Other Words – Literary Circuit for Small and Minority Languages

WORDS AND ACTIONS It’s on everyone’s lips. More than ever. Although not quite a wave or flood, the needs and demands of other voices and other words are more commonplace today than they ever were in the past. We have internalised diversity, viewing it as the only viable option for the future. But of course, words are one thing; translating them into action is quite another. If we raise our gaze to the far horizon, we see a dark cloud looming, an indication that diversity may not be quite so diverse after all. Somewhat of a paradox.

After running for four years, the ‘Beste Hitzak / Other Words’ project has shown, without a shadow of a doubt, that voices with different origins and different personalities can join forces to forge a common path. Or to put it another way, the project has demonstrated the enormous potential that small things have to be great.We have also learned that there are no shortcuts. If we want to make headway or move out of our comfort zone, we all know what we have to do. Everyone starts from the experience afforded by their own environment and situation, and here I believe that one important lesson we have learned during the ‘Beste Hitzak / Other Words’ initiative is that there can be no headway without a firm foundation.

Little languages need each other. We need to listen to what others have to say and be heard in turn. There are few surer and more reliable ways of growing stronger than learning about and from others in similar situations. Saying that countries with very different traditions and experiences, such as Slovenia, Macedonia, the Basque Country, Friesland, Ireland, Scotland and Curaçao, now feel closer to one another may not mean much to many people.

But that, I would say in all humility and at the risk of sounding trite, is the project’s main achievement. Through the medium of literature, our countries and their people are now closer to one another, and in this day and age, that is no mean feat. We have blazed a trail and made the road easier to navigate for all those who will come after us – all those who toil under the weight of their smallness and are in need of the help and support that only those in a similar situation can provide.

(Source: EC)

Association for Contemporary Arts X-OP

(Partner) Maribor

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

DONOSTIA KULTURA ENTIDAD PÚBLICA EMPRESARIAL (leader)

Spain (EU)
STICHTING KULTURELE HAADSTED 2018 (partner)

Netherlands (EU)
FORAS NA GAEILGE (partner)

Ireland (EU)
YOUTH FORUM BITOLA (partner)

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

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)

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)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

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!