ACADEMIA CRAVATICA

On these pages, Academia Cravatica will inform you about our important events, exhibitions and projects that are being realised or are being planned. If you are interested to join our projects or you want to learn more contact us.

Marking Cravat Day, will contribute to the establishment and illumination of all the positive values of identity in Croatian society, and a recognizable and positive image of Croatia in the world. The initiative for marking Cravat Day has been supported by the Prime Minister dr. Ivo Sanader, and the program to mark the day will take place under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Stjepan Mesić. The proposal to mark the national Cravat Day has also been supported by the Committee for Education, Science and Culture of the Croatian Parliament.

Cravat Day will be marked by social and cultural events in several towns in Croatia, and, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the RoC, in some other cities around the world

We invite social and cultural institutions and Croatian citizens, in this country and abroad, to mark Cravat Day in their own communities in a worthy manner, as a day of celebration and community.

Marijan Bušić, prof.
      ravnatelj

In the Ethnographical Museum in Zagreb,  an exhibition of photographs has been opened, entitled “The Knot in the Rock - the Cravats of Imota” organized by the Academia Cravatica.

The exhibition consists of about 220 old photographs taken in the period from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. The photographs, as unique documents of time, show the people of the Imotska krajina over that one hundred year period, a variety of people and groups, from labourers to “gentlemen”, in a variety of life situations, but with one common characteristic - they are all wearing cravats as ornamentation. The editors of the exhibition are Sanda Lončar and Suzana Budimir, and the exhibition collection is also the work of Nikola Albaneže. It is open until the 30th September.

The grand opening of the next Challenge of Cravat exhibition is on 11th September in Bulgaria.  The exhibition is organised with the help of The Croatian embassy in Bulgaria and the Croatian Ministry of foreign affairs.

Cravat around Croatia project, whose goal is to symbolically unite Croatian cultural and geographical diversities with a red thread, has started on 10th July in Dubrovnik.

Children and neckties project is one of AC’s projects which promotes the necktie in education and upbringing of children and teenagers. The project is a permanent programme of “Šumska jagoda” kindergarten. If you want to participate in this project, contact us at our e-mail adress: info@academia-cravatica.hr