II Scientific conference with the international participation – Balkan Art Forum, Niš 2014, was held on 10th and 11th October 2014 at the Faculty of Arts in Niš. The opening ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the University of Niš on 10th October 2014, at 11 am. The theme of the Second scientific conference BARTF 2014 was: ART AND CULTURE TODAY: THE SPIRIT OF TIME AND THE PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION.

On Thursday, 16th October 2014 in the Small Hall of the Faculty of Arts in Niš, the promotion of the publication: Handbook for the analysis of simple forms: Baroque and Classicism by Danijela Zdravić Mihailović and Jelena Vassilakis was held, as well as the promotion of the audio recordings of the students at the Department of Chamber Music of the Faculty of Arts in Niš. The editors, authors and edition reviewers were speaking at the promotion, and the audience had the opportunity to listen to the concert of the students at the Department of Chamber Music.

Ljubinko Lazić, the Associate professor at the Faculty of Arts in Niš, was the winner of the prestigious ECHO Classic award in 2014 as the member of the ensemble “Bassiona Amorosa” in the category “Classical music without borders”.

The exhibition of students at the Master degree program of the Department of Applied Arts at the Faculty of Arts, entitled DIPLOMA 2014 was officially opened on Friday, 11th July 2014, at 8 pm at the Gallery of NKC (Niš Cultural Center, No. 37, Boulevard of Zoran Đinđić). Co-organizer of the exhibition is the Niš Cultural Center.

Chamber orchestra Concertante of the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš performed at the Festival of classical music Bolshoi, held on Mećavnik, Mokra Gora from 10th to 12th July 2014. The Orchestra got the opportunity to perform through the official selection of the artistic committee for Bolshoi festival.

Students at the elective program Graphics with technology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš, for the second time presented themselves to the public through the exhibition of prints from their Graphic maps. The opening ceremony took place on Friday, 20th June 2014, at 7 pm at the Faculty of Arts Concert Showroom (No. 2a, Knjaževačka Street). 

Filming the short art film The Woman in Red, aria of a seahorse. The creator of this film, which is being realized within the partnership of Niš Television and the Faculty of Arts in Niš, is the Danish artist Maria Dubin. The film lasts for five minutes and it will be shown first in Niš and Serbia and then all around the world. The music for the film, composed by Frederik Magle, was recorded in a Studio of the Faculty of Arts in the performance of the Orchestra of the Faculty of Arts in Niš, under the baton of Milena Injac, MA, Full Professor.

The exhibition DIPLOMA 2014 of Students at the Master’s degree programs of the Department of Visual Arts of the Faculty of Arts in Niš was officially opened at the Pavilion at the Fortress on Friday, June 6th 2014, at 7 pm. 

The opening of the annual exhibition of students’ works of the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of Applied Arts / Friday, June 06th 2014, at the premises of the Department of Fine Arts (Art School in Niš, Prvomajska Street, No. 6) at 12 pm, and at the premises of the Department of Applied Arts (Primary school Njegoš, Pantelejska Street, No. 60) at 1:30 pm. The exhibition will be open on June 20th 2014.

The Faculty of Arts in Niš has organized the intensive master class course for viola (4 – 6th June, 2014), lectured by Ognjan Stančev, a Full Professor of the State Music Academy Pančo Vladigerov in Sofia. At the end of the master class course, the active participants performed at the final concert.