Wikipedia / Pinki Hall
Wikipedia / Pinki Hall
Pinki Cultural and Sports Center (), commonly known as Pinki Hall (), is an indoor multi-sports venue located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun, Serbia. The venue has an indoor hall and an indoor swimming pool. The hall has a seating capacity of 2,300 for sports events and around 5,000 for concerts.
Opened on 21 October 1974, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Zemun being liberated from the Nazis and their puppet state Independent State of Croatia, the hall has hosted various basketball, handball, and volleyball teams. Its initial full official name was Dom sportova, omladine i pionira Pinki (Pinki Home of Sports, Youth and Pioneers). It now mostly serves for recreational use. It is the only sports venue in the city of Belgrade not financed by the city government, because Zemun's municipal government headed by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) in 2000 transformed the venue's controlling entity into a publicly traded company and sold the controlling stake (49%) to Naftna industrija Srbije (NIS) oil company.
The venue is named after Boško Palkovljević Pinki, a prominent Partisan fighter during World War II in Yugoslavia and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Concerts
27 April 1975 - Bijelo Dugme
1975 - Demis Roussos
22 March 1977 - Status Quo
4 April 1977 - Shakti
12 December 1978 - Riblja Čorba
9 February 1979 - John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, and Paco de Lucía
27 April 1979 - Bijelo Dugme
4 November 1979 - John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jack Bruce, and Stu Goldberg
2 December 1979 - Gillan
December 1979 - Takmičenje pankera
29 January 1980 - The Ruts
21 March 1980 - Ginger Baker
2 April 1980 - Wishbone Ash
22 April 1980 - Lene Lovich
31 December 1981 - Bijelo Dugme (Doživjeti stotu Tour)
1 January 1982 - Bijelo Dugme
2 January 1982 - Bijelo Dugme
19 December 1982 - Dr. Feelgood
27 January 1983 - Alvin Lee
28 March 1983 - Pat Metheny Group
1 December 1983 - Uriah Heep
22 May 1984 - Laki Pingvini
17 January 1985 - Rory Gallagher
12 October 1989 - Rock za Bebe (Riblja Čorba; humanitarian concert for the maternity ward in Tiršova Street)
References
Press Online: NA PLAFONU 150 KANTI!, January 16, 2009
See also