‘HELLISH ORANGE’ BEST SHOW OF 11TH JUVENTAFEST

SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 11 (ONASA) – “Hellish orange” by the members of “Kulturociklin” and KCK from Kruševac is the winner of the Grand Prix for the best play of the 11th international festival of high school theater creativity Juventafest, which was organized by the Association “Medija-Art” and was held from 6 until September 10 in Sarajevo.
At the closing ceremony, held last night at the Sarajevo Youth Theatre, the expert jury consisting of Serbian director Milica Kralj, Bosnian actress Gordana Boban and graphic designer and professor Sandro Drinovac also awarded a Special Prize to the high school students’ play “The Fallibility of Man” from Budapest.
The Grand Prix goes to a performance that is at a high professional level in all its segments and in which the actors captivated with energy, personal attitude towards the subject, exceptional partner play and command of the stage and all acting means – said Boban.
The eleventh Juventafest this year also provided the opportunity for more than a hundred young people from Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to present themselves in the best light on stage, but also to socialize and work hard during all five festival days.
Thus, the audience at the Youth Theater last night attended a unique presentation of inclusive workshops, which are realized in cooperation with the Association “Life with Down Syndrome FBiH”, and which the festival participants were able to create and present on stage with incredible success.
In just four days of inclusive workshops on character masks, the basics of object animation, dance workshops and musical theater workshops, in cooperation with mentors, experts from practice specialized in these fields, young people created completely new theatrical stories that show their talent and confirm the importance of the existence of Juventafest .
They defend the integrity of Juventafest and they are responsible for everything. My heart is too small to receive all this energy. You are the creators of your life stories. Don’t be self-righteous, because then you don’t have the possibility to reconsider – these are the words with which Jasna Diklić, director of Juventafest, closed this year’s festival.
The audience had the opportunity to watch the plays selected by Emina Omerović from Wednesday to Sunday in the Center for Culture and Youth of the Municipality of Centar Sarajevo, where workshops were also held for the participants, as well as in the Sarajevo Youth Theater, where, as part of a workshop for teachers, drama section leaders in secondary schools, the presentation “Drama pedagogy in schools, key factors for the success of inclusive drama creation” was held.
Traditionally, on the last day of Juventafest, there was also a parade of all participants from the Eiffel Bridge in Skenderija to the Sarajevo Youth Theater, accompanied by the “Drum Orchestra”.
The main sponsor of the 11th Juventafest is the City of Sarajevo and Mayor Benjamina Karić, the sponsors of the festival are the Embassy of the United States of America in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Canton of Sarajevo, the Ministry of Education of the Canton of Sarajevo, the Foundation for Music , stage and fine arts Sarajevo.
The friends of this year’s Juventafest are the Bosnian-Herzegovinian-American Academy of Sciences and Arts, Good sign , and the partners are the Sarajevo Youth Theater, PI Center for Culture and Youth of the Municipality of Centar Sarajevo, the Bosnian Cultural Center, the Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts, the “Ibes” restaurant and the Sarajevo Student Center.