Reading Balkans: Borders vs. Frontiers

Reading Balkans: Borders vs. Frontiers is a continuation of the project Reading Balkans that was supported by Creative Europe in 2017. This time we have put in the focus topics of borders and cooperation with refugee writers – at the time when old wounds from Balkan Wars have not yet been healed, the question of our borders still not solved, new politics of fear and nationalism is built when refugees are crossing our region (and actual border walls are built as well) – through our activities we want to work on dialogue, debate and deeper understanding of our actual problems. More than ever, crossing of the borders for artists and books is important: the core of the project are residency programs for writers (42 residencies in 7 countries, each for 4 weeks), 8 festivals with 2 main topics: Borders vs. Frontiers and Exile in Language and video storytelling project Borders vs. Frontiers (creative writing and performance workshops for refugees will result in 5 videos made by refugee writers in Ljubljana + 5 videos of first class Balkan authors).

Important part is intensive international promotion of all writers participating in the project (at least 72) through the digital platform (web page readingbalkans.eu and mobile app: presentation of all authors in Eng. + short text newly translated into Eng./Ger. for at least 52), through the work of the Literary Agent/promotor visiting 14 international book-fairs (networking and promoting writers in the project) and through readings at Balkan Nacht event at Leipzig book-fair.
International visibility is important as a capacity building: small national literatures need to cooperate closely to achieve success in the global market, new professional opportunities for writers included in our project can be opened. The project encourages mobility of literary works all over Europe and better exchange of first-class authors also within Balkan region (the Western Balkans being underlined as a priority in A New EU Agenda for Culture).

Založba Goga

(Leader) Novo mesto

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Drustvo za izdavanje, promet i uslugi Goten grup Dooel Skopje (partner)

Makedonija
Udruzenje Krokodil (partner)

Srbija

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova - OPE.N

Kino X Games

Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage (FASIH)

Cultural BEES - Kulturne čebele

Smo to mi?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Mladi programerji za mlado občinstvo! (Young4Film)

Mladinska umetnost za zemljo (YAFE)

Moving Balkans – the Regional Contemporary Dance Platform

Senčna pandemija: skriti glasovi

SMOTIES – Humana mesta. Ustvarjalnost v majhnih in odmaknjenih krajih

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Tretji oder – novo virtualno gledališko prizorišče

Vračanje svobode (RE-FREE)

Versopolis - kjer živi poezija

EODOPEN – eBooks-On-Demand

December: Zverine, Azra, Bivši najboljši namišljeni prijatelj

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Better Live

ReCITYing: Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts

Art Nouveau kot nova EUtopija

Razvojni center ustvarjalne industrije (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedijske zgodbe o izoliranosti (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet upanja (Sodobna evropska književnost)

Več kot zgodba (MTaS)

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

Povezani s knjigami

expub - Raziskovanje razširjenega založništva

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studio Virc: Mini Slate 2023

10. in 11. edicija Festivala kratkega filma FeKK

20. in 21. Mednarodni filmski festival Kino Otok – Isola Cinema 2024-2025

20. in 21. Mednarodni festival animiranega filma ANIMATEKA

Film v bolnici 2.0

Mladinski kino EU: Zeleni dogovor 2024-2026 (EUYC:GD)

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22

Vertigo Slate 2022: Kostanji, Spomin na jesenske meglice, OHO, Potapljanje Lune Tjuln

Staragara Slate 22

Naša mala knjižnica: Literarne izmenjave (OLL LE)

TESTNI POLIGON: Reparativne prakse za nov kulturni ekosistem (TestG)

Variola - Črna pomlad, TV serija

SEMA

Paradiso

Pusti vrata odprta

The Big Green

Dolga pot navzdol (TLWD)

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Gibanje, digitalna inteligenca in interaktivno občinstvo (MODINA)

Fortissimo

Spomladansko čiščenje (SPCN)

Mreža festivalov animiranega filma je mreža (AFN)

CulturalDeTour

EUDigitalDeal

Remix Comix – Comics for Heritage

L'Internationale - Muzej skupnega: Za bolj zdrav ekosistem umetnosti (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition / Umetnost, podnebje, tranzicija

RE: Terme, gotske cerkve in rudarske hiše

Sustainability is in the AiR (SAiR)

CEE Animation Workshop 2022

European Network of Film Discourse (END)

Network of the Festivals in the Adriatic Region (NFAR)

Empowering the Youth: Strengthening Local News Media Services (YoCoJoin)

GELATOn the ROAD - evropska sladoledna pot