Belgrade

Gathering of Mensa members during the Belgrade Beer Fest

Dear Mensans,

The gathering in Belgrade during the Beer Fest is already becoming a tradition – this year’s shall be our 7th gathering. It is planned for the weekend of 20 – 22 August 2010. Like before, we have tried to make an up-to-date, wide ranging and interesting schedule. You shall be the judge of our success with your applications and particularly your reactions (with a little luck, we might receive a review or two for our newsletter).

THE SCHEDULE

Friday, 20 August

- 7 p.m. the lecture “CLEVERNESS OF THE HEART – about the meeting of intelligence and love” by Sc.D. Zoran Milivojevic

It is difficult to present the lecturer in only a few words. Zoran Milivojevic, MD is a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist – a transactional analyst, an international supervisor and educator for transactional analysis. He is a selected international lecturer at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna and the president of The Serbian Union of Associations For Psychotherapy. He is the author of several extraordinary textbooks and books, such as “Emotions – Psychotherapy and understanding emotions”, Psihopolis, 2007, published in two editions and seven printings, “The formulae of love – How not to ruin one’s own life when in pursuit of true love”, Psihopolis, 2008; together with his Slovenian colleagues, he published the very practical and richly illustrated handbook, “A small book for great parents”, 2004.

The lecture will be held in the Roman Hall of the Belgrade City Library on 56 Knez Mihajlova street.

- Group attendance of the Beer Fest

Saturday, 21 August

- 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Departure by bus from the Nikola Pasic square to Avala mountain, tour of the Avala tower and the Monument to the unknown hero

- 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Pistol shooting tournament in the Partizan shooting club

- 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Collective or individual lunch; in case you choose the collective meal, we invite you once more to a degustation of the perfect buffet (i.e. “Smorgasbord”) Weekend lunch in hotel Continental.

- 4 p.m. Belgrade fortress – Sava promenade – a visit to Dragoljub Zamurovic’s exhibition of digigraphies, which are modeled on paintings from Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, the most visited museum in Italy. The exhibition consists of 36 digigraphies on canvas by our well-known photographer, who had used this innovative technique to create reproductions of masterpieces by Botticelli, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Sebastiano del Piombo, Dürer, Goya, Andrea del Verrocchio and other great artists. Digigraphy is a process of scanning, treating and printing paintings on a special cardboard or canvas where the final touches are put to the painting with a small brush. Other than digigraphies, the exhibition on the Fortress features photographs of landscapes, customs and everyday life from different parts of Serbia.

- 5 p.m. Belgrade Fortress below the Sahat tower in Gornji grad: Children’s summer playground allows the children of preschool and early school age to get familiar with toys that their grandparents grew up playing with. Experts from this workshop have told us that parents who bring their kids get carried away playing tipcat. We shall see if proverb “brain over brawn” is true.

- 6 p.m. picnic in the Zoo – bring your kids (or your cousins’, neighbours’ or godparents’ kids) to meet the Zoo’s young. Adults are welcome as well. J

- Alternatively, if you are not an animal lover, you can take a ride on the Danube and Sava rivers. The boat “Belgrade 25” departs at 6:30 p.m. from the quay outside of “Gale Muskatirovic” sports centre (the former “25. maj”), located on 63 Tadeusa Koscuska street. The voyage takes 90 minutes.

- Attendance of the Beer Fest

Sunday, 22 August

- The barbecue in Ada Ciganlija’s picnic area starts at noon. There will be a chance for recreational activities, such as basketball, volleyball, badminton and bathing in the lake, as well as party games with members of SIGra.

- Guests’ departure

- For those staying, attendance of the Beer Fest

Expenses:

Trip to Avala – 400 din.

Shooting range – 3 test rounds and 10 competition rounds – circa 600 din. (calibre 7.65)

Collective lunch in hotel Continental – 999 din. (free for children under the age of 10)

Exhibition on the Fortress – free

Picnic in the Zoo – free

Sightseeing from the boat “Belgrade 25” – 300 din.

Ada Ciganlija barbecue – if necessary, amount shall be announced in time

Accomodation:

You can find information on the website of the Tourist Organization of Belgrade or http://www.hostels.com/belgrade/serbia

For more details or to send your application you can contact the organizers, Aleksandra Borovic and Milica Mladenovic, through the e-mail address.

Mensa Belgrade is expecting you, it shall be our pleasure to have you as our guests.

See you soon!

Mensa Belgrade and the PDP SIG

Meetings and Gatherings:

Regular gatherings in Belgrade take place at the cafe "Galerija", Delijska 3. (Delijska street is parallel to Knez Mihajlova, between Vuk Karadzic and Uskocka str.) on Thursdays from 9:30 PM.

Active SIGs:

Foto SIG
Literarni SIG – for writers and literature lovers
Paintball SIG
SIGra – social games SIG
Transparentni SIG – for the transparency in the society
SIG hedonist
SIG Putovanja i daleki predeli – travel SIG
SIG Puz – party SIG
Sport SIG
SIG 4 Opportunities – information on scholarship and employment
SIG S.T.O.P – for beer lovers
Razmena znanja SIG – SIG for exchange of knowledge
Army and history SIG
SIG zagonetaci – SIG for puzzle resolvers
eXtreme SIG – for extreme sports

Planned activities in the next period:

organizing 5 testings in 2010: in January a special humanitarian testing – free of charge for blood donors, two testings between March and May and two in the last three months of the year
Week-end gathering for Mensans in time of Belgrade Beer fest 2010
Organization of the Mensa Serbia Annual Assembly 2010

Activities in the previous period:

5 testings in 2007
Week-end gathering of Mensa members during the Belgrade Beer Fest
Presentation of programs of the Modern Education for Mensans
Organization of the Mensa SCG Annual Assembly 2007
4 testings in 2008
Week-end gathering for Mensans in time of Belgrade Beer fest 2008
Organization of the Mensa Serbia Annual Assembly 2008
5 testings in 2009
Week-end gathering for Mensans in time of Belgrade Beer fest 2009
Organization of the Mensa Serbia Annual Assembly 2009

Contact:

Milica Mladenovic - Belgrade coordinator
contact number: +381-65-mensabg (+381-65-6367224)