His libertarian spirit, an impressive number of works, which he left as a legacy and everything he did for the beginnings of the development of organized theatrical life in Serbia, brought him the epithet of "the father of Serbian theatre".

JoakimInterFest was founded in 2006 on the initiative of the then general manager of the Princely-Serbian Theatre, director Dragan Jakovljević, and with great understanding and support from the City of Kragujevac.

Goran Cvetković (2012–2014), Željko Jovanović (2015 and 2016), Miloš Latinović (2017 and 2018) and Slobodan Savić (2019 and 2020) made a significant contribution to the festival with their curations.

[2] Joakimfest is a festival of contemporary, modern, aesthetically, thematically and poetically referential theatre, which, through the selection of performances, strives to be visible not only in the local community but also in the wider region.

Joakimfest celebrates and nurtures an aesthetically sophisticated, socially responsible, subversive and emancipatory theatre that tackles burning issues and phenomena of the time and the world in which we live.