education
PAPER THAT HEALS: DRAWINGS AND WORDS: Art, creative writing, and Croatian language learning workshop
PAPER THAT HEALS: DRAWINGS AND WORDS
Led by: Olja Savičević Ivančević and Božena Končić Badurina
4. 3. – 1. 4. 2026.
on Wednesdays, 18 – 20 h
Nova BAZA, Nova cesta 66
FREE OF CHARGE!
Open to all, regardless of country of origin and knowledge level!
The workshop is entirely free of charge. It is intended for all people, regardless of when they arrived and where they came from, with any level of knowledge of Croatian and experience in creative writing and artistic expression. [...]
APPLAUSE WON'T COVER THE RENT: WIENER PERSPEKTIVE (PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION)
Thursday 22.1. at 6 PM
DAZ / UHA (Trg bana J. Jelačića 3/1)
The fight for better working conditions continues in the new year! We’re opening the new season of BLOK and SPID's long-term program Applause Won’t Cover the Rent with a public presentation of the Viennese initiative Wiener Perspektive. With dancer and choreographer Alexander Gottfarb and choreographer Claire Lefèvre, with an introduction and moderation by Nina Gojić from SPID and Dunja Kučinac from BLOK, we will discuss their engagement in improving the labor rights of performing artists. [...]
Launch of the book “From Applause to Trade Unions: A Manual on Cultural Work”
Wednesday, December 10, at 6 p.m.
Venue: DAZ/UHA, Bana Jelačića Square 3/1
We are proudly inviting you to the launch of the book "From Applause to Trade Unions: A Manual on Cultural Work’. It is intended for all underpaid and precarious cultural workers and artists who need a memento for labor law issues, but also as an incentive to co-organize and fight for better working conditions.
Speakers:
Nina Gojić (author, The Croatian Screenwriters and Playwrights Guild – SPID)
Sven Janovski (author, trade union SKUPA)
Jakov Kolak (author, Regional Industrial Union)
Dunja Kučinac (author and editor-in-chief, BLOK)
and
Katja Praznik (sociologist and theorist).
After the book launch, we will have an informal get together. Let’s celebrate together the end of this year in the spirit of collective struggle and enter a new one stronger and better organized! [...]
LIVING IN TREŠNJEVKA SKYSCRAPERS: collecting contributions for the Trešnjevka Neighborhood Museum virtual collection
Monday, December 1, 2025
11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Nova BAZA, Nova cesta 66
From November 20 until December 13, at the Nova BAZA Gallery, you can see the exhibition ‘Vertical Life’ on the skyscrapers in the Domany Brothers’ Street by artist Maje Marković and art historian Lidija Butković Mićin.
In the meantime, we continue to discover and collect stories from Trešnjevka’s history through our virtual collection. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a high-rise building or a family house in Trešnjevka, in Srednjaci or Voltino – we are interested in your memories of how people once lived, studied, worked, exercised, strolled, and ate in Trešnjevka. We are waiting for you on Monday, December 1, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Nova BAZA (Nova cesta 66), where we will collect your contributions and stories. [...]