For the fifth time in a row, Park Zrinjevac turns into a unique beach with a sea of books
The Zagreb cultural summer scene will enrich this year´s unique manifestation with the promotion of books and readings organized by the Lumen Publishing House. The Sea of Books event is held for the fifth time in the heart of Zagreb’s Zrinjevac Park and will last until July 14th. All interested visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy the promotion of new book titles, unique literary encounters, outdoor movie screenings, musical performances, and many other surprises every day from 10 am to midnight.
The program is designed as a combination of art and entertainment that will welcome visitors to a two-week event with over 300 titles in, both, Croatian and English which will be available for free in the Summer Oasis. The design of this year’s most popular beach in the city is re-signed by the internationally acclaimed artist Mario Miše, who turned Zagreb’s Zrinjevac Park into an intergalactic beach, thus enabling visitors to experience an unforgettable blend of books and distant galaxies.
“Every year, Sea of Books event is striving to complete many novelties and to offer visitors a quality program. The duration of this year’s event was extended to two weeks to attract more visitors to the world of books and imagination, as well as to provide good entertainment in a perfect summer environment. The goal is to promote reading culture, to encourage people to find pleasure in world novels, and to promote all forms of art. Therefore, during the creation of this year’s program, we have collaborated and included many Croatian artists from the world of film, music, and art”, said creative director Ana Marija Žužul.
To encourage the youth to have a love for books, the fifth edition of the Sea of Books program will host four “Read Me” workshops – a national campaign to promote reading in children. Also, the organizers have also prepared a Lumen Art Event that represents the reading world featured by the eyes of young artists, film screenings in the open, socializing under the stars with Music & Books x DJ Hrwoe and Intergalactic jazz by the Harry Gustavson trio.
The most exquisite book of the year – George R. R. Martin “Fire and Blood“
For all lovers of good literature, the launch of “Fire and Blood” was announced, which is a novel written by the world-famous writer George R. R. Martin, author of series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” by which a successful HBO series “Game of Thrones” has been produced. The most anticipated novel of the year comes out with this edition of Lumen Publishing and is accompanied by rich illustrations of the renowned comic strip artist, designer, and illustrator Douglas Wheatley. It is a piece of work in which details of what preceded everything, 300 years before the “Game of Thrones”, were captured when the Western countries conquered Targaryen – the most intriguing noble family from Martin’s fascinating world. Lovers of fantasy genres and fans of the GOT series will have the chance to find their copy of the novel on the shelves of the Zagreb Arkadia bookstore on Thursday, July 4that 6 pm. Editor of the Lumen Publishing company Miroslava Vučić will speak with translators Vladimir Cvetkovic Sever and Marko Kovačić about the topic “Why can we not get enough of Martin?”, along with the editors Ana Briški Đirđevac and Sonja Miličević Vukelic on Friday, July 5 at 11 am.
As for the new book promotion, the visitors of the Sea of Books will enjoy the novel “Živoliki” by Jay Kristoff, “The Roman Emperor” by C. W. Gortner, the promotion of Mirela Holy’s “Public Relations Agency”scientific book and textbook, and the “Television Program”of the long-time journalist Damir Matković.
