Dejan, Author at Kooperativa

Connecting through culture

CONNECTING THROUGH CULTURE About the work of regional platform Kooperativa ~ In 2017 Kooperativa with its members completed the first Pilot-program of Exchange and Collaboration in the SEE based on peer-to-peer evaluation and horizontal decision making. The program was released in 8 countries, including 13 cities with more than 60 events, and engaged more than… Continue reading Connecting through culture

Bilal Yilmaz

Bilal Yilmaz (https://bilalyilmaz.info) is an interdisciplinary artist-designer based in Istanbul. His work oscillates between art, design and social engagement. His practice is largely based on finding and uncovering the potentials that are hidden because of the contemporary social, political and financial reality, as well as on experiential and collaborative learning and making. In that sense,… Continue reading Bilal Yilmaz

Lydia Chatziiakovou

Lydia Chatziiakovou is a curator. Since 2004, she co-directs ArtBOX (www.artbox.gr), a creative arts management office that conceives, designs and implements contemporary art projects revolving around the exploration of art as agent of social change, based on long-term strategic planning. In the past few years, she has been involved in projects that aim to create… Continue reading Lydia Chatziiakovou

Davor Mišković

Davor Mišković is a cultural worker from Rijeka. He is a director of the cultural organization Drugo more. Most of his work is related to programing, research and fundraising in Drugo more. Beside that he was involved in advocacy for independent cultural scene, creation of policy documents and cultural strategies for national and local authorities.… Continue reading Davor Mišković

Ivan March

Ivan is a seasoned campaign designer, podcaster, media producer & events curator. Things that get his mojo going are dancing, anime, long-distance cycling, politicizing the erotic, hammocks, cashews, Octavia Butler & Mark Fisher. He’s mega disillusioned by large nonprofits & the large funders that resource them, and the vicious, virtue-signalling, charitable-industrial complex shitshow they breed.Despite… Continue reading Ivan March

Reaction of JADRO Association to the newly announced cuts in the culture budget by the Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia

NO CUTS ALLOWED IN THE CULTURE BUDGET! JADRO – Association of the Independent Cultural Scene reacts to the latest announcements about the newly announced cuts of the budget of the already approved projects from the Annual Competition for financing projects of national interest in culture, in a precise amount of 31%. We are dissatisfied with… Continue reading Reaction of JADRO Association to the newly announced cuts in the culture budget by the Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia

Tihana Pupovac

Tihana Pupovac, theoretician and cultural worker, has been working as the coordinator of Kooperativa since 2020. For the last ten years, she’s been active on the independent cultural scene in Croatia and the region, developing and implementing numerous projects, events and publications related to the cultural heritage of Yugoslavia, memory studies, urbanism etc. She was… Continue reading Tihana Pupovac

Katarina Pavić

Katarina Pavić is a cultural worker and activist. She has been active in the independent cultural scene in Croatia and the region of former Yugoslavia since 2005. She has an extensive experience in facilitation of networking and collaboration of cultural and activist collectives. Katarina worked as the overall coordinator of the Clubture Network – a… Continue reading Katarina Pavić

Vullnet Sanaja

Vullnet Sanaja is a cultural worker and activist as well as the co-founder of Anibar. Throughout the past 14 years he has been engaged in advocacy, debate and civic initiatives related to the use and management of public infrastructure, development of cultural policies through civic-public partnership and creation of better conditions for the independent culture… Continue reading Vullnet Sanaja

Author: Dejan