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From: ucacsad@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Amela Sadagic)
Subject: ACSII art for 'Sarajevo Winter' Festival
Date: 1996/02/13
Message-ID: <1996Feb13.085645.14626@ucl.ac.uk>#1/1
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organization: University College London
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                   SEND YOUR ASCII ART WORKS

You are invited to take a part in the Festival by sending ASCII art 
works or messages to their Internet address 

            IPC_SA@ZAMIR-SA.ZTN.APC.ORG

More about the Festival follows. 
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The 'Sarajevo Winter' Festival, a traditional cultural event with 
national and international character.Its first season was in 1984/85, 
in the same time when the XIV Winter Olympic Games took place. For 
ten years of its exsistence the Festival has proven to be an active 
and inseparable part of the life of Bosnian capital and its citizens. 

During eleven seasons and its 558 days, there were more than 1000 various 
cultural events, performances and exhibitions, with more than a million 
visitors and several thousands participants. Artists coming from all over 
the World gave an international character to the event.

Since 1985, the Artist Community 'Collegium Artisticum' has been taking an 
active part in the 'Sarajevo Winter' Festival activities and performances.
Besides that, permanent tribunes for cultural and scientific gatherings
brought together more than 400 scientific, public and cultural workers,
journalists and artists with noticable effects.
This unique manifestation of culture and art never stopped its activities,
not even during the war. So, its ninth, tenth and eleventh season represened
the most authentic resistance of not only Sarajevo artists and intelectuals
against crime and destruction, barbarism and medieval siege.

The programme for this season presents about 150 different events which will
involve all Sarajevo theatres and galleries. Many interesting performances,
like William Shakespeer's 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Hamlet' are expected with
a great interest. Also. there are several concerts of Sarajevo Chamber 
Orchestra and Sarajevo Opera, film serials (from USA, Belgium and Spain),
video festivals 'Witness of exsistence' and 'Geneva', different exhibitions,
several book promotions, many other events and many known artists coming 
from UK, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Belgium...

By organizing this Festival we call upon the World to decide on freedom, 
peace, creative work as a substitute for starvation, death and barbarism. In 
that way the 'Sarajevo Winter' Festival proves to be not simply a festival, 
but life itself.

We would like to involve as many artists and artistic souls from all over the
World to take a part in the Festival. We are aware that you are not able to
come and join us here in Sarajevo, but we see an opportunity in these modern
telecommunications, both through Internet e-mail and ordinary fax messages.

If you want to join us and sent your ASCII art works or messages through
e-mail, please use our Internet address IPC_SA@ZAMIR-SA.ZTN.APC.ORG
If you prefer fax machine, please call us at 387 71 663 626 

We are hoping to receive as many works, to make an exhibition for the 
end of this year's 'Sarajevo Winter' Festival, in late March. 

Please, forward this message to other known mailing lists.

All the best wishes from Sarajevo,

Mirza Muminovic 
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