Culture, Arts and Sport
"Petar Kočić" Elementary School might have celebrated a century of its existence in 2023. It started working as a joint four-grade school in 1923 in Donji Jelovac. The first student from Gornji Jelovac was Rade (father Stevo) Bokan. The school ceased its work 99 years later in the summer of 2022 due to lack of students.
Quite a number of children played football, athletics, basketball, handball, table tennis, and chess. Jelovac has a football court, where "Happy Village" ("Selo veselo") competition was held in 2019. The athletic competition "Small Marathon Patrija" was held almost every year in June / July from 1976 to 2015 - totally 14 times, with a break during the Civil War until 2014.
Opera singing is performed by Mladen Prodan Junior. Milorad Mićo Knežević, Sanja Knežević Zorić and Dule Ćiverica are active performers of ethnic songs. Anja Prodan performs songs of popular and folk music. Painting is done by Milorad Vila, Sanja Prodan, Nevenka Aleksić Aljetić and Ljiljana Prodan. Poetry is written by Milan Stojanović, Milena Reljić, Nevena Pilipović, Rajko Mudrinić, Duško Pilipović and Savan Zorić. Milan Stojanović and Dr. Dušan Dule Aleksić deal with factual writing. Sculpture is done by Milorad Vila and Duško Tubin.
In the Local Cultural Centre (Dom kulture), films were screened for about thirty years, very nice performances were held, as well as dance evenings. The dance evenings were also held near the Monument on Patrija Hill, where the Partisan Breakthrough Road stretches, as well at Arman in Aleksići. Two gatherings of generations were held in 2013 and 2015 at Patrija Hill.
National (peoples') gatherings have been held since 1967 by the Breakthrough Monument on Patrija Hill. Similar gatherings were also held near the former school - on the site where the football court is currently. There is a monument to the fallen National Liberation Movement fighters. Parastos for 312 Serbian martyrs is held on the St. Sisoja Day by the monument in Macure hamlet. The decision to mark the "Remembrance Day of Murdered Children in the Independent State of Croatia" from 2021 as an event of the national importance was adopted by the Republika Srpska Government.
In 1912, Jovan Dobrijević was proclaimed the most beautiful man in one state of the United States of America.