"Yes, like all the secretaries until now, I am formally the president of the Festa Committee," she confirmed for "Vreme". Jelena Medakovic, secretary for culture in Belgrade.
She also stated that the board members are an actor and a producer Lazar Ristovsky, professor of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Goran Peković, director Marko Novaković and Cebef representative Jelena Stošković.
Fest got a new Board at the session of the Belgrade City Assembly on December 22 last year, although the current mandate expires only in September of this year. As we found out, no one informed the members of that board that they had been replaced.
At that session, 56 officials were appointed for management positions in cultural institutions and events. Their names have not yet been officially announced, and in recent days unofficial but accurate information about the changes in Terazije Theater, Vuk Theater, Bemus i Bitefu.
Opera singer Aleksandar Stamatović and culture manager Milan Stojković have been appointed acting directors of the Terazije Theater and Vuk Theater.
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Bitef and Bemus
Playwright and recent director of the National Theater in Nis Spasoje Ž. Milovanović was elected president of the Bitef Board instead of Svetozar Cvetković who resigned, Uroš Mijatović and Bitef theater director Miloš Latinović replaced Borka Golubović and Đorđe Kosić who also resigned as members of the previous Board, while Ana Veljković and Srđan Obrenović remained from the previous convocation.
In the future, Bemus will be led by cellist Jelena Mihailović, better known by her stage name Jela Cello. She was born in Valjevo, and lives and creates between Belgrade and Los Angeles, performing classical and contemporary music. She was also an MP elected from the list of Ivica Dačić SPS - JS Dragan Marković Palma, and during an address in the Assembly she rapped.
