General Information
Meter60 association was founded on 20 September 2006, as a non-profit organization. It's founders are postgraduates, seniors and masters of the Academy of Dramatic Arts and Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. The organization has 40 active members: several graduate and qualified producers and culture managers, directors, musicians, writers, screenwriters and other artists, members of numerous professional associations, HZSU, HUOKU, HDDU, HRUP, HDFD. Our number is in constant growth. The association brings together young and highly educated people who wish their expertise and talent to be expressed through audio-visual, dramatic, visual arts and performing arts.Over the past three years, Metar 60 has made a successful cooperation with many other non profit organizations, associations, art organizations, production houses, theaters and many others. To mention some of them: Austrian Cultural Forum, Theatre & TD, CKT, Theatre Factory Theatre, ALK Lutonjica Toporko, the Zagreb Chamber Orchestra, Center for Culture and Information Maksimir, City of Novalja, Zagreb, Samobor, associations Istrian Yearbook and open media group, Kufer, HTV and Nova TV, Studio, Croatian Post, ADU, the Jewish Community and many others.One person is permanently employed, and other partners we employ accordingly to the projects we manage. From 2009. till 2012. year we are dependent on the number of donors in order to achieve sustainability.
1) within the Croatia
- State Budget – grants from government ministries and agencies,
- City Budget - with an emphasis on getting the space from the City of Zagreb
- Sponzors - INA, Croatian Post, Croatian Bank, small sponzors,
2) international donors
- EU funds - IPA, EACEA (Culture, Media, Youth Participation), EURIMAGES
- Embassy (Embassy of the Netherlands, the Norwegian Embassy, Embassy of Finland, the Austrian Cultural Forum)
- The international foundations
We are constantly training through different seminars, workshops: to mention some of them Berlinale Talent Campus, City University London, Department of Cultural Policy and Management,School of Arts (our president Anamaria Kapulica is there on a scholarship through 2010/2011. ).. Projects implemented by NGOs, and who are prepared not only measurable by its cultural and artistic value but also the social context and the problems that are processed in this context. These are all international projects, suitable for co-productions. They cover the whole range of social and other problems of our society like: all types of violence, PTSP, corruption, addiction, discrimination and human wrights and many other contemporary issues of civil society, especially in Croatian society, with the aim of preventing them. The variety and quality of projects is not limited to the issues of today's civil society and social surroundings, but on deeper reflection on life, of course, in the context of our circumstances and developments, and recent history.