsko narodno kazalište zauzeli su mladi srednjoškolci u pratnji svojih profesora, što je posebno lijep prizor s obzirom na opće zaziranje mladih od kulturnih […]

Vukovar and Dubrovnik: On freedom, solidarity, peace and beauty today

Vukovar i Dubrovnik: o slobodi, solidarnosti, miru i ljepoti baš danas City of Dubrovnik from the air [tabs] [tab title=”English”] It is today that we have to talk about beauty and about freedom, especially among the youth. We lost the art of living these notions because of political correctness watering down  the universal human values: […]

Impressions from the 4th WYA Week in Croatia

WYA Week is the main event of the year for the WYA community in Croatia. It’s a project in which almost all the members participate in some way or the other. Some members are assigned to organize a specific day, some work with the media, others host in radio and TV shows or make preparations for […]

On importance of leisure: Leisure is not mere idleness, it’s a gift

[tabs] [tab title=”English”] “We work so we can have leisure”, wrote Greek philosopher Aristotle, in one of his most important works “Nicomachean Ethics”. On the other hand, the prevailing philosophy of the modern world, in which actions which don’t give us immediate results are considered more or less meaningless, is “We have leisure so we […]

Running, crawling and marching for life: How can we measure a joy of one life?

Trk, puzanje i Hod za život: Kako se može izmjeriti radost jednog života? [tabs] [tab title=”English”] I am honored to know one man. His smile is disarming and his kindness is obvious to everyone who ever met him. Some know him only through my stories because it is difficult for me to not talk about someone who […]

A fight for a better society

“POVIJEST SLOBODE JEST POVIJEST OTPORA” *   [tabs] [tab title=”English”] Young people across Western Europe witness and sometimes participate in various meaningful, but all too often meaningless protests and demonstrations. There are so many different causes, dubious goals and motives that such public demonstrations only cause apathy in many observers. On the contrary, in the […]

What is freedom without love? What is love without forgiveness?

Što je sloboda bez ljubavi,a što je ljubav bez praštanja?   [tabs] [tab title=”English”] The Gospel (Vangelo), a drama of Pippo Delbono is a cultural project made in cooperation between the director Delbono, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione from Modene, also in co-production with Theatre Vidy from Lausanne, Maison de […]

Philosophical, cultural and political reflections on how Beauty will save the world

Filozofske, kulturne i političke refleksije o tome kako će Ljepota spasiti svijet   [tabs] [tab title=”English”] Exposition from the European Arts Forum 2015 in Brussels Probably many of you are already familiar with the sentence said by Prince Miskhin in Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot: “Beauty will save the world“. Not only that he said that, but […]

120 Years of National Institute for Blind Children Upbringing

120 godina Zemaljskog zavoda za odgoj slijepe djece [tabs] [tab title=”English”] Typhlological Museum On December 17, 2015 the exhibition 120 Years of National Institute for Blind Children Upbringing was opened in the Typhlological Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, and it will remain open until January 22, 2016. The purpose of the exhibition is to mark the […]

Unusual solidarity of an atheist and a religious man at the Dr. Freud’s last session

Neobična solidarnost ateista i vjernika u posljednoj seansi Dr. Freuda   [tabs] [tab title=”English”] An interesting duo consisting of the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and one of the greatest christian apologetics of the 20th century, the writer C.S. Lewis, has recently been introduced for the first time to the audience in Zagreb, in the […]