THE NIKOLA TESLA DAYS, CHICAGO 2024 – September 13, 14, 15
Program 13. 14. 15. September
September 13, Friday:
– from 7pm to 9:30pm blessing of father Dobrivoj Milunović,
the opening of the Tesla Museum, which Dr. Milena Tatić Bajić and Nikola Lončar, Exhibition of paintings on canvas by Ivana Milijev, Biljana Glogovac and Gordana Milivojčević, Kristina Stanek.
September 14:
The program starts at 11:30 a.m.:
Introductory part: blessing of the priest, anthems of Serbia and America, speech of TSF president Nikola Lončar, welcome speech of consuls of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina; Maybe Rod Blagojevic will come;
– Opera singer Mika Epps “Far away”, in Serbian.
– Marko Živković “Tesla’s energy in medicine”,
– Maja Cvetković Sotirov’s book “Tesla’s Glider”;
– Nada Martinović “Nurturing Serbian tradition, culture and language through song”,
– Stojan Stevanović “The work of the Serbian diaspora in Switzerland and cooperation with the mother country, Serbia”;
– Jelena Rosić “Tesla in schools”,
– Srbo Radisavljević “Tesla and Morgan Relations”,
– Velibor Pikelja “Tesla’s character and works”,
– Prof. Dr. Nebojša Knežević “Embrace as therapy in treatment”,
– Miodrag Mašić “Work of the Tesla Club in Detroit”,
– Katarina Ristić “Lesson removed from American textbooks that Serbs attacked Bosnia and Herzegovina as aggressors”,
– Aleksandar Žigić “Interesting things about Tesla”,
– Zorana Vukčević “The importance of amateur theater in Chicago for the preservation of the Serbian language”,
– Prof. dr. Ivan Cvetanović “Film festival and Ogledalo newspaper in the preservation of Serbian language, Cyrillic and tradition”,
– Prof. Željko Tadić “Numbers 369”,
– Father Dobrivoje Milunović “Tesla and religion”,
– Consul General of BiH Tatjana Telić “Tesla and Diplomacy”,
– lawyer Miroljub Đukić “Protection of Tesla’s name and work”,
– Dr. Milena Bajić “Tesla Museum and the work program of the Tesla Club in Chicago”.
– Original song from the Tesla region (two girls).
Certificates of appreciation are awarded after each lecture. The coordinator of the program is the actor from New York, Dejan Jelača.
From 6 p.m. Cultural and artistic program: opera aria by Slađana Šarić, actor Igor Obradović, aphorisms by Milenko Šišarica, poetry by Milovan Glogovac, children of the drama theater with a song about Tesla, Alija Dalipović Come on, actor Dejan Jelača poetry, Branko Aleksić guitar.
19:30 Slavica Momaković.
September 15:
09:30 liturgy in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ;
– 11:00 am literary workshop Tesla’s sailboat Maja Cvetković Sotirov with the Serbian Church School at the Church of the Resurrection of Christ.
– 1pm Meeting of Tesla’s people – cooperation between motherland and diaspora. The blessing of father Dobrivoj Milunović, the congress is opened by Dr. Nada Martinović TSF; Participants of the program are guests from Switzerland: Stojan Stevanović from the association “Koreni”, Savo Mitrović, Miodrag Korać from the Association of the Republic of Srpska, Majevica. Serbian Associations from Chicago: Association “Hercegovci” Dušan Magazin, Association “Prelo” Ljubinko Špegar, Association “Krajišnici” Stevan Dokić, “Serbs for Serbs” Petko Petrović; Serbian National Defense, Serbian Fraternal Assistance, Women’s Association USA, Željko Živak Alliance of Serbs of Republika Srpska in Chicago.
The media were invited: Antonije Kovačević, Saša Žigić RTS, Slavica Petrović, Ogledalo newspaper, Tamara i Saša “Srpska TV, Nina Stojković TV, Radio Ravasi, Chicago Dešavanja, Dragana Ivanović radio Karavan, Portal World Australia Rade Berak.
– 6p.m. promotion of the book Tesla’s Glider by Maja Cvetković Sotirov in the hall of the Serbian National Defense.
September 16
– from 2 to 3 p.m. promotion of the book Tesla’s Glider by Maja Cvetković Sotirov at Sveti Sava School in Milwaukee.