2022
Grants approved – October 2022
Number of grants: 15
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1. Bibija, Belgrade
- RSD: 447.000
- Project title: Institutional support to Roma Women’s Centre Bibija
In the absence of other institutional support to Bibija, RWF awards this grant to support the organization in further articulation of problems and promotion of Roma, women’s and minority rights. The institutional support is the basic necessity of the organization for uninterrupted work on already initiated and planned programs and activities, which encompass field work, workshops, discussions, legal counseling and other types of support to Roma women.
2. Centre for the Politics of Emancipation, Belgrade
- RSD: 300.000
- Project title: Documenting and deepening the summer discussions on solidarity economy and building a just peace
After holding a summer school “Solidarity economy and peace activism” with fifty two participants from 28 countries, the group wishes to enable access to selected video materials from the school, produce texts and deepen the conversations regarding the meaning of peacebuilding today, how it relates to economic justice, how a feminist economy could look like, what are the important yet frequently marginalized elements of activists’ organizing, and how to develop autonomous financial resources and structures needed for progressive and responsible activist actions. The support of RWF is aimed at processing the selected materials and website hosting expenses.
3. Children’s Centre Zaječar
- RSD: 446.000
- Project title: I haven’t reported
The project “I haven’t reported” is the continuation of support to the campaign of the same name that has been initiated on social media. After the theatre performance “I haven’t reported”, based on true confessions of the survivors, which was performed in Prizren, Tirana, Belgrade and Zaječar between March and July, the organization formed a non-formal network of girls “Girls in Solidarity” in Novi Pazar. Within the planned regional performances, in the multimedia performance, with 4 girls from Prizren and Zaječar already casted for the play, the group will also include a girl from Pula and a girl from Sarajevo. After participating at a festival in Pula, the performance will go to Sarajevo, Prizren and Priština. During all of the activities, the group will film materials to intensify the campaign, with the goal of empowering survivors to encourage themselves and report the violators.
4. Expansion, Brodarevo
- RSD: 150.000
- Project title: Through empowering and connections to greater safety of rural women of Prijepolje municipality
The activities are directed towards connecting women from the multi-ethnic environment of Brodarevo. This implies encouraging women for exiting the home environment, gaining the habit and enabling attendance of targeted programs, empowering through discussing relevant subjects such as recognizing violence, assertive actions, personal and collective development, as well as additional continuous support of an expert.
5. Non-formal collective Femina educa, Kraljevo
- RSD: 444.200
- Project title: Alternative education – Femina educa
Alternative education – Femina educa implies organizing Cinema of women’s engaged films and art workshops (comics, photography, illustration, theatre, creative writing), as well as workshops regarding gender-based violence, to empower pupils and women in education. The program will be held in local high schools: Agricultural-chemical school, School of forestry, Technical school, Machine-technical school, as well as in local alternative cultural spaces. The program is an artistic and feminist response to the disorientated educational system, enticed by the lack of such content in the town and education, and by the aim of gaining non-compromised equality.
6. Free Media, Novi Pazar
- RSD: 300.000
- Project title: Memories of the 1990s – Suppressed traumas
The project implies filming three video shows about the memories of women from Novi Pazar of the 1990s, war years. The aim of the group is to create an alternative secondary source about how women remember the war years, as well as the material referring to uncertainties, fears and traumas that those years have stamped on the surrounding region. Memories of these women regarding this period has not been yet noted in documentary methods. The shows will be streamed at the Freemedia.rs website.
7. Genero: Journal of feminist theory and cultural studies, Belgrade
- RSD: 221.300
- Project title: 20 years of Genero journal
Genero: Journal of feminist theory and cultural studies is the only journal in Serbia specifically focusing on feminist theory and producing feminist knowledge. In 2022, the journal marks its 20th anniversary. Genero is the longest-existing feminist journal in Serbia, and it marks this important jubilee by publishing a new issue (26/2022) which also has a special thematic focus devoted to violence against women (guest editor: Tanja Ignjatović). Besides the printed issue, all the texts from the journal are also available on the journal’s web page and free for downloading.
8. Alternative Cultural Centre “Hero Maričić”, Kraljevo
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: Writings from the Aerodromska Street
The core of the supported activities is the intention to finish and edit the existing writings, as well as to write new ones, for a kind of testimonials emerging from years-long friendships with the members of a small and isolated Roma community from the non-paved edge of the town, between a loud recycling factory and the town’s landfill in the Aerodromska Street. The final result of all these activities should be publishing a book in which, through true and personal stories and adequate accompanying photos, the author will make sure to present the context in which the women heroes of this unique existential and cultural matrix have been living for already 22 years, with only some improvements in terms of housing quality but still discriminated not only by the majority community but also by the Roma men cohabitors in their native neighborhood in Kraljevo. The aim is to introduce the wider community, and get them interested and connected with their poorest fellow citizens, who need a lot of empathy, solidarity and support. It is also about the desire that the existing writing don’t get lost in the hallways of the internet and social media, but to make them a tangible written clue of years of friendships and joys and togetherness emerging from it, as a proof that friendship and understanding go beyond class, cultural, language or generational barriers. The book would also be a logical continuation, in fact, a type of literary and graphic matching with earlier filmed documentary Kitchens, wars.
9. Klara and Rosa, Subotica
- RSD: 450.000
- Project title: Boost
Within the long-term activities for building a supranational cultural space in Subotica, this organization hosts a series of workshops for young women in Subotica through which the participants will question personal, political, traditional, local values. At the same time, the process serves to the additional connections and empowerment of individuals in the community, through theatrical and creative methodology. The process also serves to strengthen the community and map common problems, sentiments and potentials of the society, as well to democratize arts by making it more available to everyone, and create an atmosphere of acceptance, listening and exchange. The documentary material that gets recorded through the process will be shaped into a radio play, as a contribution to the local radio community RadioPlac.
10. Multimedia Centre Led Art, Novi Sad
- RSD: 335.000
- Project title: At the Inland Sea
Theatre performance “At the Inland Sea” based on the play by Edward Bond is an antifascist fairy tale, speaking of the Holocaust, as well as about the return of fascism today, and the relationship of fascism and consumerism through the example of oppressing women workers and single mothers. Addressing mainly youth, the collective wishes to develop a new way of speaking about the genocide and oppression, and uses theatre as the space of common search for utopian, as well as realistic solutions. The performance will premiere at Ujvideki Szinhaz Theatre in early February.
11. NGO Sandglass, Kruševac
- RSD: 150.000
- Project title: Institutional support
In the atmosphere of uncertain donors’ support to feminist organizations, we support Sandglass in a part of their institutional costs needed for conducting regular peacebuilding activities, including workshops with girls regarding peace subjects.
12. Volunteering Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad
- RSD: 280.700
- Project title: War and peace – radio shows about (anti)militarism
The supported activities are a pilot version of a podcast by Volunteering Center of Vojvodina. The podcast consists of six episodes that will air from December 2022 until February 2023. The podcast is being recorded within the Radio community CK13. The goal of the podcast is informing the public by highlighting the general traits of militarism and antimilitarist movements, as well as the specific role and position of women in these processes and peacebuilding processes. Designing the process was inspired by the omnipresent militarization of the society, impacted by current world affairs, the youth views of militarization through the example of viewing mandatory army service, as well as by media and social treatment of women in Serbia and women’s organizing around it in the context of growing retraditionalization and repatriarchalization of the society.
13. Croatian Community in Belgrade “Tin Ujević”, Belgrade
- RSD: 211.000
- Project title: Special program within the 4th Revue of Croatian film in Belgrade – Focus on women authors in Croatian cinema
FOCUS id made of special program of films within the 4th Revue of Croatian film in Belgrade in November at the Yugoslav Cinematheque Museum. It is designed for youth, experts and broader film audience, as well as the members and friends of the Croatian national minority in Serbia. The selected short and feature-length films by Hana Jušić, Barbara Vekarić, Antoaneta Alamat Kusijanović and Sonja Tarokić are characterized by bold and modern cinema poetics and self-expression of young women who, through the dramatic analysis in the film medium, witness of contradictions of contemporary life, locally and globally. They give the mark of equality to the quality and diversity of Croatian cinema today.
14. Women’s Studies and Research, the branch of Subotica
- RSD: 446.300
- Project title: Women’s Studies in Subotica
Women’s studies as an alternative higher educational programs holds a recognizable theoretical and activist profile and tends to establish a positive social change.
The aim of the project “Women’s Studies in Subotica”, beginning in October 2022, is to educate a group of participants through the program of Women’s studies, with the potential of the participants becoming future collaborators who will further work on empowering and educating others, and hence enable the continuity of the history and precursors of Women’s studies in Subotica, Vojvodina and Serbia. Networking of activists and experts will this time be conducted through the function of educators.
15. Women in Black, Belgrade
- RSD: 446.000
- Project title: The voices of disobedience – Russian anti-war feminist movement in 2022
With the escalation of the war that Russia leads against Ukraine in 2022, the oppression in Russia has also risen, with the emergence of the anti-war resistance. Vladimir Putin’s regime is using brutal force against the opposition activists; it arrests, it locks up, it tortures. With this project, the group tends to express its solidarity with Russian feminist anti-war movement in Belgrade and Russia, as well as to present the anti-war strategies of resistance in an authoritarian country such as Russia. The project will be conducted in Belgrade with the goal of questioning the mythologized picture of Russia in Serbian society.
