About Kulturanova
Association Kulturanova was unofficially founded in 1999, and in 2001 we were officially registered in Novi Sad. The organization was founded as the umbrella organization of all those young people who were tired of the closure of the then existing institutions and who due to lack of experience, space, financial and other resources could not realize their creative potential in art. Over 200 young people were present at the Founding Assembly! The organization still cooperates with many of them. How the organization was founded and the reason why organisation was founded, largely determined its future activities.
Kulturanova works in four areas, through its four programme pillars:
• Teatarnova - theater and performance,
• Muzikanova - support for young music creators,
• Medianova - audio-visual and media content,
• Futuranova - innovation in cultural and creative industries.
From 2018 within the OPENS programme, Kulturanova implemented projects named after its program pillars Muzikanova and Teatarnova, whose results were presented at the annual TAKT festival.
During the previous years, we have implemented numerous international projects, such as: Play!Mobile, Port of Dreamers, TRAINART, Z Elements i Creative Soft Skills.
Our projects in the previous five years have been supported by: European Commission, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, ECF / European Cultural Foundation, Development Agency of Serbia, City of Novi Sad, Province of Vojvodina, IPA Interreg Funds, Swedish Institute, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Visegrad fund, Trust for Mutual Understanding and Fulbright programme.
In that period, from 2015 to 2020, we implemented ten large projects and organized a dozen of small artistic interventions, as well as gatherings that hired more than 4,000 people as direct users and about 30,000 as indirect users.
Our mission
Kulturanova initiates intercultural and intersectoral dialogue in society, encouraging the creativity of young people through art education, production of cultural content and the improvement of public policies in the field of culture and youth.
Our vision
Novi Sad is open to creating a new culture. For us, a new culture is a process of building new social relations that encourage dialogue, self-examination and critical thinking. production of cultural content and promotion of public policies in the field of culture and youth.
Our goals are:
• to remove barriers to coexistence in Novi Sad and Vojvodina by initiating and encouraging dialogue between various vulnerable subcultural groups, especially migrants, “newcomers”, Roma, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities;
• promotion of creativity in order to improve work culture in non-cultural sectors and joint action for more effective social relations;
• developing a culture of dialogue between young people from Serbia and neighboring countries through joint production of cultural content;
• decentralization of culture through the placement of our content in the cities of Vojvodina that do not have a developed cultural scene (especially independent one), as well as in parts of the city in Novi Sad that do not have enough youth and cultural activities;
• active participation in the processes of planning and improving public policies in the field of youth and culture in Novi Sad, Vojvodina and Serbia.
