Students' City Cultural Center


: Apr 4, 2019


Looking for Partnership Looking for Extra EU Funds
About Me

 

Students' City Cultural Center (SCCC) is a cultural institution situated in New Belgrade, in the central part of the Student City campus, the largest student complex in the Balkans. It was founded in 1971 and opened in May 1974 as an example of what the student protests of 1968 ultimately. SCCC is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

SCCC cover important areas involving creativity: Literature, Theatre, Music, the Visual Arts, Film, the Humanities and Science. Programs are conducted via lectures, discussions, exhibitions, artist in residencies programs, concerts, film and music festivals, theatre projects and various workshops.

The basic program objectives of SCCC are: addressing the cultural needs and values of students and nurturing new ones; involving the students community in art and humanities projects that can serve as a powerful tool for understanding contemporary society; improving and fostering different forms of creativity of students through, innovative educational programs from all fields of art and humanities, research and participative art projects.

SCCC is a modern and functional structure, consisting of a management building, large and small auditorium, library with reading rooms, two galleries and a floor with an amphitheater and outdoor stage. SCCC has film and video production equipment and facilities to host concerts, as well as modern equipment allowing multimedia exhibitions and the staging of theatrical plays. SCCC promotes its own productions through self-published editions.

Project in progress 

We are developing project of international Artist - in - residence program for artists and collectives experienced in participatory art practices, interested to take part in researching the different aspects of students’ life. Artist, curators and collectives from different fields of arts (the visual arts, performing arts, literature, and interdisciplinary arts) and regions will be involved. Through past participative projects we have already made digital archive of vernacular, art and documentary photographs dealing with life of the students from the fifties until contemporary days in local context but within the global social and historic flows. The main objectives of the project are:

-  audience development through participative and contextual based art practices;

-  involving students and youth communities of different backgrounds into creative endeavors and recognizing the scope of  Pan-European characteristics of students’ life, education and identities.

- advancement and application of innovative digital technologies in creating platforms for shared interactive contents;

-  developing collaborative digital humanitiinterpretative models of intangible heritage;

We intend to establish jointon-line platform, networked artist in residency program, traveling exhibition and printed publication.

Open calls: Creative Europe - Culture - Cooperation projects

Cooperation activitiy: Project leader

Keywords and matching areas:

 Higher Education
 Arts Education
 Comics
 Cultural heritage
 Digital Culture
 New Media
 Photography
 Visual Arts
 IT for Heritage
 Digital Humanities

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