Location

Stolac, Donji Vakuf, Kotor Varoš, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Date

2021

Medium

Arts, Community Building, Direct Action

#demandculture understands art as a powerful medium to bridge the dissonances in BiH. As a socially responsible initiative, it focuses on communities with few cultural events.

Through a strong media campaign and partnership with local organizations, #demandculture aims to begin a movement showing the power of culture and small-town charms.

Main objectives of this project are:

To produce a festive, colorful, and friendly cultural event joining art forms and making it free and welcome for everyone
To promote culture among ordinary citizens in order to encourage their further cultural participation and contribution
To spread the idea that culture should be available to everyone through various performances on the streets and public places
To explore and stimulate cultural interests and values of citizens living in the small cities around Bosnia and Herzegovina
To discover and celebrate the arts through music and other art forms
To stimulate cultural scene and contributing to cultural content in Stolac, Donji Vakuf, Kotor Varoš
To put together a unifying event promoting synergy between the various artists involved
To facilitate integration and closer ties between different local communities
To encourage the discovery of new artists
To contribute to residents’ openness towards the arts giving them opportunities to freely take part in the event

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Project Activities

On Friday, September 25, 2020, the first of a series of cultural events was held in the garden of the Šarić House

Museum in Stolac. The Stolac City Orchestra hosted the event, whose members sent a strong message of togetherness through the streets of Stolac. They held a one-hour concert for citizens and set an example of joint action through culture in the city, which is divided into many other social segments. The cultural program wrapped up with an exhibition of paintings by local artist Igor Borozan, an academic painter and sculptor.

The event in Stolac is just one in a series of events by the team behind the #demandulture initiative, who, through a strong media campaign and partnership with local organizations,

are launching activities that show the power of culture and the charm of small towns. The initiative promotes artists from smaller local communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and spreads the idea that culture should be available to everyone through street and public performances, exhibitions and book promotions, discovering and glorifying art through music and other art forms.

All activities of this event took place in compliance with the protection measures against COVID-19 issued by the Federal Ministry of Health.