Charity and Art
The
Foundation makes every effort to combine charity with high art. To this end it organizes
its humanitarian actions with the generous help of foreign and local artists, musicians,
composers, opera singers, painters and sculptors. |
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The Foundation organizes regular charity concerts
in the National theatre Belgrade. The first of these
concerts was called "for Children's Hearts" and was held to
raise fund for the Mother and Child Institute in April 1996. 70,000 German Marks were
collected on that occasion, and with the Ctichting Kinder Institut Belgrado, from Holland
anesthetic equipment was purchased for the cardiological unit at the Mother and Child
Institute in Belgrade. The participants in this concert were the violinist Stefan
Milenkovic, the singer Milena Kitic, the string ensemble "St George" and
Danijela and Danica Karic (piano). |
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held in June 1997 at the National Theatre. The proceeds of the concert reached 27,000
German Marks and were used for the purchase of orthopedic aids for those most seriously
wounded in the war of 1990. The participants in this concert were the "BK"
university choir with soloists Dunja Simic, Radivoje Simic, Ivan Radivojevic and Zeljko
Lucic, violinist Marko Josifovski and Nemanja Radulovic, as well as Danijela and Danica
Karic (piano). |
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Thanks
to the Karic Foundation the violinist Stefan Milenkovic and the "St
George" string orchestra held a number of charity concerts in 1996 in
different towns in Serbia: Nis, Kragujevac, Leskovac, Pristina, Pec, Novi Sad, Sremska
Mitrovica, Subotica, Sombor, Zrenjanin and Pancevo. All proceeds from these concerts were
used for humanitarian purposes in the municipalities where the concerts were held. |
The
Foundation organized a large-scale action to help the
Yugoslav Drama Theatre, destroyed by fire. With the support and
cooperation of many eminent Serbian and Yugoslav painters, engravers and sculptors, among
whom were Ljubica Cuca Sokic, Radislav Trkulja, Milic od Macve, Olja Ivanjicki,
Milenko Serban, Cile Marinkovic, Uros Toskovic, Mileta Prodanovic, Vlada Velickovic, Moma
Kapor, Kosta Bradic, Petar Dobrovic and many others, the Karic Foundation and BK
Television organized two auctions of donated paintings, engravings, sculptures and other
works of art. Nearly 230 works of art were sold and more than 400,000 dinars was raised. |
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The Foundation also organized a charity concert by
actor and poet Rade Serbedzija, and all the proceeds to the amount of
70,000 dinars were given to a boy Marko Hinic for a kidney transplant. |
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In the middle of the
war, on April 17, 1999 the "Simultaneous Exhibition for
Peace" was held in Belgrade with a large number of children taking
part in it. The Director of the Children's Chess Olympics played simultaneously against
the children.
The Karic Foundation presented the books about chess to all the young participants. |
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Anatoly
Karpov, a world champion, sent the message of peace to all the participants. The
organizers of this action were the Karic Foundation, the Permanent Committee of the
Children's Olympics and the World Chess Review.
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