The fifth Kontakt was held in Belgrade, again online, due to the current Covid situation.

This year Kontakt had 3 segments:

New initiatives, More than 50 years of pure rock and roll and New young people.

The Kontakt 2021 program participants:

Andraž Kajzer MENT / INES, Nikola Vilotić OFPS, Igor Milikić SOKOJ, Ana Stanić MIMA,

Yu Group – Zika, Dragi and Petar Jelić in conversation with Branko Rosić, Daze, Relja Persić

This year’s Kontakt was held with the support of Sokoj and OFPS.

More at: KONTAKT 2021.

This year’s Indigo Festival also had one special event.

Yanis Varoufakis is a top economist who was at the forefront of international media attention as Minister of Finance in the Syriza government in Greece. Today, he leads the left-wing pan-European political movement DiEM25.

The conversation with Varoufakis, led by Slavoj Žižek was address to the issues faced by today’s world.

Full video : VARUFAKIS ŽIŽEK NA INDIGO FESTIVALU

On the 20th of November, on the World Children’s Day, at Marsh Open Space, the winners of the first Festival of Socially Responsible Communication in Serbia – Campaigns with a purpose, were announced.

“This is the first festival of its kind in Serbia and in the region, and one of the first in the world”, stated Mrs Tijana Adamov-Ignjatović, the founder of the Festival.

The title of the best socially responsible campaign in Serbia 2020/2021 and the statuette GRAND PRIX CAMPAIGN WITH A PURPOSE 2021 were won by the following campaigns:

1. Thank you, doctors! – McCann Belgrade and Nedeljnik
2. Unbreakable – Hemofarm Foundation and New Moment New Ideas Company

You can see the complete list of winners at

ŽUTE PANTALONE

and

KAMPANJE SA SVRHOM

This year’s sixth edition of the Indigo Festival has a telling title – Mass Hypnosis.

The time of the pandemic has shaken up the world and changed it completely. At the same time, the antagonisms and problems we face remain. Even more, their destructive power has increased. Neoliberal constructs, populisms and ideologies that we thought had disappeared are on the rise. Climate change determines our daily lives. Lies and untruths have conquered the digital media. In short, an accumulation of “unbalanced” events and people is changing the world we were used to. Without realising it, we are plunging into the mass hypnosis of a state of numbness, without knowing who is triggering it, controlling it, one might even say, consciously or unconsciously, orchestrating it.

More about Indigo no. 6 :  INDIGO 2021.

The Maja Maršićević Tasić Foundation held the twentie first, edition of the Osvajanje Slobode Award.

In accordance with the circumstances, the award ceremony was held with a small number of visitors and the event was broadcasted online via Facebook.

This year’s winner is Milena Radulović.

The entire event is available on

OSVAJANJE SLOBODE 2021.

The thirteenth edition of the CROCODILE literary festival was held in Belgrade from August 26 to 29 under the symbolic name BORDERS VS. FRONTIERS in the area in front of the Museum of Yugoslavia, as well as in the Center for Cultural Decontamination.

Numerous famous writers from the world and the region, led by the celebrated Hanif Quraysh and Irwin Welsh, hung out with the festival audience for 3 days.

The production of the festival is Marsh Creative Production this year as well.

More about Crocodile at www.krokodil.rs

A garden with 12 hives and 700 honey plants was opened on Dorcol by the Danube.

This green oasis in the heart of the city was formed by the Supernatural movement with support of:
Gaia Movement, Embassy of the Netherlands and Slovenia, BeActivist, Belgrade Association of Beekeepers, Mad Med, Vita Verde, BID Josif Pančić and Marsh Creative Production.

14th of December was really a great day for the Western Balkans CCI.Arteria Creative Network launched the first Creative Agenda conferencewith the title – A Culture and Creative Synergies Across the Western Balkans.

Below are the conference numbers:

34 speakers

18 artist

26 MTF art nomads

40 organisations

30 countries

40 cities with live panelists via Zoom, MTF movies and music performances

8 hours of live program

Conference partners were :

Ljubljana 2025

City of Ljubljana

Industry Commons Foundation

MTF Labs

Coda Artists

Sulivan Sweetland Ltd

Prosound Conference Systems

Conference produced by Marsh Creative Production

Conference available on : CREATIVE AGENDA ONLINE CONFERENCE

The Maja Maršićević Tasić Foundation held the twentieth, jubilee edition of the Osvajanje Slobode Award.

In accordance with the circumstances, the award ceremony was held with a small number of visitors and the event was broadcasted online.

This year’s winner is Vesna Rakić Vodinelić.

On the occasion of 20 years of work, there was also premiere of the movie about foundation in which Maja’s friends and associates participated.

This year’s awarding of the Osvajanje slobode award was also helped by the Open Society Foundation.

The entire event is available on

OSVAJANJE SLOBODE 2020.

The fourth edition of Kontakt was held in Belgrade, on 21^st and 22^nd of September

in Marsh Open Space.

Due to the situation caused by the Covid19, Kontakt 2020 was held online.

During the two days of Kontakt, there were 5 panel discussions and 3 presentations, with 27 participants from Belgrade, Berlin, Ljubljana, Amsterdam, Zagreb, Valencia, Luxembourg, Bucharest, Skopje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Kotor, Brussels, Vienna and Budapest.The main topic of the Kontakt was “Endangered Industry”.

On this occasion, the participants focused on the most important issues related to the music industry, which has been going through a great crisis and very difficult moments all over the world for the last six months.

The Kontakt 2020 program could be followed online, and all those who missed the conference can check it on :

KONTAKT 4

Kontakt is member of INES – Innovation Network of European Showcases.

More at : KONTAKT

The fifth edition of the Indigo Festival took place under the title “Now is Too Late” and under the circumstances set by our new reality.

The festival took place between 8^th and 11^th of September at several locations around MGML.

This year we started collaboration with the Goethe-Institute Ljubljana and the International Hegelian Association Aufhebung. Together with them we prepared an international philosophical conference in commemoration of the 250^th anniversary of the birth of the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel. With the non-profit organization “Maska” we will also hold the conference “Precarity or Self-Management?” with accompanying programs that will commemorate 100 years since the first issue and the publishing of the 200th issue of the “Maska” magazine.

More at : INDIGO FESTIVAL

The IQ platform via IQ party aims at good fun, a different concept of city entertainment for which an important element is quality music, specific scenery and free tickets, which will always be mandatory. This platform is specially created for the IQOS brand and for the client Philip Morris Operation A.D. Nis.

In the specially created scenography for this occasion, the visitors enjoyed the four-hour program, which, in addition to numerous activations and presentations, was also a rich musical part. The first IQ Party will be remembered for its exceptional atmosphere, good dancing from the beginning to the end of the party, thanks to the good music program.

British DJ Alexander Nut, Croatian electropop band Nipplepeople and local DJ duo, B2S (Aleksandra Duende and Andrija Akioki), were the music stars of the first edition of the IQ party.

After this first IQ party, we are very much looking forward to the next one.

On October 2 and 3, the first International Conference “Women Leaders and Sustainable Development – Truly Equal” was held in Belgrade. The conference brought together many officials from various countries with the aim of establishing cooperation between women leaders from around the world and women leaders from Serbia and the Balkans. The aim of the conference is to affirm the contribution that women, in leadership positions, make in achieving the goals of sustainable development of the United Nations.

The conference is organized by the Ministry of Labor, Employment Veteran and Social Affairs.

The Institute for Public Policy has entrusted the executive production of this conference to Marsh Production.

The “Osvajanje Slobode” Award was held for the 19th time. This time, as every year, on September 24, the “Maja Maršićević-Tasić” Foundation organized the Award Ceremony, giving the statuette of Mr. Mrđan Bajić to the winner.  The award is given to women for their contribution to the work and the promotion of human rights, legal state, democracy and tolerance in communication.

Previous winners are: Olja Bećković, Goranka Matić, Biljana Srbljanović, Ružica Đinđić, Borka Pavićević, Hedvig Morvai, Lila Radonjić, Mirjana Karanović, Srbijanka Turajlić, Verica Barać, Aida Ćorović, Dubravka Stojanović, Brankica Stanković, Danica Popović, Danica Vučenić, Ljiljana Spasić, Tamara Skrozza, Svetlani Lukić i Svetlana Vuković.

The 19th winner is Marija Lukić, who was presented with the award by Mirjana Karanović.

The award ceremony was organized at the Center for Cultural Decontamination.

The fourth edition of Indigo Festival explores topics of indifference and insensitivity towards problems that surround us, fueled by constant media battle for attention and everyday indignation over pressing issues. Robbed of power and solid ground beneath our feet, we are too tired to care for anything or anyone. All we want is peace and quiet. We withdraw to detachment, vegging out in privacy, until someone knocks on our door. Personal integrity and the possibility of solidarity have been taken away from us, while, squinting over our bedsheets, we gloomily observe world events or simply lock our hearts away to guard them from the evil. Should we care? Perhaps the last stanza of the European anthem Ode to Joy exposes some of these antagonisms: “Yes – he too who but one being on this earth can call his own! He who ne’er was able, weeping stealeth from this league alone!” (translated from the German original by William F. Wertz)

A wide programme of exhibitions, performances, concerts, workshops, lectures and panel talks with acknowledged artists and theorists, dealing with the topic of indifference, will take place in the traditional Indigo quarter of public institutions and NGOs at Trg francoske revolucije square and surrounding streets.

PRODUCTION:
Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Marsh Creative Production

11th edition of the Festival Krokodil was held on June 7-9. Held on various locations (Kombank dvorana, Belgrade Youth Center, Center for Cultural Decontamination and Krokodil Center),this year’s festival showed it has a loyal audience that is getting bigger each year. The tickets for the first two nights of the festival were sold out.

We are proud to be a part of the Krokodil team which constantly grows each year.

Under the slogan “Circulate”, the 10th Mikser festival took place on several locations at lower Dorćol, from May 24th to 25th. The main topic of the festival was circular economy.

The program of this year’s Mikser Festival consisted of 9 program units: “Shift” conference, “Circulation” workshops, Innovation Expo, Design Zone, CirculArt, Food 2.0, Mikser bazaar, Mikser Kids Hub and of course the music program.

More at: MIKSER FESTIVAL

The third edition of Kontakt was held, a manifestation that deals with music business in special manner. During four days, at Cetinjska Street, it gathered a great number of representatives of the biggest and most important music festivals from the region, as well as the representatives of institutions, music houses, managers and numerous musicians.

Kontakt 2019 visited over 15000 people. This year’s program took place in 15 locations, through 82 programs with 130 participants from 14 countries. Kontakt 2019 was officialy opened with the exhibition of Ms.Vesna Pavlović, named “Mixtape” in Marsh Open Space.  Rich conference program this year was also addressing the important festival issues, with the main topic: how to make a successful festival?

On December 18, 2018, in Ljubljana, in the City Museum of Ljubljana, the first in a row of one-day international conferences named “Culture and Creative talks” was held.

The topic of the first conference was the creative industry.

Initiated by the Department for Culture of the City of Ljubljana, these talks have the aim to initiate the necessary dialogue on Ljubljana’s candidacy for the European Capital of Culture in 2025.

The talks were attended by international lecturers as well as the professionals from the public, private and NGO sectors of Ljubljana.

At the conference there were also talks about the regional and European experiences on the issues of the creative industry and the European Capital of Culture project.

The concept and executive production of the Conference – Marsh Creative Production

1st of December, BELhospice organised the 9th BELhospice Charity Ball “A Cruise with a Purpose˝ at Hyatt Regency Belgrade. With the support of representatives of diplomatic cord and corporate sector as well as numerous individuals, this event raised 74,000 EUR and these funds will be used for free of charge palliative care to cancer patients through 1000 home visits as well as for the Day care services which will be provided in the first hospice centre in Serbia.

Our charity cruise was hosted by lovely Nina Radulović and Dejan Pantelić. During the evening, guests had the opportunity to enjoy performances of Snežana Savičić Sekulić, National theatre opera soloist, pianist Hrvoje Ivović, string quartet Habanera and dancers Katarina Gromilić, Bojana Žegarac, Olga Olćan, Igor Pastor, Milan Rus i Milan Gromilić.

More than a fifth of citizens or 22% want to move from Serbia. This is illustrated by the research “Why people want to leave Serbia” conducted by “Serbia 21” in June and July this year, on a sample of thousands of adult citizens of Serbia. The presentation of the research results was held in the Sava Center on October 14, 2018.

Serbia 21 – The Center for Future Serbia is a think tank organization, formed in June 2018, with the ambition of defining key issues important for the functioning of Serbian society in the conditions of major challenges on a global and local level.

Marsh Creative Production realized this event.

More at: SERBIA 21

The first conference of Novak Djokovic’s Foundation, “Dare to be original”, entrusted the executive production to Marsh. It was held from 01-03.10.2018, at Dorćol Platz, Marsh Open Space and Startit.

The main topic of the Conference was entrepreneurship, and the keynote speaker of the conference was the EU innovator for 2017 Ms. Michela Magaš.

PHOTO : For NDF Jelena Ivanović & Nemanja Branković

The fourth edition of Color running powered by Tikkurila was held on September 23, 2018, in New Belgrade. One of the most popular racing events gathered a large number of people who showed us how much this race is attractive. This year, we have realized two races for children and one for adults. Our production had a very complex project and thanks to the support of the City of Belgrade and the Municipality of Novi Beograd, we successfully realized another Color running.

Thank you “Running Club” and huge thanks to Milena Berić on this colorful big bang, energy and confidence.

FOTO : Marija Piroški, Jelena COE & Alex Dmitrović

First international conference dedicated to creative industries – Creative Forum Ljubljana was successfully realized. During this two day conference, 11-12 April 2018, the Program introduced 7 panel discussions and 3 presentations, as well as 1 exhibition opening.

CREATIVE FORUM LJUBLJANA PROGRAM

Total of 46 speakers from 28 countries participated in the Conference Program

CREATIVE FORUM LJUBLJANA LIST OF PANELLISTS

High level political representatives also participated:Tibor Navracsics, EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, H.E. Karl Erjavec, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, H.E. Igor Crnadak, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jorge Borrego, Secretary General ad interim of the Union for the Mediterranean, Diego Marani, Senior advisor on cultural policy, European External Action Service, Doris Pack, Former Chair of the European Committee on Culture and Education in the European Parliament…

The conference also promoted the new initiative Arteria Creative Network, which will promote and network the creative people in the Western Balkans in the coming years.

Creative Forum Ljubljana was organized by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia and the Union for the Mediterranean.

Supported by: the City of Ljubljana, Center for Creativity / Museum of Architecture and Design and Ljubljana Festival.

Executive Production: Museum and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana and Marsh Creative Production.

More at

CREATIVE FORUM LJUBLJANA DAY 1

CREATIVE FORUM LJUBLJANA DAY 2

CREATIVE FORUM LJUBLJANA

The 2nd edition of the Kontakt Music Conference will be held in Belgrade from March 21st to 24th, 2018 with a rich and diverse program of 25 concerts and DJ performances and 3 exhibitions..

A total of 70 participants from 9 countries are expected.As last year, the conference is held before the upcoming festival season in our region. The central topic of this year’s Kontakt is the self-sufficiency of the festivals.

The 2nd edition of Kontakt Conference will bring together representatives of the 18 most important festivals in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro and Macedonia, who will point out new trends through examples of good practice, inspirational discussions, creative panels and public discussions, and who will even more clearly map the region for the development of the music industry.

Kontakt 2018 locations: Marsh Open Space, Elektropionir, Zaokret, Sprat, SubBeernicentar, Ljubimac, Šikarica cafe and Cultural Center Dom omladine Belgrade.

Kontakt Conference is organised by: the concert agency Odličan Hrčak, Marsh Creative Production and Kišobran Collective.

Participation in the Conference is free of charge.

More about Kontakt at : KONTAKT CONFERENCE

Atelje 212 played host to UEPS’ 2017 awards ceremony.

At the longest-standing national professional association’s 57th anniversary, which brought together many prominent guests, 2017’s best marketing creators received kudos for their efforts.

This year saw 15 gold, 21 silver, and 28 bronze awards presented in 17 categories and 21 subcategories, including also those for best copy, art direction, music, and film direction.

The awards were presented by the UEPS Board of Directors’ Chairman Viktor Nikolić and members of the jury panel.

The event’s guests of honor included the Ministry of Culture and Information’s State Secretary Aleksandar Gajović, director Stanko Crnobrnja, renowned TV host Tamara Grujić, Radio Belgrade’s Editor-in-Chief Radoman Kanjevac, and Media Marketing’s Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dupanović.

The Grand Prix was presented last year’s winner of the award—Dejan Nedić.

In addition, Lazar and Žarko Sakan, who continue to walk the creative path mapped out by their father, traditionally presented this year’s Dragan Sakan award in the form of a performance acknowledging all marketing creatives who came before.

Read more about the awards ceremony on UEPS

The eighth annual BELhospice Charity Ball took place on 25 November 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Belgrade.  This year’s event was themed around honoring the legendary James Bond movies, and the slogan “Let’s bond for the ones in need” was completely lived up to.

The evening auction raised significant funds for the construction of the first palliative care nursing home in Serbia.Numerous diplomats and businesspersons truly demonstrated what charity at work looks like.This event proved that balls have definitely not lost their allure, but its greatest value was not in the glamorous ensembles, well-dressed gentlemen, and good time, but instead in the desire and need to help others.

The program was performed by the Academy of Arts’ students under the baton of professor of theater direction Milan Nešković.

Marsh Creative Production is very proud of the entire team, as well as the dear people around us.

We want to thank everyone for the wonderful energy and filling our hearts with pride.

Tašmajdan stadium, a musical heart of Belgrade was beating as one, in the rhythm of songs from their latest album “Sirotinjsko carstvo”, as well as some of their biggest hits:Hiljadu godina, Srce kuca tu je, Noćas u gradu, Ono što pokušavam sad, Rođen loš, Kreni prema meni, Prsten, Mesečeva Kći, Ona sve zna, Put za jug and many more.

The guests were bands “Drakula i Šampioni” and “Dža ili Bu”, and on the stage Partibrejkrs were also joined by Srđan Gojković-Gile and Branimir Petrović-Banana from “Električni orgazam” and Dušan Kojić-Koja from “Disciplina Kičme”.

The concert was organized by Studio Berar, Executive Production by Marsh Creative Production

On December 17th, in front of full New Belgrade Sports Hall, YU Grupa, the longest running band on the local scene, held a spectacular concert celebrating its 45 years of pure rock’n’roll.
They gave the audience a real journey through almost half century of rock and roll, showing once again an incredible energy by which the band became and remained a recognizable.
With special guests of this real rock’n’roll spectacle, Radomir Mihajlović Točak, Koja “Disciplin A Kitchme”, Zoran Kostić Cane “Partibrejkersi”, Nikola Čuturilo, Zoran Milovanović,
the fans of true rock’n’roll enjoyed in various hits such as Čudna Šuma, Mornar, Od zlata jabuka, Kome se raduješ, Zaboravi, Opasno, Dunavom još šibaju vetrovi that have marked the past 45 years of rock’n’roll on our scene. They also introduced a few new hits from their upcoming album such as Panika, Evo stojim tu and Ko.
YU Grupa continues to be faithful to true rock and roll sound on their new 12th studio album (soon to be released).
The concert was organized by Studio Berar, Executive Production by Marsh Creative Production.

The Spectacular Viva Vox Choir marked their 10th anniversary with a grand concert in Belgrade Kombank Arena in front of 10000 visitors. The audience had the opportunity to see the extremely demanding production as well as a unique combination of singing, video and light effects. The stage was specially designed for this occasion by the Stage Pro company; it was consisted of 10 levels, having a total total size of 600 m2.For the first time, the audience in the Belgrade Arena had the opportunity to see the spectacular light show with more than 200 moving light headsproduced by Studio Berar. The Audio Konstruktor company took care of the sound, and for the sound system the Martin – Glastonbury Edition was provided along withcomplex audio setting with over 30 monitors and 70 microphones. Especially for this occasion the largest projection screen in the region was rented as well as the projector of 50,000 ANSI lumens. Videosector was led by the Zoom Media company.

Marsh Creative Production Team ran the complete production of the show.

Zdravko Čolić performed at his two sold out concerts in Belgrade Kombank Arena.
Around 40.000 visitors had a unique opportunity to enjoy in Zdravko’s fabulous concerts.
Numerous Belgrade media have praised these performances of Zdravko Čolić as well as the magnificent band and the dance troupe of Milan Gromilić.
As for the sound, Jon Burton, a well known British sound designer was in charge.
On both concerts the guests were Vlatko Stefanovski and Dragoljub Djuričić, while on the first concert Nikša Bratoš and Voja Aralica have joined Zdravko on the stage for one song.
The concerts were organized by – Studio Berar
Executive and creative Production by – Marsh Creative Production

The month of October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Thanks to AVON and Popular B&Ž OM advertising agency, we had the honor to realize another Avon BCC Event – A million reasons to celebrate… to give…to help…

As every year, the US Embassy in Belgrade and Fund B-92 were a part of the action. This year’s event was a bit different – it was more interactive, more intimate.
At Knez Mihailova St, around “Delijska česma” fountain, the pink Bazaar managed to gather a great number of people and send a clear message to all the women! The “High Heel Race” with the participation of men, showed that there are still gentlemen who are ready to put themselves in “her shoes” (both literally and figuratively). Over 1000 people participated in the symbolic walk along with fantastic musicians / percussionists and clowns, led by Bojan Ivković, and the host of this year’s event was fabulous Una Senić. On that day, October 18th, sunny Belgrade with its Pink Knez Mihailova St. was an important part of the world and its fight against this terrible disease.

After the promotion in Slovenia during the Eurobasket 2013, the project called We Were the World Champions was successfully promoted in Belgrade as well.

Marsh production organized the event at the Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade, and on that occasion the exhibition was opened and the movie had its premiere. Among the many guests from cultural and public life, the event was attended by the president of Serbia Mr. Tomislav Nikolić, the minister of Culture Mr. Ivan Tasovac and the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Vanja Udovičić.

Many of the cast members attended the premiere, among others: Bora Stanković, Ranko Žeravica, Ivo Daneu, Petar Skansi, Ratomir Tvrdić, Nikola Plećaš, Damir Šolman, Boža Maljković and many others.

The first Serbian Business Forum, Organized by the Chamber of Commerce, was held in the beautiful “Madlenianum” theater, on 3^rd and 4^th of October, 2013.

On this occasion, for the first time the world’s biggest companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple as well as many other guests from all over the world were presented to the Serbian business community. Marsh production ran the executive production of this great event.