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	Cultural diversity in Kukes Interdisciplinary Different activities on cultural diversity in Kukes	Applicant(s) North in development association Hotel Gjallica, Kati 2, Kukes	Time and place Kukes from: September 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 1,700.00 for part of production costs
	There are 3 communities of different cultural background that live in Kukes: Albanians, Gorani and Egyptian. Organization of a regional conference in Kukes on cultural diversity, that aims to encourage a healthy debate on the creation of a spirit of good understanding and cooperation among different communities that live in Kukes. On the framework of the conference there will be organized a painting exhibition with art works of painters from kukes region and Prizren, that will emphasize the values of cultural diversity in the democratic society will accelerate the cultural life and attract the attention of citizens in Kukes.

	Mapping invisible city Cultural policy Research and publication	Applicant(s) Polis University students Rr. komuna e Parisit Tirana	Time and place Tirana from: September 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 3,500.00 for printing expenses
	This project/book pursues three main strands of inquiry in its exploration of these ‘landscapes of the mind’ from the view of different professionals. The first strand concerns the methodology of researching urban mindscapes and urban ‘imaginaries’. The second strand investigates some of the representations, symbols and collective images that feed into our understanding of the cities. It discusses representations of the city in visual arts, architecture and urbanism as well other cultural forms, which will build, an ” archive of urban images”. The third and last section of the project/book concentrates on the relationship between the collective mindscapes of cities and practices of artists that have work with the issue. The major part of the enquiry is focused, however, on those modern interpretations which draw attention to the cultural significance of the city as both a physical site and an urban 'imaginary' A group of students of architecture will collaborate with the artists for the projects.The book will be publishet both in albanian and english.A web page will be prodused to present and support the project.

	Shkodra Jazz Festival 2009 Music Organization of the Shkodra Jazz Festival 2009 www.shkodrajazz.com	Applicant(s) Cultural association Rrok Rrokaj Rruga Marin Barleti, no. 54 Shkodra	Time and place Shkodra from: August 2009 till: August 2009	Grant CHF 4,500.00 for CD of festival, copyright of cd musicians
	The scope of Shkodra Jazz Festival 2009 wants to promote Shkodra, its culture and traditions to the regional and international scenes. The city of Shkodra needs manpower in order to win this challenge. Shkodra is clearly a city with a strong identity, with a very authentic community made of historical buildings, ancient quarters and unique cultural attributions and musician scene.The music itself is the key that makes this place authentic by providing its sound, its “audio-identity”, which is accompanied by its local clubs, theatres or musical scenes of the city. SHKODRA JAZZFEST 2009 aims to become a very important event, part of the jazz scene all over Albania, Balkan and later of Mediterranean area. This year Shkodra Jazz presents itself with an innovative format and high expectations. As a result of the successful edition of last years and the good experience artists and participants lived, we were contacted by several groups and artists from the Balkan region, but also other European countries who want to take part in the 2009 edition. As it was in the objectives of the organizers, SHKODRA JAZZ FESTIVAL turned out to be an original jazz festival, with high level artists from the regional and international scene and a very special, warm and close relationship between them and the visitors, was created.

	Albanian Wind Band Festival Music 4th edition of Albanian Wind Band Festival	Applicant(s) National Club of Wind Band Rr. Irfan Tomini, No.121 Tirana	Time and place Saranda from: 07.07.2009 till: 12.07.2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 part of promotional costs
	The fourth edition of the Festival will be held from 7 to 12 July 2009 in Saranda and for the first time it will be extended in Delvina, Ksamil and Himare also. Wind Bands Festival is the sole activity of this kind in Albania. In other counties these festivals are more frequent, especially in tourist areas. The festival is a vital musical manifestation and a joyful event for the people. Making it possible is dependent on the qualitative developments in tourist field, especially in area of Saranda. This festival is included in the annual calendar of the artistic events of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and that of the Saranda municipality. The three previous editions of this Festival are sponsored by AMC (Sponsor General). After a 5 months of meetings, consultings and concrete help provided by KOF to the wind bands taking part in the festival, according to a well defined plan, for 6 nights the wind orchestras will perform in musical parades and concerts in Saranda, Delvina, Ksamil and Himare. In this edition will take part more than 12 wind orchestras from Albania and from abroad.

	Park Sculpture 2009 Visual Arts International symposium www.bashkiakorce.gov.al	Applicant(s) Municipality of Korca Rr. 28 Nentori, Korca	Time and place Korca from: 25.06.2009 till: 06.07.2009	Grant CHF 2,800.00 stone, water, electricity, rent
	This project consists in promotion and exchange of culture and art between artists. For 2 weeks the artists will work in the open area of the main park of the city, which is much known for its greenery spaces. During the summer it has a peak frequency by people. So the performance of artist work will be as a great show for the park visitors and as an open studio for the artists. The thematic will be free. The ideas and the models presented by the artists will be judged through the Culture Commission of Korca municipality. The works will be made mainly in stone, Greek marble with a volume of 2m x 0.5m up to 3m x 0.6m. Each artist will have the necessary equipments and its works space. (Water, electricity, compressor, etc. The final scope of this event, following the successful experience of the last year, will be that all the participants will contribute with their works and the sculptures will be placed in the park site as a symbol of art and culture of the city, so that to turn this event in an annual activity. The artists will have a copyright payment. The organizers, Korca Municipality and the Cultural Centre “Vangjush Mio” will provide the necessary materials and will arrange all the contacts with artists inside and outside Albania. Korca Municipality will provide the water and energy expenses for this event.

	Albanian Music Days Music XVI edition of new Albanian Music Days	Applicant(s) The new Albanian Music association Rr. Todi Shkurti, P.5/1,Shk.3, Ap.40 Tirana	Time and place Tirana from: 25.05.2009 till: 10.06.2009	Grant CHF 2,088.00 for invitations, festival book, banners, posters
	New Albanian Music association organizes the XVI Edition of the “New Albanian Music Days” Festival. This activity is the only one promoting Albanian contemporary music through the commissions of new works by the Albanian composers. In our XV past Editions we have managed to commission more than 100 new works by the Albanian composers and hold more than 80 concerts in Albania, not mentioning those activities which have been organized abroad. This year’s edition will be organized from 25 May- 10 June and there will be a total of 7 concerts and two master-classes. The concerts will be held in Tirana, Shkodra and other cities in order to offer the newest tendencies of contemporary music not only to the inhabitants of the capital but also to those living in other cities. Thus the XVI Edition of the “New Albanian Music Days” Festival will bring to to audience performances from several instrumental ensembles as chamber instrumental music, acapella choir, string orchestra, guitar, flute, electro acoustics etc. We intend to involve in this edition more than 100 musicians, instrumentalists and composers. The works commissioned this year will be from renowned composers like : Thoma Gaqi, Endri Sina, Aleksandër Peçi, Shpetim Kushta, Fatos Qerimi, Hajg Zacharian etc.

	Visual Art women community Visual Arts Exhibition Visual Arts women community	Applicant(s) Eli Xoxa, Rajmonda Mato Rr. Faik Drenova, No.6 Tirana	Time and place Tirana from: May 2009 till: August 2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 for advertisment tv, posters, billboard, invitations
	The objectives of this project are as follows : 1. The creation of a number of paintings, sculptures and graphic works based and inspired by Albanian’s historical and archeological heritage. These historical and archeological sites are listed as below : - The archeological site of Apolonia (Fier City), - The archeological site of Bylis (Ballsh city), - Aredenica Monastery (Lushnje City), - Berat Castle (Berat City), 2. The realization of a number of mobile exhibitions to present the work of the women community in a number of cities in the following dates: - Apolloni site, July 2009 - Fier City, end of September 2009 - Berat city, beginning-mid October 2009 - Lushnje City mid-end October 2009 - Ballsh City, beginning of November 2009 The creative part of this Project will be carried out every two weeks on the following dates and locations: -05 – 12.05.2009: The archeological sites of Apollonia and Bylis; -01 – 08.06.2009, Ardenica Monastary and Berat Casttle

	New Albanian Romance Music Competition New Albanian Romance Creation and Interpretation	Applicant(s) Woman in music association Rruga Him Kolli Pall: AL-DE 2, Shkalla 2, Ap.16 Tirana	Time and place Tirana, Korca, Shkodra from: May 2009 till: June 2009	Grant CHF 6,000.00 for publicity, scores, scores publication, copyright, cd
	The National Romance Competition shall foster the creativity of this genre, in the European year of Creativity and Innovation. The Competition shall take place in three cities, Tirana, Shkoder, Korce during three weekends. In Tirana at the Arts Academy, in Shkoder at Migjeni Theatre, in Korce the Palace of Culture V. Mio. In the Competition will participate different Albanian composers with their vocal and instrumental creations, which shall be interpreted by soloists, vocalists, and Albanian youngsters. This Competition will serve to enrich the vocal, concertal and didactic at the same time. The competition shall be announced in April 2009 and after gathering the materials, a committee will select the best creations which shall be presented in a vocal-instrumental concert in the theaters of Korce and Shkoder; the three best creations shall be selected as well. Along with the concerts the scores shall be published and a CD shall be produced. The Competition will be recorded by a public television and two private local TV’s with the aim to make it as more visible and tangible to the public. In the mean time at the Arts Academy in collaboration with the Music Faculty and the music schools in Korca and Shkodra shall take place seminars regarding the development of the Albanian contemporary vocal creativity.

	Albania Dance Meeting 2009 Dance Albania Dance Meeting 2009 in Durres	Applicant(s) Durres Beauty association Rr. Aleksander Goga Durres	Time and place Durres from: 30.04.2009 till: 06.05.2009	Grant CHF 2,400.00 for catalogue of festival
	Organization of the Albania Dance meeting 2009. In this edition, there are going to take part troupes from Switzerland, Holland, France, Italy, Kosova, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Macedonia, Canada, and Albania. About 150 artists will take part (100 from abroad and 50 from Albania) The festival will take 6 to 7 days. Those taking part will be troupes or companies of modern and contemporary dance from the Balkans, as well as from Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland, Israel,etc. On the next day of every presentation, a press conference will be held for the interested journalists and artists. A ‘round table’ will follow every presentation on the different issues of choreography, organization, policies, and managing this form of art. Workshops on modern and contemporary dance will be organized with the artists and students from Academy of Arts, Tirana, and hold by Paul Ibey, choreographer from Canada. All the troupes will be accompanied in a tour of the most important tourist and archeological spots of Durres and our country.

	Microcosmos and Macrocosmos Music Piano and Video Concertal Tour of Elvis A. Peçi	Applicant(s) Aelfior association Blvd Zhan d'Ark Kula jeshile 2, 8/3 Tirana	Time and place Tirana, Durres, Shkodra from: 26.04.2009 till: 29.04.2009	Grant CHF 900.00 Invitations and posters
	Piano and Video Concertal Tour in Tirana, Durrës and Shkodra: ‘’Mikrokosmos’’ and ‘’Macrocosmos’’. Solo Piano (Bela Bartok: Piano Album ‘’Mikrokosmos’’ volume no.4, 5, 6 in stage interaction with the atmosphere of an oval shaped Video-projection (Macrocosmos: high quality collection of space/universe images and videos from the ‘’Hubble Telescope’’ . This Concertal Tour brings a new way of performance to a decentralized Albanian art auditorium of Tirana, Durrës and Shkodra, through an art syncretism of Piano and Video, the Human world (microcosmos) and the Universal world (Macrocosmos). Through these new ways of organizing concerts we can stimulate new ways of thinking and reflecting for the Albanian auditorium of Tirana, Durres and Shkodra, new ways of feeling the flavour of music and visuality. The concerts will be also audio-video recorded to realize the CD and DVD of ‘’Mikrokosmos’’ and ‘’Macrocosmos’’ (Piano and video) that aim to be distributed in various cultural hot spots in Albania and beyond (In way to find also a TV partner for the event).

	Creative City Bus 2009 Literature “Creative City Bus 2009”	Applicant(s) Creative city association Pogradec Lagjja 4, Rr “Dhimiter Shkurti Pogradec	Time and place Pogradec from: 23.04.2009 till: 24.04.2009	Grant CHF 2,600.00 marketing, tv spot advertisement, ad announcements, bags with Creative city logo, plotters, certific
	The purpose of this project is to continue spreading and consolidating a regional cultural activity, which is being developed for four years now and is welcomed from young readers impassioned by the artistic book. The aim of this project is to stimulate the contemporary youth to keep loving and reading the artistic book like poetry, novel, novelette, comedy, drama etc. in the respective languages of this region such as Vllach language, Greek, and Romanian, in order to make the book and the love for it, a moto in their lives. This is an original project and includes the high school students in Ohrid, Struga, Pogradec and Korca. The activity will join in a journey starting around the Ohrid Lake till the Academy of Voskopoja, on the “Creative City” bus, 10 excellent students from each city of the region. The activity will be carried out in April 23-24 2009 in occasion of the ‘’World Book and Copyright day”. Four rewards will be given for four languages from a jury made up of five persons.

	Beyond Theatre Putting on stage the theatre play Beyond	Applicant(s) National Theatre Tirana Tirana	Time and place Tirana from: 17.04.2009 till: 25.04.2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 for actors and costumes
	Putting on stage the theatre play “Beyond” written by the well known Romanian dramaturg Dorun Motok. For those that have no idea about the Manifest and the Aesthetical principals of the Theater of Imagination, the author explains that his work is created to give full freedom to the theater directors and meantime to stimulate their imagination. In other words the work is inviting to imagine every period of time, and every place to position the drama. The look, age, dresses and physic actions of the characters are given in a mathematic key and are left to the fantasy and imagination of the theater director and actors to be chosen. This drama has 3 characters: A, B and C that have the temptation to go somewhere and in the Albanian version of this production, those are 3 young people trying to pass the border in the 1989. They didn’t make it, but they remained with the dreams that over the border every thing was different… The characters of the drama have three different ways in trying to make their dreams reality:using the logic,courage until the violence,with talent

	Pabesia Literature Publication of novel Pabesia	Applicant(s) Uran Kostreci Rr,. Nikolla Tupe, No.28 Tirana	Time and place Tirana from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 1,000.00 for printing expenses
	Publication of the novel Pabesia, written by Uran Kostreci. The writer has already written 4 books, which have been successful. This would be his fifth book. The book includes about 100 pages. It is a fictional book, but at the same time it has a historical background. It is the story of a political prisoner. About his life and sufferings in the concentration camp of Maliq and the life and sufferings of his family outside the camp. The writer himself has been a political prisoner for 20 years during the communistic regime.

	Stylized national Albanian dresses Visual Arts Performance of the stylized national Albanian dresses	Applicant(s) Papadhimitri Film Production Rr. Islam Alla P39, AP:8 Tirana	Time and place Tirana from: April 2009 till: June 2009	Grant CHF 2,500.00 for catalogue, models payment and part of lights and audio rent expenses
	The project aims at exposing the outstanding traditional values of the typical women’s dresses through a unique modernized style.Activities include: 10 typical women’s dresses from the different regions of Albania will be selected and they will be used as a base to design and produce the new dresses. Exhibition of the fashion show (choreographic and musical scene will be set to present the dresses)Catalogues will be printed out with the original styled costumes.

	Organizational Culture Literature Organizational Culture in Post Communist Albania	Applicant(s) Diana Djaloshi Rr. Ali Visha, Nr.15 Tirana	Time and place Tirana from: April 2009 till: June 2009	Grant CHF 2,250.00 for editing, design, layout, printing, invitations, posters
	The main goal of this project is to make possible to publish a study done in the past two years on Culture in Post Communist Albania. Synopsis: Studying culture is a very difficult task. Culture tends to change very slowly as it deals with shared values and beliefs, norms and way of living of a society. This study is based mainly on the survey done to study culture and changes in post communist Albania. A questionnaire was designed and a survey was administered with participation of 100 professionals: 50 Albanians and 50 foreign citizens, who work and live in Albania for duration of two years. This study is an initiative to enrich the Albanian publishing market with another source of information on the cultural changes that Albania had in the past 18 years of democracy. This study has as its main focus the organizational culture, seen in the framework of overall Albanian culture. Culture is changing more slowly, that other social, economical and political changes of the Albanian society. After publishing the book I will promote it in three different cities: Elbasan, Korca Tirana, through meeting with young people.

	The Dictionary of Art and Albanian artists Visual Arts Publication of Dictionary of Art and Albanian artists	Applicant(s) International Society of Art Critics in Albania Galeria Kombetare e Arteve Blvd. Deshmoret e Kombit Tirana	Time and place Tirana from: April 2009 till: December 2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 for production costs
	The dictionary of art and Albanian artists is intended to be a biographic dictionary of painters, sculptors, and graphic and contemporary artists of the XVI – XX century. This dictionary will include 500 selected entries which represent the majority of the names and terminology that is supposed to be found interesting by the reader. The biography of each artist will be treated according to certain criteria imposed by the importance of the authors’ work and the role that both the author and his/her work has played in the history of Albanian art. In some cases the treatment will be affected from the availability of the biographic materials. In general, the size of a given entry will depend on the importance of the artist or the quantity of the available material. The entries of the most important artists will be accompanied by a colour picture of their work. For the first time this dictionary will offer a full view of special Albanian artists which are residents of the Albanian Republic, Kosovo, Montenegro, but also of those Albanian artists that have developed their creativity in other countries throughout the world.

	Lasgush Poradeci Literature Lasgush Poradeci's Bibliography	Applicant(s) Ilir Shyta Rr. Ceta e Mokres L.4. Poradec Pogradec	Time and place Pogradec from: 01.04.2009 till: 30.08.2009	Grant CHF 2,600.00 for designing, printing, editing
	The book is the micro thesis for my “Masters Degree” in the field of Literature, in the Faculty of History-Philology, Grammar-Literature Branch, Tirana University. (see the opponent thesis made by the Head of the Commission for the Masters Degree, Prof. Dr. Ali Xhiku.) I would like this scientific work to be published not only for the maximal evaluation given by The Commission, but also for the reason that publications in this field are very rare in our country. In Albania, the reasoned bibliographies are few. Thus this one on Lasgush Poradeci will be some part of contribution made by scholars of Literature in the field. The work has more than 800 characters covering the period from the year 1927until today. The Bibliography refers to the literary work of Lasgush, his translations, writings from others found on the pages of the Albanian press and on pages of books from other authors. Significant is the formulation of the detailed characters, by the chronology of years and in the Albanian alphabetic order. The book will be promoted in the University, schools, press and electronic media in Albania. The logo and name of SCP will be launched in every promotion activity.

	Comedy “Violence in family” Theatre Comedy “Violence in family”, Street theatre	Applicant(s) Kaltersia association Stacioni i fundit i autobuzeve Kamez	Time and place Kamza from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 3,050.00 publicity, decor, scene, lights & audio
	Street theater about Violence in family. The performance begins with a dialog between the Artistic Troupe and the audience about the topic, ilustrated with examples from the everyday life. Than the play will be performed. This project aims to raise the awarenes of the community of Kamza on this topic.

	Recycling Art Exhibition Visual Arts Participationj in Recycling Art Exhibition	Applicant(s) Academy of Arts Tirana	Time and place New Orleans from: 19.03.2009 till: 21.03.2009	Grant CHF 5,250.00 Posters, Postcards, Translation, web designer, graphic designer
	Participation of students of the Academy of Arts in Recycling Art Exhibition, in New Orleans. The art pieces create by the students of the Academy of Arts will consist in use of the different materials such as lives, iron materials which will be converted into a early 20th century car, newspapers which transmit a moving image in search of the contact and information, formed with legs modeled after this material , roughs created with recycling materials, used tires where is intervened with colors by flowering them, etc. In the entrance of the gallery will be a plastic intervention with some of the works. This will make a bigger apile to the community. One of the yang artists have created three works of the sizes 3mx 2.5m which are a strong apile for the cleaning from the fog of the post-modern consuming culture and revaluation of the most human values in our daily optical point of view. This is the city where we live, walk, love. Recycling is a project in function of the city, but in the same time it is involved with all the aspect of the unmentioned problems.

Small actions Prishtina

	Swiss Triple Bill Video, Contemporary dance, Hip Hop music A multidisciplinary performing evening from Switzerland	Applicant(s) ART-Plus Compagnie Linga	Time and place Prizren and Prishtina from: 04.11.2009 till: 11.11.2009	Grant CHF 4'000.00
	This special event promotes cultural communication and cooperation between Swiss artists and socio-cultural organisations in Pristina and Prizren. It offers a special evening with visual arts, contemporary dance and hip hop music, associated with activities that will stimulate creativity, interactions and shared experiences with the local audience. This special event will bring together: 1. The projection of Elodie Pong’s film Secrets for sale (2003), a film about the interactive installation that took place at the Arsenic Theatre (Lausanne, CH) in which each visitor was invited to confide and then contractually sell a personal secret, filmed by 8 surveillance cameras. Secrets for sale deals with intimacy, oscillating between voyeurism -in an era where everything is on sale and under surveillance- and assertive self-expression. 2. The contemporary dance companie linga presents no.thing, performance for six dancers. For this new work that will be Premiered in October 27th, Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo started with a question: Can the authenticity of a gesture still provoke an emotion at the era of superficial physical performances? This creation focalizes on dance itself and its relationships with music. It proposes a physical dance, tender and powerful, inherent to the style of the company. 3. The show Rap Titan, a hip hop music performance composed by Roberto Garieri and DJ Eagle, singing about the socio-historical conditions of hip hop, the nightmare of the urban world, and how hip hop’s protagonists, tired of violence, gave birth to a real culture. This performance is in English and French and includes local hip hop dancers.

	4th edition of ”Flute Sounds” international music festival-2009 Music International Music Festival	Applicant(s) NGO "New Spirit"	Time and place Prishtina from: 15.06.2009 till: 20.06.2009	Grant CHF 2'284.00
	The 4th edition of "Flute Sounds" brings the attractive six days program that includes a series of workshops nine concert evenings, two documentary films, and multimedia performances. The well known artists of the world, will prepare several workshops and open lectures. This event would create an ideal opportunity for professional cooperation among young musicians flutists and artists from Europe and USA . It will offer a unique chance to attend workshops by Peter Lukas Graf ( Switzerland ) www.peterlukasgraf.ch Katie Down (USA), composer sound artist, and multi-instrumentalist www.katiedown.com,Greg Pattillo – Trio (USA) www.whatisproject.org, Vincent Lucas - flute, Alexandre Gattet - oboe, Daniel Brezynski - trombone, Marc Trenel - bassoon, Pascal Godart – piano, Ute Volker & Angelika Sheridan (Germany) www.utevolker.de, Jen – Kuang Chang (Taiwan) compositor, Hans Parment (Sweden) Japanese pianist Masa Tayama. The Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans Local Office Prishtina assisted by covering local costs of the Swiss artist, Peter Lukas Graf.

	Personal Exhibition: 3D Art and Photography Visual arts Personal exhibition of 3D Art and photography of the young artist	Applicant(s) Leart Zogjani	Time and place Prishtina from: 15.01.2010 till: 25.01.2010	Grant CHF 4'866.00
	3D Art is mainly a new art technique that has experienced tremendous growth in Computer Arts in the last decades around the world. This Division of the exhibition is also subdivided in: • The Pride: This chapter contains 3D artworks that represent different spheres of life as a Kosovan. From history portraitures, to national sports, 3D collages, tradition, architecture and sci-fi fantasy are wrapped with a lot of emotion and interpreted from different points of view: pride, anger, love, nostalgia, and personal experiences. Created in different time intervals, they all tell their stories with different interactions between the objects in the scene while still sharing some kind of “gravitation” between the picture and the viewer • Contemporary Expression of Art: This chapter contains a more contemporary look of the artworks. Having been inspired by what’s beautiful, modern and trendy, has given me a different vision and pushed the 3D professionalism to the limits. Photography: Violence in Schools: it has always been a problem, and has always pushed all sorts of artists to create even some of their masterpieces while interpreting this phenomenon. Trying to go out of the boundaries of documentary photographs, and expressing violence in terms of “Beauty gets defeated by the Beast”, then coming to an even more harsh end: as the victims try to hide their sorrow by making some kind of fake masks, as finally, they become even more violent than their predecessors. • Europe and the Places: While travelling you always see the things in a different way comparing to the local people and get sudden attacks from the views of that part of the world. Sharp-eyed artists have achieved absolutely magnificent results by only photographing the same architectonic monuments that millions of people can see everyday of their lives. Giving a different emotion, or so-called “Emotions from Abroad” in photographs where your city is shown, always make the viewers feel good for where they live, for what is theirs, and for what they’re proud of. In a way, these photos show the author's way of seeing different places around Europe. • Out of the Box: The photographs in this chapter represent the sudden and striking inspirations that have influenced me from time to time. They are not ordered in a storyline, they do not always show the reality, but they express the purest emotions of me as an artist, and strike the viewer in a surprising way.

	Solo Concert Music This is a solo concert of clarinetist Fidan Osmanaj	Applicant(s) Fidan Osmanaj	Time and place Mitrovica and Prishtina from: 25.12.2009 till: 31.12.2009	Grant CHF 4'000.00
	The aim of this project is to introduce the modern way of playing clarinet and works of famous composers that were not played before in Kosovo. Fidan Osmanaj will play different works of composers such as Debessy, Poulenc, Meassien and Brahms accompanied by the recognized pianist, Misbah Kacamaku. These concerts in two towns, Mitrovica and Prishtina will introduce new side of clarinet.

	Song&Wine Music	Applicant(s) Genc Salihu	Time and place Prishtina from: 17.11.2009 till: 19.03.2009	Grant CHF 5'000.00
	This project supports the recording of the music album "Kange e vene" (Song &Wine) that carries a personal tone that is considered to be its main quality. Music and lyric as siblings invite the listener in for a long and intensive visit to an aesthetic setting that tries to invoke instant empathy and self-reflection, tangentially referencing a suffocating social environment. This is one of the main reasons why it deserves to be shared. Its fourteen songs are written exclusively in the variant of the Gheg dialect that is spoken in Kosova and it sets its writer and its listener free to roam within a wide range of lyrical possibility, at the same time recruiting itself in the lines of a small camp of thinkers, linguists and artists that promote the idea of reconsidering Gheg as a worthy dialect that deserves inclusion, even slight dominance, in the Standard Albanian Language.

	Exhibition at "Brick Lane Gallery", London Visual arts	Applicant(s) Lorik Sylejmani	Time and place London from: 15.11.2009 till: 26.04.2010	Grant CHF 1'213.40
	The artist will exhibit 10 artworks in different mix media, mainly in painting and digital pictures. The artworks are prints in plotter, generally standard-sized 50x50cm, framed in 70x70cm with urban life subject are characterized by motto: Neon, Concrete and Rock’n’Roll

	Retrovizorja Music	Applicant(s) Retrovizorja- Band	Time and place Prishtina from: 15.11.2009 till: 15.03.2010	Grant CHF 3'037.00
	Retrovizorja, the music band from Prishtina aims at recording their third album and have a tour in the region and play live music. The Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans Local Office Prishtina will support the making of the video of their new song which is to be realised in March 2010 on the national TV stations and Retrovizorja's web site.

	“Now” – A platform for up and coming alternative bands Music A practical multimedia project that aims on promoting the music scene in the region	Applicant(s) Dritero Nikqi	Time and place Prishtina, Tirana and Skopje from: 15.11.2009 till: 15.02.2010	Grant CHF 7'500.00
	Now is a practical multimedia project that aims on promoting the music scene in the region by means of promotional recordings both on CD and internet, promotional concerts in the region as well as a web portal. In this recent time in Prishtina and the region there is an eruption of a new sound that very much reflects social and cultural changes in the region. Most of them are young bands/artists that work in a professional manner but do not get exposure, especially across borders. Most of these artists can only be listened to in the rare concerts organized in the city, their music most of the time remains unrecorded and unheard of. The aim of the project is to represent and collect the new sound of the alternative music of the region in a joint CD that will include the seven bands from Prishtina, Shkup and Tirana.

	The Visit - Der Besuch Theatre A theatrical production that will bring together international and local artists in a joint venture intended to foster cultural debate	Applicant(s) 1. Catastrophic Theatre (Artistic Partner), NGO, Houston, Texas, USA 2. Mitrovicë Culture Center (Facility Partner), Mitrovicë, Kosovo 3. Blackbird Books (Fiscal and Production Management Partner), Local NGO, Mitrovicë, Kosovo 4. Art and Media (Marketing and Documentation Partner), Local NGO, Mitrovicë, Kosovo 5. Teatri Oda (Prishtinë Presenting Partner)	Time and place Mitrovica and Prishtina from: 05.06.2009 till: 14.08.2009	Grant CHF 18,294.00
	It is difficult to imagine a play with more relevance to the life in modern-day Kosovo than Dürrenmatt’s “The Visit” (common English translation of “Der Besuch der alten Dame”.) This tale of community, trust, revenge and corruption remains a mainstay of Western theatre fifty-two years after its publication. In this play, Dürrenmatt constructed a fictional town whose inhabitants must decide whether to murder a prominent citizen in exchange for financial gain. The themes of guilt and greed are universal, but certain aspects of “The Visit“ have even more special resonance for Kosovo today: a decaying city, revenge, justice, rule of law, bankruptcy, familial and civil obligations, government corruption, the unintended social and economic side-effects of financial donations, and the role of women in society are all scrutinized. Productions will take place in the Mitrovicë Culture Centre. Performances will be followed by audience discussions, allowing community members and artists the opportunity to engage in a dialogue about the production and the societal issues it address. Technical rehearsals will be continued in “Teatri Oda” in Prishtinë, with performances tentatively scheduled for August 3 and 4. With the assistance of critically acclaimed proponents of adventurous and experimental theatre from the United States, Catastrophic Theatre, the project will develop a production of “Der Besuch der alten Dame” by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt that, in its development and performance, addresses key social issues that Kosovo faces today.

	Participation in the project "Love in the age of postponed democracy, the critical crisis" Visual Arts Participation in the project "Love in the age of postponed democracy, the critical crisis", to be held at Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland www.kunsthalleluzern.ch	Applicant(s) Albert Heta	Time and place Luzern, Switzerland from: 24.05.2009 till: 29.05.2009	Grant CHF 690.00
	Curators from the Balkans, Eastern, Northern, and Western Europe will discuss – in public and closed sessions – the current ability to be critical, as well as the common goals of the "trans-national community", not at last by reporting about the social reality in their own local art scenes. Love in this context is not regarded as romantic, but a political ideal: as the only possible, radical expression of (self)-awareness. How does this ideal fit in with our world of production and distribution, migration and mobility, as well as the idea of the absence or the freedom from religion? What does the alleged (standardized) Western democracy want from us, and what are we ready to give? What can the goal of the critical be, after all?

	Prague Biennale 4 Visual Arts Present Kosovo arts in the Biennale in Prague www.praguebiennale.org	Applicant(s) Driton Hajredini	Time and place Prague from: 14.05.2009 till: 26.07.2009	Grant CHF 1,100.00
	Presenting Kosovo Art (Painting) in the International Exhibition – Prague Biennale 4, with two paintings from a series of suitcase paintings titled: “ The guardians “. Paintings: “The Guardians”, 80 X 100 cm, 2006, Oil on canvas “The Guardians 2”, 80 X 100 cm , 2008, Oil on canvas

	Family Portray Documentary film A personal story carrying a deep feeling of personal access and privacy	Applicant(s) Kaltrina Krasniqi	Time and place Prishtina from: 13.04.2009 till: 20.06.2009	Grant CHF 9'832.00
	This is a 20 min. documentary carrying stories of the author's family and although intially meant to answer some questions on the position of the women it ended up being a story on the author's grandfatyer who was a communist women position, on his ideas of the new world and his escape from the past. The concept of this project is based on the risk of leaving each character within the shape of their believes and worlds. As a result of this artistic decision the final version of the film would be a collection of four stories:

	Lost Orientation Documentary Film Production of a short documentary film aiming at showing the difficulties in orientation one faces in the city of Prishtina	Applicant(s) Alban Muja Yll Çitaku	Time and place Prishtina from: 10.04.2009 till: 30.06.2009	Grant CHF 5,850.00
	This documentary aims to analyze the way of how people in this town (Prishtina) physically orient themselves, what is for them the main object or building for their orientation. Using the names of the street is definitely not the way they orient themselves. In the past decade names of streets were changed several times, therefore it seems that nobody uses names of streets for orientation. The short documentary film “Lost Orientation” will help the society and institutions working on this problem, present for a few years now. The issue problem of orientation can be avoided only if the Prishtina Municipality in joint work with the Ministry of Spatial Planning created a strategic project on naming and renaming of streets.

	Publishing the MM journal Cultural debate The Journal MM is a quarterly on Theory and Arts	Applicant(s) Centre for Humanistic Studies "Gani Bobi"	Time and place Prishtina from: 10.04.2009 till: 30.04.2010	Grant CHF 30,000.00 CHF 10,000.00 contribution of SCP Regional Office
	The Journal MM is published four times a year and covers different fields of theoretical and Art, including: philosophy, sociology, social issues, art, architecture, and literature. MM offers an interdisciplinary, critical, and innovative approach. MM aims to reflect on key issues of different fields of contemporary life, both home and abroad. In the period of November 2008 – October 2009 we plan to publish four editions of the journal with average volume 200 pages of A4 format. Each edition of the journal will be illustrated with creative work of a local or international artist, including visual artists, photographers, or architects. Centre for Humanistic Studies “Gani Bobi” (CGB) is an NGO founded in 1997, which deals with educational activities, media monitoring and publishing. Since 1997, CGB is in charge for publishing MM, the journal and books collection. The MM journal has been considered as the most valuable periodical publication in Albanian language not only in Kosovo. The publishing activity that holds the name MM (2000 or the third millennia in Latin numerator) has started its activity 13 years ago by publishing the journal MM and publishing the books of two Kosovo authors.

	Death and the Maiden Theatre play	Applicant(s) Theatrical Coproduction by Teatri Urban & National Theatre in Prishtina	Time and place Prishtina from: 02.04.2009 till: 03.05.2009	Grant CHF 10,000.00
	A workshop production of Death and the Maiden was staged in Santiago, Chile, opening in March, 1991, and in July of the same year the play had its world premiere at London's Royal Court Upstairs. The production, which received the London Time Out Best Play Award for 1991, moved to the Royal Court Main stage in November. The play was well received; critics found it both dramatically engaging and historically sensible (given the number of societies around the world facing painful legacies of repressive regimes). “Death and the Maiden” is valued as a dramatic work that examines psychological repercussions of human rights abuses. “Teatri Urban” is a newly established theatre company, with the objective to produce theatre performances in naturalistic, unconventional, urban style and like themes. Combining private initiative with public spaces and infrastructure, “Teatri Urban” aims to produce create contemporary theatre plays throughout Kosovo.

	Healing Magic Documentary movie The proposed 30 minute documentary film explores the phenomenon of black magic belief and the "healing" methods used.	Applicant(s) Crossing Bridges Productions	Time and place Prishtina from: 01.11.2008 till: 01.07.2009	Grant CHF 12,209.00
	The proposed 30 minute documentary film will explore the phenomenon of the black magic belief and the healing methods used including chanting, amulets and melting of gunpowder. Combining the stories of these “healers” and the people who attend and believe in these methods of healing, this documentary will bring to the screen a unique and off-the-page phenomenon to the mainstream audience. Moreover, it will have an analytical approach to the phenomenon through in depth interviews with the healers trying to unravel the foundations of their belief system and their practices. The film will have an artistic and experimental look throughout, and will be character based. The stories of both the healers and patients will be the guiding ones throughout the film, which will end in a very surreal way.

	The Other Side of Oneself Visual Arts Exhibition consist of several separate art pieces	Applicant(s) Alketa Xhafa Mripa	Time and place Prishtina from: 25.10.2008 till: 30.09.2009	Grant CHF 7,041.30
	The project will have a several walk-through areas, making the audience participate as performers. The aim is to challenge the audience to reflect on their development and experiences gathered throughout their life by getting them to recognise the cognitive stages of their evolution which have transformed them into who they are now. The concept revolves around identification of our cultural markers that will be represented through every piece. Particular attention was given to representing females’ expressions and participation in society. Their fascinations with authority, as well as their naked ambition, were hopefully captured through these pieces. The objective is to instill confidence about who we are and to appreciate that the other side of us is different and acceptable. This project will be an attempt to get the Kosovo audience, in general, and Kosovo women, in particular, to reflect on themselves and their lives. This will be achieved by getting them to confront different stages of their developments visually, thus separating the exhibition into several separate pieces of art-work.

Small actions Skopje

	Rite-The Lament, musical-ballet performance Multidisciplinary This is a 15 min performance with three participants: singer and two ballet dancers.	Applicant(s) Helene Angelovska, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: July 2009 till: August 2009	Grant CHF 3,843.00 production costs and fees
	The Lament is an expression of a deep sadness, sorrow, pain, for the lost of a beloved. The participants of the Lament are traditionally female persons; Phaedra, Medea, Ariadne, Dido, these are the mythical heroines of the Lament. Some of the greatest composers found the deepest expression of their art especially in the musical form “Lament”. The two female characters in the performance would function like an ego and an alter-ego, embodying the woman as the mother and the lover, while the male ballet-dancer would embody the man as the defunct husband, the forbidden lover, the cruel stranger who, to thank the girl who helped him, has left her to die in despair on a desert island. It will take place in a small, intimate and empty space, as a “pendant” of the closed space of naked grief and despair. Participants in the performance are: Helene Angelovska - voice, Alexandra Kocovska – ballet dancer, Daniel Agelkovic – ballet dancer, and Gordana Dean Pop-Hristova - choreographer.

	“Russian Melodies” Music Concert and master classes of Atrium String Quartet in Skopje.	Applicant(s) Jeta Starova, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: 30.04.2009 till: 01.05.2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 fees for master classes
	The Atrium String Quartet was founded in the autumn of 2000 in the St. Petersburg Conservatoire under the inspiration of Professor Joseph Levinson - cellist of the celebrated Taneyev Quartet. The Quartet members received coaching from members of the Alban Berg Quartet, the Vermeer Quartet, the Danel Quartet, and also from professor Eberhard Feltz, Berlin. After winning the London International String Quartet Competition their international career has blossomed with recitals at most prestigious festivals and tours in Europe, and the upcoming tour in USA. The Atrium Quartet currently resides in Berlin, Germany. A day before the concert, a master class will be organised with the Russian artists and young Macedonian students. The organiser aims to promote a high level of classical music in Macedonia, as well as to contribute to the cultural dialogue people, and to intensify cultural exchanges.

	Forum Skopje 2009 – open public discussions on contemporary architecture in Macedonia Visual Arts/Architecture The next topic of Forum Skopje will be focused on the subject “The Aftershock of Postmodernism”. www.forumskopje.com	Applicant(s) Ivan Mirkovski, Skopje/Vienna	Time and place Skopje from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 7,000.00 recording the event, accommodation and fees for 10 participants, and part of mobility costs
	The next topic of Forum Skopje will be focused on the subject “The Aftershock of Postmodernism”. After last year’s success, the team of Forum Skopje decided to organise the next topic that is envisioned as 6 day open-to-public discussions between the invited guests, the young Macedonian architects, as well as philosophers, students, theoreticians, sociologists, urban designers and planners, and the people of Skopje. The concept of this year debate “The Aftershock of Postmodernism” would give an accent to the most recent constructions in the Skopje city-centre, seen as antonym to the post-modern philosophy. Parallel with the main event a workshop with students from the Architectural Faculty of Skopje would be conducted and mentored by the participants from abroad.

	International Student Poster Competition TOLERANCE CARAVAN exhibition in Warsaw Visual Arts The popularization of the “tolerance” is the focal element of this project. www.plakart.eu	Applicant(s) Laze Tripkov PLAKART, Skopje	Time and place from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 700.00 travelling costs
	An open call with the topic “Tolerance – A Global Challenge” was announced in 2007, and the organiser Plakart together with an international jury selected posters that were exhibited in the Museum of the City of Skopje and throughout the city. The caravan with the massages on tolerance will travel through Europe. The first stop is Warsaw where 125 massages/posters will be exhibited for two weeks. The goal of the project is to raise the awareness on the issue of tolerance in multicultural Europe and, at the same time, to promote the poster as a medium for mass communication and creative expression.

	DVD of the First Macedonian Dogma Movie “Does it hurt?” Film A production of a master quality DVD of this film will make the First Balkan Dogma available to a wider audience. www.akafilm.com	Applicant(s) Aneta Lesnikovska, Amsterdam/Skopje	Time and place Skopje and Amsterdam from: 25.03.2009 till: 29.04.2009	Grant CHF 4,000.00 part of the production costs
	This film is the first Dutch/Kosovo/Macedonia co-production which was completed with almost no budget, yet gained international appearance. "Does it hurt?" First Balkan Dogma by Aneta Lesnikovska is a 92 min mockumentary, nominated for a Tiger Award at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, January 2007, and won the Special Jury Award for innovative filmmaking at the Bermuda International Film Festival, March 2007. The film was shown in competition during 2007 and 2008 at major festivals around the world (Buenos Aires, Taipei, Brussels, Barcelona, Durban, Bratislava, Gijon, Wroclaw, Ankara, etc.).

	The Ship, a wordless comic strip album Visual Arts The Ship is a comic strip album created on the text by writer Tomislav Osmanli and performed by the comic strip artist Aleksandar Sotirovski.	Applicant(s) Tomislav Osmanli, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: October 2008 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 5,000.00 part of the production costs and part of the fees
	This comic album is a phantasmagorical negative utopia. The story is taking place in a big centre mall named “The Ship” which slovenly was transformed from a paradise of the customers to their nightmare. The project deals with an innovative idea where the whole story will be presented only through the imaginative, visual language of the comic strip without a textual narration.

	The Renaming Machine – conferences, exhibitions and publication Visual Arts The Renaming Machine project focuses on the complex entanglements of political and cultural processes of renaming. renamingmachine.blogspot.com	Applicant(s) Suzana Milevska, Skopje Partners: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; press to exit project space, Skopje, Macedonia; Center for Contemporary Art Stacion, Prishtina Kosovo; and Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.	Time and place Skopje from: September 2008 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 3,360.00 proof-reading, pre-printing costs, and 40% of the printing costs
	The project reflects the urgent need to question how the complex entanglements of political and cultural processes of renaming influenced the construction and destabilization of memory of the national, cultural and personal identity during the last two decades in ex-Yugoslavia and SEE. The names of public institutions, personal names, languages, toponyms, and states have been changed in history for all the different (and often wrong) reasons. In several exhibitions and public discussions and workshops, the project Renaming Machine will encompass various art and cultural phenomena attached to “renaming” and “branding”, in order to explore the scale to which renaming affects visual culture and transgresses cultural identities and policies in the region. The collected materials will be published in a book that will be regionally and internationally distributed.

	Participation at the Renaming Machine Interdisciplinary Renaming Machine is curatorial and artistic research project contextualized by Dr. Suzana Milevska and organized in partnership with P74 – Ljubljana renamingmachine.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ renaming-machine-skopje-29-3009.html	Applicant(s) Slavco Dimitrov and Zarko Trajanoski, Skopje Partners: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; press to exit project space, Skopje, Macedonia; Center for Contemporary Art Stacion, Prishtina Kosovo; and Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.	Time and place Ljubljana from: 11.06.2008 till: 14.06.2008	Grant CHF 1,636.00 traveling and accommodation costs, and per diems
	The first phase of the project, in the form of a conference and exhibition, will take place in Ljubljana. The project reflects the urgent need to question how these processes and patterns influenced the construction and destabilisation of memory of the national, cultural and personal identity during the last two decades in ex-Yugoslavia and SEE. The organiser P74 and the curator Milevska invite relevant artists and theorists who will explore the phenomenon of renaming and will generate Renaming Machine Archive. The invited participants will create new research-based works/texts in different cultural contexts, using various media (photographs, slide projections, video, interactive works) and research methods: statistics, questionnaires, documentary video interviews, etc. The implications of renaming will be researched with historical, sociological, anthropological, psychoanalytical and other methods. The research results will be accumulated during the commissioned process and the public events, and will be presented in a publication as the final phase of the project.

	Mantra Discreation Music Mantra Discreation is a vocal-instrumental composition and performance by the young composer Aleksandar Pejovski.	Applicant(s) Aleksandar Pejovski, Skopje Partner: Skopje Summer Festival	Time and place Skopje from: June 2009 till: June 2009	Grant CHF 6,150.00 renting sound and lights equipment, transportation of instruments, and part of the fees
	“Mantra Discreation” is a vocal-instrumental composition (written for female choir, percussion, piano, organ and computer), inspired by the current political aspirations of the Republic of Macedonia, concerning its long-year goal to join the EU and NATO. The main aspect of these aspirations, which inspired the writing of this work, is the actual repetitiveness of these two abbreviations that still “echo” in the media every single day in the last few years, and thereby CREATE a MANTRA in a citizen’s mind, without giving him/her the freedom of choice. The work has already been fully composed by Aleksandar Pejovski and its performance will surely affect the audience in the most constructive way.

	Macedonian Weekend in Freiburg – promotion of contemporary art and music Multidisciplinary The main goal of the project is to promote the emerging and innovative Macedonian cultural production in Germany.	Applicant(s) Ksenija Cockova, Skopje/Kirchzarten	Time and place Freiburg, Germany in the Cultural Centre E-Werk from: June 2009 till: June 2009	Grant CHF 2,400.00 printing catalogue and traveling costs
	Ksenija Cockova was awarded a one-year scholarship for cultural managers by the Robert Bosch Foundation. She is attending her internship programme at the Cultural Centre E-Werk in Freiburg and at the end of her stay she will organise a series of events that will present the young Macedonian cultural scene to the German audience. During the month of June there will be a performance of the music band Ljubojna and an exhibition of two young visual artists. Ljubojna is based in the city of Bitola, and performs music which is a mix of ethno elements and is combined with poetry by Macedonian writers.

	Solo Exhibition in Gallery P74, Ljubljana Visual Arts Macedonian artist, Saso Stanojkovik, is invited to have a solo show with selection of his recent works at the Gallery P74 in Ljubljana.	Applicant(s) Saso Stanojkovik, Skopje Partner: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana	Time and place Ljubljana from: June 2009 till: June 2009	Grant CHF 1,015.00 traveling costs and per dime, for printing poster, and for renting equipment
	Stanojkovik’s exhibition consists of three mutually connected video installations (produced in the period between 2004 and 2009), which will be installed in three different rooms in the gallery space. The whole project addresses the issues of human rights, justice and the institutions of justice. The video work Justice in Focus 1 came as a result of his observations of the behaviour of the people visiting the building of the Supreme Court of Justice, located on Capitol Hill. The DVD projection shows 150 photographs that the artist took in front of the building during his visit in Washington D.C. He became a witness of many humorous and exhausting attempts of the tourists to have a photograph in front of the famous ‘slogan’. The second part will consist of four TV monitors presenting short video statements about justice by three experts on human rights and law and an opinion poll of 12 citizens. The third part is a newly produced documentary video about the laid off workers who protested for more than a year in front of the Parliament of Republic Macedonia with different demands to the Government related to their right to work.

	Dragan Abjanic - Videography Video Dragan Abjanich (1953-1999) is one of the most distinguished video artists. He is considered a pioneer of Macedonian video art.	Applicant(s) Gena Teodosievska, Skopje	Time and place Skopje, Bitola, Stip from: May 2009 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 4,860.00 production costs and the fees for author of the text and translation in English language
	This will be the first of the videographies series of Macedonian video artists selected by the producer Gena Teodosivska. Dragan Abjanic, the pioneer of Macedonian video art, together with Aleksandar Stankoski and Zlatko Trajkovski, is the author of the first Macedonian video-film production titled “Kokino”, 1991, which was also presented to the public in a movie theater. Today, his video works are considered "classic" in Macedonian video art, but are still very innovative and experimental. This videography will contain a selection of his best video works such as Mixko (1985/86), Kokino (1991), After (1994), and Procession (1998). An official promotion/screening of the finished project will be organised in one of the museums/galleries in Skopje. Two other promotions will be held in Bitola and Stip.

	Skopje Seminar of AICA (The International Association of Art Critics) Interdisciplinary This AICA seminar is imagined as a public event that will focus on the urgent issue of the crisis in art criticism in the SEE and Balkan region. www.aica-int.org	Applicant(s) Anne-Claude Morice AICA international office, Paris	Time and place Skopje from: 29.04.2009 till: 30.04.2009	Grant CHF 4,668.00 part of traveling and accommodation costs, local transport and part of fees
	Over the past years, Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA), as an NGO, has been confronted to new geopolitical re-distributions, following the accession to national independence and autonomy in several territories such as the former Yugoslavia, and some other issues. The chosen themes for these meetings are: patrimony and current art creation; national and international distribution; and art teaching, publishing and searching policies. The two days seminar includes visits to local institutions and encounters, and public lectures with priority given to young professionals. Participants from the following Balkan countries are invited to the meeting: Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, and Romania. One of the issues that will also be discussed during the meeting is the need to support the art critics who are active in the newly established countries (Kosovo, Montenegro, etc.) and initiating the establishment of local sections.

	Participation at the 19th Young Musician Piano Competition “Citta di Barletta” Music Emilija Potevska and Tatjana Dzorleva are invited to participate at the International Piano Competition for piano duo in Barletta, Italy.	Applicant(s) Emilija Potevska, Skopje	Time and place Barletta, Italy from: 22.04.2009 till: 03.05.2009	Grant CHF 955.00 traveling costs and entry fee
	In the past years, beside her solo concerts, Emilija Potevska performed in duet recitals (piano – 4 hands) together with her colleague, the pianist Tatjana Dzorleva. The programme that they will perform at the international competition is a combination of the obligatory pieces given in the programme and selection of Macedonian composers. This competition is an excellent place for their promotion and gives opportunity for making more concerts in the future. The members of the jury are famous musicians from Europe, Russia and Japan. The price for the awarded duets will be few scheduled concerts in Italy.

	Theatre production “Night of the pantheons” Theatre The latest production of this cultural association is a continuation of their successful presentation at a theatre festival in Skopje last year.	Applicant(s) Argjend Hasani Cultural Association "Fishta", Gostivar Partner: Culture Center ASNOM Gostivar	Time and place Gostivar, Macedonia from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 6,600.00 part of the fees
	After the great success at the festival for non-professional theatre “Lica bez maski / Face without masks” that took place in Skopje in the month of December 2008, the Cultural Association "Fishta" is motivated to start with its next project. Berat Saliu (actor), Argjend Hasani (actor), Muzafer Etemi (actor), Luan Zenki (set design), Nikita Nikoloski (light and audio) and Arijan Rufati (costume design) make one part of the team that will be involved in this new theatre production. The opening night will take place in Gostivar at the Cultural Centre ASNOM but will be performed in other towns in the country afterwards.

	Sugar People – documentary film Film This medium length documentary is based on the true story of HIV positive people living in Macedonia, and the social prejudices that they face daily.	Applicant(s) Suzana Dinevski Nashe Maalo Production, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 3,500.00 part of the costs for making film trailer
	This is the true story of Rade, Rufija, and Blagoja. Rade was diagnosed with HIV ten years ago. Rufija is a mother of three, and found out that she is HIV positive two years ago. Blagoja, too has been diagnosed as HIV positive last year. This is a story of their personal struggles with their illness, the support or the lack of understanding from their family members, and the responsibility of the society. This documentary should raise awareness on HIV/AIDS issues in Macedonia.

	“Womenfest” Prilep Cultural Policy This is a three days festival on the topic of gender equality in the modern society. www.mirovnaakcija.org	Applicant(s) Lucie Bilderová Association of Citizens "Peace Action", Prilep	Time and place Prilep, Macedonia from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 5,000.00 travelling and accommodation costs and fees for 4 bands
	The programme of the festival consists of concerts by female bands, workshops and film projections with the topic of gender in modern society – equal chances on employment market, issue of human trafficking and domestic violence. It brings together artists from the Balkan region – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Macedonia, who are socially engaged and helps to foster both artistic and activist exchange. The reason to organise this event in Prilep is to bring cultural programme in a smaller cities that are not culturally “alive” like Skopje or Bitola. The overall objective is to celebrate the topic of female creativity from different countries through music and workshops in culturally diverse environment, and to sensitize the gender topic and freedom of expression in Macedonia.

	Movieland-Romania Film/Video Vlatko Galevski will visit the Movielend festival in Romania and will established contacts with Romanian filmmakers and do selection of the movies.	Applicant(s) Vlatko Galevski AsterFest, Skopje	Time and place Bucharest and Strumica from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 530.00 traveling and accommodation costs
	The organiser is approaching the final stage of the preparations for the next, 4th edition of AsterFest dedicated to the South East European film culture, with special focus on its affirmation, popularization and valorisation towards the audience. In the frame of the festival, the organiser is planning to present a selection of Romanian movies that will be presented at the MOVIELAND festival. The screenings will take place from 27th until 31st of May in several different locations in Strumica.

	Translation and publication of the novel “Baba Yaga” by Dubravka Ugresic Literature The novel “Baba Yaga” addresses a complex cluster of topics related to the South-eastern European diaspora writing.	Applicant(s) Maja Bojadzievska Publishing House Sigmapres, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: April 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 4,900.00 page layout and printing, copyright and fee for translation
	Ugresic is probably one of the most prominent European authors. Her aesthetics is formed in resistance to restrictive principles and offers a different form of continuity, negotiating the new cultural identities of contemporary Europe, restoring neglected individual and collective histories to literary history. The translation and publication of this novel-essay into Macedonian language would be of special significance in a society which is itself striving to establish a form of authentic intercultural dialogue, negotiating with the restrictive tendencies of monolingualism and national mythologies.

	2nd International Festival of Mime and Physical Theatre “PANPHYS” 2009 Theatre The goal of the festival is to educate the new generation of actors in mime and physical theatre and to entertain the audience.	Applicant(s) Trajce Gjorgiev Stranizza Theatre, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: 09.03.2009 till: 14.03.2009	Grant CHF 6,000.00 accommodation costs
	The programme of the festival will take place at the Macedonian National Theatre, and the workshops will be organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Drama Art in Skopje. This year, the following groups will be presented: Theatre Bagamoyo from Nantes (France), Momentum Theatre from Liverpool (Great Britain), Asafo-acrobatic group from Ghana, and the Theatre Exit from Croatia. The audience will have an opportunity to see some of the greatest artists in mime and physical theatre of today, such as Adam Darius from Finland; Rick Wamer - the head of Mime Theatre from Tucson, Arizona (USA); and Guerassim Dichliev from Bulgaria - the last assistant of the famous mime actors Marcel Marceau.

	Underground – photographic research project Visual Arts Underground is a photographic research project focused on the activities and the culture of the so-called “garage bands” in Skopje www.ivanblazhev.com	Applicant(s) Ivan Blazev, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: March 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 1,850.00 production and organizational costs, and the fee
	This is a segment that is rarely presented in the media, but is quite alive and vibrant aspect of the city’s underground social and cultural scene. Although many of the bands will never “make it” on the music scene, it is an interesting social phenomena, serving as a creative energy outlet for many youths in their late teens and early twenties. At the end of the research phase a selection of the collected materials will be exhibited as a documentary photo essay with combination of sound and music.

	On the public table, wall, floor: artistic and curatorial collaborative investigations Visual Arts The project engages a group of young and emerging generation of cultural thinkers and workers interested in contemporary art and curatorial practices. www.cdathouse.org.mk	Applicant(s) Emilija Cockova Centre for drama arts (CDA) T-HOUSE, Skopje	Time and place Skopje (also travel to: Tetovo, Veles, Kumanovo) from: March 2009 till: August 2009	Grant CHF 5,000.00 part of the production costs and part of the fees for the project coordinator and the participants
	Cultural Centre CK envisions this project especially in this moment when there is a decline in the visibility of exhibitions and lack of interest in attendance of contemporary art exhibitions and events. For that purpose in a period of 6 months Cultural Centre CK will offer its premises and human capacities for production and presentations. The investigation will focus on the different potentialities articulating socially, politically, and culturally relevant issues though art, theory, and curatorial practice. The project will then focus on ways to present their findings in a form of exhibitions, newspaper, presentations, public actions, radio programme, etc. The invited participants are: Vladimir Jancevski (art historian, theorist and writer), Dita Starova (artist), Velimir Zernovski (artist and curator), Mira Gakina (art historian and art critic), Tihomir Topuzovski (artist and philosopher), Ivan Ivanovski (artist), Slavco Dimitrov (theorist, activist and feminist), Vardan Tozija (filmmaker).

	GOLEMOTO STAKLO / THE LARGE GLASS 23/24, 2009 – magazine for contemporary art and theory Visual Arts "Golemoto staklo" is a magazine published since 1995 and dedicated to subjects concerning Macedonian and international contemporary visual arts.	Applicant(s) Liljana Nedelkovska Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: March 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 2,100.00 printing costs
	"Golemoto staklo" is the only relevant magazine for contemporary art and theory in Macedonia. It is published twice a year (or once in an edition of a two volume issue). Original texts of contributing art critics are translated into English language. The new issue of "Golemoto staklo" will be covering no. 23 and 24 for the year 2008. The main theme of the coming issue is the young Macedonian artists and critics on the actual art scene. On the artist's pages the works of Nikola Uzunovski, this year Macedonian representative at the Venice Biennial, will be presented. This issue will also contain a number of reviews of exhibitions in Macedonian museums and galleries, and abroad. The magazine is oriented mainly to general audience, local art community, and to international art exchange of information.

	“Classics that matters”, concerts of classical music Music The idea of the project is to present classic music outside of the usual concert halls and give kind of more acceptable form of presentation.	Applicant(s) Ruse Arsov HOUSE 57 production, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: March 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 1,647.00 transportation of the instruments, and the fees for the musicians and the coordinator
	Around 20 young musicians, students or recently graduated from the Music Academy in Skopje, will have a chance to have their first public performance in more relaxed and non formal atmosphere. From solo to quartet, the nine performances will take place at the Cultural Centre CK in duration of two months, every Sunday evening. The programme of the “Classics that matter” project will vary from popular to not so well known compositions, also including thematic nights dedicated to one composer or style, as well as presentations of a younger generation of Macedonian composers. The selection of the programme and the performers will be made in collaboration with Association of Music Youth of Macedonia – section Skopje and the professors from the Academy.

	Cultural Contrasts Visual Arts Workshop and exhibition on photography in the Municipality of Tearce (rural area in the western part of Macedonia).	Applicant(s) Metin Muaremi Centre for Education and Development, Tearce-Tetovo	Time and place Tearce, Macedonia from: March 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 2,422.00 part of the production and organizational costs and part of the fees
	Photography is the best way to present idea(s) accepted by a larger group of people and the easiest way to communicate with the different communities. The main aim of the project is to present several photography exhibitions in the Tearce region by non-professional photographs. The exhibitions will be a result of a training programme led by professional photographer with a group of 40 young people between 18 and 30, who will be selected through announced open call. The exhibitions should present the different contrasts (cultural, ethnic, social) that exist in the region, and through them the organiser would like to emphasize certain social and cultural issues.

	Poetry by Boshko Bozadzievski - publishing a book and poetry performance Multidisciplinary The book of poetry and performance are dedicated to Boshko Bozadzievski, a great upcoming actor who passed away on the 26th of August 2008.	Applicant(s) Aleksandar Ivanovski, Veles Partner: Videlo Theatre Centre	Time and place Skopje from: 01.02.2009 till: 25.03.2009	Grant CHF 2,400.00 printing costs
	Boshko Bozadzievski’s poetry is sincere, playful, embroidered with striking humour that offers brutal and unexpected way of reaching deep truths. The book will contain a collection of his poetry, which was created in the last ten years; most of it has never been published before. A performance in a form of a cabaret with two actors and a musician (Oliver Josifovski), directed by Aleksandar Ivanovski, based on Bozadzievski's poems, will be performed in the art cafe "Medium" on the day of his birthday, together with the promotion of the book. Performance inspired by poetry is a form of a theatre that is rarely seen and not explored enough in Macedonia. The expectation is to create an unusual and intriguing performance that will offer some freshness in the local theatre production and attract new poetry readers.

	Theatre outside Theatre Theatre This will be a so-called “silent” performance in a public space that will be directed by young theatre director, Dean Damjanovski.	Applicant(s) Organized: Civic Association for Culture and the Arts "No Name Theatre"; Host: Food-bar "Sopotsko", Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: February 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 4,335.00 director's fee and the fees for the 10 performers
	According to the research of the anthropologist Victor Turner, every community, whether it is a group, sect, tribe or a whole society, develops its own “social dramas”. The performance plays an important role in creating the social relations in the community, as well as in constructing/deconstructing of the symbolical relationships between the community members. The intention of the director with this project is to explore the next phase of the development of the social drama, which returns it again to the community. In the terminology of performance studies, it is called “restoring the past”. The result of this process will be a “silent” performance, performed in a public place. Why silent – because it stands on the verge between the theatre (performativity) and the human social behaviour. The task of the performers will be to conduct small actions that will create a certain “breach” in the structure of the place and divide the members in two groups – participants and observers. The actions of the performers will be slightly uncommon, but not so much that they can be easily described as a “performance”, but rather as an “eccentric” behaviour in a nice kind of way.

	Attending the Swiss Contemporary Dance Days 2009 Dance Gordana Dean Pop-Hristova and Kire Miladinoski, both choreographers and dancers, will visit the next issue of Swiss Contemporary Dance Days. www.swissdancedays.ch	Applicant(s) Gordana Dean Pop-Hristova, Skopje Kire Miladinoski, Prilep	Time and place region of Ticino, Switzerland from: 22.01.2009 till: 25.01.2009	Grant CHF 2,020.00 visa, insurance, travelling costs and per diems
	This year Swiss Contemporary Dance Days will take place in the region of Ticino. The aim of this event is to present, in four days, the recent most interesting and innovative Swiss productions to the invited guests from Switzerland and abroad, the media and the audience. The jury selected fifteen companies and/or choreographers working within Switzerland and created a very ambitious programme. Some of the selected ones are already well known and respected in the world of international dance; others represent Swiss emerging choreographers with performances of high quality and artistic approach. Gordana Dean Pop-Hristova and Kire Miladinoski attended this event a few times before, and for them as teachers, choreographers and dancers, it was a very fruitful experience. This will be a rare opportunity for both of them to see the best Swiss contemporary dance productions created in the last two years, and to establish contacts with individuals and organisations for possible future collaborations.

	ONLINE / OFFLINE Festival Multidisciplinary ONLINE/OFFLINE is a festival organised by two distinct and complementary web cultural portals: www.culture.in.mk and www.plagij.at	Applicant(s) Jasna Soptrajanova Vrteva NGO Junona, culture.in.mk, Skopje Partner: Plagij.At, Skopje	Time and place Skopje and Internet from: 01.01.2009 till: 23.01.2009	Grant CHF 2,400.00 promotional materials, travelling costs, production and organizational costs, and fees
	They both inform about a relevant area of culture, and have their relevant and loyal audience, that is - not only passive readers, but also content creators and active commentators. To improve the quality of communication, an additional blogspace will be opened in the both portals within this project. The festival should connect the audience and the media through a programme of activities in duration of two days. On the first day, there will be a public debate with invited regional experts (web content managers) and local cultural operators discussing the content and the quality of the web pages. And in the evening, the Slovenian artist and curator, Marija Mojca Pungercar, will present the project Art Suitcase which is a portable collection of digital art. On the second day Deborah Hustic (editor of the English version of the web portal of Croatian Ministry of Culture, and also a respected blogger) will lead a workshop on advanced blogging. In the evening, there will be an opening of a photo exhibition and music performance.

	Participation at the International Physical Theatre Laboratory under the guidance of Sergey Ostrenko Theatre The actor and director Trajce Gjorgiev is invited to attend the physical training which is the core of this Lab program.	Applicant(s) Trajce Gjorgiev, Skopje	Time and place Ystad, Sweden from: 01.11.2008 till: 07.11.2008	Grant CHF 2,260.00 accommodation and travelling costs
	The process includes intensive practical training, lectures and discussion club. The practical sessions are developed in a form of a various exercises which progress from simple to more complex. Through this system of consecutive exercises the group is gaining common language and trust, ability to collaborate and create together. There will be two parts of the practical programme: “Training by method of improvisation”, and “From exercises to performance”. The theoretical part will be focused on the methods of Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Chekhov. The Lab is an opportunity to enrich professional arsenal with new practical methods and devices, to discover new impulses for future creative work, and to make new contacts, and to transfer the knowledge to the younger generation of actors in near future.

	K.E.Y. Multidisciplinary Series of workshops with the students from Secondary Music School in Bitola.	Applicant(s) Biljana Petrovska Isijanin Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI, Bitola Partner: Secondary Music School in Bitola	Time and place Bitola, Macedonia from: 20.10.2008 till: 20.04.2009	Grant CHF 3,500.00 part of production costs, printing promotional materials, traveling and accommodation costs and fees
	The project K.E.Y. will be realised in a period of six months with a group of 10 – 15 students from the Secondary Music School in Bitola, as a kind of experimental class which aim would be to increase the knowledge of the students about the contemporary and innovative approaches in the field of music, as well as interaction between the visual art and music. The programme will be designed to be equally meaningful for those of average ability and those with exceptional talent. There is an intention to continue with this experimental class incorporated in the regular programme of the school.

	Publishing the book “20th Century Art Movements” by Lazar Trifunović Literature Translation in Macedonian language of one of the famous books on the development of the visual art in the 19th and 20 century written in the region.	Applicant(s) Nenad Stevović Publishing House ILI-ILI, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: 15.10.2008 till: 01.04.2009	Grant CHF 3,300.00 printing costs
	1979 Lazar Trifunović presented an outstanding TV serial “20th Century Art Movements”. As a result of the evoked public admiration, Trifunović decided to “versify” the visual material into a printed version. The purpose of this book was—and still is—to present to a wider public the main concepts and the development of art from the end of 19th century to present. The first edition, under the same title: “20th Century Art Movements”, was published in 1982. Ever since, it has been a valuable contribution to understanding the complexities of the modern art. It is on the basic reading list at almost every Art History department in the region.

	UNIVERSAL ORDER – new production and solo exhibition Visual Arts This is a multimedia project that revives an ancient philosophical thought about the connection of beauty with number and proportion.	Applicant(s) Maja Kirovska, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: October 2008 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 part of production costs
	It is a project that will last for 24 hours, and this duration also has a symbolic meaning and represents the cycle of life. Main part of the project is an installation, which will be set up in open-air space consisted of metal construction, polycarbonate object, and digital prints on plexiglass and painted flooring. It is created according to the principles of harmony and symmetry with a geometrical organisation of its parts. The project will be supported by live music performances by different musicians starting at midnight, which represents the climax in the cycle of life.

	Festival for Contemporary Art AKTO_3 Multidisciplinary AKTO is a regional festival that includes visual and performing arts, music, and theory of culture.	Applicant(s) Borce Dimitrovski NGO Faculty for things that cannot be learned, Bitola Partner: Municipality of Bitola	Time and place Bitola from: 13.08.2008 till: 17.08.2008	Grant CHF 4,000.00 production and organisational costs
	A group of young people from different backgrounds, affinities and approaches to art and culture provoked by the actual circumstances decided to work on promotion of contemporary art and its values in Bitola, using the forgotten potentials of the city. This year in August, the festival is going to be held for the third time. The artistic directors of the festival are Filip Jovanovski (architect, designer, visual artist) and Martin Kocovski (theatre director), who, together with their collaborators and consultants from the region, created the programme for this year based on the topic "Speed". Target group of the festival is the younger population, interested in the interdisciplinary approach of the contemporary art.

	Writer-in-residency at the Literarishes Colloquium Berlin Literature Lidija Dimkovska, one of the leading young Macedonian writers based in Ljubljana was invited for residency at the prestige institution for literature.	Applicant(s) Lidija Dimkovska, Ljubljana	Time and place Berlin from: 01.08.2008 till: 31.08.2008	Grant CHF 567.00 traveling costs
	Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) is the most important German institution that organises residence, readings and other literary events for international and German contemporary writers. It is very important place in Berlin for authors and readers, and a meeting point for international guests. To be the first Macedonian writer-in-residence at LCB is the best possible way for opening the door of Macedonian literature to German-speaking readers. During her stay, Lidija Dimkovska will be working on her new novel and new book of poetry. She is also planning to make contacts with German and foreign writers, and with German publishers. Also, the institution will organise a literary evening dedicated to Dimkovska's work.

	Participation in the International Performers Village 08 under the guidance of Sergey Ostrenko Theatre The professor at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Skopje, Mimi Tanevska, was invited to attend the four-week course based on Ostrenko method.	Applicant(s) Mimi Tanevska Srbinovska, Skopje	Time and place Malpils, Latvia from: 01.08.2008 till: 28.08.2008	Grant CHF 2,126.00 participation fee and the traveling costs
	The International Performers Village is a four-week course open to professional actors, dancers, singers, musicians, as well as directors, choreographers, playwrights, scriptwriters, and stage designers from different countries and of different genres, techniques and styles. The Village programme is designed as an intensive consecutive training process which will be concluded with a work-in-progress, developed under the artistic direction of Sergey Ostrenko and presented to the audience. The course will take place in a secluded village, traditionally known as the “theatre village”. The objective of Tanevska’s participation at the International Performers Village ‘08 is to get acquainted with the world-renowned Ostrenko Method in acting. Her intention is to introduce and apply this method, which has never been taught in the Macedonia before, through her work with the students. The next step would be organising a series of workshops based on Ostrenko Method.

	Marijana Savovska and Guest Dance In the frame of Skopje Summer Festival Savovska will present her new choreographies developed in collaboration with Henrik Kaalund and Linda Weissig.	Applicant(s) Marijana Savovska, Berlin Partner: Skopje Summer Festival	Time and place Macedonian Opera and Ballet, Skopje from: 28.06.2008 till: 28.06.2008	Grant CHF 1,950.00 production costs and fees
	TThe two solo performances and one duet by the young Macedonian choreographer and dancer based in Berlin, Marijana Savovska, developed in close collaboration with her fellow choreographers, represent her recent focus in the field of contemporary dance. In one of the solo performances she worked with one of the leading young Macedonian dancers, Ivana Kocevska, who is a member of the Macedonian National Ballet.

	Collaborative Curating Interdisciplinary This summer school is consisted of series of workshops with young curators and other professionals (art managers, art critics, artists, designers).	Applicant(s) Suzana Milevska Visual and Cultural Research Centre, "Euro-Balkan" Institute, Skopje	Time and place Ohrid, Macedonia from: 22.06.2008 till: 02.07.2008	Grant CHF 6,432.00 accommodation costs for 9 participants and 2 lecturers
	Pairs, couples, trios, collectives, elected teams, and other form of collaborative groups, became an inevitable part in most of the international art projects. The project Collaborative Curating actually stems out of the regional workshop Curatorial Translation that took place in September 2007, when fifteen regional curators from SEE gathered in Skopje. The need for a developed format of collaborative projects of the newly established informal network of regional young curators, became one of the future theoretical and practical objectives of the group. The participants will discuss the philosophical concept “being singular plural” as it is formulated by Jean-Luc Nancy and how it can be applied while questioning the potentiality of the collective curatorial body. Collaborative Curating will be realised in partnership with BASA - Belgrade, SCCA –Ljubljana, and Stacion - Prishtina. Note: The project was cancelled few months after the decision to be supported. The reason for this decision was the withdrawal of Suzana Milevska from the position of director of the Research Centre because of personal and professional reasons, and the institution’s lack of interest in implementing the project.

	Street performance “Grand Effect” Dance The aims of Grand Effect is to introduce the most recent contemporary dance work by Kire Miladinoski to bigger number of Macedonian audience.	Applicant(s) Kire Miladinoski Dance Studio “Zodijak”, Prilep	Time and place Prilep, Bitola, Ohrid, Skopje, Veles and Kavadarci from: 11.06.2008 till: 19.09.2008	Grant CHF 600.00 traveling costs
	Miladinoski is a young choreographer and dancer based in the city of Prilep. In the last years, he has been actively involved in different local and international training programms for contemporary dance. His first choreography "One way inside" was presented on the 3rd Balkan Dance Platform in Skopje 2005. As a choreographer, he is very active in Prilep where he transfers his knowledge and encourages young people to learn more about contemporary movement and dance.

	Participation at the conducting master class in Moscow Music Tatarchevski will attend a master class in conducting organized by one of the top ranking orchestras in the world.	Applicant(s) Sasho Tatarchevski, Skopje	Time and place Moscow from: 09.06.2008 till: 14.06.2008	Grant CHF 2,840.00 part of the participation fee, traveling and accommodation costs, visa and for original scores
	The “Philharmonisches Kammerorchester" from Berlin in cooperation with the “State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia” and Maestro Mark Gorenstein is organising a conducting master class in Moscow during the month of June. The primary goal that will be achieved through this participation is the professional capacity building that will be accomplished through the daily rehearsals with the orchestra, the sessions with the mentor, and the final public concert in front of the well educated and refined audience of SASOR. Other objectives of the project are: implementation of these experiences in the Macedonian cultural environment, successful artistic programming in accordance with the modern trends, transferring the gathered knowledge to the music education in order to achieve a grater level of professional awareness and quality, and a possibility for cultural exchange.

	Site specific project “Between two churches” Visual Arts This urban project by Olivera Cavric will take place in public, pedestrian area located between Orthodox and Catholic church in Skopje.	Applicant(s) Olivera Cavric, Zagreb/Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: 20.04.2008 till: 29.04.2008	Grant CHF 250.00 production costs
	This project consists of 10 works - printed foils. It is a result of a research based on the differences and similarities that exist in one single religion, the Christianity, seen in two different Christian churches, Orthodox and Catholic, and the use of religious symbols in politics. The project was inspired by personal experiences of the author living between Skopje and Zagreb.

	37. National Festival of Non-professional Film Film/Video Cinema Association of Macedonia is organising the 37th edition of the festival that is organised according to the CAM and UNICA standards.	Applicant(s) Saso Dukoski Cinema Association of Macedonia, Skopje Partners: Narodna tehnika na Makedonija, and Narodna tehnika Kicevo	Time and place Kicevo, Macedonia from: 18.04.2008 till: 19.04.2008	Grant CHF 2,000.00 production and organisational costs, and fees
	According to the propositions of the festival, the following categories are included: short and documentary films, experimental films, and one minute films. Out of the received films, the jury selected 30 that will be presented in two days. The best films will be awarded with gold, silver and bronze certificates of CAM. Also, several films will be selected for participation at the World Festival of Non-professional Film organised by World Federation UNICA. In addition, discussions between the authors and the audience will be organised during the festival, as well as other events, such as retrospective of amateur films.

	Production of short animated film “Isolation” Film This young artist that recently graduated in the dipartment of sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts - Skopje is manly interested in video animation.	Applicant(s) Ivan Ivanovski, Skopje	Time and place Skopje from: 15.04.2008 till: 15.07.2008	Grant CHF 1,635.00 part of the production costs, and fee for the director/playwright
	“Isolation” is a 15 min. animated film. The project aims to present an individual who is living isolated in his/her world of hallucinations and expectation. There are two imaginary spaces, the inner world presented by a single-room house, and the outside world presented by a wood that surrounds the house. The big dark window in the room is the gateway to the outside world. There is no dialogue between the two main characters, a man and a woman, only sounds that create the whole atmosphere.

	”OSOGOVO, VILLAGES, PEOPLE” documentary movie Film The main idea of the author Trajce Gjorgiev was to document an area in Macedonia, the Osogovo region, that slowly but surely is dying/disappearing.	Applicant(s) Trajce Gjorgiev Stranizza Theatre, Skopje	Time and place Kocani, Skopje from: 01.07.2007 till: 15.01.2009	Grant CHF 1,000.00 editing
	The documentary “Osogovo, Villages, People” is a movie that was shot in the period between July 2007 and September 2008. Its production was supported by the Municipality of Kocani. The process took approximately a year to conclude. The team visited the area 15 times to find the most beautiful places, interesting people, and explore the villages and places that have historic and cultural values. People were talking about the past and present times, telling legends, and stories of monasteries and sacral places. The goal of the team was to make a circle around the Osogovo Mountain and to mark the spots of mutual interest for both the locals and the Municipality of Kocani and people who enjoy mountain tourism, exploring the beauty of Osogovo region.

Small actions Belgrade

	ROOM OF THE LITTLE FEARS Multidisciplinary Performance and open discussion	Applicant(s) Irena Ristic, Hop.La!	Time and place Belgrade from: September 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 2,800.00 production costs
	"Room of The Little Fears" is a performance about the origin of the fear and its developing forms within concrete social context. "Room of The Little Fears” will be made to host only 12 people at the time but the performance will be repeated several times during the seven days from 5th to12th of September 2009. Expected number of repetitions in Belgrade is 21-25. On September 12, Hop.la! will organise an open discussion on crossing the impressions/ sensations/ opinions about proposed art form.

	The Semiotics of the City Visual arts Site specific works exhibition	Applicant(s) Maida Gruden, Students’ City Cultural Center	Time and place Belgrade from: September 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 part of production costs and part of fees
	The project “The Semiotics of The City” is a joint enterprise of USUALLY 4 that would be carried out on several public-space points in Belgrade. The research and results of their work will be presented in the Students’ City Cultural Centre Gallery / New Belgrade.

	Backward / Forward Multidiciplinary Interactive web site, almanac, exhibition www.koneznanista.com	Applicant(s) Maja Josifovic, Dimitrije Tadic	Time and place Belgrade from: September 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 4,000.00 part of production costs
	“Backward / Forward” is a versatile project consisting of interactive cyber platform on a web site, special issue of publication/almanac and an exhibition. This exhibition will have the form of presentation and discussion about the previous almanacs and projects. All three parts of the project resume and upgrade five realised projects by these two artists from 2001 to 2008.

	Nomad Scene - Romany Opera Theatre Performance	Applicant(s) Dragoljub Martic, Culture Centre Smederevo KOREJA Theatre, Lecce (Italy)	Time and place Smederevo, Skopje (Macedonia) from: July 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 3,100.00 part of production costs
	Following the 2 years of co-work between Koreja Theatre and Culture Centre Smederevo, the result is the production of the Romany Opera that was invited to be programmed and presented in the upcoming Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, taking place in Skopje 3rd – 12th September 2009. The performance involves Italian theatre operators/trainers, boys from the Roma community in Smederevo, and boys and girls from the amateur youth theatre “Patos”.

	TERRA 2009 Sculpture International terracotta sculpture symposium www.terra.co.yu	Applicant(s) Slobodan Kojic, Centre for fine and applied art TERRA	Time and place Kikinda from: July 2009 till: July 2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 part of production costs
	The Symposium will be held at the "TERRA" atelier, a part of the "TERRA" complex in Kikinda. Kikinda’s collection represents the largest collection of large modern terracotta sculptures in the world. For 27 year long duration of the Symposium, the collection has gathered around 1000 pieces, the third of which being large ones. The exhibition will be opened in the "TERRA" gallery, in Kikinda.

	European Atelier for Young Festival Managers 2009 Theatre Participation in Atelier EFA	Applicant(s) Jelena Knezevic, Aleksandra Delic, Bitef theatre	Time and place Varna (Bulgaria) from: April 2009 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 3,700.00 part of registration fee
	The European Festivals Association (EFA) is one of the most important artistic networks whose members are some of the biggest and significant artistic festivals. This year EFA announced Second Edition of the “European Atelier for Young Festival Managers”.

	diSTRUKTURA Visual arts Exhibition www.distruktura.com	Applicant(s) Milan Bosnic, ProArtOrg	Time and place Celje, Ljubljana (Slovenia) from: April 2009 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 1,700.00 part of production and mobility costs
	In our efforts we are trying to explore an intimate space which becomes the result of our personal and artistic union. Recently we have been invited to exhibit our works in two Slovenian galleries: Plevnik – Kronkowska Gallery in Celje and Photon Gallery in Ljubljana.

	Kontekst gallery program for 2009 – critical practice Visual arts Exhibition and platform for public debates	Applicant(s) Marko Miletic, Kontekst	Time and place Belgrade from: April 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 part of production costs
	The main goal of the Kontekst Gallery is to exhibit and promote the works of young artists, as well as provoking a dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The focus is on the works created in the media of video art, experimental photography, installation, performance art, and new media. Project CONTEXTS is about educational, critical, artistic, and social platforms for public debates on contemporary art, culture and politics, the contexts in which they emerge, their influence on the society, and issues that they address and/or question/solve.

	CD of Serbian music for cello and piano Music CD production www.dusanstojanovic.com	Applicant(s) Dusan Stojanovic	Time and place Belgrade from: March 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 production costs
	Project CD of Serbian music for cello and piano is the project of publishing the CD with the music recorded live at concert at the 5th International Cello Fest in Belgrade, on July 7, 2008. (www.jugokoncert.rs/english/cello.htm). The concept of the concert programme was to represent the most interesting short musical forms composed for cello and piano by Serbian contemporary and 20th century composers.

	MIMART 25 25 years jubilee Exhibition, performance	Applicant(s) Nela Antonovic, Theatre MIMART	Time and place Belgrade from: March 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 2,700.00 production and other costs
	Project MIMART 25 intends to mark 25 years of work with the philosophy of Continuous Process Improvement. In the period of 22-26 April, 2009, many activities that celebrate the years of experience of our theatre will be presented. As a part of the five day long manifestation, we will present our work of 40 performances, the premiere of "Performance in two acts with a pause", video presentation of recent performances, the festival of auto-performance "Spot", Carnival 25, exhibition of photography, costumes, masks, posters, programmes and symbols that are used in Mimart performances.

	PASSPORT Literature Pocket size poetry books www.trecitrg.org.rs	Applicant(s) Dejan Matic, Treci Trg	Time and place Belgrade, Indjija, Sremski Karlovci, Novi Sad from: March 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 4,000.00 part of production costs
	The project encompasses a selection of 30 poems which will be translated and printed in 9 pocket-sized books of poetry in two languages (Russian-Serbian, Czech-Serbian, English-Serbian, Norwegian-Serbian, Hungarian-Serbian, and Bosnian-English). Every book will have 80 pages, in A6 format, and will be printed in 500 copies. Each of the published books throughout the duration of the project will be promoted in the media and sent to libraries, university libraries, or Slavic centres both in country and abroad, thus making it accessible to public.

	A selection of New Serbian Photography Photography Book, web-site, exhibition	Applicant(s) Katarina Radovic Vesna Micovic	Time and place Belgrade from: February 2009 till: August 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 part of production costs
	The project consists of three sections: 1. Book; 2. Website; 3. Exhibition of photographs. These three equally important sections of the project have one and the same goal - the presentation of contemporary Serbian art of photography, both in practice and theory. The planned size of the book is the A4 format and approximately 120 pages (18 artists, 144 photographs, 7 theoretical texts).

	Presentation of Serbian Culture in the Netherlands Music Festivals www.pianoduolp.com	Applicant(s) Andrija Pavlovic, Sonja Loncar Center for New Art	Time and place Amsterdam, Utrecht (Netherlands) from: February 2009 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 part of mobility costs
	“Presentation of Serbian Culture in Netherlands” - premieres of Serbian composers and music for piano duet; Festivals – “Gaudeamus music week” (Amsterdam), “Who’s afraid of minimal music” (Culemborg, Utrecht). Insisting on the highest quality of their performances, from the early beginnings of their work (2004), pianists Sonja Loncar and Andrija Pavlovic are committed to present both classical and contemporary music, exploring the newest tendencies in the field of electro/acoustic music.

	Outside project / Belgrade: Another Gaze Interdisciplinary On-site lectures; seminars	Applicant(s) Dejan Atanackovic, Center for International Studies of Art	Time and place Belgrade from: February 2009 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 part of production costs
	The task of BELGRADE: ANOTHER GAZE is an active and visible involvement of persons with physical and mental disability, as well as members of excluded ethnic and social groups, in the cultural life of Belgrade. Another important goal of the project is to offer a different way of observing the city. In the process of preparation of the guides, we have employed experts from various fields of contemporary culture, theory and history of art, and architecture. Along with the on-site lectures, we will organise individual and group talks. These talks will be held both as public seminars oriented towards the population with disability and ethnic minorities, as well as individual meetings.

	POLYGON Visual arts Expert conference, exhibition, workshop	Applicant(s) Svetlana Mladenov, VISART Association for Visual Arts and Culture	Time and place Novi Sad from: July 2009 till: July 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 part of production costs
	Polygon is the place connecting these artists through common subject – existence of contemporary art in non-gallery spaces, that is, alternative and free public and private spaces. This is an experience that all the countries of Southeastern and Central Polygon is the place connecting these artists through common subject – existence of contemporary art in non-gallery spaces, that is, alternative and free public and private spaces. This is an experience that all the countries of South-eastern and Central Europe shared during the 1990s, still the process of art taking place in non specific, alternative spaces is still current. All such experiences will collide in Polygon project through: 1. Expert conference; 2. Presentation of visual and documentary material; 3. Workshop; 4. Publication.

	IN/VISIBLE CITY 2 Theatre campaign for tolerance and respect of human and minority rights	Applicant(s) Sanja Krsmanovic Tasic, DAH Theatre Research Centre	Time and place Pancevo, Ivanjica, Uzice from: May 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 4,000.00 part of production costs
	The Project in each town develops through: The theatre performance in the local/city public transport, Round tables about the minority rights and barter - interethnic cultural exchange between performers from different minority groups and our performers, followed by a poster, programme books and documentary film about the project.

	Listen in Site specific sound art Workshops	Applicant(s) Igor Stangliczky, Association of Multimedia Artists AUROPOLIS	Time and place Belgrade from: May 2009 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 1,900.00 part of fees
	The project is conceived as a 13-day workshop that aims at providing elementary practical and theoretical knowledge in the area of field recording and site-specific sound art. Particular attention will be given to the work with “piezo” contact microphones.

	EXTREME MAKEOVER Visual arts Street art www.inbox.org.yu	Applicant(s) Natali Beljanski, INBOX Art Association	Time and place Novi Sad from: April 2009 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 part of production costs
	This extreme makeover project deals with the idea of cultivation and transformation of neglected public urban areas and with the promotion of street art as currently one of the most dynamic fields of contemporary artistic practice. The project includes: 1. Painting murals; 2. Lectures, conferences and panel discussions.

	Urban Violence A3.Format Awareness campaign www.a3format.org	Applicant(s) Igor Zarol, A3.Format group	Time and place Novi Sad from: April 2009 till: May 2009	Grant CHF 2,500.00 part of publication cost
	A3.Format exists both on a physical level (exhibitions, publications, performances), and in a virtual world (Internet portal and blog). A3.Format's basic way of functioning is through initiating creativity and the freedom of graphical expression in the 29.7 x 42 cm boundaries of the digital canvas (template). Project subject: Urban Violence. We decided to start an awareness campaign against all aspects of violence, and start up a series of workshops on a subject which is the closest to our field of activity - the visual violence in an urban environment – A3.Format: "Urban Violence". series of workshops on the subject which is the closest to our field of activity, and that is visual violence in an urban environment – A3.Format: "Urban Violence".

	Ženergija – Burning Out Multidisciplinary International multimedia women festival	Applicant(s) Milica Gudovic, Women at Work	Time and place Belgrade from: March 2009 till: September 2009	Grant CHF 3,600.00 part of production costs
	The aim of the Festival: Ženergija – Burning Out is to promote female creativity through the following activities: International photo and video exhibition on the subject “Burning out”; publishing the book of short stories on the subject “Burning out”; promotion of young female artists through art evenings and workshops; maintaining cooperation with artists from abroad in dialogue regarding the subject “In fire of female work – fun or burning out?”

	One, point, something Theatre Performances in smaller border cities	Applicant(s) Sanja Maljkovic, Kroz Prozor Fabrika	Time and place Zrenjanin, Sombor, Subotica, Vrsac, Kikinda, Sremska Mitrovica, Pancevo, Becej, Vrbas, Indjija from: March 2009 till: July 2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 part of fees
	The project consists of a gathering of young local artists from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (actors, playwrights, set designers) around a common project: the creation of a theatre performance that would be directed by a foreign stage director, invited by the company, to work on a sensitive but common topic for Serbia and the whole region - the border. The show will be performed for two months (thirty performances) in small towns of Serbia and Bosnia remote from the centres of cultural activity.

	Preserving Roma Poetry Literature Collection of Roma poems	Applicant(s) Ismet Jasarevic, Center for Integration and Affirmation of Roma Community	Time and place Belgrade from: February 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 printing costs
	The project will enable publishing a collection of 35 poems as well as their public presentation at the Roma cultural nights in Leskovac, Nis and Belgrade. The project will enable publishing a collection of 35 poems as well as their public presentation at the Roma cultural nights in Leskovac, Nis and Belgrade. Centre for Integration and Affirmation of Roma Community holds an extensive collection of Roma poetry that has been gathered for several years and shall be used for the purposes of this project. Over the years, Mr. Ismet Jasarevic, as a Roma activist and expert in Romology, has been researching and collecting poems of various Roma authors.

	Whispering Girls Theatre Book	Applicant(s) Zorica Jevremovic	Time and place Belgrade from: February 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 2,500.00 printing costs
	A book entitled “Šaputave devojke” (Whispering Girls) deals with the creation and work of the first feminist theatre in the East. The book will present an analysis of the choreography in three of the theatre’s performances, with a special emphasis on the work with disabled women. A large number of photographs will be used to document the artistic results of the choreography. 500 copies of the book will be printed, each completed with a DVD containing the recording of performances.

	USH SYSTEM COMIC BOOK Comics Book www.adsyu.org	Applicant(s) Maja Ilic, Association of Students with Disability	Time and place Belgrade from: February 2009 till: April 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 production and mobility costs
	USH SYSTEM is a virtual rock band with a strong attitude, living in a one-page comic - a creation of the members of the Association of Students with Disability. Using a story about a rock group whose charismatic leader and singer is a wheelchair user, the authorial comic USH SYSTEM promotes equality, creativity, and social involvement of the youth with disability.

	The Culture Lobby Participatory art Photography multi-format archive project and exhibitions www.theculturelobby.com	Applicant(s) Milica Pekic Conev, NGO KIOSK	Time and place Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia from: July 2008 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 2,500.00 part of mobility costs
	The Culture Lobby is a participatory and multi-format archive that will examine cultural memory in the process of EU integration in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) by photo-documenting what the citizens think will change or disappear when their territory joins EU, marking the geographical location of each example with GPS technology.

	DOCUMENT 2000 Visual arts Database on Serbian modern artistic production since 2000 www.serbiancontemporaryart.info	Applicant(s) Darka Radosavljevic Vasiljevic, REMONT independent artistic association	Time and place Belgrade from: July 2008 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 1,300.00 production costs and part of fees and copyrights
	DOCUMENT 2000 is a database on Serbian modern artistic production since 2000. We intend to maintain and update the database on regular basis, but also to introduce new categories, such as: links to Serbian institutions and organisations dealing with promotion of contemporary art; information and contacts to international exhibitions and festivals (e.g. October Salon, Belef, Biennial Nadežda Petrović, Biennial of Miniature, etc.); email contacts of critics covering the scene; email contacts of media/journalists specialised in contemporary art.