An attractive music-specific bookstore and reading room, Rockmark, was opened in mid-February in the city centre, on Berislavićeva Street. It is the first such bookstore in Croatia, where visitors can read musicians’ biographies, enjoy socializing with people of similar music interests, exchange ideas, and be informed about the latest news from the world of music.

Have you had enough of high budget films with expensive special effects and a clichéd, formulaic Hollywood plot? Once again, Zagreb will offer something different – the 9th Revue of Amateur Film, the popular RAF, which will take place between the 21st and the 27th of March, featuring more than 200 films.

In order to mark several anniversaries significant to the national education system, the Croatian School Museum will feature a large exhibition, “Teachers in Croatia 1849-2009”. Open until the end of March, it will offer a comprehensive insight into the development of the teaching profession in Croatia.

Between March 16th and April 30th the Klovićevi Dvori gallery will feature an exhibition of the latest works by renowned Croatian painter and designer, Boris Bućan. The exhibition entitled “Woman on the Moon” will consist of some one hundred works of oil as well as acrylic on canvas.

With the backing of the in-house choir and orchestra, actors from the Croatian National Theatre of Split will perform one of the best known Croatian operettas on February 13th at the Dražen Petrović Basketball Centre. After 19 years, the Zagreb audience will once again have the opportunity to enjoy famous arias of the “Split Aquarelle”, one of the most recognizable symbols of the city of Split.

Everyone is invited to the Free Carnival State, one of the oldest and largest carnival festivities in Croatia, where masks will rule until February 16th

Until mid-February, the Gliptoteka HAZU will be the venue for the great travelling exhibition of Chinese Art, “Ink-Not-Ink”, which can now be viewed in Zagreb, after touring America and some European countries. It contains works by modern painters who use the ink technique, which has been dominant in Chinese art for centuries.

As part of their “World Magnetic Tour 2010”, one of the most popular heavy-metal bands of all time, Metallica, will hold a concert on May 16th at the Zagreb Hippodrome. Apart from performing their known hits for their numerous fans, Metallica will also be promoting songs from their latest studio album, “Death Magnetic”.