BalkanKult - Balkan Cultural Co-Operation

TAKING THE INITIATIVE

The unfortunate social situation of Serbia, especially within the culture, has caused us to very carefully plan our activities for this year. Such a situation has led to a reevaluation of our possibilities, as well as the lateness of our planning activities for this year.
The two most important activities which Balkankult's associates will concentrate on, based on the directional board's decision are: the development of the Balkankult Residency and the program "Danube - Route of Culture".
With the goal of making or work more efficient, we have established a special sister foundation of Balkankult - Balkankult Foundation Intereg, located in the BKF Residency. The Residency is located in the National Park of Mt. Fruska Gora (20 km from Novi Sad and 50 km from Belgrade) and has a new house for office and house that consists of two apartments, 40 m/2 each and a park/orchard of 1,800 m/2

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FOLK CULTURE AND CULTURAL POLICY IN SERBIA

Serbia lacks cultural policy which would boost the efforts to protect the authenticity, the one that would at the same time place protection within modern context and thus support the vitality of folk culture in fast-growing processes of regional and global changes. More ...

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PRACTICE OF POPULAR MUSIC IN SERBIA

Serbia is one of the central Balkan countries which is, because of its geographical and geopolitical location and incredibly complex historical heritage, like an infinitely complex mosaic of religious, local, ethnic and other identities. This variety, segmentarity and historical multi-layering is obvious simply by looking at the demographic structure of the Serbian population, and maybe even more apparent by taking a look at the practice of popular music. More ...

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