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3rd Belgrade Irish Festival – Events in Belgrade (BIF) will be organized March 13 to 22 on around dozen of locations in Belgrade, including the Ada Bridge.

A series of exciting and original events will take place in frame of this Festival: Turkish concerts, theatrical performances, literary readings, film screenings, parties as well as gastronomic experiences at restaurants. During the week in which is celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, for the first time in Southeast Europe – in Belgrade will perform an Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Henigen, on March 21st in the Belgrade Youth Center.

Curious fact: the Ada Bridge, on the evening of March 17th for the first time will be in green lights! In this way, Belgrade will join the large cities like New York with its Empire State Building, the Sydney and its Opera House or the Egyptian pyramids, as a city that follows world trend in celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day.

Welcome to the BIF 2015 (Belgrade Irish Festival – events in Belgrade) – the festival will host all types of entertainment – from music and theater to poetry and literature with movies and parties; and it will last nine days including the week in which is celebrated the St. Patrick’s Day, the most important Irish saint.

The Irish Festival Belgrade – Events in Belgrade – Another first time for Belgrade: the Ada Bridge, on the evening of March 17th for the first time will be in green lights! In this way, Belgrade will join the large cities like New York with its Empire State Building, the Sydney and its Opera House or the Egyptian pyramids, as a city that follows world trend in celebration of Saint Patrick.

BIF brings to you exciting literary program – Rebecca West; theater play by Brian Friel “Dancing with the Gods.” Also, this year will be commemorated in Belgrade (In frame of the BIF) and all around the world, the 150th anniversary from the birth of Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats, author of the play “The Dreaming of the Bones” and his poetry (UK Parobrod and KCB).

The Irish Festival Belgrade – The festival will also screen the Serbian premier of the latest Irish feature by Lenny Abrahamson, Frank (with Michael Fassbender), as well as a rare screening of Neil Jordan’s first feature film, Angel (35mm), a thriller set on Ireland’s troubled border with the North. Another Irish movie, Short Order, staring local star Rade Serbedzija, is a quirky tale about food and life, and great moment to mention that three of Belgrade’s well known eateries, Smokvica, Supermarket and Dijagonala 2.0 will be serving up some specialties from Ireland throughout the festival. Good citizens of Belgrade, springtime and St Patrick are now upon us and returning to the banks of the rivers’ Sava and Danube at Singidunum. Irish Festival – events in Belgrade 2015

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