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Summer in the Capital 2020
By: Rijeka 2020In a nutshell, just over 53,000 visitors attended 390 culture and art programmes as part of Rijeka’s Summer in the Capital. These were joint cultural events and highlights of the summer of 2020, a year in which Rijeka proudly received the...
Art installation AutomaTic by the Italian artist Giovanni Morbin
By: Ri2020An art installation consisting of ten automatic rising arm barriers that lift at the angle of seventy degrees upon passing of pedestrians will be placed in Rijeka, Ulica Pavla Rittera Vitezovića, on 10 October 2020. The installation, calle...
The monument to Red Rijeka erected on Rijeka skyscraper on the day of ZAVNOH’s decision to reintegrate Rijeka into Croatia
By: Ri2020On Sunday, 20 September, Nemanja Cvijanović’s art installation Monument to Red Rijeka – A Self-Defensive Monument was erected in Rijeka as part of the European Capital of Culture programme. It is a large sculpture shaped like a...
Virtual tour of the ECoC Mrkopalj neighbourhood through the eyes of a Dutch art collective and Rijeka’s Tajci Cekada
By: Ri2020The video, entitled STILL.Mrkopalj 360, takes you on a virtual tour of the location, as experienced by the artists themselves during their stay there through their daily walks, meetings with the locals who helped them explore Mrkopalj, and ...
Summer in Rijeka – European Capital of Culture brings many events
By: Ri2020Rijeka, the city that in this incredible year 2020 bears the European Capital of Culture title, after two months of mandatory isolation, returns into focus of the cultural public, artists and the audience. About ten music festival and weeke...
“Secrets of Lujzijana” discovered in the European Capital of Culture neighborhood of Delnice
By: Ri2020The artistic programme “Secrets of Lujzijana” tells the story of several significant segments of life in Delnice. The historical – through which Delnice inherits their wealth and testifies to the inception of this important ro...
New CEO of Rijeka 2020 – Mrs Irena Kregar Šegota
By: Rijeka 2020Emina Visnic requested her dismissal as CEO of Rijeka 2020 after completing the demanding process of redefining the company’s programme and budget, believing that under new (post-Covid-19) ECOC project circumstances she should personally ...
Culture in the time of corona – the ECoC programme in conditions of “the new abnormal“
By: Rijeka 2020At a press conference that brought together numerous journalists, a cultural and artistic programme was announced to be held in Rijeka during May and June, coloured by measures of reduced social contacts and a ban on public gatherings.
Letter from the Mayor for Culture, City of Aarhus
By: Rijeka 2020Dear both, I am sending this note to express my sympathy and compassion to the city of Rijeka and to the Rijeka 2020 organization. The global covid-19 crisis is impacting all areas of life – regrettably also our cultural life. To be the E...
STILL.Mrkopalj – An international virtual live performance
By: Rijeka 2020On Saturday 2 May, Hoge Fronten / Lieke Benders will present ‘STILL.Mrkopalj’ – a virtual performance that can be watched live by a maximum audience of 85 via an online platform. The online performance is part of the series of perform...
The cultural mobilization in the COVID-19 pandemic
By: https://www.uclg.org/The COVID-19 crisis is having an impact on every dimension of our lives, including the cultural life of cities all around the world. The Live Learning Session on culture and COVID-19 aimed at better understanding how cities and local gove...
Majority of the activities of Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture temporarily suspended
By: Rijeka 2020RIJEKA, 17th April 2020 – The coronavirus pandemic has touched the whole world in a very rough way, it has deeply changed our way of life and has forced people into confinement and social distancing. The protection of human lives and the ...