Joakimfest

Joakimfest is an international theatre festival held every fall in Kragujevac, during the second week of October (till 2019 Joakim Inter Fest). The festival was established in 2006 by a theatre director Dragan Jakovljević, who was back then the managing director of Knjaževsko-srpski teatar. Since then, the festival has been going through various periods of ups and downs, seeking a solid concept. At the beginning of 2019, when Slobodan Savić, an esteemed theatre critic from Belgrade was elected the curator and artistic director, radical changes have been made in the structure and concept of Joakimfest. Today, this is a festival of contemporary, modern, socially, aesthetically, and poetically