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What is The Orfelin CircleWe are a group that believes it is possible to articulate common aspirations, affinities and wishes in a more encompassing and organized way.We are interested in live and contemporary Serbian culture and its interaction with other cultures: European, American and all other with which the Serbian cultural environment comes into contact. This does not exclude traditional values which we all carry with us, due to our education and our feelings, and which we try to preserve in the best and most contemporary way. Bylaws of the Orfelin Circle PPTPresentation |
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What are our goalsWe would like to organize cultural exchanges. This would include concerts, theatre performances, film festivals, art exhibitions, meetings with writers, lectures... The three dots are purposefully here as the process is open and ideas are not exhausted. Our spirit is also eyeing a library, a library for children and a media center.We are inviting you to become friends of The Orfelin Circle , to support with your ideas and in other ways this initiative. We live in turbulent times and think that a modest effort is the least that can be done in order to enhance reality. In the belief that children learn best by example, this is our attempt to offer them the most valuable of worlds and choices, and that is culture. |
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How did the name The Orfelin Circle come into beingZachary Stefanovich Orfelin (1726-1785) was the first Serbian bourgeois poet and artist. The scope of his interests led him from poetry and writing to engraving and the graphic arts. He was also the founder of the first journal among the Southern Slavs (Slavenoserbski Magazin).The geography of his human destiny extends from Novi Sad, Temisoara and Karlovac to Budapest, Vienna and Venice. Through his life and activities he appeared to us as an exceptional metaphor for our ideas and goals, as well as an illustration of ourselves, modern nomads and seekers in the world in which we live.
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Actions and Events
Report from our Initial Assembly, April 4, 2004 Sounds of the Balkans - Prof. George Vid Tomashevic's Lecture on Ancient Serbian and Macedonian Music (Report and photos in Serbian), May 1, 2004 Visit to the Exhibition Byzantium: Faith and Power, May 8, 2004 Lecture: Medieval Serbia, June 30, 2004 Saban Bajramovic's Concert in D.C. (photos) The First Fall Fundraising Ball (Serbian), September 24, 2004 A Concert by The Teofilovic Twins at Kennedy Center, October 19, 2004 A Concert by the Belgrade String Quartet, April 22, 2005 A Tesla Evening at Goethe-Institut, May 14, 2005 The Second Fall Fundraising Ball , September 23, 2005 In Search of a Method - Art Exhibition, December 15, 2005 - January 14, 2006 Serbian Contemporary Short and Documentary Film Washington, D.C. 2006 , March 26, 2006 - "Rough Cut Lives" and "Casting"
A Theatrical Evening with The Zvezdara Theater, Belgrade in collaboration with The National Theater of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, September 15, 2006 (photos) The Third Fall Fundraising Ball, October 13, 2006 (photos) Serbian Contemporary Short and Documentary Film Washington, D.C. 2007 , March 7 and 11, 2007 (Washington Post, March 3, 2007)
Trio Balkan Strings, May 21, 2007 (photos) Carpe Diem Ensamble, June 23 - 25, 2007 (World Children's Choir, 2007 World Children's Festival, Kennedy Center performance) The Fourth Fall Fundraising Ball , October 12, 2007 (photos) Serbian Contemporary Short and Documentary Film Washington, D.C. 2007 , April 20 and 23, 2008
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Orfelin Circle, P.O. Box 30791, Bethesda, MD 20824 E-mail: info@orfelin.org fax: (301) 816-0613 |
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