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Jonathan
04-10-09, 14:36
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Dear Friends,

Its Jesen (Autumn) in Belgrade which means those lovely crisp and clear sunny Autumn days (like today). It also means rain later in the month, so buy your brollies now.

New Podcast episode

The latest - well second - Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club Podcast episode is up. You can listen to it and download it here:

http://www.belgradefvc.com/forum/showthread.php?t=525

Halloween Party

We are organizing a Halloween party for the end of the month. It will be a classic fancy dress, so keep your diaries clear and start thinking about what you will be wearing.

Meanwhile, Zach needs help finding fancy dress shops in Belgrade. He may be ordering costumes from e-bay, so if you want one, contact him:

http://www.belgradefvc.com/forum/showthread.php?t=527

Future of the club

We are growing up fast guys. 360 members between Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2390959004) and the forum (minus duplicates, I would say about 300 members ) .

The club is pretty much run by Zach, Eliot and myself in a very casual ad hoc manner. In the coming weeks we will be planning a formal structure for the club, including roles for officers, a charter and other matters related to make this a proper club.

We are going to need both a board to guide policy and executives - people to manage certain facers of the club (e.g. a charities officer to manage our charitable activities, a bursar to manage the money, a social secretary to manage parties and gatherings etc.) If you are interested in volunteering to be involved in the running of the club or as a board member, please let us know.

Car for Sale

A car advertised on the forum - Seat Alhambra 1.9TDI - has been reduced in price from €6,500 to €5,000 . It looks pretty good to me.

http://www.belgradefvc.com/forum/showthread.php?t=423

New Gym

Orange, Strahinjica bana 43a - 011 263-30-08 (08:00 - 23:00 mon- fri, 09:00 - 21:00 Sat, 12:00 - 20:00 Sun)

http://www.orangzone.rs

Looks pretty good, but its not cheap: Monthly membership starts at 9,000 DIN.

Cinemania film festival kicks off

Looks like a decent line-up for this year's Loreal Cinemania festival.

More details at http://www.lorealcinemania.rs

25th Belgrade Jazz Festival

29th October - 1st November 2009 . Its is a must if you like jazz. Won't find me there :-)

http://www.belgrade-jazzfest.org/

BEMUS - Belgrade Music Festival

3rd - 19th October

http://www.bemus.org/

World class classical music festival with some superb concerts on offer.

54th Belgrade Book Fair

26th October - 1st November 2009

http://www.beogradskisajamknjiga.com/active/en/home.html

This is the legendary annual book fair at Sijam. The guest country is Greece. This is an amazing event, but extremely busy. If you can, go on one of the weekdays as the Saturday and Sunday are so thronged as to be unpleasant.

That's it for this one guys.

zach21uk
04-10-09, 15:53
Details for the Halloween Party will be going up next week folks, but as Jonathan said, keep the 31st clear in your diaries, well, the evening at least.....

Badmotorfinger08
05-10-09, 14:06
Halloween party! Niiiiice :)

AnthonyB
05-10-09, 22:50
I just wanted to inform you guys that the Canadian Embassy also has a Halloween party every year. Maybe having the BFVC party the night before might be a good idea so people don't have to choose. The Canadian party last year was pretty awesome, there was like 300 people there and the drinks are pretty cheap. Don't touch the free popcorn or chips though. Everyone I know, myself included, got deathly ill last year after the party and my wife, who didn't eat the complimentary snacks, was the only one who didn't. And no it wasn't a hangover, those only last a day. The best costume I remember was this one girl who came as Amy Winehouse, the only difference being she was like 2 meters tall. They have live music too, same guy every year I think, mostly American classic rock.

zach21uk
06-10-09, 10:46
The American and Canadian Embassy Parties are on the 30th October. We will be having our one on the 31st, so there should not be any conflict.

Tobias
06-10-09, 11:36
I've got my costume ready. It's the same i've been wearing every halloween since college

zach21uk
06-10-09, 11:47
Good to know. I've ordered mine!