Young team-workshops

The young team of "Musicians Without Borders" - "Children's Musical Theater," which consists of Jana, Alexandra, Verica and Filip, for three months has been working on preparing the kids’ play "The Trip". Their workshops are also reflected in music, dance and acting. Children who come to the workshops are very talented and eager for fun and socializing. Their creativity was seen in premier of performance show.

Music in villages

Workshops were held in Zutica, Potocari and Srebrenica. Children are interested in working and they are very happy because they get the opportunity to learn to play some musical instruments. Tony Pesikan, leader of the music workshop is a good at approaching children and their work.

Groundbreaking workshop by Scottish musician Aidan in Srebrenica

The organization "Musicians without borders" of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday and Sunday, 02 and 03 April starting from 09:30 hours were held music workshops. The workshops were led by world-renowned musician and trainer Aidan Burke from Berlin.






Burke worked with professionals from BiH, percussionist Tony Pesikan and professor of music culture Almerisa Vejzović-Delic.




The aim of the program was the introduction, development and training of local musicians with methodology for conducting music workshops, use of music to the social inclusion of children and youth, and the use of musical materials and instruments.

Aidan and Tony performing together

The Basement of Discarded Toys

MwB's Children's Music Theater performs 'The Basement of Discarded Toys' on 5 and 10 December in Srebrenica. The children created the story themselves, using songs, percussion, dancing and acting.

Music Bus & Children's Theatre Project Srebrenica (Musicians Without Bor...

Exhibition ‘Breaks in reality’

At 20 October the youth theater group ‘B-Smisao’ performed during the opening of the exhibition ‘Breaks in reality’.  The exhibition in the Youth Center of Srebrenica shows beautiful black and white pictures, made by the young photographer Davorin Sekulic. Aleksandra, Verica and Filip, workshop leaders of Musicians without Borders, made a small performance based on the theme of the exhibition.

Some of the pictures of Davorin Sekulic you can find here

Workshops for New Year Performance started

The Children’s Music Theater is preparing a new performance. Last week the theater, dance and music workshops started in Srebrenica. Next week also children from Potocari and Zutica will join the workshops.

Drmajmo Kaldrmom - Shake the road, shake the future!

Awards for scene movement, choreography and mask performance

At 30 September Svetlana Miladinovic from Zvornik Theater came to Srebrenica to hand over the Awards for Scene movement, Choreography and Mask performance. The team received the awards for the performance 'Beasts and Beauties' at the 10th Youth Theater Festival Republic of Srpska. 

Special Award for scene movement and choreography

Monday 27 September Musicians without Borders participated in the 10th Youth Theater Festival Republic Srpska, with the performance 'Beasts and Beauties'. Nine other youth theater groups participated in the festival.

The jury was very positive about Beasts and Beauties. The performance was something different, using live music very refreshing for theater in Bosnia Herzegovina and the choreography was on a high level. 

The jury awarded Beasts and Beauties with a special award for scene movement and choreography. Congratulations Aleksandra, Jana, Marizela, Verica, Filip and Maja (actors), Marko, Aleksandar and Toni (musicians), Denis and Marko (technicians), Nela, Rosie and Giselle (directors)!

'Beasts and Beauties' is collaboration between B-Smisao, Opera Circus, Youth Council Srebrenica and Musicians without Borders. 

Conference after the performance

The refreshment of theater in BiH

Aleksandra in full concentration

Drmajmo Kaldrmom - Back stage, volunteers in action

9:00 Warming up volunteers

9:30 putting the banner

10:00 Preparing Small School of Painting

13:00 Volunteers enjoying during workshops with children

14:00 Creative volunteers

17:30 After long beautiful day

RITAM SREBRENICE 17.09.2010.

The item in 'Ritam Srebrenice' about the performance 'Beast and Beauties' starts at 7:44min

If the video doesn't open, you can see the item here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRgohLqnw48

18/8 Drmajmo Kaldrmom! - Let’s shake the road!

The third anniversary of the Children's Music Theater is celebrated with the event 'Drmajmo Kaldrmom' - 'Let's shake the road' at the Guber in Srebrenica. 83 Children from Srebrenica, Potocari, Pale, Osat, Ljeskovik and Zutica participated. Children from the villages came by organized busses to Srebrenica.

The culture-nature event started in the park with playing different games. After it the children went in groups towards the Guber, where different activities took place like painting stones (and making music with them), face painting, rap, drum and theater workshops. The groups were mixed groups of children from Srebrenica and children from the villages. This gave the opportunity for the children to meet each other.

At the end of the day children went to the Cultural Center to see an animation film, part of the short film festival organized by Prijatelji Srebrenice. The anniversary was a big success. Children had lot's of fun and went tired, but very happy, homewards after the beautiful day.

A lot of people and organizations made this day possible. Musicians without Borders got big support of the Youth Council, the Scouts, Amica and Sara. And not to forget the more then 30 volunteers who made this day possible. Without their support this day couldn't be organized. Thank you all!

Drmajmo Kaldrmom!

Theater workshop

Making music

Making sounds

Painting stones

Rapping and making music with stones

16/9 Bitef Polifonija Festival in Belgrade

Jana Djukanovic and Filip Jokanovic, workshopleaders for MwB and actors in the play Beast and Beauties, were invited to give a presentation about the work in Srebrenica during the Bitef Polifonija Festival in Belgrade. It was a great honor for the young delegation from Srebrenica to participate in the this big theater festival. The audience was very surprised to see the positive energy and power these young people from Srebrenica. Besides the presentation Jana and Filip got the opportunity to see the performance Limes from Teatar Mimart, a big experiences what opened their eyes regarding possibilities with theater.

13/9 Performance 'Beasts and Beauties'

Monday 13 September the performance Beasts and Beauties took place in the Youth Center in Srebrenica. The Youth Center was filled until his limits with children, youth and adults. More then 120 people came to see the performance. After the performance a party was organized for all participants, family and friends.

Over the last four years the youth theater group from Srebrenica, B-Smisao, was in-active. This performance, which is organized in close cooperation with Musicians without Borders, the Opera Circus and the Youth Council, reactivated the youth theater in Srebrenica. Hopefully a lot of new plays will be made in the future.

General Rehearsal "Beasts and Beauties"

Today Nela, director from Theater Mimeart Belgrade, came to Srebrenica for the general rehearsal of 'Beasts and Beauties'. The whole day the actors, musicians and technicians worked hard to finalize the performance. Everybody is invited for the performance at Monday 13 September at 19:30 at the Youth Center in Srebrenica.

Sasa and four of the actors

The technicians

Lis from Musicians without Borders UK interviews Filip

Concert in Srebrenica with video connection is cancelled (10/09/’10)

We’re sorry to inform you the concert at Friday 10 September in the Cultural Center, Srebrenica, have been cancelled. It is not possible to make a strong enough internet connection in the small village in the Netherlands where the concert will take place. To be still part of the concert in the Netherlands the children from Srebrenica will make a video clip, which will be shown during the concert. The children from the Netherlands will make a video clip of the concert. In this way the children can meet each other via video exchange. Later this year we will try to realize the live connection.

Rebuilding Guber

Last Thursday a company started with huge rebuilding activities at the Guber. This was a big shock for the organization of ‘Drmajmo Kaldrmom’. The big playground is totally destroyed as you can see on the pictures. No change of having here activities at the 18^th of September. But we found solution. In cooperation with the company we will prepare  another nice playground where we can do our music activities (Argentarija). And children will get the possibility to see the working activities at the Guber in a save way. On the road up to the Guber we will organize lots of small activities in cooperation with our partner organizations. In this way Drmajmo Kaldrmom, will be different then we planned, but it will go on!

Guber one week ago...

Guber now

Yes, it's a bit different...

Circus "Cap Carap“

From 31th August till 4th of September the Austrian organization ‘Bauern helfen Bauern’ organized a circus camp in Potocari. Three young drummers from Musicians without Borders performed in the Gala performance, together with their drum teacher Toni. They animated the audience and made a great show.