2023
Grants approved – October 2023
Number of grants: 16
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1. Rebel readers, Belgrade
RSD: 424.000
Project title: Štefica Cvek: An award for feminist, queer and rebellious literature
Štefica Cvek is a non-competitive regional literary shortlist. It is a selection of the best works from the BHSC language area from the previous publishing year, written from the positions of feminism, antifascism, ecology, anticolonialism and other leftist perspectives. The goal of the selection is an intervention into the mainstream regional literature, which does not recognize feminist and queer literature as artistically valuable, and which also marginalizes progressive poetics.
2. Refugee Aid Serbia, Belgrade
RSD: 444.000
Project title: The Workshop
The Workshop is a safe space and educational centre for refugees and asylum seekers in Belgrade city centre. Since April 2017, it held language lessons for over 600 refugees and asylum seekers, with the aim of enabling further education, job seeking, as well as integration into the new environment and society in Serbia. Besides lessons held in person in the organization’s space, there is also an option of online lessons for people settled in camps outside of Belgrade or those who cannot attend in person due to work/education/personal commitments, as well as lessons for refugee children and recreational activities such as sports.
3. Collective Action A Roof Above Head, Belgrade
RSD: 449.000
Project title: Speak loudly and take a lawyer with you III
Collective Action A Roof Above Head expands its field of struggle against unfair evictions. Communal enterprises and rich creditors are violating the minimal socially responsible law clauses to make a profit on the poor and discriminated people. But they do not expect that those people will have the support of activists and a lawyer. We keep on providing legal support for those who cannot afford it on their own for their liberation from unfairly blown-up or non-existing debts.
4. The Fakirs from the South, Kruševac
RSD: 259.600
Project title: Tour of the stage play “Wings” – Zaječar, Užice, Kosjerić
“Wings” are a socially engaged stage play about the position of people with autism and their families in Serbia, with the text based on conversations with mothers of people with autism. The stage play was co-created by the community gathered around the Alternative cultural centre Nest. It was directed by Jovana Đorić, and the performers are Isidora Kostić, Marija Lukićević, Marija Trifunović. Dimitrije Novović and Vukašin Đorić Vasić. The stage play will be performed in Užice, Zaječar and Kosjerić with the aim of educating broader audience and deepening the relationships among the Nest community members.
5. Women for Peace, Leskovac
RSD: 449.300
Project title: Women, feminism, sexuality
The project is envisioned primarily for young girls as a group most susceptible to all forms of violence and negative behaviours, but at the same time the group who can benefit the most out of newly accepted knowledge from the field of feminism and sexuality. We need to get young girls more familiar with the impact of gender stereotypes and unequal gender power relationships on sexuality, identity and relationships that should be based on respect, responsibility and equality. We need to provide them with an option of exploring sexuality as well as to develop their own values and opinions on sexuality, gender identity, relationships and intimacy, enjoyment, which is a pathway towards grasping awareness and conquering sexual freedoms.
6. Group for Children and Youth „Indigo“, Niš
RSD: 446.000
Project title: Transgenerational study about the position of Roma girls and women in the “Red Star” settlement in Niš
The goal of the project is exploring the position of Roma girls and women in three generations within a family. The study will be conducted in four phases. The first phase will encompass surveys with Roma families for gathering socio-demographic data and choosing families who will participate in the second phase. The second phase will encompass interviewing Roma girls and women, with the interviews being focused on their position within their families and environment. The third phase implies analysing and interpreting the data. The fourth phase is presenting the results on a public event in collaboration with the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš.
7. Infoteka CK13, Novi Sad
RSD: 387.000
Project title: Feminist critique and women’s art
The project is focused on feminist and women’s perspectives in arts, analysing primarily how art treats women, but also, in general, which gender dynamics are present in arts. The project primarily highlights literature, film and music. These subjects will be treated through events aiming to develop critical thinking among youth, with a particular focus on young women, as well as through translating and printing texts related to these subject, also primarily envisioned for educating young women on feminist critique perspectives.
8. Yutopia, Novi Sad
RSD: 334.500
Project title: Women and war – podcast about women’s anti-war literature
The project consists of five radio shows devoted to literary works written by women, which thematise the position of women in war conflicts. Besides radio form, the project also encompasses one public event relating to the subject, where women writers and critics will have a discussion. The shows will be published on the CK13 Radio community. Public events will be organized in the CK13 Youth Centre. The project is envisioned for the audience interested in feminism, literature, history, antimilitarism and antifascism. The goal of the project is to inform people about books written by regional and world women writers who thematise war, as well as relationship with militarism and strengthening patriarchal tendencies in contemporary society.
9. KAO Parnas, Novi Sad
RSD: 440.250
Project title: Seize the film – Drop the prejudices (Seize the film against fascism, militarism, ableism, gender-based violence)
Through 10 screenings of selected short movies from the Seize the Film archive and directed discussion, the group will educate at least 300 young people in high schools and at faculties in Novi Sad about ableism, fascism, militarism, violence and ageism, through feminist perspective and critique of patriarchy. The aim is to contextualize views towards disability, i.e. to raise the awareness about ableism among young people, as well as the fact that ableism emerges in tight relationship with patriarchy, fascism which is not visible at first sight in the contemporary society, militarism, capitalism, racism, heterosexism, ableism.
10. Latinos en Serbia, Novi Sad
RSD: 427.118
Project title: Support network for women from Latin America, migrants in Serbia
The project will focus on the community of migrant women from Latin American countries living in Serbia. The goal is to get the community closer, in a practical way, through diverse subjects important for their lives here. The three main thematic fields of the projects are legal aspects of migrations, gender-based violence and mental health. The main activities include info sessions, as well as creating a comprehensive guide in Spanish. The activities will be organized in Belgrade, Novi Sad and online.
11. Volunteering Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad
RSD: 356.450
Project title: Strategic planning for more efficient actions
Volunteering Centre of Vojvodine, an association of citizens from Novi Sad, aims to design a strategic plan. This process is envisioned to mark the future spot of the organization and pathways to get there, by analysing the position and actions of the organization in the previous years, analysing the strengths of the organization and fields that require improvements, analysing diverse spheres and contexts in which the organization works, analysing the needs to which the organization can and wants to respond, as well as the assets (in terms of methods, activities and practices) with which the goals will be met.
12. Centre for supporting the local community Mome, Pirot
RSD: 394.000
Project title: The women of Stara planina – Patriarchy and its legacy in rural communities
The project implies documenting stories about lives of women living in the Stara planina mountain through narrating about the position of women in rural areas, childhood, youth, sexuality, marriage, family and local community, from birth to death, through wars and important events. By filming women’s stories on the ground, the group wishes to explore and document historical roots of patriarchy and misogyny in Serbian society.
13. Women’s Studies and Research, chapter in Subotica
RSD: 450.000
Project title: Women’s studies and research 2023
The aim of the project is to form and keep on improving a group of students and educators, current and future allies in NGO activities, through the alternative higher educational program of Women’s studies. They will further work on empowerment and education of others and enable the continuity with the history and predecessors of Women’s studies in multilingual city of Subotica, as well as in Vojvodina and Serbia (region), on one hand, and networking between activists and experts (educators) on the other hand. The group also minds about the sustainability and continuity of women’s studies.
14. Women’s association Teuta-tim, Trstenik
RSD: 449.800
Project title: Safe women, safe society #2
Previously created program of psychological support for women “The care of you begins with you” met a significant interest and positive feedback of participants, hence the program will be continued. It is directed towards strengthening mental health, and it focuses on women in need of such support. Besides continuation of this practice, the aim is to include more women. The project is designed for women from Rasina district, and it will mainly be conducted in Trstenik, as well as online.
15. Children’s Centre Zaječar
RSD: 448.500
Project title: Creative lab of resistance
During 5 months, 20 participants (age 14 – 18) from Zaječar and Knjaževac will be empowered and enticed to oppose sexism, violence and discrimination in diverse forms of media. Conducting the project will contribute cognitive, value-driven and activist changes. Through non-formal learning and exchange among the participants, the level of awareness and influence of the girls will rise in the context of struggle agaianst diverse forms of violence and discrimination.
16. Non-formal collective Ivana Gordić Perc and Tara Rukeci, Zrenjanin
RSD: 449.000
Project title: Vox Feminae
“Vox Feminae”, a documentary, aims to display another, yet unseen and untold story about women who first discovered, and then supported over 600 workers from Vietnam, who are victims of human trafficking and who worked on constructing Linglong factory in Zrenjanin, to return home. The participants, besides multitude of personal archive materials, are speaking about completely unforeseen, emotionally and physically extremely difficult set of events into which they were dragged due to determination to help the detained workers.
