‘Naš razred’ The best play of the Acting Studio of the Play Drama Theatre from Split was the 10th International Festival of High School Theatre Creativity Juventafest, which was organized by the ‘Medija – Art’ Association and held from 7 to 11 September in Sarajevo. The Grand Prix award went to a play that, according to the jury consisting of actress Jelena Rusjan, actress Mirna Jogunčić, and director Selma Spahić, inspired by its performance and conceptual maturity. According to the selection of playwright Emina Omerović, six plays were performed in the competition program, and the Special Jury Award was awarded to the play ‘Kralj Ibi’ by the informal group ‘Kulturociclin’ from Kruševac. It is a play that leaves no one indifferent and imaginatively uses minimalist stage means as a reflection of the repressive everyday life in which young people live. On the last day of the festival, presentations of workshops on musical theatre, puppets from the closet, theatre clowns, and movement workshops as acting tools were held. High school students worked hard and created performances, for which they won the sympathy of the audience at the Center for Culture and Youth of the Municipality of Centar Sarajevo. In the afternoon, from the Eiffel Bridge in Skenderija, accompanied by the Sarajevo Drum Orchestra, a parade of this year's participants set off towards the Sarajevo Youth Theater. There, after the performance of the play 'Međuprostor' by the Travnik Youth Theater in co-production with the Zenica Studio Theater and the Travnik Cultural Center, a closing ceremony and award ceremony were held. - Congratulations, and I wish you to set off on some new dreams. I thank all the participants of Juventafest; you have built these ten years of ours. If you want to choose freedom, know that it is only an act of personal choice. Follow your dreams," said the festival director, Jasna Diklić, declaring the 10th Juventafest closed. The 10th Juventafest hosted more than 150 participants from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the occasion of the anniversary, the monograph ‘Juventafest 10 Years’ was promoted, which the profession has recognized as an important document in the history of theater. The festival activities began the day before, with the screening of the documentary film ‘Some New Broadway’ by director Denis Bojić, created in cooperation with the Down Syndrome Center Banja Luka. The tenth edition of this unique festival will be remembered for the excellent performances, performed in front of full halls of the National Theater Sarajevo, the Youth Theater Sarajevo, and the Center for Culture and Youth of the Municipality of Centar Sarajevo, as well as the great atmosphere in the audience, where mostly the peers of the actors on stage were sitting, the organizer states. The organization of the 10th Juventafest was supported by the City of Sarajevo and Mayor Benjamina Karić, the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Sarajevo Canton, the Open Society Fund of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Tourist Board of the Sarajevo Canton, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation, the European Union, the Foundation for Music, Performing Arts and Visual Arts Sarajevo, BH Telecom, and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The host of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 10th Juventafest was the young actress Simonida Mandić.
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