Belgrade Summer Festival - BELEF 2013
2013-06-21 - 2013-07-15 | Several locations in Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade Summer Festival is taking place from June 21st to July 15th under the under the slogan “Breathe! Do not breathe “. This year BELEF will gather together some of the biggest local festivals, but it will also team up with some new partners. The main festival venue will be located in the courtyard of the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium, close to the city centre.
The film part of the programme is marked by the first collaboration with one of the longest European film festivals, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, which turned 60 this year; and the reunion with Magnificent 7, that will screen films from three world-famous documentary directors- Thomas Riedelsheimer from Germany, Mika Rokainen from Finland and Mark Isacs from the UK.
BELEF 2013 marks another successful cooperation with Supernatural festival, which will hold its programme in the Supernatural Park on Ada Huja; and Baskerfest, the festival of street performers, which will open the Belgrade Summer Festival and bring the good atmosphere to the streets of the capital.
Ring Ring and the young music talents of Attic studios will be making sure we have fun with some superb live music this year. The audience will get a chance to laugh with the programme of Stand Up Fest, that will feature renowned local and foreign stand up comics, as well as first timers on its open mike night.
As well as last year, the visitors will experience literature in a unique way with the programme of Krokodil festival, which reminds us summer is close and Love is in the air. BELEF festival is especially proud to keep up with the long tradition of presenting performance arts and this year the audience will be able to enjoy the performances of Festival of Choreographic Miniatures, tango festival Belgrade Tango Encuentro and the young drama enthusiasts from Teatar 5.
The mission of the BELEF festival is to offer a rich programme, consisting of music, theatre, performance arts and films, to the local and tourist audiences during the summer months- all that completely free of charge.

The Marry Race
2013-06-30 | Ibar River, Kraljevo, Serbia
The Marry Race – sport, eco, tourist and popular manifestation, will be organized on June 30th on the Ibar River. The Race is organized by the kayak club “Ibar”.
Traditionally this Race has been organized since 1990 every last week in June, and the number of participants has been increasing lately reaching the number of 10,000 local and foreign participants.
The gathering of the participants will start several days before the race beneath the medieval city of Maglič, 25 kilometers from the city of Kraljevo.
Campers will come from around the country and the region to spend several days surrounded by the beauties of untouched nature. Maglič will play host to numerous parties and Kraljevo will host concerts and different sport and recreational events.
But everyone will be waiting for Sunday – the day that will be remembered by every participant in the Marry Race. The trumpet orchestra is also an essential part of the competition
Rafting on the Ibar River from the medieval city of Maglič will be interrupted only for a traditional bean lunch in Mataruška Spa. Many boats and rafts will finish the race here, only the most persistent ones will continue the race to Kraljevo.
On that occasion all kinds of vessels, mostly rafts made of different materials – plastic bottles, metal barrels, styrofoam, but also the more serious rafts made of wood and metal, can be seen on the Ibar River.
