"Vladimir and Kosara," a play by Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, the production of the JKP Culture Centre - Montenegro, Barski Letopis Festivall and the co-production of the Skopje Summer is premiering at the Kursumli An at 8:30 p.m. today. Directed by Slobodan Milatovic, the play is adapted and translated by Ljubomir Dzurkovic.

The world’s #1 sales expert – Tom Hopkins, the man dubbed “Creator of sales Champions”, the man with over 30 years of top notch results in direct sales , the man who has successfully trained over 3 million sales professionals from 5 continents – on 1st of June is coming to Skopje.

Doyen of Macedonian cinematography Ljube Petkovski (b.1924) was awarded Monday by the Macedonian Cinematheque with “Golden Camera Lens” award for outstanding achievements in Macedonia’s film industry. Throughout his career he has worked at about 100 feature and documentary films and has received high recognitions at international festivals.

A man’s head and a small torso have been excavated at the Stobi archaeological site. According to archaeologists, the items probably belong to a large Early Roman sculpture. Stobi National Institution Director Silvana Blazevska says this is about a rare and important archaeological finding that will enable knowledge about people at that time in more detail.

Macedonian piano virtuoso Simon Trpceski won over the audience in renowned London cultural center “Barbican”. His recent performance with the London Symphony Orchestra was rewarded with standing ovations, following the performance of pieces by Grieg, Sibelius and Lindberg, during an evening dedicated to Scandinavian music masters.

Young pianist Dino Imeri opened the Piano Plage Festival in Quistreham, France with a solo concert on 19th July. Imeri performed pieces by Schuman, Ravel, Haydn, Prokofiev and Chopinн. The festival has seen participation of pianists from several European countries including Poland, Moldova, and France.

Bitola actress Joana Popovska has won award “Actress of Europe” for the fourth time in her career. She performed “Chairs” by Ionesco, directed by Ljuba Milosevic at festival “Mono Akt” in Pristina and Pec, (Kosovo). “I feel wonderful. It is a great honor for an actor to win this award four times. I have been in this profession for 50 years, but I never thought these successes would come at this time”, stressed Popovska.

Macedonian National Committee of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) organised a forum on the topic “Agricultural Heritage” at St. Joakim Osogovski Monastery at the weekend to mark 18th April, the International Day of Monuments and Sites, or the Day of World Heritage. The participants in the forum also visited Lesnovo Monastery and Bargala Archaeological Site.

Days of Macedonian Music close with a concert of New London Chamber Choir in the Skopje Museum on Wednesday evening at 20,00h. Under the baton of James Weeks, the choir will perform “Three Songs for a Wounded Being” by Danajloska, “Echos” by Spasov, “Nuits” by Xenakis, “Lux Aeterna” by Ligeti, “Lake” by Andreevska...

The Conservation Centre in Skopje has completed a 14-month project for restoration and conservation of fifty gilded icons and a gilded carved iconostasis in St. John the Baptist Church at the village of Bulacani, Skopje area. This extraordinary and valuable collection of 19-century icons...