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CELJE, THE GALLERY OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S ART WORKS
Award ceremony and exhibition opening of the XVIth International competition

Starting the ceremony, a performance by dancers from Dance Forum Celje The ceremony was brilliantly guided by two pupils from Lava Elementary School from Celje From the right hand side - Vlado Koželj, representative of Municipality of Celje, Štefan Jug, Celje city council, Marijana Kolenko, principal of Lava ES Celje and Mihailo Lišanin
As usual, the hall was filled with guests First place winner in age group from 11-15 years Maida Demić with her mentor Danica Sardelić from Marije i Line ES, Umag, Croatia First place winner in age group from 11-15 years Jelena Dacin with her mentor Marta Kiš from Petefi Šandor ES, Novi Sad, Srebia
Representative of the Romanian Embassy in Slovenia, Ms. Cristina Mortu accepted the awards in the name of award winners from Romania First place winner in age group from 16-20 years Valentina Stankovič with her mentor Marjetica Garzarolli Dharu from Koper Gymnasium, Slovenia Dancers from Dance forum Celje Lia Hofman and Kaja Vajdetič
Happy award winner Timotej Trstenjak from Ljutomer, Slovenia Award winners from Croatia and their mentors, from the left hand side - Marko Gregurec and Nikolina Sulilović from Koprivnica and Ela Vehovec from Rijeka Award winners from Šmartno pri Litiji ES, Slovenia, Neža Dacar and Blažka Hauptman with their mentor
Award winner Jelena Krkajlić from Dečja radost kindergarten, Pančevo, Serbia Award winner Ana Novak and her mentor Tatjana Hočevar from ZU Janez Levec, Ljubljana, Slovenia Rememberance photo of award winners and their mentors with Mihailo Lišanin
Performance of Lava ES' pupils in the cultural programe Award winners Lina Pipan and Andreja Merše from Vodice ES, Slovenia Expert jury member Breda Bračko from Griže ES, Slovenia Award winner Marta Umičević from Sveti Sava ES, Novi Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina


We are happy to announce that the first part of the award ceremony and exhibition opening for the Celje’s Gallery of Young People’s Art Works’ and World of Art’s 16th International competition for authors up to 20 years of age on the theme “ Ethnological dresses and folklore dances of my people” for award winners from Europe, was successfully carried out on the 13th of May 2011 at the Metropol City Cinema and that the exhibition is now set up in the Gallery of Young People’s Art Works Celje in Celjski dom.
The second part of the award ceremony and exhibition opening for award winners from other continents will take place on Monday the 30th of May 2011 at Trabzon Güzel Sanatlar Galerisi in Trabzon at the Black Sea coastline.
It will be the first time in the history of International competitions for young people that the conclusion ceremony will be organized in two countries, even more, two continents. Furthermore, the first presentation of this year’s competition awarded artworks selection was set up in the beginning of April at the Hong Kong Festival of Youth, organized by Plaza Hollywood and Henry Lau, the founder of Simply Art Artschool.
As it was the case in previous years and this year also, the President of Republic of Slovenia Dr. Danilo Danilo Türk accepted the honorary sponsorship of the ceremony in Celje.
The dancers of the Dance Forum Celje on the choreography of Goga Stefanović, which are this year celebrating their 35 years of appearing on Slovene and international dance scene, performed in the cultural programme, accompanied by Elementary School Lava’s pupils, guided by their principal Mgr. Marijana Kolenko.
In spite of the world economic crisis, the award winners from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Romania attended the ceremony in Celje. Award winners from Azerbaijan, India, Russia and Iran have already notified us of their participation at the award ceremony in Turkey. To both Trabzon and Hong Kong ceremonies, Mihailo Lišanin, the founder and leader of this competition was invited as an honorary guest of the event.
The Trabzon exhibition will be opened by the Ambassador of the Republic Slovenia in Turkey.
 

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