Goran Vesic

The 32nd Belgrade Jazz Festival, held under the slogan of "Planet Jazz", opened at the Dom Omladine venue in Belgrade on Wednesday.

Belgrade City Manager Goran Vesic opened the festival at a ceremony followed by a performance by the Vlada Maricic quartet feat. Brian Lynch (Serbia/USA).

Under the slogan 'Planet Jazz', the 32nd Belgrade Jazz Festival explores the theme of the globalisation of jazz, featuring artists from Latin America, Scandinavia and everywhere in between.

It kicks off on October 26 and runs until October 30 at various venues across Belgrade, including Sava Centre and Dom Omladine.

BELGRADE - Belgrade is especially proud to celebrate one of the most important events in our history, City Manager Goran Vesic said Thursday as the 72nd anniversary of Belgrade's liberation in WWII was marked with a memorial parade.

The festival's dates are symbolic, commemorating not one, but two very important events in the history of Belgrade. On April 16 Belgrade will mark 1,138 years since the first written record of the city came to be, put to paper by the quill of Pope John VIII.

An exhibition of photographs of Bowie, paintings that were dedicated to him or inspired by his work, and reviews of movies in which he appeared will be held at the Yugoslav Film Archives from May 5 until early August.

A concert dedicated to Bowie will also be staged in the Academic Park in central Belgrade, with well-known Serbian musicians expected to perform.

Belgrade starts celebrating early this year. Starting on December 29, the city hosts four days of concerts in front the National Assembly.

On December 29, the band Miligram kicks off the festivities, followed by performances on December 30 by the band Van Gogh and Serbian pop star Zeljko Joksimovic.

The Sava River Bridge, Palace Albania and the Statue of the Victor in the Belgrade Fortress were on Saturday lit up with the colors of the French flag.

City Manager Goran Vesic announced earlier that Belgrade and Serbia would in this way "symbolically express solidarity with the friendly people of France that was shaken by a dreadful terrorist attack."

Belgrade City Manager Goran Vesic attended on Tuesday the 10th meeting of a commission set up for the Staro Samiste memorial complex.

The commission should establish a program concept and propose management model for the memorial.

A monument to Gavrilo Princip will be placed by June 28 in Financial Park in Belgrade, City Manager Goran Vesic has announced.

The park is located between Nemanjina, Sarajevska, and Admirala Geprata streets.

BELGRADE - On April 26, Belgrade will host an event to remind people of the friendship between the Serbs and the French that goes back many centuries, featuring a parade through the city center and planting of lilacs at the Kalemegdan Fortress in honor of Helen of Anjou.