Meetings under the Old Olive Tree
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Few festivals anywhere have a host like this one: Susreti pod Starom maslinom — Meetings under the Old Olive Tree — takes place beneath the Stara maslina in Mirovica, Bar, an olive tree more than 2,000 years old and among the oldest in the world. The festival, held each early November since 1987, reached its 37th edition on 6–8 November 2024.
It is an international festival of children's creativity: each year a theme is set, and a literary competition draws around a hundred entries from young writers, while art exhibitions display children's work inspired by the same theme. The old tree, which has watched over two millennia of harvests, makes a poetic patron for the youngest imaginations.
The festival culminates in the crowning of its laureates — a ceremony that has honoured generations of young poets and artists over almost four decades.
Entry is free. Early November is olive-harvest season in Bar, the town's defining agricultural moment, and the festival offers travellers a gentle, meaningful reason to visit the coast's olive country out of season.
A 2,000-year-old host
The festival gathers beneath the Stara maslina of Mirovica, one of the world's oldest olive trees.
Since 1987
The 37th edition ran 6–8 November 2024 — nearly four decades of children's creativity.
Literary competition
About 100 entries arrive each year on the festival's annual theme.
Laureates crowned
Young writers and artists are honoured in the closing ceremony.
Three days, early November
International festival of children's creativity beneath the 2,000-year-old Stara maslina in Mirovica
Competition
Literary contest on the annual theme, with around 100 entries from young writers
Exhibitions
Displays of children's art
Closing
Crowning of the festival laureates
Stara maslina, Mirovica, Bar
