Novi Sad successfully organized a Guiness record event called "Guiness kolo".
The event contained 12000 people from 11 countries, gathered in 290 cultural societies, dancing a serbian folk dance called "kolo". The event "Guinness kolo " was officially opened by Vanja Vučenović, member of City Council for Culture, stressing that with this unusual event, Novi Sad presents itself as a "center of European folklore, tradition and center of all the beauty that Serbia can offer in cultural terms."
Players from seven to seventy-seven years old, caught up in the hands in a six kilometers long continuous chain, played continuously " Veliko Bačko kolo", "Katanka" and the "Užičko kolo", accompanied by music from the loudspeakers and loud applauses by the audience on the streets. The goal of the "big kolo" event was to play a variety of serbian folk dances in a biggest world "kolo", which will represent the entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest and longest "kolo". The organizers say that so far the participation in the "Veliko kolo" was confirmed by more than 11,500 participants from cultural - artistic societies. Dances from Serbia were played by members of 258 cultural societies, children and adults from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatian, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Germany and Austria.