Prishtina got its ethnological museum only in 2006. Originally the home of the local nobleman Emin Gjiku, the home was turned into a biology museum when the family was expelled from Kosovo in the 1950's.

The museum - a complex that includes two houses and two supporting buildings - is run by the Museum of Kosovo. The first house - built in the 18th century - includes the food storage and preparation area lower floor and the guest room upper floor. The space is meager by any standard but beautiful woodwork details are abundant.

The newer house is an explosion of light and space, as if a testament to more abundant wealth and luxury. It is typical city architecture of the time.

The newer house is themed on the cycle of life: birth, life, death and the intangible heritage. You will be able to see the urban oda (saloon), beautiful folk dresses, folk instruments, Kosovo's rich heritage of filigree jewelry influenced by Sephardic Jews and practiced in Prizren and Gjakova, carpet work, locally produced weapons of the time and even religious objects dating back to the Illyrian ancestors.

Directions: Museum of Ethnology is located on Ilaz Agushi Street. From Museum of Kosovo head uphill, take first left and up, and then left again.

Museum is open Monday through Saturday 10:00-16:45. Entrance is free with a 2.5 EUR suggested donation. Call (038)211-394 to find out about special events such as resident artisans or music programs.

13 artists from the UK, have presented last night in Prishtina, Kosovo at the Expoart 40 Gallery, a collective exhibition, titled Interactive Art from Manchester.
 
Interactive Art from Manchester is one of the rotating exhibitions that presented at the Expoart 40 Gallery in the capital, Prishtina. A special exhibition of international character where about 13 participating artists from Great Britain, who bring to our Kosovar social reality through painting, design, caricature contest and other artistic genres.

At opening ceremony of the exhibition, besides artists, there were a significant number of participants, creators of art and culture in Kosovo. Different images reflected in the presented artistic pieces in the hall of the gallery.

At this artistic project, the participants were also offered contemporary art works in video, performance, installations, etc..

In addition to this very interesting exhibition, Expoart 40 always offers quality of artistic works and visual art, and intends to present and promote a vision of artistic culture in general.

In this independent art institution, which has as main goal the preservation of cultural identity, since its establishment in 2008, are presented internationally recognized artists and local personal and collective exhibitions of high quality of various genres.

But last night's exhibition, which will remain open for several days in Expoart Gallery 40, is intended that through this cultural and creative activity to shift to a higher level and professional arts and cultural exchange between European nations with different languages and cultural traditions. Also in focus, this project puts the promotion of contemporary artistic creations that attempt to realize a dialogue between different nations but speaking only one language, that of art.

At the exhibition, the British artists present a substantial contribution to the credibility of the process of social adjustment, paying special attention to diversity, independence and performance of artistic values.

 

The works of Art Interactive from Manchester exhibition, of these contemporary artists from Britain, is a clear indicator of activity of artistic cooperation between European artists of different countries, in this case, the Republic of Kosovo and the United Kingdom.

The astounding film of Belgian brothers Luc and Pierre Dardene, "The Silence of Lorna", whose main role plays Kosovo actress Arta Dobroshi, has opened this year's edition of the International festival "World Fall Film Series".

Arta Dobroshi received critical acclaim for her key role in the film, which won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.In the film, Arta Dobroshi plays Lorna, a hardworking Albanian immigrant in the grim Belgium city of Liege who is saving money to open her own snack bar. She is sharing a flat with Claudy (Jérémie Renier), with whom she has a hostile, businesslike relationship. It’s soon clear that Claudy is a degenerate and the pair are married – but only so that Lorna can gain Belgian citizenship. Lorna's character throughout the movie makes us feel empathy as she struggles to choose between her life, her dreams, and the life of another person.


The festival kicked off on November 7th and will last until November 21st, being held at the Chester Playhouse, in Nova Scotia. Mant other coutries are competing with other different film genres, such as Canada, China,France, Germany, USA, Ireland, Italia, Mongolia, etc...

This festival is a very important event in world cinematography that offers an experience which exceeds any prediction. Winners of numerous prestigious awards in international film festivals will appear on the screen of this festival.

The Kosovo International Theater Festival, which was run in Prishtina Nov. 2 - Nov. 8 of this year, included various plays from various countries such as Belgium, Slovenia, Ukraine, Austria, Macedonia, Italy, and Kosovo. The theme of this first edition of the Festival consisted of theatrical shows based on the art of singing and generally on diverse musical forms.

The Director of the show, "Tapani Vo Nokta", Martin Kocovski, explained that the idea came from the plawright known as Brecht, but performed in a different form. The play is inspired by the human disinterest for personal freedom, love semiotics and theatre anthropology. The play puts an accent on these three levels with a specific theatre language, which offers a positive electricity of genres, perfectly coordinated actor interaction and multilayer symbolic grammar. The plot takes place just after the First World War, and the play simplifies the meaning of individual freedom until the current time and events in the Balkans and Europe.

The coordinator of the International Theater Festival in Kosovo, Kushtrim Hoxha, was satisfied with the course of this event of the first edition. "Generally we are satisfied with the start of the festival. We have not had any problems, although there is always going to be something new when a man least expects it or when a man expects more," said Hoxha.

Consequently, structured around songs, music and the rituals, the first edition of Kosovo International Theatre Festival comes with the aspiration to be a new creative presentation and experience in observing, exploiting and genuinely striving within the creative process of the stage, which by avoiding clichés and uniformity and based on the contact and the natural relation of the theatrical art with other arts and media, testifies to the power, energy, elegance, flexibility and skill of the stage to regenerate itself. Indeed, singing, music and rituals are the identification and the meeting point of the theater with itself.