Bridges of CREATIVITY

11.50 Session 2 – Art erase boundariesModerator: Valentina Antić
11.55 Јelena Jovanović (Province Assembly Deputy)"Art of survival - Romani response to the questions of soul"12.05 Dr Aleksandra Đurić Bosnić (Cultural center of Vojvodina "Miloš Crnjanski")“Interculturalism and borders”12.20 Dr Nice Fracile (Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad) - expose and practical presentation„Folklore pearls that erase boundaries III. A Multi-traditional Tune and its EuropeanItinerary” ”12.40 Discussion

Aleksandra Đurić Bosnić was born in 1965 in Pančevo (Vojvodina, Serbia). She graduated from the Faculty of Philology, MA from Faculty of Philosophy and PhD from Faculty of Dramatic Arts. She was coordinator at the Creative center “Mediteran” and PR manager for the National Theatre in Podgorica (Montenegro) from 1992 to 1999, and she was editor of the first and second monograph of Podgorica’s International Alternative Theatre Festival (FIAT) and author ofnumerous theatrical criticisms in “Odbrana”, “Monitor” and “Vijesti”. She was founder of the Centre for Intercultural Communication (NGO) in Novi Sad (2012). Since 2013 she has been the member of the jury for the award “Medijakult” (award for media design of Vojvodina’s culturalspace) and the Annual Price of the Cultural Institute of Vojvodina for the contribution to multiculturalism and interculturalism. Since 2015 she has been the program editor for the Council for the Preservation of Radomir Konstantinović’s Contemplative Heritage (Subotica).She has published drama “Poslednji orden” (The Last Decoration), Dignitas, Cetinje, 1996, the collections of essays “Po-etička traganja” (Poetic Searches), Kulturni centar Pančevo, 2008, monograph “Poetika tamnog vilajeta – Radomir Konstantinović o duhu palanke u srpskojknjiževnosti” (Poetic of Dark Vilayet – Radomir Konstantinović about the Small Town’s Spirit in Serbian Literature), Službeni glasnik, Beograd, 2011, monograph “Kultura nacije: Između krvii tla” (Culture of Nation: Between Blood and Soil), University Press, Sarajevo, 2016. and numerous research papers. Since 2004, she has been working at the Institute for Culture of Vojvodina (today the Cultural Centre of Vojvodina “Miloš Crnjanski”). Since 2011, she is theeditor-in-chief of the journal Interkulruralnost and the coordinator of the project with same title that she also initiated and created.

Nice Fracile is ethnomusicologist, University professor at the Academy of Arts, University ofNovi Sad (Republic of Serbia). He finished his PhD at the University of Cluj-Napoca,Romania and specialized in comparative studies of the Serbian and Romanian folk music, Aksak Rhythm and Classical-Antiquity Metric Feet in the Musical Tradition of the Balkans.Since 1987 he has participated in many international conferences and symposia in Europe, USA and Israel. He is a member of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology and of the International Council of Traditional Music. Among his over 170 studies and papers publishedin several languages, including English, might be mentioned the books The Vocal MusicFolklore of the Serbs and Romanian in Vojvodina - a Comparative Study (1987), Traditional Music of the Serbs in Vojvodina, Anthology (2006), In the Wake of Classical-Antiquity MetricFeet – A Comparative Ethnomusicological Study (2014).