2022
Grants approved – February 2022
Number of grants: 15
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1. Street Drummers, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: Street Drummers Loudly on 8th
For many years, the Drummers make an important part of the International Women’s Day March, heating up the atmosphere among the march participants and empower them to raise their voices. Supporting the suggested activities, RWF supports gathering the new generation of Drummers and the continuity of this type of feminist presence at protests and other public appearances.
2. Centre for the Politics of Emancipation, Belgrade
- RSD: 200.000
- Project title: Summer School – Solidarity economy and peace activism
Summer School Solidarity economy and peace activism is a special edition of the alternative studies organized by CPE. The research conducted by Marija Jakovljević within CPE, supported through Social Change Initiative (SCI) stipend, is transmitted into a summer module exploring what does peacebuilding mean today, how is it related to economic justice, what could feminist economy look like, what are the important yet oftentimes marginalized elements in activist organizing, and how to develop autonomous financial resources and structures needed for activist actions in the field of intersecting peacebuilding and solidarity economy.
3. Children’s Centre, Zaječar
- RSD: 380.000
- Project title: Inclusion is female
“Inclusion is female” is the title of this year’s thematic international inclusive festival of children and youth arts – Art Zone for Everyone. The festival spans over 5 days, gathers around 120 participants from Serbia and the region, and what is accentuated is the role of women who are active in artistic expression of people with disabilities as experts/authors/mothers. Through 4 stage plays, 2 concerts, an exhibition, book promotion, round table, workshops and the premiere of the joint stage play “Visible”, the aim of the group is to introduce the wider public with the specific position and needs of children/youth with disability, and to particularly highlight the discrimination of girls and women with disabilities and the lack of support to their participation in public life.
4. exmov /exploring movement/, Belgrade
- RSD: 200.000
- Project title: Free Flight, Maga Magazinović
This transmedia project / exhibition and a performance in public space encompass ambiental video and sculptural installations inspired by key moments from the life of Maga Magazinović, an activist, a theoretician of artistic dance, choreographer, philosopher, first woman journalist in Serbia, a woman who led Serbia into the modern 20th century. The aim of these activities is developing consciousness about the importance of women’s activism, pointing out to the current importance of Maga’s though and avant-garde character of her views, with a special attention to re-actualization and presenting Maga’s work to youth.
5. Speakers in Colors, Obrenovac
- RSD: 321.800
- Project title: They live
“They live” is an action primarily devoted to the young people of Obrenovac but it is also directed at the rest of the local community. Its base idea is closer look and critical rethinking of socialist heritage and the values it carries (primarily the values of solidarity, equality, multiculturalism and antifascism), with the accent on antifascist women’s movement, through research and artistic work/street art.
6. Group GO OUT, Novi Sad
- RSD: 449.475
- Project title: Let’s talk about…
The supported activities imply the work of the LGBT+ social centre for 4 days a week and conducting thematic meetings twice a month, aiming to educate LGBT+ youth about subject identified as relevant to their lives by the group through working with them. The subjects vary from mental health to partner relationships to general issues significant for the LGBT+ community.
7. Hleb teatar, Belgrade
- RSD: 312.600
- Project title: Marija Ručara stage play tour in Leskovac, Zrenjanin, Smederevo and Kragujevac
Marija Ručara is a stage play speaking out about the injustice affecting workers, about disrespect of workers’ and human rights. Touring with the stage play through cities of Serbia where the injustice still takes place today, in 21st century, is an opportunity to use the play for opening a dialogue with the workers, in attempts to transform the situation. After supporting the production of the stage play, RWF further supports spreading the progressive labour ideas and encouragements presented in the play.
8. Consultations for Lesbians, Belgrade
- RSD: 300.000
- Project title: Through memories to new ideas: Lesbian contributions to feminist and anti-war movement
Consultations for Lesbians within the supported activities are creating videos of memories by lesbians and women who took part in feminist activities starting from the 1980s. At today’s digital age, the group considers its duty to, among other things, enable new generations to discover pieces of feminist-lesbian history through videos. Short films will inform young lesbians and potentially inspire them to engage in activism. The films also have the goal to sensitize wider audience and increase visibility of lesbians and their contributions to democratic society.
9. Cultural Front / Cultural Centre Grad, Belgrade
- RSD: 328.300
- Project title: Decisive
Project Decisive deals with the subject of suicide through two prisms – one is the discussion and portraying people who have, at some point in their lives, committed a failed attempt of suicide, and today are willing to share their experiences, while the other is the personal experience of the author who has lost her father and brother that way. All the portraits and self-portraits were made at the very place where the attempt was committed, followed by author’s texts. The exhibit also contains an audio recording with the protagonists, followed by everyday mobile photos as a video art. Within the project, it is planned to hold a conversation with the author and guests from specific fields of expertise (psychology, psychotherapy etc).
10. Milana Maričić and Goran Lazičić, non-formal group
- RSD: 392.500
- Project title: Bečkerek 1991
The collection of texts and illustrations is devoted to Bečkerek, the weekly newspaper of civil and anti-war orientation published by a group of independent journalists in Zrenjanin during 1991. Organized in thematic blocks, texts revive the memories of collaborators and contemporaries of the newspaper, and scientific-publicist contributions about Bečkerek with a distance of 30 years. The publication also contains a selection of articles and caricatures published in the newspaper, while the QR codes enable access to the digitalized issues. Besides promoting core democratic principles and the culture of public dialogue, the project reaffirms marginalized heritage of the oppositional, anti-nationalist engagement and anti-war civil movement from the 1990s in the current public discourse.
11. Okular, Ćićevac
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: I raise my voice
“I raise my voice” is a set of activities dealing with the empowerment of women and girls, primarily in rural areas, in order for them to act proactively in their local communities by initiating actions, campaigns and changes in the community, through envisioning and implementing their ideas – through organizing public events focused on feminism, antifascism, demilitarization and creating media content revolving around gender equality and promoting women’s mobilizing initiatives.
12. Women’s Studies and Research, branch in Subotica
- RSD: 449.000
- Project title: Women’s studies after 25 years
Women’s studies as an alternative higher education program contain both theoretic and activist dimension, as one of the ore goals is to establish a positive social change. The aim of the project “Women’s studies after 25 years” is to educate a group of participants, with the group further working on empowering and educating others, hence enabling the continuity with the history and predecessors of Women’s studies in Subotica, Vojvodina and Serbia, as well as networking of activists and experts, this time as educators.
13. Visual centre, Pančevo
- RSD: 200.000
- Project title: ARTiculations 3 – The Affair
The project “ARTiculations” is a platform for establishing artistic and showcasing site-specific practices, through reactivation and reactualization of public spaces and institutions of prominent socio-referent contexts. “ARTiculations” formally imply series of engaged and thematically connected exhibition and side programs with the goal of mapping, visibilization and promotion of sensitive and important social subjects, encompassing their cultural, historical, monumental and architectural heritage, through poetic and critical expressions of artists from the region. The aim of the project is actualization of diverse infrastructural and cultural resources, and exchange of information and knowledge regarding thematization and improvement of specific models of social responsibility and behaviors. *Special focus of the third exhibition of the project ARTiculations is directed towards conceptualization of a widely understood specificum of the affair.
14. Association of visual artists of Serbia, Belgrade
- RSD: 150.000
- Project title: ULUS Service for improvement of economic status of artists
By establishing a Portfolio of members – a new service for presenting arts, knowledge and skills of ULUS members, the Association wishes to work on creating conditions for hiring independent artists, as well as those with the status of unemployed people. The project implies establishing a working team of independent visual artists working on editorial and promotional jobs regarding the portfolio, while the structure of the portfolio is two-fold – one part is devoted to the promotion of sales of artwork, and the other to the increase of visibility of other expertise and skills held by artists that can be offered at the labour market. The goal is that the work of the working team of ULUS Service enables communications between artists on one side and potential employers on the other side (architectural bureaus, IT sector, publishing houses, hospitality businesses etc).
15. Žernergija HUB, Belgrade
- RSD: 395.000
- Project title: Ženergija HUBitat
The project is envisioned as a sort of continuation of the project Ženergija HUB, which provided the participants with the knowledge of investigative journalism, editing radio formats, public speech and digital promotion. The project Ženergija HUBitat aims to use field work and provide space for women outside of Belgrade to speak about themselves on podcasts, about their work and agitations, with a special focus on women working in spheres primarily perceived as manly (car mechanics, repairwomen etc). The group would continue transgenerational connecting, and questioning gender roles.
