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Projects current year
Small actions are realized in the different countries of the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans (SCP). They are in the responsibility of the SCP local offices and decided upon by local boards consisting of 4 cultural experts and a representative of the local Swiss Cooperation Office (SDC). Short summaries of the projects selected for a small actions grant are listed below:
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.