This year's donor party of BOS alumni is held online in the form of a BOS week from September 10 to 16. Alumni from the 26 generations of BOS's one-year educational programme will again have the opportunity to support the realization of the program they once attended.
To reduce the risks that physical gatherings bring during the pandemic, the BOS team has prepared several online events. BOS week begins with the sounds of pop, blues, and Americana with the acoustic concert by the singer-songwriter FlukeT. This event is scheduled for September 10 at 8 pm and will be streamed online. The next event at the donor party will be an interview with Rumena Buzarovska. She is a writer who was named one of the ten most interesting young European writers by the London Book Fair and this interview will be held on Friday, September 11. Another part of the BOS week is also a lecture by Darko Donevski, an astrophysicist who participated in the team that discovered the most distant known galaxy. On September 15, Darko Donevski will talk about mapping the universe and ways to understand invisible evolutions.
At the end of the BOS week, alumni will participate in BOS trivia night and they will test their general knowledge and fun facts about BOS and the programme. All participants in the quiz will receive a package of Healthy products from Servus Company, which recently started distributing products from the famous OKF Corporation from South Korea in Serbia. This company was the first in the world to patent healthy aloe vera juices 30 years ago and is currently the only one to produce aloe vera juice made from organically grown aloe vera (this juice will also be part of the package, as well as the Farmer's Aloe (in Original and Sugar – free variants)). The winners of the quiz will receive organic biodynamic wines (Basa Jantar '16 wines) and Moritz Eis ice creams.
All alumni who donate to the program receive the book Salonica: City of Ghosts, by renowned historian Mark Mazower, professor of Balkan and European history at Columbia University in New York, as well as vouchers for Moritz Eis ice cream and organic fruits and vegetables.
The impressions from the first and second BOS donor parties are still being retold, so the BOS alumni team hopes that the third donor party will spark the exchange of ideas between alumni and open new perspectives.