The Pop Art Festival is an annual art festival held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1][2] It was established in 2017 by the Sarajevo-based cultural association Pogon in cooperation with the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the iMTM Institute.[3] It is held in May and lasts for three days.[4]
| Pop Art Festival | |
|---|---|
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| Status | active |
| Genre | Art festival |
| Location(s) | Sarajevo |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Years active | 2017 - present |
The festival was founded with the goal of promoting pop cultural and pop artistic expressional forms, as well as promoting Sarajevan urban culture.[5] It runs programmes for design and comic book art, acting and puppetry, painting and statuary and electronic music production.[6] Each programme entails workshops and exhibitions, while the music production programme also hosts a DJ competition.[7]
The festival also showcases student theatre productions from the Academy of Performing Arts, a radio production seminar and organizes an annual exhibition and panel discussion on Hip-hop culture that is held in the Obala Open Scene.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Pop Art Festival: Uticaj New Primitivesa na popularnu kulturu". bihafon.com.
- ^ "Almir Kurt Kugla i Mirna Dizdarević o Pop Art Festivalu". n1info.com.
- ^ "Pop Art Festival: otkrivren mural ikonama sarajevske kulturne scene". faktor.ba.
- ^ "O prvom Pop Art Festivalu u Sarajevu – Zenit, Loša, Elvis…". glas.ba. 21 April 2017.
- ^ "Pop Art Festival predstavlja: Omaž sarajevskom duhu i muzičkoj sceni". depo.ba.
- ^ "Pop Art Festival predstavit će omaž sarajevskom duhu i muzičkoj sceni". klix.ba.
- ^ "Pop Art Festival predstavit će omaž sarajevskom duhu i muzičkoj sceni". klix.ba.
- ^ "Pop Art Festival kao omaž sarajevskom duhu i muzičkoj sceni". oslobodjenje.ba. 11 May 2018.