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

Na Jermi niče brana-umetničko delo

Čuveni skulptor iz Minesote, SAD-a, Zoran Mojsilov, inače poreklom iz sela Vlasi, počeo je sa izgradnjom brane na reci Jermi koja će biti možda i na svetu jedinstvena po tome što će predstavljati pravo umetničko delo.

Kako je Pirotskim vestima izjavio Mojsilov, na ovom mestu brana postoji poslednjih 150, možda i 200 godine, ali svakog proleća Jerma nadođe i bujica odnese branu.

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- Za ovaj poduhvat sakupio sam novac-donaciju naših iseljenika iz SAD-a, ali i mnogih Amerikanaca. Predstavio sam svoj projekat na sajtu “kickstarter”, koji finansira umetničke projekte i ljudi su mi uplaćivali ko je koliko mogao tako da sam sakupio oko 12.000 dolara kako bi napravio branu, koja će omogućiti i navodnjavanje polja nadomak sela. Brana je postojala poslednjih 150, možda i 200 godine, ali je reka često odnosila. Ovoga puta ćemo to permanentno da rešimo, a selo će rešiti i problem sa vodom jer seljaci više neće morati da koriste pijaću vodu za polivanje bašti-kaže Mojsilov, koji je jedinstven po tome što u svoja umetnička dela, koja su uglavnom masivna, ugrađuje autentične predmete sa ovog podneblja poput poljoprivrednih alakti i sličnih stvari od gvožđa i kamena, koja se vekovima koriste na ovim prostorima.

Mojsilov živi u Minesoti ali svakoga leta dolazi u svoju postojbinu svojih predaka, u prelepo selo Vlasi. Svoja umetnička dela Mojsilov pravi od kamena, drveta, gvožđa, a o njegovom umeću jedan indijanski vrač iz plemena Dakota, inače njegov prijatelj, kazao je da je Mojsilov čovek koji ima snagu da probudi kamen. Njegove skulpture nalaze se u čak dvadeset država SAD-a. Za svoj najnoviji umetnički poduhvat, branu na Jermi, Mojsilov je ponovo iskoristio jedan originalni “ukras”, deo šine sa pruge uskog koloseka kojom je nekada kanjonom Jerme “tutnjao” voz-ćira, koji je transportovao ugalj iz odavno ugašenog rudnika uglja “Jerma”.

Po njegovim rečima, on je do sada u više navrata pokušavao da napravi skulpturu koja bi krasila selo, ali su poslednju njegovu skulpturu nesavesni meštani sela uništili, drvo zapalili a gvožđe prodali u sekundarne sirovine.

Ovoga puta sam napravio kompromis sa meštanima jer su shvatili da je pravljenje brane u njihovu korist tako da mislim da nećemo imati sličnih problema-kaže Mojsilov.

Tekst i foto Aleksandar Ćirić, Pirotske vesti


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Zora Mihailovich

Zora Mihailovich is an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Rochester. She did her undergraduate through postgraduate studies at Belgrade School of Music and Academia di Musica "Santa Cecilia" Rome (Italy). She has studied with Carlo Zecchi, Arturo Benedetti Michelangelli and Daniel Pollack. She made her debut with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra at age sixteen. Ms. Mihailovich has given performances in major music centers in North America and Europe including London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Royal Festival Hall, Washington's DAR Constitution Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Warsaw's Philharmonic Hall, and Brussel's Conservatoire Royal, among others..
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The Thunderbolt of Ever-Living Fire

by archimandrite Vasileios of Iveron

The present book consists of Elder Vaileios' talks, discussions and dialogues in various venues mostly in the United States during his visit in 2011, along with excerpts from his writings selected to complement the themes of his talks.  The themes dealt with by Fr. Vasileios so eloquently in this book are extraordinarily wide-ranging; he handles complex and difficult issues in theology, spirituality, liturgics, parish life and monasticism with amazing clarity and insight.  He quotes with equal facility from figures as diverse as Heraclitus, Dostoevsky, St. Isacc the Syrian, St. Maximus the Confessor, Stefan Zweig, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vladimir Lossy, Georges Florovsky and St. Nicholas Cabasilas.  Above all, there is an exhilarating sense of freedom and innocence in his thought.  It is the freedom and innocence of profound faith and spiritual knowledge and childlike simplicity.  HIs wisnow is expressed via the "hyperlogic" of a hesychastic spriti, which makes for surprising connections and illuminating insights.

The appearance of this new book by Archimandrite Vaileios is truly a cuase for celebration.

143 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936773-16-9