09.00 Opening of the conference

Uvodna obraćanja ministara kulture zemalja iz regiona:

Maja Gojković, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia and Minister of Culture and Informatio

Irena Stefoska, Minister of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia

Meri Kumbe, Deputy Minister of Culture of Albania

Krešimir Partl, State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

dr. Ignacija Fridl Jarc, State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia

Suvad Džafić, assistant minister for Science and Culture at the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina





09:30 Introductory speeches by the ambassadors of the countries with the diplomatic mission in Serbia

H.E. Jean-Louis Falconi, Ambassador of France

H.E. Amr Fathi Mohamed Aljowaily, Ambassador of Egypt

H.E. Nikolaus Lutterotti, Ambassador of Austria

H.E. Thomas Schieb, Ambassador of Germany

H.E. Mohammed Amine Belhaj, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco

H.E. Kimmo Juhani Lähdevirta, Ambassador of Finland

H.E. Alberto di Luka, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta

H.E. Subrata Bhattacharjee, Ambassador of India

H.E. Mochammad Chandra Widya Yudha, Ambassador of Indonesia

H.E. Radko Vlajkov, Ambassador of Bulgaria

H.E. Sem Fabrizi, Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Union

Peter Brown, Director of the British Council for Serbia and the Western Balkans

Joachim Waern, Deputy Head of Mission of Sweden

Paola Cordone, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade

10.00 - 11.00 / Panel 1

How did the coronavirus turn off the spotlights?
Cultural institutions in the time of the pandemic


Moderator: Sonja Mitrović, Radio and Television of Vojvodina (RTV)

Participants:
Zana Cela, director of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Albania
Katarina Kocevska, director of the Drama Theatre, Skopje
Goranka Horjan, director of the Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb
Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, director of the Matica Srpska Gallery, Novi Sad
dr. Barbara Jaki, director of the National Gallery in Ljubljana
Mladen Banjac, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska, Banja Luka
Neda Knežević, director of the Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade
Danijel Vidović, director of Croatian Lodge "Herceg Stjepan Kosača" in Mostar




11.00 - 12.00 / Panel 2

Is art positive on COVID-19?
Effects of the virus on the life and work of artists


Moderator: Sonja Mitrović, Radio and Television of Vojvodina (RTV)

Participants:
Klodi Menegri, director of the Museum of Style - Ethno Vibes, Albania
Iskra Gešoska, founder and president of the Association for the Development of Critical Theory, Socio-Cultural Activism and Contemporary Art Practice, Kontrapunkt, North Macedonia
Slađana Bojković, History Museum of Serbia
Đurđa Papazoglu, Executive and Artistic Director of the Association of Musical Arts "Muzika Nade", Serbia
Vesna Latinović, director of the Bel Art Gallery, director and founder of the Festival of Contemporary Art "Danube Dialogues", Serbia
Aleš Šteger, program director of the publishing house Beletrina, Slovenia
Jusuf Hadžifejzovića Charlama, independent artist, Bosnia and Herzegovina