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"WILD GROWTH" BY LUKA BEKAVAC AND ANA KUZMANIĆ - BOOK LAUNCH FOR THE FIRST PUBLICATION IN THE MST BOOK SERIES
THE FIRST PUBLICATION IN THE TREŠNJEVKA NEIGHBORHOOD MUSEUM (MST) SERIES: "WILD GROWTH"
ANA KUZMANIĆ, LUKA BEKAVAC
BOOK LAUNCH:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2024, AT 7 P.M.
NOVA BAZA, NOVA CESTA 66
PARTICIPANTS: authors Luka Bekavac and Ana Kuzmanić, designers Hrvoje Živčić and Zoran Đukić, web portal Kulturpunkt journalist and editor Hana Sirovica, and the series editor Ana Kutleša
We are pleased to present the first publication in BLOK’s newly launched bilingual book series, “Wild Growth” by Ana Kuzmanić and Luka Bekavac. The MST book series unites the written word – literature, essays, and their hybrids with visual arts, and it is a continuation of multiannual cultural art programs carried out within the Trešnjevka Neighborhood Museum project, a non-institutional initiative of building a different, socially engaged museum, with its roots in the local community. [...]
ART (TO) NEIGHBORHOOD: TREŠNJEVKA WORKS BY BOŽENA KONČIĆ BADURINA, MARKO TADIĆ AND ANA KUZMANIĆ
SALON GALIĆ, MARMONTOVA 3, SPLIT
JANUARY 25 – FEBRUARY 12, 2024
ORGANIZED BY: HULU Split
CURATED BY: Ana Kutleša / BLOK
OPENING: Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 7 p.m.
From research, to direct work with the local community, to references to different social spheres, to exhibitions and publication, three artists with whom we have started the Living Heritage program, revived, each in their specific way, Trešnjevka’s heritage. In the neighborhood, with the neighborhood, for the neighborhood, their works are a living proof that heritage is not only destined to serve commercial trends for the capitalist profit or/and dancing in the rhythm of national pride. [...]
READING GROUP: LISE VOGEL
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, AT 6 PM
NOVA BAZA, NOVA CESTA 66
***If you would like to participate, please contact us at: BLOK@BLOK.HR. We will send you the selected literature to prepare.
You are invited to join us for a group reading of texts by Marxist-feminist LISE VOGEL, as we are nearing the publication of the new, fifth edition in the BLOK’s Tendencija (Tendency) book series. This book series was launched in 2018, and it presents authors who approach art theory and art history from the historical-material perspective. At our third reading group meeting, we will be reading texts by Marxist-feminist Lise Vogel, one of the founders of the social reproduction theory, and one of the first feminist art historians. [...]
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PAPER THAT HEALS: PAPER COLLAGE AND WORDS (ART AND LITERATURE WORKSHOP)
PAPER THAT HEALS: PAPER COLLAGE AND WORDS
ART AND LITERATURE WORKSHOP
2024 THEME: ROOF OVER HEAD
GUIDANCE: Božena Končić Badurina and Olja Savičević Ivančević
MARCH 12 – APRIL 9 2024, TUESDAYS AT 6 P.M.
NOVA BAZA, NOVA CESTA 66
This workshop, entirely free of charge, is intended for persons of all ages, with any level of experience in creative writing and artistic expression, who live and/or work in Trešnjevka. We will meet five times for three hours to look into ''the healing power of paper'', in other words, we will be working on short prose forms, poetry, and the paper collage technique. This year our theme is the universally needed roof over our head and housing, together with all joys and headaches it gives us. Our starting point are our own experiences, experiences of people that surround us, as well as those preserved in the virtual collection of the Trešnjevka Neighborhood Museum. [...]
BOOK LAUNCH “ART, FEMINISM, CLASS – SELECTED TEXTS” BY LISE VOGEL
MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2024, AT 7 P.M.
NOVA BAZA, NOVA CESTA 66
You're invited to the launching of the fifth publication in the Tendencija (Tendency) book series, the selection of texts by Marxist-feminist LISE VOGEL, brought together under the title “Art, feminism, class”. The book will be available free of charge to all those interested.
The speakers:
ANDREJA GREGORINA (BLOK’s collaborator)
LJILJANA KOLEŠNIK, Ph.D. (Institute of Art History)
and
VESNA VUKOVIĆ, translator and publication editor (BLOK) [...]
FROM THE HERITAGE OF SANIBOJ ŽUGIĆ: HAMATRI TAPE
RADIO BAZA 2023 PRESENTS:
FROM THE HERITAGE OF SANIBOJ ŽUGIĆ: HAMATRI TAPE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2023, AT 8 P.M.
NOVA BAZA, NOVA CESTA 66
JOSIP ŠUSTIĆ vocals and guitar, HRVOJE NIKŠIĆ Sanisint (a prototype synthesizer), and percussion, LEO BESLAĆ bass guitar and blockflute, TENA NOVAK violin, vocals, and percussion, ROKO MARGETA percussion, flute, tar, and tampura/swaramandal, and ANAMARIJA ŽUGIĆ BORIĆ vocals, string synthesizer, and percussion, perform original music by ZLATKO MATIĆ / HENRY STAG, NIVES MARUŠIĆ, SANIBOJ ŽUGIĆ, ANDOR SZEBENYI, and SNJEŽAN MATIĆ.
MUSIC CURATOR: Anamarija Žugić Borić [...]
ADVENT IN GAJEVO: COLLECTING MATERIAL FOR THE TREŠNJEVKA NEIGHBORHOOD MUSEUM COLLECTION
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, FROM 3 P.M. UNITL 7 P.M.
LOCAL COMMITTEE AREA GAJEVO / COMMUNITY CENTRE GAJEVO, KOPRIVNIČKA 47
Dear neighbors,
you have started cleaning up and decluttering to prepare for the holiday season, and you found a box full of family photos, your old scout badge, a tracksuit from one of sport societies, or a school diploma? We invite you to visit us at ADVENT IN GAJEVO, where we joined on invitation of the Trešnjevka Cultural Centre, City District Trešnjevka - jug, and the Local Committee Area Gajevo. On SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, FROM 3 UNTIL 7 P.M. we will be collecting your contributions for our Trešnjevka Neighborhood Museum virtual collection, at the premises of the new Community Centre Gajevo (where Local Committee Area is located, too) in KOPRIVNIČKA 47. [...]