The seventh edition of the biggest Croatian music festival, INmusic festival, will take place on the last weekend in June 2012, more precisely on the 28th,29th and Saturday the 30th of June!

Following the record breaking number of visitors in 2011 and the performances of world known artists such as Jamiroquai, Arcade Fire, Grinderman, The Streets, Cypress Hill, TV On The Radio, Mastodon, The Do, Retrostefson, Dubioza Kolektiv and many others, this year we look forward to another festival edition filled with memorable performances, excellent atmosphere and an unforgettable experience that marks the beginning of each summer.

Camp June 26th – July 2nd

In keeping with the festival tradition and as an addition to the amazing musical program, we ensure our visitors the possibility to stay in the festival camp, which has already been praised as one of the best organized music festival camps in general by our foreign visitors. The camp will be open for visitors from the 26th of June to the 2nd of July 2012.

First announcements of musical performers at the 7th INmusic festival will follow shortly and the program will stay diverse and rich in genres and be composed of several festival stages.

LINE UP:

FRANZ FERDINAND

THE CRANNBERIES

GORILLAZ SOUND SYSTEM

PLAN B

MANDO DIAO

Gogol Bordello

Retro Stefson

General Elektriks

Iness Mezel

Tamikrest

and more to come…

Mando Diao confirmed their appearance at the 2012 INmusic festival

The first act of this year’s INmusic festival – MANDO DIAO, one of the biggest Swedish bands to date, is coming to Croatia for the first time and playing exclusively for their Croatian fans at the INmusic festival! INmusic festival will take place at Lake Jarun (Otok hrvatske mladeži) in Zagreb, on the 28th,29th and 30th of June 2012.

The Cranberries @ INmusic festival 2012

The Cranberries are back and will play at INmusic festival 2012 in Zagreb! The original Irish four-piece fronted by Dolores O’Riordan, who lit up the charts for over a decade with classics such as “Linger”, “Dreams” and “Zombie” will release their first new studio album in over 10 years.

The festival is five day promotional-sale event where visitors will enjoy in promotion and buying of top chocolate products, entertainment program and other festival activities organized in cooperation with partners, exhibitors and sponsors:

• Chocofest gastro club – chocolate theme nights in famous Zagreb restaurants
• Entertainment programs for children and adults
• Prize games
• Chocofest cooking show – live cooking before the audience, guest appearance of famous local chefs and pastry chefs
• Chocofest children’s day – on February 12, children select the best chocolate of the festival
• Chocofest Art – artists sculpt chocolate sculptures
• Chocofest card – special festival benefit card for discounts, tastings, gifts etc.
• Chocofest book store – presentation of books on chocolate, cook books, recipes

We invite all chocolate lovers and addicts to join us in this sweet event and let themselves enjoy the best chocolates of the world and all the beauty with which the chocolate artistry erases borders between art and food.

In a sweet element!

Ban Jelacic Square – 26.11. - 18.12.
Zrinjevac – 3.12. - 1.1.2012.
British Square – 3.12. - 1.1.2012.
Trg Žrtava Fašizma – 6.12. - 25.12.

Advent in Zagreb for the traditional lighting of the first advent candle 26th November at 17:00 hours on Ban Jelacic Square and Zagreb Tourist Board has further enriched the program so this year start new programs in Zrinjevac Advent and the square of the victims of fascism. Grand opening of the Advent in Zrinjevac is scheduled for 3 December at 18:00 hours, where on the stage of the old city pavilion performed various musical events. There will be Christmas concerts, waltzes, and carefully selected music programs, and all visitors to these musical events will be able to enjoy the forgotten Zagreb specialties cloths with sauerkraut, homemade soup or baked strukli, warm up with hot chocolate or boiled wine, and for their loved ones to buy unique souvenirs and Christmas ornaments.

Other events:

Winter at Kvatric – November, December and January, Kvaternikov Square
Christmas Fair – 1.12. - 5.1.2012., Narrow town center
Christmas in Europe – 1.12. - 7.12., Westin Hotel
Multimedia 3D Projection Mapping – 2.12. at 19:00 pm, in front of the Museum Mimara
Gričevanje – December 9 to January 1, 2012., A plateau in Gradec
The “Christmas Story” – the entire December, the city center
Christmas Pine Zagreb – the gift of the city of Rome – 8.12., Rome
Live nativity scene – plays on weekends December 17 to January 6, 2012. Kaptol
New Year celebrations – 31.12., Ban Jelacic Square
New Year’s folklore evening – 1.1.2012., Comedy Theatre
Advent Tkalčijana – 27.11. - 31.12. Tkalčićeva Street

More information at www.adventzagreb.com

The Theatre Night Project (expanded title: Multicultural European Theatre Night) began at the incentive of Eleonora Rossi. It was realized as a pilot programme on 25 October 2008 at the Public University Dubrava – Children’s Theatre Dubrava in Zagreb and at the Šibenik Theatre.
In 2009, under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Theatre Night grew into a national event that includes nearly all of the major theatres in Croatia.
This one-day event is dedicated to theatre and the performing arts. It is held simultaneously every year in November in many Croatian cities. The ultimate goal of the event is to bring together theatres in Croatia and Europe and to transform it into a traditional event on the European continent.
Events dedicated to culture are a recent practice in both European and Croatian cultural policy and have a stimulating effect on the establishment of international and national cooperation in such projects. They also contribute to a greater connection between contemporary artistic form and the public and to the attractiveness of the tourist offer of the participating city. To date, no event at a European level (for example, the Night of Museums) dedicated to the dramatic arts has been staged, although there are many events dedicated to other artistic forms which attract the attention of both cultural institutions and the European public.
On selected Saturdays in the month of November theatre will be at the forefront of meetings, discussion, socialising and new understandings in European cities. This will be achieved through the original form of the events and other rich content: international co-productions of theatre performances, readings and the staging of texts of contemporary European authors, multilingualism, roundtables and direct feeds to Internet gatherings. It will be accompanied by music, play centres and workshops for young children, and a gastronomy offer, while expanding awareness about mutual connectivity through participation in this unique event. It will also be possible to follow simultaneous events in other parts of Europe through the Internet and live television feeds and reporting.

Entering Croatia from the North, you will find Hrvatsko Zagorje, which, because of the gentle and soft curves of its hills, is also known as “tame” Zagorje. There you will find some medieval and Renaissance fortresses and numerous Baroque castles connected by a dense network of roads, so that they can be seen on a romantic round-trip.

The most famous Renaissance fortress and palace, VELIKI TABOR, was built in the beginning of the 16th century for the noble Ratkaj family. The vast pentagonal tower in the center served as the living quarters (palas),and is encircled by an oval space enclosed by walls supporting arcade porches on two levels and by five strong semi-circular Renaissance towers accentuated with consoles at the top.

Here we present several Baroque castles from the Zagorje region in order to show each one’s individual character.

TRAKOSCAN, Trakoscan was built in the 13th c. within Croatia´s northwestern fortification system, as a rather small observation fortress for monitoring the road from Ptuj to Bednja Valley. It is located on a landscaped hill above the lake. This romantic castle attracts numerous tourists.

ZAJEZDA, a castle near Zlatar, is a good example of a three-winged Baroque castle. It was built in the styrian architectural style for the Patacic family in 1740. The arcades on columns on both the ground and upper levels open up the living quarters towards the courtyard. On the fourth side of the castle is a wall with a playful baroque entrance portal. The castle features a large central hall with intricately decorated vaults and a lovely family chapel. It is surrounded by an extensive garden, which is typical of most castles of the period.

BISTRA is also a three-winged Baroque castle with accentuated corner pieces. An oval projection standing at the center exceeds the rest of the castle. Within is a wide oval hall luxuriously equipped and decorated with marvellous frescoes.

MILJANA is a harmonious little castle that was built in the 17th century, though its most valuable assets are the 18th century Rococo frescoes by A. Lerchinger which grace the walls of the castle’s rooms. The paintings show landscapes and allegorical themes, such as the four elements and the four seasons, painted to illustrate the lives and customs of the highly developed nobility of the period. A good example is the fresco depicting a musician playing a horn and a group of aristocrats leisurely sitting on the grass and listening to the music.

Tom Jones is one of the few performers who with more than 70 years performing at concerts, go on tour and record albums, and at the same time look great and are full of energy.Although best known for his legendary songs like It’s Not Unusual, Kiss, Delilah, What’s New Pussycat, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again and If I Only Knew, he is primarily a rocker with a true rhythm of blues and soul.Tom Jones is like fine wine, the older the better.This supports the fact that the Reload album, released in the 1999th was his best-selling album (5 million), 2004 published by rock and roll album with Jools Holland, 2008. recorded a studio album 24 Hours, which received fantastic reviews And, of course, there’s 2011th and Praise & Blame, which he picked up the best criticism of his 45-year career. .

In its second annual edition Nu:Write will again prominently feature theatres from the UK, while premiering the results of a co-operation with London-based theatre Box of Tricks, as well as offering a renewed run of this year’s success production of PLAYlist. 
One of this year’s highly anticipated performers, Doctor Brown is coming to Croatia following a world tour with his internationally acclaimed hour-long one-man show called Becaves. Dr Brown is the stage persona of Philip Burgers, a London-based performer/visual comedy absurdist and surrealist/clown/idiot originally from California, who trained for two years with French Clown Master Philippe Gaulier. His show will provoke, repulse and excite you, make you laugh, or cry… with laughter! 
Seamlessly synchronizing live music, performance and storytelling with stunning films and animation — this is the wickedly twisted new tale from the multiple award-winning company behind Malthouse Theatre’s 2008 sensation Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. After a premiere season at Sydney Opera House and before a run at the London National Theatre, 1927 Theatre tour their newest work, an even more enigmatic tale of dubious characters inhabiting a dystopian metropolis of inner city paranoia. Between Tim Burton and Charles Dickens, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, silent films and 21st century comic books, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets is a visually stunning darkly subversive parable of climbing the social ladder, the revolution and how it eats its children. 
Tristan Bates Theatre, dubbed the “thorn in the side of the West End”, regularly produces critically acclaimed productions, and once a month does a “Midnight Matinee”. Besides touring the Midnight Matinees throughout the UK, including sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010, they’ve brought in to Nu:Write Theatre Festival 2010 and showed Zagreb an amazing time. Returning to do yet another spellbinding, sleep-defying Nu:Write closing night event, they will be occupying multiple spaces with a host of the finest performers, musicians and mischief-makers, with hidden surprises and unplanned adventures. 
Dubbed the next generation of new writing, Box of Tricks is a company committed to developing and producing the best new work around; discovering, nurturing and promoting the next generation of playwrights. Box of Tricks and Nu:Write join forces to stage Tales of Two Cities: a transnational theatrical adventure in six parts. The Anglo-Croat company present six 15-minute monologues inspired by place: three London plays in English, three Zagreb plays in Croatian. Celebrating these two great capital cities, this is theatre without boundaries: a cross-cultural, bilingual collaboration that unites the very best of both worlds. 
Eight short plays inspired by Balkan New Wave songs put together into a theatrical PLAYlist – sounds hard to envision, but this was exactly what both new and established Croatian playwrights had to do. Their task was to pick their favourite song by a New Wave band from the region and write a short play no longer in duration than the song it was inspired by. The sold out production was created in five days of intense work in March 2011 and is now returning to Teatar &td in its new and improved run. 
PLAYlist will be visually supported by an exibition by Belgrade photographer Zorica Bajin Đukanović, portraying ex-Yugo rock music protagonists of the 1970s and ’80s. 
The theatrical events at Teatar &td stages will be accompanied by our educational workshops – held by 1927 and Philip Burgers – as well as after parties with DJs at the Teatar &td Café bar every evening after the last show of the day.

The nineth edition of the Zagreb Film Festival is going to be held from October 16th-23rd 2011. This year the programme is going to be shown on several locations in Zagreb – at the cinemas Europa, Tuškanac, andDokukino Croatia as well as the Dance Centre, which is going to function as a cinema for a week for the purposes of the festival. A part of the programme is going to be screened in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) in Novi Zagreb. With its expansion over the banks of the river Sava, the Zagreb Film Festival is going to blend in with the city life more than ever and it is going to remain the biggest and most important film festival for the inhabitants of Zagreb. The festival is going to host about 90 films in seven different programmes!

The main programme (at the cinemas Europa, Tuškanac, and Dokukino Croatia) is, again, going to present new film debuts – there will be 12 feature films, 10 short films, and 15 documentaries. 34 films are going to compete for the festival’s award – the Golden Pram.

Checkers (at the Tuškanac Cinema) is a programme in which Croatian short films compete for the prize. Its aim is to promote and stimulate Croatian film-making.

Bib for Kids (at the Europa Cinema and MSU), for the fifth year in a row, is going to make the youngest audience satisfied by screening five films, five titles from the world’s cinematography, intended for children of different age. The aim of this programme is to familiarize children with films and encourage them to become cinemagoers.

My First Film (at the Dance Centre), a programme which is inspired by the homonymous book by Stephen Lowenstein, is celebrating its fifth edition this year. The programme is going to be focused on Danish directors, whose film debuts are going to be screened at the Dance Centre.

The Great 5 (at the Tuškanac Cinema and MSU) is a programme which includes movies from five important European cinematographies, and which has conquered the hearts of the Zagreb audience and become one of the most attended side programme. It presents new European films from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Great Britain + guest country Austria.

The program Sexual Education on Film – a selection by film critic Daniel Rafaelić – presents films made in various parts and social circumstances of the 20th century which tend to educate the audience about sexuality.

Red Westerns program presents the films of the specific Communist western genre made in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 70s as a response to the decadent genre of American western. The latter program has been realized in cooperation with Ludmila Cvikova and Rotterdam Film Festival.

Source: Zagreb Film Festival

Gallery and gallery shop opening hours:

Tuesday – Sunday 10 AM -8 PM

(Closed Monday)

Zagreb Zoo in numbers
Surface: 7 hectares (together with the lake, and 5.5 hectares of land surface)
Number of species: 275
Number of individuals: 2225
Number of employees: 74

Source: Zagreb Zoo

Roger Waters, the creative genius behind Pink Floyd’s musical pioneers, ready to introduce his greatest masterpiece The Wall, throughout Europe in 2011. After 20 years, this will be the first time to The Wall again performed.

The Wall Roger Waters will tour through 25 European cities. On 13th of April he will appear in Zagreb in the Arena, marking the 30 anniversary of the release of album. Waters said that this might be his  last big tour, it is clear that tickets for this concert will be the most wanted ’goods’ market in the last 10 years.

Source: Eventim

Shakira’s  two-hour performance is a blend of dance music, beautiful ballads and powerful rock while her concerts are the best proof is exactly why she is one of the true musical star. Even four of its hits were among twenty best-selling songs of the last decade, with the hit “Hips Do not Lie” won first place in more than 50 countries. “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), together with the Spanish version of” Waka Waka (Esto es África), a worldwide sensation sold in two million copies, making it the most successful song ever recorded for the football championship. The same video on YouTube viewed over 300 million times what it puts on the 4th place the most watched videos on this popular channel. The success of the singles and as well as the all album motivate Shakira to embark on a world tour.

The collections of the museum include some twelve thousand contemporary artworks, created by Croatian and international artists between 1950 and the present day. A minor part of the permanent collection includes artworks created during the first half of the twentieth century, the presence of which is crucial for the understanding of modern and contemporary art. Particular collections speak of the beginnings and development of various artistic movements, as well as their direct and indirect impact on subsequent phenomena in art.

The Museum includes the following collections: Drawings, Prints, Posters, and Works on Paper; Film and Video; Photography; Media Art; Sculpture and Painting.

Museum History

The Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art was founded in 1954 with the aim of following, documenting, and promoting events, styles, and phenomena in contemporary art. At first it was located in Kulmer Palace in the Upper Town, at St. Catherine’s Square no. 2. Since its very beginnings, its goal has been to assemble a relevant collection and to operate in accordance with modern principles of museology, catering to the needs of our times. In 2003, the construction of a new museum building, designed by architect Igor Franić, began.

Museum Information

Address: Av. Dubrovnik 17, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Hours:

• Tue–Sun: 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
• Saturday: 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
• Monday and holidays: closed

Admission: 30 HRK for adults

Guidded Tours: Free guided tours through the “Collection in Motion” are available every day at 5pm and on Saturdays at 6pm. Free guided tours through temporary exhibitions are available every day at 4pm.

Official website: www.msu.hr