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This year's dinner was bigger and better
then ever. Among the guests were the
Hon. Dr
Judy Edwards, Minister for Science and Environment,
His Excellency Milivoje Glisic, Ambassador of Serbia,
Prof Jasmina Vujic, University of
California in Berkeley and Tesla Memorial Society of New York Inc,
Janice Lake, Executive Director of Engineers Australia,
Paul Nicholls, Director of Scitech,
Professor Syed Islam of Curtin University of
Technology,
Professor Igor Bray
of Murdoch University, Frank Tabbita
actor from USA...
The Evening was opportunity to reflect on importance
of Tesla's inventions for modern science. This year's Tesla dinner was
held as part of the events dedicated the 150th birthday of
Nikola Tesla,
here in Perth. During short span of several days we had the
Tesla Play (USA) performed at Octagon theatre, International Conference dedicated to
Tesla and bust unveiling ceremony at University of Western
Australia.
Guests were entertained by group of young talented
musicians and dancers.
Milica
Ilic acclaimed WA classical guitarist enchanted guests with her
beauty and talent as composer and guitar player. She was
assisted
by violist Nik Babic and singer
Tamara Miletic. Dancers from the Perth Tango Academy spiced the
evening with passionate tango dancing.
We
would like to thank all the guests who attended the dinner, the
members, volunteers and sponsors that made the evening possible and very
enjoyable.
Special thanks to Igor Jacimovic,
Aleksa Slijepcevic and
Mladen
Stevanovic, who were in charge of all necessary preparations and
putting the program together. |