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Projects current year
Small actions are realized in the different countries of the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans (SCP). They are in the responsibility of the SCP local offices and decided upon by local boards consisting of 4 cultural experts and a representative of the local Swiss Cooperation Office (SDC). Short summaries of the projects selected for a small actions grant are listed below:
Small actions Belgrade
	ROOM OF THE LITTLE FEARS Multidisciplinary Performance and open discussion	Applicant(s) Irena Ristic, Hop.La!	Time and place Belgrade from: September 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 2,800.00 production costs
	"Room of The Little Fears" is a performance about the origin of the fear and its developing forms within concrete social context. "Room of The Little Fears” will be made to host only 12 people at the time but the performance will be repeated several times during the seven days from 5th to12th of September 2009. Expected number of repetitions in Belgrade is 21-25. On September 12, Hop.la! will organise an open discussion on crossing the impressions/ sensations/ opinions about proposed art form.
	Nomad Scene - Romany Opera Theatre Performance	Applicant(s) Dragoljub Martic, Culture Centre Smederevo KOREJA Theatre, Lecce (Italy)	Time and place Smederevo, Skopje (Macedonia) from: July 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 3,100.00 part of production costs
	Following the 2 years of co-work between Koreja Theatre and Culture Centre Smederevo, the result is the production of the Romany Opera that was invited to be programmed and presented in the upcoming Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, taking place in Skopje 3rd – 12th September 2009. The performance involves Italian theatre operators/trainers, boys from the Roma community in Smederevo, and boys and girls from the amateur youth theatre “Patos”.
	Kontekst gallery program for 2009 – critical practice Visual arts Exhibition and platform for public debates	Applicant(s) Marko Miletic, Kontekst	Time and place Belgrade from: April 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 3,000.00 part of production costs
	The main goal of the Kontekst Gallery is to exhibit and promote the works of young artists, as well as provoking a dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The focus is on the works created in the media of video art, experimental photography, installation, performance art, and new media. Project CONTEXTS is about educational, critical, artistic, and social platforms for public debates on contemporary art, culture and politics, the contexts in which they emerge, their influence on the society, and issues that they address and/or question/solve.
	Preserving Roma Poetry Literature Collection of Roma poems	Applicant(s) Ismet Jasarevic, Center for Integration and Affirmation of Roma Community	Time and place Belgrade from: February 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 2,000.00 printing costs
	The project will enable publishing a collection of 35 poems as well as their public presentation at the Roma cultural nights in Leskovac, Nis and Belgrade. The project will enable publishing a collection of 35 poems as well as their public presentation at the Roma cultural nights in Leskovac, Nis and Belgrade. Centre for Integration and Affirmation of Roma Community holds an extensive collection of Roma poetry that has been gathered for several years and shall be used for the purposes of this project. Over the years, Mr. Ismet Jasarevic, as a Roma activist and expert in Romology, has been researching and collecting poems of various Roma authors.
	Whispering Girls Theatre Book	Applicant(s) Zorica Jevremovic	Time and place Belgrade from: February 2009 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 2,500.00 printing costs
	A book entitled “Šaputave devojke” (Whispering Girls) deals with the creation and work of the first feminist theatre in the East. The book will present an analysis of the choreography in three of the theatre’s performances, with a special emphasis on the work with disabled women. A large number of photographs will be used to document the artistic results of the choreography. 500 copies of the book will be printed, each completed with a DVD containing the recording of performances.
	The Culture Lobby Participatory art Photography multi-format archive project and exhibitions www.theculturelobby.com	Applicant(s) Milica Pekic Conev, NGO KIOSK	Time and place Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia from: July 2008 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 2,500.00 part of mobility costs
	The Culture Lobby is a participatory and multi-format archive that will examine cultural memory in the process of EU integration in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) by photo-documenting what the citizens think will change or disappear when their territory joins EU, marking the geographical location of each example with GPS technology.
	DOCUMENT 2000 Visual arts Database on Serbian modern artistic production since 2000 www.serbiancontemporaryart.info	Applicant(s) Darka Radosavljevic Vasiljevic, REMONT independent artistic association	Time and place Belgrade from: July 2008 till: October 2009	Grant CHF 1,300.00 production costs and part of fees and copyrights
	DOCUMENT 2000 is a database on Serbian modern artistic production since 2000. We intend to maintain and update the database on regular basis, but also to introduce new categories, such as: links to Serbian institutions and organisations dealing with promotion of contemporary art; information and contacts to international exhibitions and festivals (e.g. October Salon, Belef, Biennial Nadežda Petrović, Biennial of Miniature, etc.); email contacts of critics covering the scene; email contacts of media/journalists specialised in contemporary art.