PROGRAMME OF ALL-DAY
Saturday, 25 October 2014, Canberra, ACT
ST.SAVA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
9 am St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church – 57 Lambrigg St, Farrer ACT
Pan-Orthodox Hierarchical Divine Liturgy and Memorial Service in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of the Great War 1914-2014
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
Treloar Crescent, Campbell ACT 2612
10 am – 4.30 pm Courtyard Gallery at AWM
Exhibition
Display from private and AWM collections of the Great War medals and memorabilia, of the Serbian and Australian military and volunteer personnel on the Balkan Front (the Salonika Front) and Serbian military uniform from the Great War 2 pm – 3.15 pm BAE System Theatre at AWM
Serbia in the Great War – Australian Testimonies
Presentation of newly published literary documents from The Miles Franklin Collection MLMSS:
“By Far Kaymaktchalana: A Play of the Balkans Today “
“Zabranjeno”: [short play]
“Ne mari ništa (It matters nothing): Six months with the Serbs”
Presentation on Olive Kelso King – Life story of Australian Volunteer in the Balkan Theatre of War
Presentation of new Serbian historiography on the Great War:
Mira Radojević and Ljubodrag Dimić, Serbia in the Great War 1914-1918. (Belgrade: SKZ, Belgrade Forum, 2014, Serbian and English edition) provides a perspectives on Serbia’s role and place in the wider international context leading up to and throughout the Great War.
Andrej Mitrović, Serbia’s Great War 1914-1918, (introd. Mark Cornwall. London: Hunt, 2007, Serbian edition 1984) is a study based on French, German and Austrian archival material by the leading Serbian historian of the Great War, the late Andrej Mitrović.
3.20 pm – 4.30 pm Courtyard Gallery at AWM – Reception
