Finally, feeling at home

The other day my best friend and I were on the phone, trying to fit in all possible topics while her newborn baby slept. As usual, the conversation somehow slipped towards women’s issues. Really, when you think about it, it’s not at all unusual that we talk about this so much, when most of our experiences are […]

Human rights in the year that ends and the unstoppable power of change sparked by brave women who spoke up

The state of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina is best manifested in the fact that Ivan Begić, a younger generation opposition politician in the Republika Srpska, decided to retire from political life after an intimate sexual video of him with a same-sex partner was posted and shared online. I do not know if Begić changed his[…]

Jelena Jachim Jaćimović: The legacies of wars are still present in post-Yugoslav societies

Artist and activist Jelena Jaćimović showed her personal courage and responsibility on the International day against fascism and anti-Semitism, November 9th 2021, when she and her fellow citizen Aida Ćorović threw eggs at the convicted war criminal’s, Ratko Mladić’s mural, in central Belgrade. Although she then became popular among the wider public, she had previously been known[…]

Theatre performance “Welcome”

The performance “Welcome” uses water as a medium. The water of the Olympic pool becomes a projection canvas, the Mediterranean Sea, the coast of Greece, the coast of Turkey, a cornfield, a border, then a European metropolis, a railway, our own backyard as well as Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Istanbul, Athens, Aleppo, and Sarajevo. Director : Nermin[…]

Hanna Dujmović

Hanna Dujmović was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 16th June 1994. In 2017 she took part in a sculpture colony held in Cazin at the Ostrožac Castle. The aim of the colony was to preserve the cultural heritage, enrich the public space within the walls of the Ostrožac Castle with sculptures made of bihacit, the[…]

Culture needs a home

There is hardly a single person from ex-Yugoslavia into whose life the notion of a cultural center has not been etched. To some, that notion bears romantic memories of their youth, the dances they went to and performances they saw there, the first encounters with musical instruments that would permanently mark their lives as well as the[…]

BRUDER

One of the most disturbing things when it comes to challenges that Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing is dissatisfaction of a young people and their interest in leaving this country. Something what we can see in Bosnia and Herzegovina and what should be emphasized is that the young people with decent jobs and solid opportunities for a[…]

Contradictions of Rwanda

Bosnian actor Benjamin Bajramović participated in a project called Shared stories of Bosnia and herzegovina, Ruwanda and Germany which took place in Kigali, capital of Rwanda this September. Learn more about life in Rwanda, dealing with the past and his part in this project in his own video story.