In/visible City Niš


Performers: Jugoslav Hadžić, Aleksandra Jelić, Sanja Krsmanović-Tasić, Maja Mitić, Ivana Milenović, Lidija Milić, Donka Torov.
Music: Jugoslav Hadžić, Aleksandar Zlatarov, Dragan Simeunović, Dejan Marković
Direction :Jadranka Anđelić

  The doors of the bus close and magic starts, the faces of the passengers start to change, that usual routine of riding on the bus home from work becomes something completely different. The faces that day by day in the grey context of the crowded city buses became gloomier, now change, open, and smiles appear. On every new line by the actors: "Niš was...Niš was populated by...", inside them there is a proud response:"You see, you see what is Niš and who we are,  people from Niš".

A passenger adds:"Well, I can add, many of us Gypsy folks lives here, here in Niš we are no minority", proud of the Roma scene. Than he relates a story about the origin of Niš , that tells that the city was founded from a quarrel of two brothers and the wish of the younger one to avenge the older by showing how powerful and rich he was. From all this fury he built the city of Niš.

While the scenes about Jews, Roma, Bulgarian, Albanian, intolerance seem to disappear and hide before the uncompromisable existence of another approach to the same issue. An ordinary citizen of Serbia, of Nis, with an enlightened face , enjoyed his being part of the symbioses of difference.

From the reportage by Jelena Mićić

Round table and barter participants: Academic Cultural and Artistic
Society "Crvena Zvezda", Association Greece national minority, Young hip-hop Roma Trupe

This program is funded by the European Union

Supported by Royal Nedherland embassy

Realized in collaboration with NIŠ- Ekspres Transport Company.
Collaborator on this project - Roma Humanitarian Association ROM