8th INTERNATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL PIROT


Pirot Culture Hall organizes the Folk Festival for already seven years within the manifestation “Cultural summer of Pirot”.

Last year participation in the Festival was taken by:
Ensemble “As saileniras de lavos”-Portugal,
Folklore group “Tine Rozanc”-Slovenia,
Dance ensemble “Orisaba”-Mexico,
Ensemble “Tuana”-Turkey, Ensemble
“Mezdra”-Bulgaria
and Pirot Culture Hall Ensemble-Serbia.

The Festival lasted for 5 days (from 05th till 09th of August). During the Festival, each day in afternoon hours there were parades in the town streets, and in the evening hours there were concerts of all participants in the town’s square.

These parades and concerts were viewed by 10.000 spectators.

The Festival has a review character and its purpose is to bring together peoples and cultures of participating countries through dance, song and good time.

This year’s Festival is planned to be held from 05th till 09th of August 2012. Eight folklore ensembles from the country and abroad with a total of 280 participants are intended to take part.
The media coverage for the Festival is to be provided by the National TV (“RTS”) and local media (TV PIROT, PI CANAL, weekly magazine “Sloboda”...), and “FOLKLORE MAGAZINE” from Belgrade.

Contact person: Borko Stojanovic, coreographer
Address: Culture Hall Pirot, Srpskih vladara Street 77, 18300 Pirot, Serbia
Phone/fax: +381 10 321-666
Phone: +381 10 313 972
E-mail: dkpirot@yahoo.com, borkosop@gmail.com