BOOK LAUNCH + POETRY: be:longing reflects on an evening co-hosting conversations on cross-cultural art and poetry.
Tag: vesnacvjeticanin
Music to me
REFLECTION: Vesna Cvjetićanin recalls a warm meeting with a stranger in Singapore, reflecting on the different reactions foreigners have to the places they visit.
MEKIKE (SERBIAN DONUTS)
RECIPE: Vesna Cvjetićanin shares with us her recipe for delicious mekike.
BETTE ON LINE 196
REFLECTION: Vesna Cvjetićanin remembers a trip on Brisbane bus line 196.
NEDOSTAJANJA / LONGING
POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin reminisces about her hometown of Sombor, Serbia.
Pustinjska trska / Desert reed
POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin charts the physical and emotional struggles she felt going into another wild Australian summer.
On the other side
MEMOIR: A rail trip through Europe reminds Vesna Cvjetićanin of her childhood in Yugoslavia, spent daydreaming near the train tracks.
INTERVIEW: Talking music and belonging with Lepomir Miladinović
INTERVIEW: Vesna Cvjetićanin talks to Lepomir Miladinović, a Serbian tailor living in Australia, who finds a sense of peace and belonging through playing the frula.
INTERVIEW – Talking migration and nostalgia with Vesna Cvjetićanin
INTERVIEW: Vesna Cvjetićanin talks with be:longing about nostalgia and its role in the migrant experience.
Uspomene / Успомене / Memories
POEM: Vesna Cvjeticanin shares with us her award-winning poem, “Uspomene”, reflecting on the way memories can be fickle despite our best efforts.
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