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THINK ABOUT OTHERS - THINK ABOUT YOURSELF
The aim of the series of events THINK ABOUT OTHERS - THINK ABOUT YOURSELF is to stimulate a critical discussion about the representation of ethnic minorities in the political and cultural life in Serbia and promote social justice, solidarity, equality and equal human rights for all the people living in Serbia. In collaboration with partners from all over Serbia, the participants in this project will be analysing the dominant stereotypes about the characteristics, behaviour, political aspirations and positions of the residents of Serbia of different nationalities, as well as the consequences of the existence of such stereotypes for our society. This project is launched by the B92 Fund and the team, together with partners of Cultural Centre REX, so as to introduce the wider public to the ways and reasons of emergence of stereotypical views about minority groups and provide support to the efforts directed at overcoming them and accepting the principle of equality and respect for the differences in the society.
The project represents a joint effort of its authors, the collaborating organizations, a wide network of partners of the B92 Fund and Cultural Centre REX, the representatives of the independent sector and public institutions to mobilize the widest possible public to take part in the fight against all forms of discrimination, exclusion and marginalization of ethnic minorities.
The project is carried out in collaboration with numerous partners: Sava Žebeljan Primary School in Crepaja and the Pesničenje (Poetry Ring) collective, Roma Cultural Centre and Resource Centre Leskovac, NUNS (Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia) and the editorial team of the Novine vranjske newspaper, local library in Bor, Niš Human Rights Committee, Niš Alternative Cultural Centre. FILMART Association, Požega Cultural Centre, Zrenjanin Cultural Centre, Lazarevac Centre for Culture, Lazarevac Modern Gallery, the associations Kultur Park and Kriterion, Bačka Palanka Youth Club, Bačka Palanka Cultural Centre And Preševo Cultural Centre.
The authors of the events to be held as part of the THINK ABOUT OTHERS - THINK ABOUT YOURSELF event series are the ŠKART (REJECTS) art group (Children's Poetry Ring in Crepaja), Rena Rädle (workshop: A Journey into the World of Our Desires in Leskovac), Noa Treister (lecture: Construction of Identity in Bor), Peđa Obradović (a workshop for journalists: In Vranje about Bujanovac?), the FREE ZONE Film Festival team (a mini festival touring Belgrade, Niš, Lazarevac, Požega, Bačka Palanka, Zrenjanin, Preševo and Leskovac).
The project is organized and produced by the B92 Fund.
The programme THINK ABOUT OTHERS - THINK ABOUT YOURSELF was made possible by the Directorate for Human and Minority Rights (the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, Public Administration and Local Self-Government), as part of the programme Human Rights Calendar 2012.
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CROSSROADS EAST WEST
The Crossroads East West is conceived as the project that relies on the need to permanently detect and analyze different processes and projects of intercultural dialogue in a variety of existing cultural and artistic project activities. The Crossroads East West is focusing on different projects, activities, practices, communications and even conflicts in contemporary cultural and artistic sphere - in order to explore and better understand the nature and capacity of intercultural dialog in different situations and circumstances, which might be seen as characteristic of contemporary cultural and artistic practice and production in both the Eastern and Western Europe.
In the first year of the realization of the proposed project line Crossroads East West, Cultural center Rex/B92 Fund would continue and enrich its practice of the mapping of intercultural dialogue (in Serbia) by upgrading it through the selection of topics and participants - to an international level, and transferring its methodology to the new areas of interest. Using the intercultural dialogue as a conceptual framework, artistic and activist research and debate as a tool and the set of the East-West cultural relations as the axis for the content outline and selection, three events are proposed for this year¹s agenda. They rely both on the present Rex program and practice as well as to the need to extend such program and practice to concepts and capacities of the ERE project and the TEH network. While relying on the obvious or secluded capacities of methodology of intercultural dialogue, all these events are also related to the position and role of independent organizations and individuals on the cultural scene.
Activities in 2011:
The first debate: In the engine room: working conditions for cultural worker
Artist in residency: MICROCULTURES
The second debate: MICROCULTURES/presentation
The third debate is planned for April 2012 (the discussion about the production and presentation of the artwork that include Roma children in the way that is forbidden by law)
The meetings and debates belong to the Crossroads East West intercultural dialogue programme, implemented as part of Engine Room Europe, a three-year project focusing on independent cultural workers and their field of activity. The main aim of the project is to enhance the capacity and sustainability of independent culture in Europe. The project is carried out with the support of the European Commission.
ENGINE ROOM EUROPE
Engine Room Europe is a three-year capacity building project dedicated to the sustainable future of the European independent cultural sector through investment in its cultural workers and their creative processes. This objective will be achieved by a three-year programme of Europe wide activities. These programmes have four main themes: artistic productions & processes; mobility & training; intercultural dialogue & sustainability and all will be coordinated by 11 co-organisers, selected because of their geographical spread, experience, newly established profiles and mix of competencies. The culmination of Engine Room Europe is a major convention in Amsterdam in the Spring of 2014, where the full range of project outcomes will presented, debated and celebrated. This convention will be open to the wider European cultural sector and key cultural leaders and commentators will be invited to attend. Most importantly, the legacy of the project will continue to add value for European culture after the life of the programme through an interactive internet resource. This 'living' archive will capture the wealth of activity and knowledge that is the content of Engine Room Europe but more, it will, for the first time offer a pan-European resource to the independent cultural sector, a resource that will be continued, maintained and developed by co-organising partner Trans Europe Halles (a network of independent cultural centres). Happening in historic times, Engine Room Europe and its outcomes will not only be an important event for the independent cultural sector but will represent new thinking and new visions from Europe, echoing a similar message but with different voices, that independent culture is the research and development engine of European civic life and that this project, Engine Room Europe, contributed to its future sustainability and vibrancy.
Partners: Trans Europe Halles (TEH), Lodz Art Center (Lodz, Poland), Mains D'Oeuvres (St Ouen, France), Stanica (Zilina, Slovakia), ufaFabrik (Berlin, Germany), TNT (Bordeaux, France), Cultural Centre REX/Fund B92 (Belgrade, Serbia), NOASS (Riga, Latvia), Röda Sten Art Centre (Göteborg, Sweden), La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille, France) and Tabacka (Kosice, Slovakia).
Trans Europe Halles (TEH), Lodz Art Center (Lođ, Poljska), Mains D'Oeuvres (St Ouen, Francuska), Stanica (Žilina, Slovačka), ufaFabrik (Berlin, Nemačka), TNT (Bordo, Francuska), Kulturni centar REX/Fond B92 (Beograd, Srbija), NOASS (Riga, Latvija), Röda Sten Art Centre (Goteborg, Švedska), La Friche Belle de Mai (Marsej, Francuska) and Tabačka (Košice, Slovačka).
Coordinator: Melkweg (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Co-organizers: Trans Europe Halles (TEH), Lodz Art Center (Lodz, Poland), Mains D'Oeuvres (St Ouen, France), Stanica (Zilina, Slovakia), ufaFabrik (Berlin, Germany), TNT (Bordeaux, France), Cultural Centre REX/Fund B92 (Belgrade, Serbia), NOASS (Riga, Latvia), Röda Sten Art Centre (Göteborg, Sweden), La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille, France) and Tabacka (Kosice, Slovakia).
Crossroads East West, project of Cultural Centre REX/B92 Fund , is a process of collaborative investigation of activities and products of individuals, organisations and institutions, and their attitudes towards the notion and importance of the intercultural dialogue. This cooperation could involve identifying, analysis and comparing of similar and/or related projects, practices and examples of intercultural dialogue in different countries, which could lead to the making of a broader, regional and european map and an exchange of participants in these projects and processes, to search for the best ways and forms of transferring or upgrading of their own intercultural knowledge and ambitions. Such cooperation would yield a creative contribution to better understanding of the notion of inter-culturalism and dialogue, both on the regional and on a broader level of southeast europe and europe as a whole.
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Engine Room Europe (May 2011- April 2014), with a total budget of €2,095,297, is one of 10 projects selected for funding by the Culture Programme 2007-2013 Strand 1.1 budget 2011. For a list of selected projects, please consult the EACEA website, http://eacea.ec.europa.eu.
Mission Less Probable
The project is realized through series of public presentations in Cultural Centre Rex and partner organizations, held by artists, architects, cultural workers, policy makers and NGO activists chiefly from the SEE region. Presenters are invited to present and collaboratively analyse one project that they realized but that was (in their present opinion) not up to its initial mission. Presentations should locate and through discussion scrutinize the gaps between tasks and outcomes in the recent artistic, architectural, civil society or cultural policy-related production.
NEW SOCIAL RELATIONS CAFÉ/ANARCHO-BARTENDERS
Introducing the world of quotations from emancipatory literature
Anarcho-bartenders are an independent self-managed collective open to everyone who shows the desire and readiness to contribute to the Self-management Bar project launched by several members of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI). Starting 29 December, whenever events are organized at REX, the collective will be introducing the audience and visitors to quotations from publications focusing on social and political emancipation and raising funds towards the imminent social revolution.
NEW SOCIAL RELATIONS CAFÉ is part of the talks programmes held at the REX at the imaginary entrance hall café. The project initiates and facilitates the process of promoting, discussing and generating new ideas about the expected or desired, forgotten or idealized social relations. The participants and those implementing the project take up the role of hosts and visitors respectively at the bar and café where refreshments, distribution of publications, and accompanying programmes complete the overall concept of organizing and documenting events aimed at presenting possible patterns of new social relations and providing an overview of former or deconstruction of the existing relations in the society. This is a non-profit project, organized and produced with the support of Cultural Centre REX.
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Intercultural Dialogues' Mapping In The Republic Of Serbia
Project of Working Group for preservation of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, realized by Serbian Ministry of Culture and Cultural Centre Rex as a partner organization. Project of Mapping and Affirmation of Projects and Processes of Intercultural Dialogues in the Republic of Serbia serve to locate and research different aspects of intercultural dialogues under conditions that are characteristic for Serbia and within the existing cultural, activist or research practice.
NISI MASA
From 2 to 4 October, around 20 film-makers from all over Europe will visit Belgrade as part of a platform NISI MASA project. NISI MASA is a European network of young professionals, students and enthusiasts focusing on cinema. Its main aims are to discover new film talents, develop joint projects and create a platform of discussion and collaboration for young European filmmakers.
Additional information about their organization can be found at: http://www.nisimasa.com. Cultural Centre REX will play host to them on the Belgrade leg of their European tour. REX's volunteers will be helping film crews discover Belgrade and live two intense days shooting short films about immigrants, international mixed marriages, music and intercultural experiences. The co-ordinator of this tour is the well-known Zagreb-based producer Vanja Kaluđerčić. The workshop tour is tutored by Boris Mitić, documentary maker, director and winner of numerous awards not only in Serbia and the region but also worldwide.
The tour ISTANBUL EXPRESS began on 20 September and will last until 10 October. The topic of this year's filmmaking workshop is multilingualism and the ways in which it relates to different layers of our everyday lives.
During three weeks of travelling by three trains, 45 young filmmakers will meet in three European capitals: Tallinn, San Sebastián and Turin. They will be divided into small groups consisting of three people each (a director, a cinematographer and a sound engineer). The aim is to make 15 short documentaries on the way to Istanbul. The 3 travelling routes will take them to a total of 24 cities in 18 different countries, before reaching their final destination. Public events, such as screenings, masterclasses and press conferences will be held in each city they visit. The tour ends in Istanbul on 10 October when the crews will begin editing the material they shot. The screening of the first films is scheduled for 15 October in Istanbul.
FLUX BENEATH OUR FEET / Kaludjerica
The third presentation of the map of the existing sewage system in Kaludjerica and a discussion with the initiators of the project and participants in the process of making the map.
Project team members will be on call on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 15, 16 and 17 September at the Kaludjerica Local Community Office (From 10 am to 1 pm) and at the local Democratic Party committee office, 2a Volgina Street (from 6 to 8 pm). The drawing up of a map of the existing sewage system in Kaludjerica began last year as part of the FLUX BENEATH OUR FEET project. After the first batch of data had been gathered and entered onto the map (including the types of the sewage system(s), joint construction solutions in some parts of the suburb, some critical areas, etc), one map was placed in the entrance hall of the Kaludjerica Local Community Office making it possible to add new pieces of information and corrections and comments on the existing version. A new version of the map containing the data newly collected in the local community in July was displayed at the office of the local committee of the Serbian Progressive Party, again inviting further updates and comments. The latest updated maps will be made available to the public at the Kaludjerica Local Community Office entrance hall and at the local Democratic Party committee office. From now on, the project is open to collaboration with local committees of all political parties active in Kaludjerica. In addition to indirectly marking the phases in the history of the founding and the development of the settlement, the map raises many questions for the informants, viewers and the public to consider, including those regarding housing policies implemented by the state and the city, the distribution of wealth, territorial restrictions and urban planning, as well as the cultural and economic positioning related to these issues. During the meetings and discussions with the residents of Kaludjerica, a number of topics focusing on the past and present of the suburb are reconstructed and discussed. Some of them were explored and presented as part of the documentary embroidery workshop "Kaludjerica from A to SH" ("Kaludjerica from A to Z") led by Aviv Kruglovski and Vahida Ramujkić as part of their exhibition held recently at the gallery of Cultural Centre Belgrade with the support of FLUX project staff and Kaludjerica Local Community Office).
Project initiator and co-ordinator: Nebojša Milikić
Artist moderator: Dragan Jovanović
Map making: Nebojša Kitanović, Milan Zarić, Dragan Jovanović, Nebojša Milikić Production support: Ljiljana Milovanović, Aleksandar Stojiljković
Organization and co-ordination of data collection and entry: Nebojša Kitanović, Milan Zarić, Nebojša Milikić
Promotion and PR: Tatjana Vasiljević
Organized and produced by: Cultural Centre REX with the support of the Belgrade City Secretariat for Culture
Useful links: http://www.kaludjerica.com/?p=190
http://www.rex.b92.net/flux02/kaludjerica01.html
The FLUX project, launched in 2001 has incorporated different forms of cultural and artistic production prepared or developed in the circumstances believed to be characteristic or already typical of the suburbs of Belgrade. Based on the idea of creating and maintaining equitable conditions for production and creation of contemporary art, throughout the decade of its existence, FLUX has evolved from providing extended distribution of the existing artistic production to generating new creative and presentation concepts in different social and infrastructural situations related to Belgrade suburbs.
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Ring Ring
New Music festival RING RING has received exceptional media coverage and drew numerous audience over past 15 years.
Musicians from Yugoslavia where sharing scene with worldwide known musicians of new music. RING RING participants where from Germany, Italy, USA, Russia, Senegal, (Yugoslavia,) Japan, Check Republic, France, Great Britain, Australia, Netherlands, Rumania, Austria, Sweden, Japan... World music, chamber music, alternative rock, improvisation, jazz, noise, new instruments, new meetings where performed on RING RING.
During it's existence RING RING - guided by Bojan Djordjevic - become one of the most prestigious European new music festival. With world, European and Balkan premieres every year the Festival is beneficial both for participants and audience. With it's international scope it gives the opportunity form musicians from all over the world to meet, play together, experiment. Co-organizers are Multikultivator, RING RING and Cultural Centre REX.
Short Electronic Form Fair
SHORT ELECTRONIC FORM FAIR is an exhibition of electronic art works that last not longer than 30 seconds or can be viewed during that time.
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