South and East reaches West (iSE2W) – Reading Balkans

The cooperation project South and East reaches West – digital platform for promotion of writers in post-conflict societies – Reading Balkans aimed to link various partners active in the field of literature promotion and dissemination. The aim was to create new capacities employing a new business model with the Literary Agent for literatures of Southeast, Southern and Eastern Europe, and strengthen the transnational mobility through the network of writers-in-residence programs.

The literary agent was selected and trained in the course of the project, and his/her long-term mission was to establish a new literary agency dealing with translation rights for literatures written in less used languages. Using the joint digital platform, which was another outcome of the project, the partners and the agent, presented the region of Southeast Europe as a region of extraordinary literary creativity. The project was thus build new capacities in Europe’s South and East, and presented the best literary voices of these regions to facilitate their translations to major European languages. The project was also aid writers to professionalize and internationalize their careers through their increased visibility and mobility.

The focus of the project was on writers who in their works warn of the perils of nationalism and intolerance. Through a network of residencies and visit to festivals, the project offered a platform to writers coming from different (post)conflict regions of Europe to exchanged and shared with the general audience their views on the consequences of these two phenomena. (Source: EC.)

Writers in Residence Programme

The Literary Residence Programme “Reading Balkans 2018” was a part of the iSE2W. The Programme was open to welcome fiction writers, poets, essayists and playwrights from Southeast Europe (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia).

Associated partners: Poeteka (AL), Qendra Multimedia (Kosovo), PEN Centre (BIH) and other partners.

Funded projects

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)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (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

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age

HEROES WE LOVE. Ideology, Identity and Socialist Art in New Europe

European Digital Art and Science Network

European Artizen Initiative

Ephemeral Heritage of the European Carnival Rituals

Sustainability is in the AiR

BeSpectACTive!

Artecitya

Advancing Light-driven Public Interactions

Quantum Music

Litterae Slovenicae - Small Literature Crossing Borders

CEE Animation Workshop (CEE AW)

Young Programmers for Young Audiences! European Film Festival Network

European Network of Film Discourse

Network of the Festivals in the Adriatic Region

YoCoJoin

GELATOn the ROAD

reDiscover

PS4Her

ARTAS - Art Archives Study.

Sense (of) sharing

Inspiration Forum LAB – Interdisciplinary art co-production program

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

OUT OF THE BOX

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Slavic Soundwalking (SSW)

European Itineraries of Roma Cultural Heritage (ROMHERIATGE)

Pariahs - Performing Europe's Historical Memory

TOBIES FRIENDS

Forest Encounters

Books on the Beach (BOB)

Made In 2.0 - Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design

ARCH-E, European platform for architectural competitions

SEARCHER - The Art of Associative Searching

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Performing Landscape

Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery

Puppet Nomad Academy IV

Other Words – Literary Circuit for Small and Minority Languages

Open House Europe (OHEu)

The Pulse of European Literature (UEL)

One Space

VigeVageKnjige - The Next Generation (VVK NextGen)

IMAGINE 2020 (2.0) – Art, ecology & possible futures