Welcome to the official web presentation of Serbian Community Centre for Western Australia. Our aim is to provide information about this institution and activities that we organise.
Vidovdan Plays
Vidovdan Plays are a very big success that get announced in Serbian communities around Australia.
For more information please click here.
Dance Party
Serbian Community Centre dance party is a monthly event that gathers our youth around good music and great atmosphere. For more information, please click here.
With the only cost being fifteen minutes of your time – why not provide a blood sample and place your name on the bone marrow donor registry –it could save the grief of a family and the life of their loved one?
You may or may not know Ivana Prijic, she is us just like most other young Serbians living in Perth, she is 27 years old and up until last December Ivana was perfectly healthy. She married Damir last April and they had just returned from a trip to Serbia and Europe.
However in December last year she was hospitalized with a high temperature, which turned out to be her only symptom for leukemia. It turned that the cliché was true, ‘cancer could target absolutely anyone’. We never thought it could happen to our family, but this time it had.
However, Ivana is just one patient from 1000 around the world waiting, with the clock ticking, for someone with her specific bone marrow match to register soon.
“Honestly it’s a frightening prospect, its has turned my family’s life upside down, my husband and I were married in April and were planning on starting a family before being told about the leukemia a few months ago.
“I now find myself depending on the goodwill of stranger to save my life – its one day, one moment at a time from this point on”, said Ivana.
With only one in 1000 possible donors ever being asked to donate in any on year – the chances of being called up to donate are slim and that is why the Bone Marrow Donor Centre needs as many willing people on the registry as possible.
A 10ml blood sample is all that it takes to register and the criteria is far less stringent than when donating blood (for example you can be anemic).
Like many others in the Serbian community Ivana, arrived as a refugee from the former Yugoslavia some seven years ago. Unfortunately being of Slavic decent makes her chances of finding a donor even slimmer.
Bone marrow matches are commonly found amongst people from the same ethnic group and because there are only 330 people on the list in Serbia it gives people like Ivana little chance.
That is why we are appealing to Slavic people (Serbians, Croatians, Bosnians) aged between 18-40 years to help in saving maybe Ivana’s or maybe someone else’s life from anywhere around the world.
Fifteen minutes of your time could mean a lifetime opportunity for Ivana – please do not delay as every minute counts.
For more information or to make an appointment to register as a donor please call Debbie Witt, Donor Coordinator, at the WA Bone Marrow Donor Centre on (08) 9421 2886.
We would like to wish Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to all the visitors of www.sccwa.org. We hope you found the site useful and we can only promise to give you our best in the new year.
The previously announced Sarajevsko-Romanijsko Vece has been postponed to 4.08.2007. Centre management and event organisers would like to offer the most sincere apologies for regrettable but necessary delay. We invite you to come and join us for this event on 4th of August with band Crni Biseri.
Very popular Vidovdan Remembrance will be held on 30th of June 2007. Please stay tuned for more information but if we’re to judge from previous successful events we’re in for a day of fun activities for the whole family with sports tournaments, various performances and concert in the evening.
Our monthly dance party is rocking your world again on 23rd of June 2007. Come join Dj Djole and DJ Mladen with the newest tunes.
Last Sunday 15th marked the official start of the State Soccer season where our team Maddington Eagles will be competing this year. Just a reminder that Maddington Eagles did really well last year and were promoted to the 4th League. In their first match this year they beat the Melville team by 4 goals to nil. Come and cheer for our boys as they take on new and better opponents.
For the first time in Australia new band Kninjanke will be entertaining you in Serbian Community Centre. Join us on the 28th of this month and hear some of their most popular songs like 'Kninjanka bez Knina' and 'Svaki Minut'.
The 5th Annual Slavonsko Vece will be held on 26th of May at the centre. Entry of $25 also gets you dinner. Come join us and Crni Biseri to see why this event has grown every year.
Our annual dance party will be held on 19th of May with Dj Djole and Dj Mladen. The doors will be open at 9pm and entry is only $10.
Qualifications for Miss Serbia 2007 are starting with the competition for the crown of Miss Serbian Diaspora of Australia. Regional competition for W.A. will be held in the main hall of Serbian Community Centre in Maddington on 24th of March 2007. All participants will get many prizes just for entering the competition while the winner and the first runner up automatically qualify for Miss the final in Sydney on 19th of May 2007.
The winner of Miss Serbian Diaspora of Australia 2007 will get direct qualification into Miss Serbia pageant held in July 2007 in Serbia. The winner from Australia will get one month preparation time for Miss Serbia 2007. Miss Serbia 2007 will compete at this year’s Miss Universe pageant.
To register for competition you can visit web site www.frescaviva.com, phone 0400 410 295 or write to Viva, P.O. Box 494, Dianella WA 6059.
SBS Radio station has conducted an interview with current Miss Serbia 2006 Vedrana Grbovic which you can listen to here.
We are pleased to announce that forums are back on line. We had to take them down to upgrade security and maintenance on the forum which should make the forum experience better in the future.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused during this downtime and hope you continue to come and enjoy our community discussions.
Serbian New Year celebration in Serbian Community Centre of WA unfolded better
than expected. Majority of the visitors started arriving around 7pm indicating the event was very well received. Already at 9pm the main venue was almost at it's capacity and more people were arriving all the time. At midnight the venue erupted in cheers as Serbian new year was greeted among the many celebrants.
For those who were not there we have some photographs and a short video clip. See you at the centre for our next function!
The role of the Serbian Community Centre of WA is to gather people in a friendly environment and provide guidance and activities in preserving the Serbian heritage.
Many people have come through the doors of the Serbian Community Centre in Maddington and left happy and reasurred that there are those who are working and ensuring that our heritage is not forgotten.
With this in mind we hope that you continue to come and support our centre and we wish you a very happy New Year with hopes of good health and happiness to us all.
Serbian Cultural Days and Serbian Film Festival brought a wealth of familiar feelings to our city of Perth. On one side the performance of the folklore group and exhibition in the Perth Town Hall while on the other the film festival at the Hoyts Cinema illustrated the wealth of Serbian culture and achievement.
For those who were unable to attend we would like to share a few of our photographs of this superbly planned event.
Serbian Film Festival and Cultural Days is rolling into Perth this week. As we've come to expect the Film Festival will be held at the Hoyts cinema, Hay Street in Perth. This year you will be able to choose from five movies shown over the 4 days of the festival.
For more information and ticket purchases please visit the Hoyts Cinema page.
At the same time there will be Serbian Cultural Days exhibitions at Perth Town Hall (admission is free). The exhibitions will cover a wide area of Serbian background and heritage including literature, paintings, history, folklore, religion and tourist destination. Everyone is invited to come and see this great exhibition.
There will also be live performances at following times:
Friday, 22 September 2006 2pm: Official opening
Saturday, 24 September 2006 12am: Book presentation, folklore dancing
Sunday, 24 September 2006 1pm: Nikola Tesla Presentation, folklore dancing
We would like to wish Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to all the visitors of www.sccwa.org. We hope you found the site useful and we can only promise to give you our best in the new year.
We would like to wish a Happy Easter to all our Christian viewers with the traditional greeting, Hristos Vaskrse.
To all our visitors and sponsors we would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope for all the best in the new year.
The role of the Serbian Community Centre of WA is to gather people in a friendly environment and provide guidance and activities in preserving the Serbian heritage.
Serbian Film Festival and Cultural Days is rolling into Perth this week. As we've come to expect the Film Festival will be held at the Hoyts cinema, Hay Street in Perth. This year you will be able to choose from five movies shown over the 4 days of the festival.
