A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Ivana Todorović

Ivana Todorović je rediteljka kratkih socijalno angazovanih dokumentarnih filmova, koje je pravila u Beogradu i Njujorku. Filmovi „Ja kada sam bila klinac, bila sam klinka“, „A Harlem Mother“, „Rapresent“ i „Svakodnevica romske dece iz bloka 71“ prikazani su na preko 100 internacionalnih filmskih festivala poput 63. Festivala u Berlinu, Berlinale Shorts; IFF Rotterdam, The Traverse City Film Festival (festival Michael Moore-a), Palm Springs Shorts, Sarajevo Film Festival; Anthology Film Archive u Njujorku i Cultura Contemporiana de Barcelona. Nagradjivani su na festivalima u Srbiji, Kosovu, Americi, Rusiji, Italiji, Kanadi.

Film „A Harlem Mother“ je uvršten u online video biblioteku New York Times-a. Ovi filmovi se koriste u obrazovanju, medijskim kampanjama i NVO sektoru u Srbiji i svetu. Ivana se bavi i obrazovanjem mladih, drži radionice dokumentarnog filma i odrzala je TEDxAUK govor u Prištini. 2018te magistrirala je na katedri TV i Filmske rezije na Fakultetu Dramskih Umetnosti sa kratkim igranim filmom „ Kada sam kod kuce“. Diplomirala je na Documentary Media studies na New Schoolu u Njujorku, kao i na katedri za Etnologiju i Antrologiju na Filozofskom fakultetu. Zavrsila je u Beogradu francusku radionicu dokumentarnog filma Ateliers Varan, osnovanu od strane Jean Rouch-a. Jedna je od izabranih umetnika 2015. u Saary rezidenci programu u Finskoj. Godine 2010. bila je izabrani menti u programu New York Foundation for the Arts u Njujorku.


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Milica Paranosic

Critically acclaimed composer Milica Paranosic has established herself as one of New York’s finest and most daring composers, performance artists, producers, and technologists. Her music was described as “Amazing…astonishing,” (The New York Times), “Like liquor-filled pralines,” (Germany’s Morgenpost), and “A painter, musical Jackson Pollack,” (SEAMUS). Milica’s works range from one-woman multimedia shows and sound installations to operatic and symphonic works. Inspired by her travels and international collaborations, Milica imaginatively incorporates music of her Serbian homeland in addition to cross-continental muses such as Brazil, Ghana and China, always striving to create new sound worlds in which contrasting concepts vividly coexist in unique textures.

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The Hagia Sophia

The Mystical Light of the Great Church and its Architectural Dress

by Charalambos P. Stathakis

Dear reader, as you run like the rest of us along the dizzy main road, stop, stay aside for a while. Let the others be dizzy, and take the secret underground trail, which will lead you through the dewdrops of the leaves, the crystal smile of the sun, the city’s underground galler- ies, your knowledge, and your feelings, to the doorstep of the Hagia Sophia. Because all dew- drops, all sunrays, and all beauty lead there. That is what you will be told by my friend, the author, whom I am fond of and whom I send you to, Charalambos Stathakis: the doctor, the warm and humane researcher, the scientist devoted to his work and his patients, who has given a series of scientific papers, who, nevertheless, retains a nest of beauty untouched in his heart, which makes him outstanding—even though he is not a specialist in architecture, nor a historian, nor a theologian, nor a Byzantinist—it makes him stand out in all these together and in entirety.

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