Balkan Reflection Group
The role of the arts and culture in the European integration of the Balkans was the main theme explored by the ECF's Balkan Reflection Group. A new publication, 'The Heart of the Matter', offers expert analysis and reflection from the ten personalities (artists, intellectuals, cultural producers and political experts) engaged in this exercise. The process resulted in the launch of the Balkan Incentive Fund for Culture, a new funding-line for the region. Download the book.
Below the full essays of which you find excerpts in the book:
Mehmet Behluli (artist and university professor, Priština)
Edi Muka (curator, Tirana)
Marijetica Potrc (architect and art critic, Ljubljana)
Goran Sergej Pristaš (dramaturge and choreographer, Zagreb)
Violeta Simjanovska (cultural manager, Skopje)
Sreten Ugricic (writer and director of the National Library, Belgrade)
If you wish to receive a copy of the publication, contact Bertan Selim
Running up to the conference in The Hague in December 2005, the members of the Balkan Reflection Group held preparatory meetings. The reports of these two meetings held in Sarajevo and Belgrade were written by Chris Keulemans who moderated the meetings.