Zagreb, June 23 (CP) – Following 16 months of legal wrangling, the Dubrovnik International University, the only private university in Croatia has been given approval of the Science, Sports and Education Ministry to set up international relations and diplomacy, international business dealings and economy and acting courses.
The Univesity will start operating in line with the […]
Zagreb, June 3 (CP) — Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will be performing at Zagreb’s Lake Jarun this evening officially opening the VIP-IN music festival, Croatia’s largest open air music festival.
A total of 30 foreign and domestic parformers will be appearing over the next two days with The Prodigy billed as tommorrow’s top performers.
Zagreb, May 28 (CP) — The first edition of the Mediterranean Film Festival Split opened last night in the coastal city.
The new Vinko Bresan film Will Not Stop There will be shown as well as 24 other movies until Saturday, the last day of the event.
Zagreb, May 18 (CP) – Croatia is to become a member of the Erasmus Mundus EU programme aimed at student cooperation securing them a possibility of studying abroad as of January 1, 2009.
The Organisation has been in place for 20 years now and has enabled so far a total of 1.7 million students to study […]
Zagreb, May 6 (CP) — The 5th Book Fair was opened on Tuesday at the Profil Megastore bookshop in Zagreb focusing on the new Croatian novel.
Some 150 publishers are to take part and books at the Profil Megastore bookshop are to be sold up to 50 percent cheaper until May 17th.
Zagreb, April 30 (CP) – Dubrovnik’s Sebastijan gallery is hosting an exhibition by Pablo Picasso entitled Sketches on paper for the Guernica from the Prado Museum Collection from Madrid.
Exhibited are lithographs of some of the sketches the artist had made when preparing Guernica.
The exhibition was opened on Wednesday evening in the organisation of the Spanish […]
Zagreb, April 29 (CP) — Croatian signer/songwriter and poet Arsen Dedic will be playing the Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall at 7:30 tonight, marking 50 years of his career.
His guests will include the Zagreb Philharmonic conducted by Pavle Despalj and Josip Cvitanovic.
Dedic’s film and TV series music, as well as many of his songs will be […]
Zagreb, April 28 (CP) – Some 500 Zagreb secondary school pupils gathered in the Croatian capital’s main square in protest of the upcoming state exam for which they claim preparations have not been thorough.
The Zagreb pupils together with those in several other Croatian cities are demanding that the introduction of the exam be postponed until […]
Zagreb, April 20 (CP) – The veteran Croatian poet and singer/songwriter Arsen Dedic has had eye-surgery that saved his sight.
One of the most famous Croatian musicians and artists had nearly died some four years ago and had to have an emergency liver transplant.
He recovered beyond all expectations and returned to his work with fresh vigour.
Dedic […]
Zagreb, April 8 (CP) — The best-known Indian author Kiran Desai has arrived in Zagreb in a bid to promote two of her novels that have been translated into Croatian across the country.
This youngest ever Booker prize recipient which she was awarded at the age of 35 is to promote two of her novels Inheritance […]
