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Call for
applications “Serbia
and Kosovo: Intercultural
Icebreakers”
November 9-17, 2016
Belgrade,
Novi Sad, Pristina and Prizren
Call for
applications
Since 2015, the
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
in Serbia has organized five
seminars for young artists from
Serbia and Kosovo on the topic of
interculturalism and socially
engaged art practices. Encouraged by
the success of these seminars, we
are now preparing another seminar
from November 9 - 17, 2016, for 16
young people (8 from Kosovo and 8
from Serbia).
As in the past, we
are targeting young people from
Serbia and Kosovo who are active
and/or interested in arts, culture
and media to participate in this
project. The seminar will start in
Belgrade featuring lectures, visits
to cultural institutions and public
sites. On the 4th day of seminar,
participants will visit Novi Sad and
its cultural and public
institutions. After returning to
Belgrade, all participants will
travel together to Pristina, and
continue the seminar in Kosovo.
There, participants will participate
in lectures and workshops provided
by experts from Kosovo, and visit
prominent educational and cultural
institutions in Pristina. On the 8th
day participants will visit Prizren,
a historical town in southern Kosovo
and meet representatives of local
media and culture organizations.
The main goal of
the seminar is to give the
opportunity to participants to be
hosts and visitors at the same time,
and possibility to present their
culture and learn more about the
culture of their peers. Also, the
seminar will benefit each
participant by giving them the
opportunity to visit major cultural
institutions both in Serbia and
Kosovo, to meet lecturers, artists
and human rights activists from both
countries, and to spend an exciting
period of time together visiting
institutions of mutual interest and
participating in workshops and
lectures, which will provide them
enough time to get to know each
other and provide the platform for
their joint projects in the future.
After the seminar,
participants will have the
opportunity to spend one more
weekend together at art colony
working on creation of a plan for
joint cross boarder artistic action,
which will be implemented by the
participants in 2017 with our
financial support.
The organizers
will cover all costs of
accommodation, food, travel, working
material, and visits to cultural
events for all participants of the
seminar. The sessions will be held
in Serbian, Albanian and English
language while translation to
Albanian/Serbian language will be
provided.
Participants are expected to:
Be active
and/or interested in art and culture
(students and/or practitioners are
welcome to apply),
Be
highly motivated to learn more about
interculturalism, socially engaged
art, media practices and other
similar topics,
Be
highly motivated to learn more about
art and culture of Serbia/Kosovo,
Be
highly motivated to create a plan
for joint cross boarder campaign,
and to implement it after the
seminar with our financial support,
Be
available to participate in the
seminar for the full period:
November 9 – 17, 2016, and
afterwards to participate in art
colony,
And to be
between 18 and 30 years old.
Applicants will be selected upon the following
criteria:
CV
A motivation
letter (max. one page) including:
*
your working/educational experience
in the field of art, media and/or
culture;
* the main topics you are currently
working on or interested in;
* your personal, specific interest
in participating in this seminar;
* answers to three questions (see
below).
Please submit all
documents to Jelena Dzombic at
dzombic.jelena@helsinki.org.rs,
by October 26, 2016.
Please provide short answers to the following
three questions (please do not exceed one page for all three
questions):
1. Have you
ever cooperated with
artists/colleagues from
Serbia/Kosovo? If yes, in which way?
(max. 500 characters)
2. Why do you
think art and culture are important
for improvement of relations between
two societies? (max. 500 characters)
3. What are
your expectations regarding the
seminar? (max. 500 characters)
Project is
financed by the German Embassy in
Belgrade,
and implemented by the Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights in
Serbia.
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