In the Serbian Cultural Garden in Cleveland

Fox 8 visited the Serbian Cultural Garden in advance of the 71st annual One World Day in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens on August 28, 2016 producing the segment featured youngsters ages 3-7 from the St Sava Serbian Children's Choir led by Nada Martiovics- singing а song about Serbian famous people. Serbian freelance journalist Ivan Kalauzovic is the author of that song. He has got inspired by the beauty of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, he dedicated the poem to the St Sava Choir, they put it the song and this was a world premier. Our stringer Milorad Doderovic catched up with Ivan and asked him more about his inspiration.

Ivav Kalauzovic Source: Courtesy of Ivan Kalauzovic

St Sava Serbian Children's Choir with Kenny Crumpton
Tijana Kozul, Nina Babic, Director Nada Martinovics,

Srdjan Novakovic, Elena Kozul, Lea Pavlovic and Katarina Gavric (Facebook)

Serbian Cultural Garden is one of a unique collection of gardens running through Rockefeller Park along Martin Luther King Boulevard and East Boulevard in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Garden is designed to be a beautiful and peaceful place to explore the wooded pathways, and also to serve as a gathering place for events such as One World Day, where people from many nations parade through the gardens.

The Serbian Cultural Garden was inspired by the people and the land of Serbia. A gently curving path winds through the garden’s mature beech and oak trees. The central terrace contains raised seating inscribed with the motto “Only Unity Saves the Serbs.”  Six small terraces provide places to rest, each one centered on a great figure from Serbia’s past. Featured in the Serbian Cultural Garden are busts of Bishop Petar Njegosh, Mihajlo Pupin, King Peter I,  Nikola Tesla, Stevan Mokranjac, Vuk Karadzic and Mileva Maric, wife of Albert Einstein. A bronze icon of St. Sava, Patron Saint of the Serbian People, was dedicated in the Garden’s central terrace in September of 2009. Boris Tadic, President of the Republic of Serbia, at that time, attended the dedication of the icon and toured the Serbian Cultural Garden with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and many Cleveland-area Serbians.