Windfest

Roko and Cicibela is a typical Mediterranean play that can be called a love melodrama with elements of folk comedy. This bittersweet and sour fairy tale duodrama comes from the pen of the legendary Split humorist Miljenko Smoje, although the true story of the love between two poor Split residents, Roko and Cicibela, has been recorded in the verses and stories of many. Perhaps it has resonated with us, the Adriatic Mediterraneans, most through the lyrics of Zdenko Runjić’s anthological song “Ća je život vengo fantažija.”

The play Roko and Cicibela, brought to Tivat by the Kazališna družina Ritam, was created as a graduation project of acting master Ivan Baranović and was first performed on the stage of the Art Academy in Split under the mentorship of Professor Milan Štrljić. Since 2019, it has been included in the permanent repertoire of Ritam igre and has been performed more than 50 times, with the guest performance in Tivat as the latest addition.

The play dynamically depicts all stages of Roko and Cicibela’s love relationship in an hour: from meeting in poverty and destitution to the proposal, Cicibela’s pregnancy, and their shared dreaming of a better future. Colloquially, we can call the play a love fairy tale and an ode to life, which is beautiful if you have the love of your life beside you.

At the Tivat Museum and Gallery, located in the complex of the medieval Buća-Luković Summer Residence, the audience in Tivat will have an exceptional opportunity on May 5th to enjoy the concert “Dance of Dances,” prepared for the Wind Festival by Milica and Milena Kankaraš, a duo on harp and clarinet.

Harpist and harp professor, Milica Kankaraš, expressed their great pleasure to participate in the Wind Festival, which they have taken as a challenge to dance and play, the basic musical forms they will bring to us. The repertoire will include works by modern composers who wrote for the harp: Bernard Andrès’ Autumn Dances, the suite for the duo “Algues,” Dances for the harp and clarinet duo by Carol Wood, Fabio Rizza, Deborah Henson-Conant, and others.

Adriatic Artists is a society of artists dedicated to the sea and visual content related to the Adriatic Sea and the Mediterranean. Adriatic artists consist of professional painters and photographers, as well as talented amateurs, gathered for the purpose of creative socializing and joint digital and collective exhibitions. The society has been active for ten years, and the exhibition within the Wind Festival 2023 is their tenth joint presentation in Montenegro and Croatia. The group’s council consists of Vilma Matulic, Jasmina Skroza, Dragan Lopušina, and academic painter Boris Dragojević, a hyperrealist who finds his greatest inspiration in the Boka landscapes, masterpieces of art created by nature and man.

Each collective exhibition of the Adriatic Artist association had its theme, and their desire to connect with the Wind Festival decided that the theme of the tenth exhibition would be “Wind Festival through the lens prism.” The exhibition will be set up on two gallery levels of the Tivat Museum and Gallery, and after the grand opening on May 5, it will be available to the public for ten days.

Why the Wind Festival, we asked the Adriatic Artists association? Because, they say, our stories are very close – we promote the same values and with the same love, through creation, we want to preserve the identity of the space we inherit.