General Information
There are four separate organizational units within the Cultural Center:
Theater,
City Gallery,
Boka Cinema,
City library and reading room.
The activities of the Cultural center are of public interest and include:
• organizing and promoting cultural and artistic creativity and cultural life in the Municipality,
• arranging cultural and artistic performances, theater performances, literary evenings, art exhibitions, traditional, ethno-cultural and other cultural events of significance to the Municipality,
• organizing screenings,
• performing library activities,
• promotion of amateur cultural and artistic creativity and creativity of persons with disabilities and
• in general by enhancing creativity through presentation, promotion of works of art and other spiritual creations.
The cultural center is primarily focused on locals and organizing and enhancing cultural life in the city. With the development of tourism in the municipality of Kotor, the Cultural Center opens to the international scene. Numerous international collaborations and guest appearances support this.
In partnership with the following institutions and organizations, the Cultural Center organizes numerous events:
• Kotor Art,
• Kotor Children's Theater Festival,
• Don Branko's Music Days,
• Sea Rock Festival,
• Poetry Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia),
• Novi Sad Cultural Center,
• GOETHE Institute Belgrade,
• Dubrovnik libraries,
• FIAT,
• Kotor Tourism Organization…
Our most recognizable manifestations are Boka Night, Traditional Kotor Winter Carnival, Festival of Light, December rocks, Kotor Children's Theater Festival and many more.
The strategic goal of our company is the development and promotion of culture in the municipality of Kotor, the organization and enhancement of international cooperation as well as numerous events throughout the year.
Over the past years, the Cultural Center has entered into several cooperation agreements, through which the following programs have been implemented: (Due to the limited number of characters, its shown the program that was organized in 2019.)
ART 365 NON-GOVERNMENTAL ASSOCIATION AND YOUTH ASSOCIATION WITH THE HANDICAP OF MONTENEGRO - 05. and 06.03.2019. The first film festival "Capture Montenegro" was organized with the help of the international film festival "Capture this day with me / Capture the film".
INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO - Information and educational activities were implemented: workshops, exhibitions that represent the biodiversity of our waters, conferences, etc. One of the activities was the organization of the International Conference "Adriatic Biodiversity Protection - AdriBioPro2019" from 06.04. until 11.04.2019.
ARHIPELAG PUBLISHING HOUSE - The "Archipelago" Publishing Month was organized when several promotions of works published by this publishing house took place in one month.
SUMMER ART SCHOOL IN KOTOR - The school's working name is “ArtQuake” - in reaction to the devastating power of the 1979 earthquake that struck Kotor, which further resulted in its listing on the UNESCO World Heritage List. So, forty years of these events have been marked by a kind of creative impetus that comes from the creative power of art. The Art School was held from 07.07. untill 14.07.2019.
KOTOR THEATER FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN - One of the earliest cooperation agreements our institution has entered into is the one with the Kotor Festival of Children's Theater. We support them by all means, above all with our people and infrastructure, not only during the festival program, but also otherwise. In co-production with them we have produced a couple of plays that have their lives on the boards ("Chinese" in co-production with ASSITEJ; "Ivo Vizin", "Novelty of Love", "Shakespeare"), and we also have a prolific collaboration in publishing, with the support of funds received from Ministry of Culture competitions ("Ivo Vizin", "Half portion at half price"). This year's Children's Festival took place under the name "Road to the Moon" from July 1 to July 12, 2019.
In cooperation with the cultural institution CENTER OF FESTIVAL AND CREATIVE PROJECTS "ON TOP" Volgograd, Russia and Mr. Victor Kieny, coordinator of the International project "ADRIATICA NOVA" with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia we organized the International Music Festival and Competition on September 21, 2019.
For the second year in a row in collaboration with “Museums” Kotor we are organizing - FESKK - Festival of Humanities, Culture and Arts. Festival promotes the total annual production of Montenegro and brings together history, law, sociology, philosophy, psychology, economics, essay, linguistics and other scientific disciplines. Festival also brings together both academic and young people.
25.06.2019 THE BARCELONA GIPSY BALKAN ORCHESTRA performed on the Summer Stage. Their repertoire is inspired by the motives of jazz, ethno music of the peoples of Eastern Europe, South America, Spain, the Middle East.
23.11.2018 - Famous Italian PIANIST AND COMPOSER MAURIZIO MASTRINI, accompanied by the chamber orchestra 'Nuova', premiered in Kotor, in the Church of the Holy Spirit. The program featured Mastrini's compositions: “Essential”, “La stagione dell'amore carezze”, “Children's Love”, “Primavera... La rinascita”, “Malinconia”, “Fly”, “W la vita”, “Tango Clandestino” and “La rossiniana”.
26.09.2019 THE CONCERT OF OMAR TORREZ, the renowned and award-winning Mexican guitar player, was best known to the general public for being the guitarist on Tom Waits' "Glitter and Doom" tour.
November 20 or 21, 2019 THE MATINEE OF THE "ATTACCA" quartet will be playing on the year, playing pieces by Borodin and Beethoven. The concert will be a kind of homage to the town on the occasion of Kotor Municipality Day.
03.12.2019 In cooperation with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Montenegro, we are planning a CONCERT OF THE PIANO DUO "PIANOTAINMENT" from Germany.
In addition to engaging with professional artists, we also gave space to amateurs through various programs organized by the Cultural Center. So in December we will have a series of concerts that have become part of the Kotor tradition. This is a New Year concert of Kotor City Music, majorettes and local dance clubs (Little Mermaid, Alyssa, Festivals, etc.), Folk Ensemble "Nikola Djurkovic", our choir and their guests and so on.
Promotion of the REFESTICON REGIONAL FESTIVAL OF FICTION, organized to commemorate International Literacy Day on September 8, with special reference to the collection of short stories "Dragons are Coming", authored by elementary and high school students from Montenegro.
Celebrating CHILDREN'S SUNDAY in the first week of October. Accompanied by the organization of a series of film screenings, workshops in the morning, lectures on healthy eating for children and also a sports day in cooperation with the Ministry of Sport of Montenegro.
