OUR DAILY BAY

Monday, August 13
St. Nicola's and St. Luke's Square, 8 p.m.

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OUR DAILY BAY

The themes of ecology, sustainable development, and environmental protection have been in consideration during the entire shaping and realization of the program of the 17th Don Branko’s Music Days. For the first time, at the very beginning of the Festival, on July 13, two festival commissions were planned – the composition Pasija po Steli by Rambo Amadeus and a documentary film by Dušan Vuleković. Then, through concerts in the ClimateKeys program segment hosted at Kotor Cinema Square and lectures by experts from the Institute of Marine Biology in Kotor, visitors have a chance to get more closely acquainted with contemporary issues encountered in the field of ecology. This series of programs ends with the festival closing ceremony, a performance that is not only an overview such modern-day problems, but an (artistic) attempt to resolve them. During the festival, a great endeavour of cleaning the bay will be organized in cooperation with the NGO Naša Akcija. The waste collected on this occasion will serve as the basis for some kind of percussion instruments, and volunteers and citizens who will have participated in the cleaning process, together with the team of the festival and under the direction of percussionist Darko Karlečik, will as well become performers. At the same time, students of the Kotor Grammar School will be making art installations from recycled materials and present them at a mini-exhibition with an artistic performance designed by painter Ana Nives Radović. In this way, through artistic recycling, we will contribute to the education of the local community, and above all send a strong ecological message while raising awareness of the environment and the preservation of the bay.

DARKO KARLEČIK, percussionist, completed studies at Isidor Bajić Secondary Music School in Novi Sad under Professor Srđan Palačković before going to graduate from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, under Professor Nebojša Jovan Živković, thereafter obtaining his master’s degree from the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (MUK) in Vienna. He has performed both as a soloist and as a member of an ensemble with the symphony orchestras of numerous opera houses, such as the Vienna State Opera, the Serbian National Theater (Novi Sad), and the Croatian National Theater (Osijek), as well as with the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, Zrenjanin Philharmonic Orchestra, Subotica Philharmonic Orchestra, Max Steiner Orchestra (Vienna), New Cosmos Orchestra (Vienna), Camerata Academica (Novi Sad), Dušan Skovran String Orchestra (Belgrade), and the Orfelin Choir and Orchestra. Karlečik regularly attends seminars of eminent artists such as Keiko Abe, Eric Samut, Ivana Bilić, Anton Mittermayr, Arend Weitzel, Roland Altmann, Frank Epstein, John Wooton, Svet Stoyanov, Pius Cheung, and Nancy Zeltsmann, among others. He has served as a permanent member of the AU-AU Percussion Ensemble, with which he performed numerous premieres of pieces, some of which were written for the ensemble itself. In 2013, he received the prestigious Yamaha Music Foundation Award. Darko Karlečik is employed at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad as a Professional Associate for Percussions.

ANA NIVES RADOVIĆ, Master of  Economics and Finance and lawyer in the field of European Union law. The project Dividing by Zero is the foundation for her doctoral thesis and it is dedicated to examining the unfounded reasons for introducing a 0% interest rate and disorder into the capital market, with a focus on blockchain methods as a response to the irregularities of centralized systems. She has been working in the field of finance since 2004 and in 2008 established her private consulting business. While working as a financial analyst and lecturer in the FinTech field, Radović became the first Montenegrin to present an academic thesis related to blockchain platforms, named “Bitcoin and Contemporary Financial Operations.” In cooperation with various universities and institutes, she is also occupied as a lecturer in the fields of entrepreneurship and financial management. Ana Nives Radović has been engaged in painting since 2004, promoting her works via the website ananives.me, with all of the profit realized from sales going to charity. Since 2017, she has served as the Director of the Tourist Organization of the Kotor Municipality.