Location: Various venues

Date: May 21–23, 2025

The UMAS Festival, the annual showcase of artistic and scientific activities by students and professors of the Academy of Arts in Split, once again brings a rich program of exhibitions, concerts, theater performances, lectures, workshops, and film screenings.

From May 21 to 23, in representative venues across the center of Split, the Academy of Arts will present a wide range of artistic and artistic-research practices, aimed equally at the academic community and the general public. Artistic excellence is an important part of the city’s cultural identity, and over the course of three spring days, the UMAS Festival offers a carefully curated and exciting insight into its many forms.

We warmly invite you to join us for this year’s program!

Program

WEDNESDAY, May 21, 2025

10:00 – Archaeological Museum
Guided tour of the exhibition “The Gaze of Medusa”

12:00 – Scena A
“The Archives of Hvar”

14:00 – Scena A
“About the Flumas Festival”
Valentina Martić

17:00 – Hrvatski dom
“Alice in Wonderland: Stage Design Between Theater and Everyday Life”
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad

18:30 – Hrvatski dom
Presentation of the Journal of the Academy of Arts in Split

20:00 – Hrvatski dom
Festival opening: Contemporary music concert
Music Department

THURSDAY, May 22, 2025

10:00 – 17:30 – Scena A
“A Man Walked Out of the House”, stage design workshop
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad

11:00 – City Puppet Theater
“Stribor’s Forest”, Children’s play
Theatre Department

16:00 – Hrvatski dom
“Architecture and Visual Arts in the Time of the Trpimirović Dynasty”

18:30 – Milesi Palace
Opening of the exhibition “P.S.”
Students and professors of the Visual Arts Department

20:00 – Hrvatski dom
Student film screening
Department of Film and Video

FRIDAY, May 23, 2025

12:00 – City Puppet Theater
“Dance and More”
Dance performance by the Theatre Department

10:00 – 16:30 – Scena A
Stage Design Workshop – Part II

15:00 – Hrvatski dom
Presentation of the Doctoral Study in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb

16:30 – 17:30 – Scena A
Stage Design Workshop Presentation

18:00 – Hrvatski dom
Formal final concert
Students of the Music Department

20:00 – City Puppet Theater
Theatre performance: “I Am the Wind”
Theatre Department

22:00 – Academia Club Ghetto
Theatre performance: “Bitter Ink”
Theatre Department