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Small actions Prishtina

	Perpsektiva Exhibition Visual Arts	Applicant(s) SURF	Time and place Prishtina from: August 2011 till: November 2011	Grant CHF 3'000.00
	Perspektiva annual exhibition is the presentation of new generation of young Kosovan contemporary artists: Majlinda Hoxha, Marigona Xhara, Ylli Xhaferi, etc. “Perspektiva” series were launched in 1997 and was re-launched again in 2010 and aims to highlight and foster the work of young artists, juxtaposed with some of the most renowned names of contemporary art in the region. The exhibition last year curated became a launching pad for exciting new artists such as Astrit Ismaili, Bardhi Haliti, Qendresa Deda, etc.

	Three New Works in Three Cities Performing Arts	Applicant(s) Blackbird Books	Time and place Mitrovica, Gjilan/Gnjilane and Prishtina from: May 2011 till: August 2011	Grant CHF 2'775.00
	Commission of three short works for the stage (each approximately twenty minutes long) to be presented in a variety of performance venues throughout Kosovo. These works will be written by established international female writers, including Lindsay Kayser and Christa Forster (see attached bios). Each piece will be translated into Albanian and performed in three cities, one piece per month over the course of three months. They will be performed by established and emerging female artists from Kosovo. These performances will be as small and intimate, with an emphasis on the text and with only simple and manageable technical elements. The intention is to create an environment for intellectual stimulation and critical thinking, and each performance will be followed by a discussion between the performers and the audience.

	Tomatopia Fashion	Applicant(s) Venera Mustafa	Time and place Prishtina from: May 2011 till: November 2011	Grant CHF 3'000.00
	The project will include 60 pieces of clothes, different shapes and fabrics, in combination with gardening tools as a complementary forming the entity “Tomato Land” It will be build around the theme of tomato’s, usually perpetuated as a vegetable instead of a fruit. Tomato belongs to a group of plants known as nightshade family. They were added to the vegetable family “unwillingly” based mostly on the popular definition that classifies vegetables by use, as served with dinner and not dessert. While it is botanically a fruit it is considered a vegetable for culinary purposes, as well as by the United States Supreme Court, a classification the government gave the tomato for trade purposes in 1893. In 2001 the Council of the European Union in a directive stated that tomatoes should be considered fruits. In the world were people are tomato’s the theme will play with the irony of decision-making and un-required “colonization” from higher grounds. The theme comprises within itself the hidden political, cultural and social message identity formation. Being in the middle of the American and European definitions and directives tomato remains globally “uncategorized” until further notice.

	Principles of Graphic Design CD+ Book Literature	Applicant(s) Milot Gusia	Time and place Prishtina from: April 2011 till: October 2011	Grant CHF 9'000.00
	The Principles of Graphic Design is a new and innovative multimedia learning CD project with a book that consists of theory lessons, in a form of virtual workshops and art and design direction computer classes for the students and individuals seeking to learn the basic principles of arts and to be involved in the profession of arts and graphic design. All the text and learning material of this CD and book are exclusive, never published before in albanian language. In the CD project are included in a compressed form essential learning materials in the field of aesthetics arts and graphic design that in print would take over 200 pages of an ordinary book. The advantages of this multimedia project is that numerous informations are easy to be reached and viewed interactively.

	Elevation Multidisciplinary A 6 dimensional live performance show with alternative music, moving images, interaction, real time happening, light sculptures and choreography.	Applicant(s) Alban Nimani	Time and place Prishtina from: November 2010 till: April 2011	Grant CHF 3'000.00
	A 6 dimensional live performance show with alternative music, moving images, interaction, real time happening, light sculptures and choreography. 1. Alternative Music The songs will be original compositions and will be recorded on the studio and part of the tracks; soundFX will be played during the show. Profesional musicians will perform music live. The show will be recorded live by profesional sound engeniers and additionally edited and remixed on the studio. 2. Moving images 6 short conceptual films will be produced by young creative artists and will be a part of visuals that will be played on the screens during the show. Also the whole show will be combined with pre-created visuals especially designed for the songs and the show. A VJ will play all visuals live. 3. Interaction Part of the show is conceptualised to be an interaction with the audience. The audience will interact with the musicians and will create sound FX. 4. Real time happening All elements of the show (moving images, music performance, sound FX, light show, choreography, interaction, light sculptures) will happen in real time during the show. A part of the show will be created live during the show in interaction with the audience. 5. Light sculptures A 3D sculpture will be produced and installed on the venue. In it will be produced various impressions and forms in combination with projectors and light FX. In concepts of the sculptures will be involved contemporary artists and new media designers. This will give another dimension to the audience’s experience. 6. Choreography In addition to the above-mentioned elements, there will also be designed a minimalistic choreography in conection with the concept ot each song. This will involve dancers and actors.

	Butterfly Effect Fashion	Applicant(s) Flutura Dedinja	Time and place Prishtina from: September 2011 till: November 2011	Grant CHF 5'000.00
	"Butterfly Effect" is the latest collection from Pristina's fashion designer, Flutura Dedinja. This will be the first presentation of Dedinja as a professional designer ahead fashion fans in Kosovo. While fashion shows and collections of this artist where presented to the public several times both domestically and abroad ,"Butterfly Effect" is a collection which in it's self includes 25 own creation (clothing) for women and is due to season fall / winter. This year in July Dedinja was invited from organizers of the most important fashion events in the region "Europe Future Fashion" she presented this collection in front of the public and criticism in the city of Croatia(in Split) .Croatian criticisms but also foreigners has compared Flutura on par with the already well-known European designers. Prima ballerina Murtezi Behije well known dancer, will be the first face that will appear, and will be the choreographer of this project too .She’s going to open the show with modern ballet dance...there she will be wearing the costume created by Dedinja. Her performance ends at the mid point of the scene which more accurate is the moving scene that starts spinning ... at the moment when the scene starts spinning, the models will start appearing in this moving scene. They will stand on stage during the three spins and then leave on they’re sides of the scene taking poses for a minute as part of a role ... (Scenography is going to be adapted to the choreography). This will be repeated several times in various forms, where there will also be 4 other ballerina that occasionally are going to perform in parallel with the appearance of models. The most characteristic parts of this scene are going to be the ballet dancers dressed with Dedinja’s costumes and the moving scene. Within scenography the two sides will be projected with a video animation on the topic of Butterfly Effect created by Kushtrim Grezda.That will amplify the atmosphere of this presentation.

	Culture Funding Opportunities- Kosovo Perspectives Debate Public Debate	Applicant(s) Gani Bobi- Centre for Humanistic Studies	Time and place Prishtina from: September 2011 till: November 2011	Grant CHF 10'000.00
	After the closure of the SCP Local Office Prishtina in December 2011, there will be no other foundation or project in Kosovo supporting independent cultural projects. This might cause a serious crisis in financing of NGOs, individuals and groups that were supported through SCP Small Actions scheme. However, there will be continuous support for the cultural projects of the international organizations and foundations such Institute Olaf Palme, KFOS, ECF, Marshal Fund, Hartefakte, Western Embassies in Prishtina, and so on) but their support is mainly sporadic and cannot supplement the gap of the foundation that supported small and medium scale projects. Global financial crisis also influenced the decrease of interest and funding for culture. This can also influence the level of support of large international foundations for funding peripheral cultures such as the one in Kosovo. On the other hand, the Ministry of Culture of Kosovo has the limited budget and grants the support to the limited number of projects, especially to he independent projects and programmes. The budget of the Ministry of Culture is mainly dedicated for the maintenance and salaries of the institutions , and it is often the case that the institutions themselves have no founds for implementations of their programmes and improving their quality so to ensure the readiness to cooperate and exchange with the cultural institutions in the region and worldwide. The abovementioned facts let us know that as of January 2012 the independent cultural scene in Kosovo will face a serious crisis in finding financial support. The proposed debate would be the SCP contribute in reflecting on the gap for funding to be created, identification of the ideas and alternative for funding the cultural scene in Kosovo. The idea is to bring together the representatives of the recognized international foundations and the creative and artistic mindset from Kosovo to discuss the new circumstances and pro-active access to the additional resources on the local and international level. We have planned two successive panels: with the local panelists and representatives of the international foundations and organizations. 1) First panel “National resources for the funding of culture” This panel is an overview of the actual situtation of funding for the cultural scene in Kosovo. We have planned to have three or four main panelists that would reflect on the issues and best practices in securing financial support for the independent projects such as Dokufest, Skena Up, etc. Approximately 40 participants will be invited, representatives of the Ministry of Culture, cultural institutions, independent projects and media representatives reporting on culture. The panel will open up the discussion on the following issues: a. How rational is the existing system for funding culture in Kosovo? Is there any possibility to channel distribution towards qualitative projects and programmes? b. Is it possible to increase the budget for culture in Kosovo? Why every year there is underspending in the budget of Government of Kosovo while on the other hand what is being said is that there are no funds for culture. Would it be possible to allocate differently the budget so that the culture benefits? c. Is there and how can the cultural market be activated and the system of sponsorship from the private businesses. d. Media and lobbying for the independent cultural scene. e. Presentation of the culture from Kosovo worldwide and exchange and co-operation with the region and world. f. Prospects for creation of an independent fund in Kosovo for financing projects from the civil society and independent cultural scene.

	International Jazz and Blues Festival “North City” in Zvečan/Zveçan Music	Applicant(s) Association of Musicians “Unia M”	Time and place Zvečan/Zveçan from: May 2011 till: May 2011	Grant CHF 5'400.00
	The festival aims to revive and enrich very poor cultural scene and offer music education to young generations as a core priority. The program of 2011 festival edition has been created in such manner that the festival will be opened by one of the world’s most famous jazz guitarists Larry Carlton. The organizers the invitation has been sent to Darkwood dub, a progressive pop band from Belgrade, which has a wide audience, not only in the region, but also in Europe. This can be confirmed with the fact that they played many European festivals. Their latest release, in which they cooperate with Vasil Hadzimanov, one of the best fusion keyboard players in Balkans, guarantee that their performance will be a proper choice for the festival. The 2011 festival will take place in the period from 19th-21st of May, whereas the venue of the Festival will be the hall of the Cultural centre “Trepca” in Zvečan/Zveçan.

	Personal Exhibition "Feelings" Visual Arts	Applicant(s) Rron Qena	Time and place Galerie ARDES, Berlin, Germany from: April 2011 till: April 2011	Grant CHF 309.00
	Exhibition of 9 works of Rron Qena at Gallerie ARDES in Berlin.

	Kacanikasja Documentary Film	Applicant(s) Visar Krusha	Time and place Kacanik from: April 2011 till: September 2011	Grant CHF 1'699.00
	Ermira, Sara, Besiana and Iliriana are teenage girls who play soccer for the female soccer club in Kacanik called Kacanikasja (Kacanik girls), the first ever soccer club that has been recently founded (that functions with donations) making the girls the first ever players of a female soccer club in town. What are their dreams, how long are those dreams gonna last in a poor country where female soccer is not a priority! The film tries to raise questions in exploring and expressing the challenges of these girls in context of human rights, will and talent, teenage dreams versus bad tradition of women’s rights, poverty and lack of opportunities in general in Kosovo.

	Kosovars Photography Exhibition "Kosovars" is part of an ongoing “Current Issue”photo-project started 2006 about Kosovo, with the intention is to depict people of Kosovo and the	Applicant(s) Blerim Racaj	Time and place Prishtina from: April 2011 till: November 2011	Grant CHF 1'194.00
	"Kosovars" is part of an ongoing “Current Issue”photo-project started 2006 about Kosovo, with the intention is to depict people of Kosovo and their surrounding. Through topographic approach the author is interested to provide a place of observation concerning cultural identity of people who live there, focusing on working class and their working environment. In addition to portraits he uses landscapes as documentation of the space these people inhabit and scenes they are surrounded with at this particular time by guessing it will change in the years to come. Most of the project has been realized by using a large format camera and the medium format for the best quality outcome, pictures have been taken during different periods of time and wide range of locations indoors and outdoors.

	The Re-introduction Peforming Arts	Applicant(s) Albana Muja	Time and place Prishtina from: April 2011 till: November 2011	Grant CHF 4'000.00
	Drama “The Reintroduction” is developed onto idea of focusing an occurrence, which in this case is being achieved via ‘reintroduction’ of a couple - a male and a female. Bearing in mind crescent number of divorces during this year, drama gains in its worth as it treats this problem attempting to deal with the motives behind, which are not often rational, and often banal, while their consequences are awful… The event focuses on the very first day following the wedding ceremony, whiles the couple is placed within its domestic environment - which is placed in a moving stage, which intends to make particular scenes more functional. The show (performance) aims to shed a different look on interpersonal relationships, current rather, hoping that this form of treatment by the author is most close to the audience. It also aims to open a debate on the issues that characterize these interpersonal relationships.

	My Petit Officer Performing Arts	Applicant(s) Theatre Movie House AKT	Time and place Prishtina from: March 2011 till: April 2011	Grant CHF 3'000.00
	Theatrical play “My Petit Officer” is a monodrama, respectively a professional theatrical mono-performance. It treats the consequences of an officer who remains immobile due to a devastating earthquake.

	An Ordinary Night Music	Applicant(s) Gillespie band	Time and place Prishtina, Skopje, Tirana, Shtimje, Kllokot, Ranillug, Vitina, Dragas, Suhareka, Prizren, Fushe Kosove, Gjakova, Gjilan, Rahovec, Kamenica, Istog, Skenderaj, Kline, Obiliq, Malisheve, Orllan from: March 2011 till: August 2011	Grant CHF 2'560.00
	In order to increase communication and cooperation amongst Kosovo’s youth and the expansion of the cultural activities to the other regions of Kosovo and to exchange cultural knowledge and information with other regions the Kosovo band Gillespie has set out to tour to many Kosovo municipalities and publish its second album which will be given for free to these municipalities with the aim of presenting in front of the audience in the other regions of Kosovo and also cooperate with the website Kosovo 2.0 to further promote and document the activities. Gillespie is an underground band of Kosovo, which was established in 2005. In two months time, the band members prepared the entire album material. Due to scarce finances, it took the band a year to launch its first album, which in fact was a live demo “Nje dite e zakonshme” (An ordinary day) consisting of 10 original songs, written by the band members.

	New Poets from Kosovo Literature	Applicant(s) Hutini Books	Time and place Prishtina from: March 2011 till: November 2011	Grant CHF 2'115.00
	Free verse, experimental language and rhyme. Themes about post-war Kosovo and its socio-political predicament, of the Other and of Love as the stage of the Two. Forms of thought of a thinking nurtured within the symbolic realm of Kosovo, it’s history, politics, and contemporary trends. - The first three authors will be: QENDRESA DEDA SHPETIM SELMANI GENC KADRIU

	Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Visual Arts Exhibition of 3D sculptures in the public space	Applicant(s) Ismet Jonuzi	Time and place Prishtina from: November 2010 till: May 2011	Grant CHF 2'300.00
	The formulated concept deals with the external view of 3dimensional sculptures amalgamated in relation between the creative artistic sculptures and the space. The Concept delivers a message of a beautiful and more urban ambience, a new view of the space where the sculptures will be represented; it will be fascinating for the viewers who will feel esthetically stimulated. The foreseen venue for the exhibition is the area around the new Ministry of Education building.

	Digital Exhibition Visual Arts Exhibition of the work realized in Photoshop and Wacom Pen techniques	Applicant(s) Leopard Cana	Time and place Prishtina from: November 2010 till: March 2011	Grant CHF 3'000.00
	This project aims to promote different modern artistic approach through digital painting, drawing and other artistic expressions. Exhibition is going to be performed through 15 LED TV monitors, each per painting or drawing which was painted or drawn by the artist with photoshop and Wacom Pen tablet tools.

	Prishtina-closed city Documentary film This film is about open spaces of city of Prishtina and why the most of them don't work for people.	Applicant(s) Astrit Hajrullahu	Time and place Prishtina from: 15.05.2010 till: 15.03.2010	Grant CHF 5'500.00
	Based on direct observation of what people actually do, the film aims to present an engaging and informative tour of the Prishtina urban landscape and to look at how it can be made more hospitable to those who live in it. The film will include interviews of architects, city planners and artists from various fields within which their activities may affect the improvement of public spaces in the context of functionality and artistic expression. In the aftermath of war in 1999, Kosovo entered a period of transition where one of the biggest challenges was, and still remains, the management of massive movements of its population. In addition to refugees returning from other countries, the rural population began to touch down in cities. Most of them settled in Pristina where the number of inhabitants, for a very short time, grew to uncontrollable proportions. This situation provoked a great lack of space for housing, forcing people to build in an uncontrolled way. This kind of construction became an urban and architectural chaos because of lack of legal infrastructure and relevant planning institutions. In this chaos, public spaces were "first urban victims" due to lack of ownership even though they belong to everyone. They were transformed into cafe-terasses, private fenced parking and private plots for illegal constructions.