Start Alternative Cultural Center in Serbia

Dear friends and supporters,


Since our last report, within our project we did some program developements:

1) Reactivation of amatuer theatre in our town. Group lead by local professiona actress that works in Belgrade prepared first theatre performance with local amatuer actors after 30 years! The perfomance was well attended by locals and we tend to keep the group moving forward.

2) Serbian traveling Film Festival "Free Zone" was held for the first time in Kosjeric in our Cultural Center. During the four days locals could see 8 movies

3) Painted first mural on outside wall of Cultural center Polygon. We tend to paint other walls as well.

3 Traveling musicians from Brasil have visited our town and we hosted them for cultural exchange and they held a concert.

Dear friends and supporters,

We are happy to inform you thatconstruction works at Alternative Cultural Center Polygon have been finished.

Since our last report, within our project we did some program developements:

1) As far as construction works are concern, in this period we changed all interior ligths, so that now we have energetic effective LED panels within all the rooms and added gallery lights arount whole main room and finished two toilets and small kitchen so that they are fully functional for everyday usage,

2) We started amature theater group within the Alternative Cultural Center that is preparing premire of their first theater play. The group is been led by our local actrisse an counts 6 people - new amature actors,

3) We started series of podcasts promoting local legends of our town and their personal and profesional life stories by wich we want to present interesting individuals to wider range of local and regional comunity as well as our Center and,  

4) We organized 2 concerts of local bends during this period that were both visited quite well, around 50-70 people each.

5) We organized one gallery exibition of our local artist.

Untill next report, stay safe and best regards!

Dear friends and supporters,

We are happy to inform you that we are totaly finilazing construction works at Alternative Cultural Center Polygon.

1) Since our last report, we succseeded to rase funds for outdoor insulation of our object that made it fully energy efficient and fully ecofriendly!

2) Also, we organised cultural diversity workshop with kids elementary school age for 3 months where they had an opportunity to learn about other cultures and different ways of lifestile (town - village - city) after which they prepared individual and unique art works that were presented in the Center and in Elementary School hall.

3) In the relaxing athmosphere for one day we had a great pleasure to host one alternative music performer who presented his work to our local comunity for free.

Dear friends and supporters,

We are happy to inform you that we are finilazing construction works at Alternative Cultural Center Polygon and we created our first workshops for local kids!

We organized a workshops of juggling, photography and painting murali. Local kids had an opportunity to learn from the best artists in fields of art mentioned above. Every discipline was held in the series of workshops where kids had an opportunity to learn and hear smomething new and fun and after that were able to practice everzthing learned as you may see in pictures below.  At the same time we have rounded up last parts PVC joinery (4 small windows in kitchen and toilet) and recieved donations for: 1) 40 new foldable chairs and 8 foldable tables that made our workshops easier to perform; 2) outdor insulation that will make our space 100% energy efficient (taking into cosidiration we already replaced all old joinery with new PVC joinery, instaled inner sound and heat insolation and instaled pellet boiler and heating system);  3) adaptation of toilet and kitchen.

We also organised first art exibition of our local artist that was quite awesome experience for the artist since that is her first exibition in hometown, for the local comunity that had an opportuniy to experience something new, and for our organization and space because it was first public event we organized for wider local comunity.

Until our next report, stay safe! :)

Janko Belic

Dear friends,

We are happy to inform you that the most of work around Alternative Cultural Center Polygon in our small town of Kosjeric has been finished!

A space that was used as a Drivers School in the past, and the last few years has been used as a storage room for some people since this year, and thanks to your generous donations from all over the world, has a new look and much more useful purpose. Now it become a multifunctional space and the home for all orgnizations in the community which are dedicated to improvement of life in our little town.

As you can see from the photos below we made a lot of changes in the adaptation process.

1) inner sound and heat isolation; 2) instalation of PVC joinery (5 windows and 1 door); 3) Instalation of heathing system (7 radiators and pellet boiler); 4) concrite stage with wood floor construction; 5) putting up a new vinyl floor. 

Due to the serious COVID19 pandemic in our countury we decided to postpone our first activities in the center until the situation gets better. Some of our first defined art workshops for the local youth will be: Murali workshop, juggling workshop and photography workshop.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you wish to know more about our Center and its activities during this year.

Stay safe.

Janko Belic