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City of Women - Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture

National Network
Slovénie
Address

Kersnikova 4
1000, Ljubljana
Slovénie

Telephone
38614381580
Telephone (other)
38640816448
E-Mail
info@cityofwomen.org
E-Mail (2)
contact@cityofwomen.org
Mobile Phone
38640816448
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1995
Fields of Activity
  1. Gender
  2. International/Cultural relations
General Information
The Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture - City of Women was founded in 1996 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and was established with the aim of lobbying on gender issues and promoting equality. The project itself was initiated a year earlier in 1995 by the Slovenian government's former Office for Women's Policy (now The Equal Opportunities Office).The Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture - City of Women has the status of a non-governmental association, administered by an independent board of outstanding individuals drawn from various spheres of Slovenian culture, the arts and politics. Headed by its current honorary president, dr. Vesna Leskošek, the Association has a team of program collaborators and executive producers responsible for the selection, co-ordination and organisation of its program. Current art director of the festival is Mara Vujic with co-art director Predrag Pajdić. The City of Women program and activities have been facilitated through a network of partners, who have ensured financial support as well as conceptual input and feedback. The Association is engaged in ongoing collaborative projects with a variety of cultural and women's organisations, and works with external experts, international curators and selectors, for specific elements of its program. City of Women cooperates with numerous governmental and non-governmental Slovenian institutions (Cankarjev dom, Škuc Gallery, Alkatraz gallery, Glej Theatre, The museums and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana, Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Kinodvor…)and international partners as: in the frame of A Space for Live art: Antifestival (Finland), Les Subsistances (France), Acción!09MAD (Spain), New Territories (Great Britan), Trouble (Belgium), Interakcije (Poland), Kampnagel – Live Art Festival (Germany). Our activities are supported with Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana / the Department for Culture, Hauptstadt Kulturfond, A Space for Live Art and some other foundations for particular projects or tours.
Mission and Objectives

The Association's primary objective is to produce and organise affirmative action projects in order to draw attention to the disproportionately low participation and representation of women in the field of arts and culture.
City of Women – The Association for Promotion of Women in Culture aims to raise the visibility of high-quality innovative creations by women artists, theoreticians and activists from all over the world. Since 1995, it has presented the artistic and cultural production of women in the performing arts, music, visual arts, film and video, literature and theory, and thereby aimed to provoke a debate and raise awareness as to the currently disproportionate participation and representation of women in arts and culture, as well as in society as a whole. City of Women simultaneously provides a platform that focuses upon and considers pertinent critical contemporary issues.

Main Projects / Activities

- the organisation of the annual trans-disciplinary International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women
- the organisation of symposiums on a field of contemporary arts
- productions and co-productions on a field of contemporary arts

Contact (1) Full Name
Sandra Đorem

Codeep / MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art

National Network
Slovénie
Address

Rožna dolina cesta II/36
Ljubljana
Slovénie

Telephone
+38641445838
Telephone (other)
+38640809809
E-Mail
info@codeep.org
E-Mail (2)
niko.okorn@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2003
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Media
  3. Research
  4. Youth and education
General Information
CodeEP is a cultural association established to explore the fields of contemporary visual communication, electronic music and performance. Codeep has been organizing international, multimedia, social and educational events which bring to Ljubljana a mix of urban artistic practices based on a programme searching for novelties in the field of electronic music, audiovisual performances and experimental digital creation. After six years of our own Spring Festival, which was the first of its kind, it is still the only international open-air festival of independent electronic music and related arts in the country. Codeep is a non profit organisation working on several projects with support of local and international organisations including: MOL, Zavod za Turizem, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, British Council, European Cultural Foundation, NOISE of ART, Galerija Kapelica, KIBLA, Platform Central Europe, VIVISECTfest, ZRC SAZU, Rx:Tx, Zavod Projekt Atol, Adria Airways d.d., Culture.Tv and others.
Mission and Objectives

MOTA BASIC PRINCIPLES:
Temporality (time):
- Each artist is invited for a period of one week to one month.
- Each artist should produce a work that is of temporary nature and that integrates the public
(local people) or is installed/performed in public space.
Transitoriness (space):
- Each MOTA (Museum of Transitory Art) residence is a space for production and reflection,
but the museum is located outside the residence.
- MOTA uses the webspace mota-atom.com for documentation, archiving, and reflection
and is conceived as a network of different local temporary MOTA spaces around the world.
Dynamic organism:
- MOTA is never at rest. It is a live organism as it changes according to new MOTA spaces
and people who work within its program and space.
- The growth of MOTA in time and space is reflected in new MOTA local studios and in its webspace, which itself has a form of dynamic atomic organism.

Main Projects / Activities

MOTA- Museum of Transitory Art is the first Artist in Residency program in Ljubljana.
Starting from October 2008, MOTA will invite artists on a monthly basis, based on applicant’s
project proposal for the residency. MOTA will present creators within broad range of art practices
but will focus on intermedia, visual and sound art and new forms of artistic language (livecinema,
temporary installations…).
- Spring Festival, an open air festival of music and visual culture. Spring Festival includes workshops for children and multimedia workshops, lectures by artists, cultural producers, musicians etc, exhibitions.
- Project RoboVox, an interactive public installation in form of a giant robot, is an attempt to reconsider methods of free speech and consciousness about freedom of speech and encourages expression of opinions.
- Live cinema nights, where we invite artists, who research in their work the relationships between image and sound in experimental and poetic way.

Contact (1) Full Name
Niko Okorn
Head of the organisation
Martin Bricelj
Contact (2) Full Name
Neja Tomšič

Codeep Cultural Association

National Network
Slovénie
Address

Codeep Cultural Association
Rozna dolina cesta II/36
1000 Ljubljana

Ljubljana
Slovénie

Telephone
/
Telephone (other)
/
Fax
/
E-Mail
mota.museum@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
martin.bricelj@gmail.com
E-Mail (3)
neja.tomsic@gmail.com
E-Mail (4)
foundation.mota@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
+386 40 809 809
Mobile Phone (other)
+ 386 40 472 237
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1992
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Codeep Cultural association is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation. Its structure is organised by its presedent, co-president, council of members and cashier. Budgetary resources are from national public resources and EU funding. Membership fee represents only a minor degree in its budget. Modalities of action are: artist in residence programme, research platform, public interventions, festivals and mediatheque. Main partners come from international sphere.
Mission and Objectives

Codeep's mission has been reorganised in 2008 in the form of Museum of Transitory Art - MoTA,
and we are in the process of formal registration. Our mission is to develop artistic projects in contemporary inter-media art. Our objectives are constant research for the new, unknown and undefined, development of transitory form of museum, which is museum without time and space, development of artist in residence network in the Balkan and East European region, etc.

Main Projects / Activities

Main projects are:
Artist Talk: Culture and Knowledge Platform - european project, involving 6 partners
Tribe: Artist in residence network in the Balkan and East Europe
Mediatheque: an open source library of contemporary art
Dark Star: an interactive monument for public space
New Human: actualisation of socialist monuments
Public Avatar: a new project documenting the relationship between virtual reality and our perceptions of self and society

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Our internationally based projects aim at:
Facilitating joint productions between artists and cultural groups from the two shores of the Mediterranean
Building the capacity of trans-cultural leaders to develop their productions with an interculttual approach > establishment of trans-cultural dialogue and partnership is one of the core practices of our activities, and all MoTA's productions reflect constant search for the new, undefined and different, which are also part of international projects.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We would like to continue the mission of ALF Network and its members also in our projects, research field and public actions. We share the belief of ALF that culture and arts field are essential for human and social dialogue. We also see cooperation in the art and culture field as essential for development of strong partnership and improvement of working and production abilities of NGOs.

Contact (1) Full Name
Martin Bricelj
Head of the organisation
Martin Bricelj
Contact (2) Full Name
Neja Tomsic
Publication
Education
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Colouring Book for Kids - World Religions

Have fun learning about the world's major religions with creative designs and simple challenges! For kids age 5+. O f the thousands of colouring books available for children, only a few deal with religion, tending to depict only one religion...

Publication
Education

Competences for promoting mental health in primary school

Background: The mental health od school-age children is of growing concern in many countries. School professionals require the competences and methods to intervene effectively to promote mental health in schools. Objective: The objective of this study was to describe school...

CONA

National Network
Slovénie
Address

Peričeva 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ljubljana
Slovénie

Telephone
+38640 418682
E-Mail
irena@cona.si
E-Mail (2)
brane@cona.si
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Cona, institute for contemporary arts processing is NGO cultural institution based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Its main activity is production of contemporary art projects. Cona institute has an artistic director and producer and co-operates with various authors. Budgetary resources available per year are 30.000eur. Sources of funding are: Ministry of culture of Slovenia, Ljubljana City Municipality, international foundation and self financing activities. Modalities of action: intermedia and music arts production, publishing and education. Main partners; Intima Virtual Base, CoLaboRadio, KIOSK, Radio Slovenia, No-FM Beograd, free103point9 New York, ŠKUC Ljubljana, City art museum Ljubljana, Museum of Modern Art, RAM Live Roma, Roma Radio Art Fair.
Mission and Objectives

Our mission and objectives is to produce, research, develop and exhibit contemporary arts projects and to collaborate with individuals and organizations working on same art field.

Main Projects / Activities

Intermedia arts:
- long term project radioCona, with art works productions, FM and stream broadcasts and exhibitions, radioCona collaborates with more than 120 individuals and 15 international institutions. http://www.radiocona.si/
- long term project Ballettika Internettikka http://www.intima.org/bi/index.html
Sound arts: ZVO.ČI.TI so.und.ing Collection, A podcast collection of Slovenian contemporary sound art

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

we will present and promote new ALF network partners. we will contribute to local Network as much as we could

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

To collaborate on ALF region countries and to contribute of ALF Network

Contact (1) Full Name
Irena Pivka
Contact (2) Full Name
Brane Zorman

Cultural society Peta dimenzija

National Network
Slovénie
Address

Ro?na ulica 23
Postojna
Slovénie

Telephone
38641313928
E-Mail
petadimenzija@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Environment/Sustainable development
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Media
  5. Youth and education
General Information
Cultural society Peta dimenzija is based on voluntary work and contribution. Budgetary resources vary from year to year but is limited to less than 5000 € per year. Main sources of funding are projects and members contribution.
Mission and Objectives

Mission of the organization is to help members to express their ideas in to real actions, following personal growth and awearness of comunity in which they live.

Contact (1) Full Name
Rok Brinc
Contact (2) Full Name
Anton Vah?i?

Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, AE Centre – Unit for Anthropology of the Mediterranean (in procedure of establishment), University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts

National Network
Slovénie
Address

A?ker?eva 2 (Askerceva 2)
Ljubljana
Slovénie

Telephone
2411135
Telephone (other)
2411145
Fax
4234112
E-Mail
oeka@ff.uni-lj.si
E-Mail (2)
rajko.mursic@guest.arnes.si
Mobile Phone
955
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1940
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Environment/Sustainable development
  3. Heritage
  4. Human rights
  5. International/Cultural relations
  6. Research
  7. Youth and education
General Information
A working unit within the Faculty of Arts. AE research/development centre will comprise the Unit for Anthropology of the Mediterranean. 23 staff (12 teachers and assistants; 3 administrative staff, 1 researcher and 7 junior research fellows). Budget estimation: 400.000 EUR – public funds plus other sources. Organisers of annual symposium Mess (Mediterranean Ethnological Summer Symposium). Main parters from the Mediterranean countries are coming from Italy, Croatia, Greece, France, Spain and Portugal. Bilateral research projects, teaching exchange and other kinds of dissemination of knowledge.
Mission and Objectives

The main aim of the Department is to provide the best possible education to students of ethnology and cultural anthropology. The aim of the research and development centre is to support teaching and to bridge the gap between academia and the general society, especially its economic structure.
A very important aim of the institution is to enable young people (students) to communicate with others and to challenge prejudices, racisms and other deviations in European neoliberal societies.

Main Projects / Activities

Slovene Identities in the Context of the European Space. Basic research programme, 2004-2009.
Ethnological Analyses of Representations and Heritage. Basic research project, 2004-2007.
Development Partnership in the Field of Integration for Asylum Applicants: Equal, 2004-2008 (partner).
The Concept of Time and Space in East and West European Folklore. Bilateral research project with the Centro de Ci?ncias Humanes e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
RAMSES II: Réseau euro-méditerranéen des centres de recherche en sciences humaines sur l’aire méditerranéenne – Euro-Mediterranean Network of Excellence of Research Centers in Humanities. (6th Framework Programme.) 2005-2008 (partner).

Contact (1) Full Name
Rajko Mursic
Head of the organisation
Rajko Mur?i? (Mursic)
Contact (2) Full Name
Bojan Baskar