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Small actions Tirana
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.
by moxi