Is this us?

Is this us? Is depression what defines us? Is poverty the essence of us? Is sickness the only characteristics to identify with? Is loneliness all there is for us? Is politics us? What defines us? ITU is a selection of socially committed literary works, which give readers much needed comfort in a world, which has – also because of the pandemics and broader social and political environment – become even more anxious, scared, isolated and divided then before. For the ITU project we selected works addressing important social or personal themes of modern times, such as anxiety disorder, isolation, overachievement consequences, need for a community, reflexion on the resistance during the second world war, building new life after terrible loss, migration, integration, poverty, refugees, life of socially marginalised groups, complicated human relations, mystery … As our main audience in general are children and young adults, we chose seven young adult titles and one adult title, which won the EUPL prize.

Miš Publishing house is the main organizer of Bralnice pod slamnikom festival. During the 2023 and 2024 edition the festival will serve as important promotional venue for the ITU project.

List of works

Sjoerd Kuyper: Bizar. Translation from Dutch into Slovene by Katjuša Ručigaj.
Xavier-Laurent Petit: Le fils de l’Ursari. Translation from French into Slovene by Jedrt Maležič.
Mette Vedsø: Når hjertet er en elpisker. Translation from Danish into Slovene by Darko Čuden.
Jaanus Vaiksoo: King Nr: 39. Translation from Estonian into Slovene by Julija Potrč Šavli.
Wilma Geldof: Het meisje met de vlechtjes. Translation from Dutch into Slovene by Stana Anželj.
Neda Alaei: Dette er ikke oss. Translation from Norwegian into Slovene by Marija Zlatnar Moe.
Jasminka Tihi-Stepanić: Ljeto na jezeru Čiču. Translation from Croatian into Slovene by Damijan Šinigoj.
Nathalie Skowronek: La carte des regrets. Translation from French into Slovene by Jedrt Maležič.

Miš Publishing House

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Funded projects

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15