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Art Festivals are like mirror reflections: they are testaments of a culture and its communication with the world, a glance to the future, a step out of the routine, an expression of creative efforts and vitality, concentrated power of an environment to answer complex questions of contemporary existence and its readiness to cope with authenticity. International festivals are bridges connecting us to the others, between the past and the future, between different cultures and numerous creative individuals opening new paths for social and cultural dialogue. They are moderators of mobility, innovation, cooperation, synergy... Likewise, festivals are an attractive form of the audience animation for the unique journey towards the better and nicer side of our lives.

In this particular moment, which is not in favor of culture and arts, the most representative international festivals in Serbia formed together their Association – SEFA. The goal is to  provoke an awareness of the festivals' importance and to construct a potent creative and productive channel in a dialogue with the founders, financiers and sponsors, as well as to initiate a new battle for better social, cultural and infrastructural position of the festivals and better situation for arts and culture in general.

Biljana Zdravković
SEFA president

Belgrade International Theater Adventure – TIBA
Established in 2003, TIBA includes plays for children and youth and has a competitive character.
From 2004 TIBA is member of the ASSITEJ, International  Association of Theater for Children and Young People.
Founder: City of Belgrade. Executive Producer: Boško Buha Theater, Belgrade.
http://www.tibafestival.com/
    
Belgrade International Theater Festival – BITEF
Founded in 1967, BITEF has continually followed and supported the latest theatre trends, becoming thus one of the biggest and the most important European festivals. Transcending all political and cultural borders, in more than four decades, BITEF has managed to keep its pace with a tumultuous evolution of performing arts. Thus, one could identify the history of BITEF as a history of contemporary theatre. Founder:  City of Belgrade. Executive Producer: Bitef Theater, Belgrade.
http://www.bitef.rs/

Belgrade Jazz Festival
Established in 1971, the Belgrade Jazz Festival had run until 1990 when in turbulent times it ceased to exist. The renewed Festival, with modern and potent creative ambition was reestablished in 2005.
Producers wish to point out that jazz is both serious and fun, that it can thrill and captivate, provoke and excite the audience physically and intellectually – in a word, jazz is still alive!
Founder:  City of Belgrade. Executive Producer: Dom omladine, Belgrade.
http://www.belgrade-jazzfest.org/en/

Belgrade Music Festival – BEMUS
Founded in 1969, BEMUS is the oldest and the most prominent music festival in Serbia and one of the most distinctive classical music festivals in the South-Eastern Europe. Although special attention has always been devoted to local artists and their creativity, BEMUS has established its reputation mostly presenting attractive international programmes, i.e. the most prominent ensembles and soloists of our time. Likewise, BEMUS opens its venues to young musicians who are ready to launch their professional careers and equal attention is committed to exclusive contemporary music and stage productions which often reach for alternative artistic expression. Many of these projects are produced or co-produced by BEMUS.
Founder: City of Belgrade. Executive Producer: Jugokoncert, the Belgrade Concert Agency.
http://www.bemus.rs/en.html

Belgrade Summer Festival – BELEF
Belgrade’s soul during the summer is defined by the Belgrade Summer Festival – BELEF (founded in 1991). This festival combines three large artistic fields: stage performing arts (theater and other stage productions), visual arts (video art, installations, visualized performances and prints) and music. Through numerous travelling tours, its own productions and co-productions with cultural institutions and kindred summer festivals, BELEF incites to further involve, cultivate, and develop creative potentials, curiosity, exploratory strength of an individual, but also nurture the needs of the public.
Founder: City of Belgrade. Executive Producer: Belef Center, Belgrade.
http://www.belef.org/gb/

Festival of Choreographic Miniatures, Belgrade
The Festival of Choreographic Miniatures is an international competition of choreographers with their up to 10-minute choreographies performed for the first time. The Festival program comprises also a review program where national and international choreographers present their productions. The 15th Festival took place from June 25 to 27, 2011.
Founder & Producer: Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia.
www.fkmbelgrade.com

Guitar Art Festival, Belgrade
Guitar Art Festival was founded in 2000 and today represents a professional and expert event that gathers classical guitarists of all kinds and genres: amateurs, music schools students, their teachers, eminent foreign guests, leading world guitarists…The essential educational grounds and goal of this project is exchange of knowledge, practice, experience and introducing worldwide trends of modern guitar teaching pedagogy and concert practice.
Founder & Producer: Guitar Art, Belgrade.
http://www.gaf.rs/en/index.php

International Review of Composers, Belgrade
A unique space for composers, International Review of Composers in Belgrade informs, provokes, exits, questions, communicates, transposes, overcomes, teaches… Original pieces premiered in Belgrade answer different questions contemporary music faces and poses and reveal new tendencies in the art of composing and performing contemporary music. The 20th edition of the Festival is to take place in November 2011.
Founder: Composers’ Association of Serbia. Executive Producer: Jugokoncert, the Belgrade Concert Agency
http://www.jugokoncert.rs/en/festivals/international-review-of-composers/19-medj-tribina-kompozitora.html

Jazz and Improvised Music Festival, Kanjiža
Created in 1995, the unique conception of the festival has its roots in an organic understanding of art, human being and spirit. All kinds of musical styles carrying spiritual values are represented here at the highest level: archaic folk music, spiritual and music of the Middle Ages, classical and contemporary music, especially jazz and improvisation. Comprising the wide range of styles, the festival represents an organic totality of music alive, a union of all relevant impulses. The ground link is music that derives from a true-hearted approach and resonates in the spirit of ritual tradition - that is - improvised music…
Founder: Kanjiški krug / Kanjiža Circle. Executive Producer: Creative Atelier Nagy József
http://www.jazz.eutelnet.com/

Novi Sad Music Festival – NOMUS
With a sincere commitment and untiring creative enthusiasm, the authorial team of NOMUS has continued to conquer traditional and alternative artistic spaces in an accelerated yet wise pace and to present to the audience the actual music currents in the world. The 31st edition of NOMUs took place in April 2011.
Founder: Jeunesses Musicales of Novi Sad under the auspices of the City of Novi Sad. Executive Producer: Jeunesses Musicales of Novi Sad.
http://www.muzickaomladina.org/index.php?lang=en

Sterijino pozorje, Novi Sad
The most important theatre institution in Serbia, Sterijino pozorje was established in 1956 in Novi Sad, within the celebration of the 150th anniversary of birth and the 100th anniversary of death of the great Serbian comedy writer Jovan Sterija Popović. Created as a permanent competitive Yugoslav Theatre Festival and based on the national drama heritage, in the past five decades the Festival has made a valuable contribution to the affirmation of Serbian and south Slavonic stage writers. International selection underlines a special dimension of the Festival - again focusing on the most prominent national drama heritage it gives a special value to the artistic universality and communication.
Founder: City of Novi Sad. Producer: Sterijino pozorje, Novi Sad.
http://www.pozorje.org.rs/

Subotica International Children's Theatre Festival
Subotica International Festival of Children's Theatres was founded in 1994 with the aim of presenting the most valuable and artistically most relevant national and international stage productions for children. The Festival has attained the highest artistic achievements hosting more than 400 theatre productions from 37 different countries. Festival is member of UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionette) and ASSITEJ (International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People).
Founder: City of Subotica. Executive Producer:  Subotica Open University.
http://www.lutfestsubotica.net/