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Team 2021
Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski
programme director (short bio)
biljana.tanurovska@gmail.com
She is a cultural producer, curator and researcher in arts and culture and a co-founder and executive director of Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture (2003-), co-founder of Nomad Dance Academy platform (NDA) (2005 -), and Kino Kultura (KK) – Project Space for Contemporary Performing Arts and Culture (2015-2020). In 2012, as part of Lokomotiva she also co-founded Jadro – Association of the Independent Cultural Scene, and Kooperativa – regional platform for culture.
Earlier in her career, she worked as project manager at PAC Multimedia Center of Skopje (2001-2003), as well as freelancer on diverse projects. While in Lokomotiva, she also took up work as independent curator, researcher and consultant (consultant and evaluator of a grant programme at the European Foundation for Culture; consultant for the British Council Macedonia; consultant for the “Cultural Diplomacy” platform in Brussels; researcher at the Euro Balkan Institute of the Centre for Visual and Cultural Research, and independently (research on institutions in culture, policies in culture including performing arts, labour rights, participatory governance, etc.).
Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski has initiated, curated, and managed various projects and programmes related to the contemporary performing arts, cultural policy, international collaboration, and other. As part of the NDA’s activities in 2010, she participated in researching and producing reports and recommendations on cultural policies in theatre and dance in the countries in the region, available for public use on the website of Lokomotiva.
With Lokomotiva’s research team, in partnership with the Center for Development of the Pelagonia Region in Macedonia and the informal culture network of the Pelagonia region, (within the Programme for Decentralized Cooperation between Lower Normandy and Macedonia), she created the Strategy for Cultural Development of the Pelagonia Region 2013-2016. As part of Lokomotiva, she has managed various international collaborations, including the EU project Jardin D’Europe EU project 2008-2013, EU project Long Life Burning, Art Climate Transition (ongoing), Curating in Context (Erasmus +, ongoing). In addition, she is representative in GPS – Global Practice Sharing –/collaborative exchange/ a platform for the international exchange of ideas, processes, and reflective practices surrounding dance and movement based forms between the U.S. and independent performing arts communities internationally.
She is also credited with contribution to the international project “Curatorial Translation” (2007) as an assistant curator, and as co-curator of the Locomotion – Festival for Contemporary Art and Performance in Skopje, Macedonia (2008-2015). As part of Kino Kultura, she has curated the programme Platform(a) for Contemporary Performing Arts. Some of her latest projects include the theoretical and educational platform “Art Politics Institution and Body”, “What is choreography?”, “Contemporary culture and policies” which she curates, as well as recent collaborative projects “Dissonant Co-Spaces” 2016/17, “Cultural Spaces for Active Citizents” 2017/18, related to the issues of politicality of public spaces, heterogeneity in institutional models in culture and their role in the public sphere.
Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski is the author of various texts, (co)editor of numerous publications, journals and books. She has been a guest lecturer at different programmes, as well as universities. From 2011-2020, she has been working as an independent lecturer at the Faculty of Music Arts in Skopje.
She holds a BA in the History of Art and Archaeology, an MSc in Interculturalism, Cultural Management and Cultural Policy from the University of Arts in Belgrade, and a PhD from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. She has participated in numerous international non-formal educational programmes and residencies. In 2019, she won the ENCATC International Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management for her doctoral thesis.
Slavco Dimitrov
programme curator (short bio)
slavco.coalition@gmail.com
Slavco Dimitrov (born in 1984) graduated at the Department for General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology at the Ss.Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He got his first Master’s degree in Gender Studies and Philosophy at the Evro-Balkan Institute, and his second Master’s degree from the Department of Multidisciplinary gender studies at the Cambridge University. Currently he is working on his doctoral thesis at the Evro-Balkan Institute. He has worked as a teaching assistant at the postgraduate gender and cultural studies at the Evro-Balkan University, and at the undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Faculty for media and communications – SINGIDUNUM, Belgrade. In the past few years, he has coordinated a large number of academic projects and summer schools, as well as projects in the domain of human rights and marginalized communities, with special focus on queer activism. He is the founder of the international Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics. He is one of the founders of the Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center) in Belgrade. He has been working at the Coalition since its beginnings, as a member, coordinator and executive director. His activist interest is directed towards the politics of queerness (queer politics), sexual and gender citizenship and equality, rights of marginalized communities and their transaction with questions concerning social justice.
Blagica Petrova
program/project and financial manager (short bio)
blagica.petrova9@gmail.com
Blagica Petrova has graduated in Economy and is currently working as a Program and Financial Manager of Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture. Her engagement in civil society started during her studies at the Faculty of Economics in Skopje. As a student and after graduation she was actively involved in the independent printed student magazine “IZLEZ”, first as a journalist and later as Chief Editor and as Executive Director of the Student Organization Way Out. From 2014 until 2016, she worked as a Membership and Communications Coordinator for the National Youth Council of Macedonia where she worked on public relations, coordination of membership, regional offices, and pool of trainers of the Council. During 2017-2018, she worked as a Social Entrepreneur of HERA – Association for health education and research. In 2019, she was working with the Association of Economic Researchers as a Junior Researcher and financial and technical support. In March 2019, she became a Financial and Administrative Manager at the Association of Citizens for promotion of women’s activity Tiiiit! Inc. – Skopje.
Zorica Zafirovska
program/project coordinator (short bio)
zoricazafir@gmail.com
She is an artist, cultural worker, activist, and project coordinator
of Lokomotiva. She holds a bachelor’s degree from The Faculty of Fine
Arts, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius of Skopje. Since 2011 she is
a Ph.D. Candidate in cultural studies at the Institute for Social
Sciences and Humanities “Euro-Balkan”. Her work as a visual and
conceptual artist involves a wide spectrum of research concerned with
contemporary socio-political topics, such as human trafficking,
homelessness, consumerism and ecology. In her home town Skopje and elsewhere, she does mostly
site- and time-specific installations and small actions, that rely on
critical and subversive approaches of executing and presenting her work.
From 2008 member of F.R.I.K. (Cultural Development Association Formation) from Skopje. In 2011 she co-founded Momi initiation of 6 women artists from Skopje and in 2009 co-founded Art I. N.S.T.I.T.U.T. an artist group and artists-run space in Skopje. Initiated The Space,
an art project in Skopje, and became a member of Jadro in 2013. She has
over 10 solo exhibitions and projects in Macedonia, New York, and
Germany. Winner of SIA Young artist award in 2014 and YVAA Award in 2016. She lives and works in Skopje, Macedonia.
project coordinator (short bio)
tinat.petreska@gmail.com
Kristina is a cultural producer and dramaturge. She is a cofounder of Association INCA (Initiative for independent cultural activism) Struga, recognised by the interdisciplinary Festival for cultural processing DriMON that had 6 editions (2013-2018). In the frame of this 5days summer festival in Struga, Kristina is one of the program authors/ producers. Since 2016, she is fully employed as assistant dramaturge in Public Theatre Ohrid. In her previous freelance experience she has been part of the production team and scriptwriter for Struga Poetry Evenings, as well as leader/ trainer in numbers of community art projects. She holds BA for Basic and comparative literature (2005). She is Alumni of European diploma for project and cultural management (2017-2018), Tandem for culture program (2019-2020), and also attended the first edition of Curating in context – school (2020). She has also attended many labs, trainings and workshops form art facilitation and art leadership, based on performing disciplines and methodologies.
administrator (short cv)
hgjurgjica@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
– BA in Fruit Production with Viticulture at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and food- Skopje
WORK EXPERIENCE
2009- 2017 – LTD TIM POINT Skopje, technical secretary
2018 – NGO Lokomotiva – Centar for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture,
Skopje and Association for theatre and educational activities Theatre of
the Navigator Cvetko, administrator
A huge fan and friend of children and young people. A great proponent of creating a cleaner and greener environment for a carefree childhood and proper development of children and youth; in fact, a champion for a more beautiful and cleaner environment which is something that our planet Earth deserves, and we do too.
Team 2021
Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski – programme director (short bio)
Slavcho Dimitrov – programme director (short bio)
Blagica Petrova – program/project and financial manager (short bio)
Zorica Zafirovska – program/project coordinator (short bio)
Gjurgjica Hristovska – administrator (short cv)
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Team 2020
Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski
programme director (short bio)
biljana.tanurovska@gmail.com
She is a cultural producer, curator and researcher in arts and culture and a co-founder and executive director of Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture (2003-), co-founder of Nomad Dance Academy platform (NDA) (2005 -), and Kino Kultura (KK) – Project Space for Contemporary Performing Arts and Culture (2015-2020). In 2012, as part of Lokomotiva she also co-founded Jadro – Association of the Independent Cultural Scene, and Kooperativa – regional platform for culture.
Earlier in her career, she worked as project manager at PAC Multimedia Center of Skopje (2001-2003), as well as freelancer on diverse projects. While in Lokomotiva, she also took up work as independent curator, researcher and consultant (consultant and evaluator of a grant programme at the European Foundation for Culture; consultant for the British Council Macedonia; consultant for the “Cultural Diplomacy” platform in Brussels; researcher at the Euro Balkan Institute of the Centre for Visual and Cultural Research, and independently (research on institutions in culture, policies in culture including performing arts, labour rights, participatory governance, etc.).
Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski has initiated, curated, and managed various projects and programmes related to the contemporary performing arts, cultural policy, international collaboration, and other. As part of the NDA’s activities in 2010, she participated in researching and producing reports and recommendations on cultural policies in theatre and dance in the countries in the region, available for public use on the website of Lokomotiva.
With Lokomotiva’s research team, in partnership with the Center for Development of the Pelagonia Region in Macedonia and the informal culture network of the Pelagonia region, (within the Programme for Decentralized Cooperation between Lower Normandy and Macedonia), she created the Strategy for Cultural Development of the Pelagonia Region 2013-2016. As part of Lokomotiva, she has managed various international collaborations, including the EU project Jardin D’Europe EU project 2008-2013, EU project Long Life Burning, Art Climate Transition (ongoing), Curating in Context (Erasmus +, ongoing). In addition, she is representative in GPS – Global Practice Sharing –/collaborative exchange/ a platform for the international exchange of ideas, processes, and reflective practices surrounding dance and movement based forms between the U.S. and independent performing arts communities internationally.
She is also credited with contribution to the international project “Curatorial Translation” (2007) as an assistant curator, and as co-curator of the Locomotion – Festival for Contemporary Art and Performance in Skopje, Macedonia (2008-2015). As part of Kino Kultura, she has curated the programme Platform(a) for Contemporary Performing Arts. Some of her latest projects include the theoretical and educational platform “Art Politics Institution and Body”, “What is choreography?”, “Contemporary culture and policies” which she curates, as well as recent collaborative projects “Dissonant Co-Spaces” 2016/17, “Cultural Spaces for Active Citizents” 2017/18, related to the issues of politicality of public spaces, heterogeneity in institutional models in culture and their role in the public sphere.
Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski is the author of various texts, (co)editor of numerous publications, journals and books. She has been a guest lecturer at different programmes, as well as universities. From 2011-2020, she has been working as an independent lecturer at the Faculty of Music Arts in Skopje.
She holds a BA in the History of Art and Archaeology, an MSc in Interculturalism, Cultural Management and Cultural Policy from the University of Arts in Belgrade, and a PhD from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. She has participated in numerous international non-formal educational programmes and residencies. In 2019, she won the ENCATC International Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management for her doctoral thesis.
Slavco Dimitrov
programme curator (short bio)
slavco.coalition@gmail.com
Slavco Dimitrov (born in 1984) graduated at the Department for General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology at the Ss.Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He got his first Master’s degree in Gender Studies and Philosophy at the Evro-Balkan Institute, and his second Master’s degree from the Department of Multidisciplinary gender studies at the Cambridge University. Currently he is working on his doctoral thesis at the Evro-Balkan Institute. He has worked as a teaching assistant at the postgraduate gender and cultural studies at the Evro-Balkan University, and at the undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Faculty for media and communications – SINGIDUNUM, Belgrade. In the past few years, he has coordinated a large number of academic projects and summer schools, as well as projects in the domain of human rights and marginalized communities, with special focus on queer activism. He is the founder of the international Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics. He is one of the founders of the Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center) in Belgrade. He has been working at the Coalition since its beginnings, as a member, coordinator and executive director. His activist interest is directed towards the politics of queerness (queer politics), sexual and gender citizenship and equality, rights of marginalized communities and their transaction with questions concerning social justice.
project manager, program editor for cultural policy (CV)
violeta.kachakova@gmail.com
A cultural worker from Skopje, North Macedonia.
MA
in Cultural Policy and Management (University of Arts in Belgrade,
UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management). BA in Economy (Faculty
of Economics in Skopje).
Works as a cultural producer, manager and
curator in the field of contemporary arts and culture. Engaged in
research and development of cultural policies. Advocates for workers'
rights of freelance artists and cultural workers. From 2021,
Kachakova is the programme manager of SKOPJE 2028 – Candidate for
European Capital of Culture, after being a member of the Core Team for 2
years.
She worked in the NGO Lokomotiva-Centre for New Initiatives
in Arts and Culture as a project manager and a curator in the fields of
cultural policies, music and film (2006/2020). She was a co-founder and a
team member of Kino Kultura- project space for contemporary performing
arts and contemporary culture (2015/2020).
Since, 2012 she is a programme collaborator, graphic designer and DJ in PMG Recordings Skopje.
She hosted a weekly radio show (2006/2019) at the independent music station Kanal 103.
Zorica Zafirovska
program/project coordinator (short bio)
zoricazafir@gmail.com
She is an artist, cultural worker, activist, and project coordinator of Lokomotiva. She holds a bachelor’s degree from The Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius of Skopje. Since 2011 she is a Ph.D. Candidate in cultural studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities “Euro-Balkan”. Her work as a visual and conceptual artist involves a wide spectrum of research concerned with contemporary socio-political topics, such as human trafficking and homelessness. In her home town Skopje and elsewhere, she does mostly site- and time-specific installations and small actions, that rely on critical and subversive approaches of executing and presenting her work. From 2008 member of F.R.I.K. (Cultural Development Association Formation) from Skopje. In 2011 she co-founded Momi initiation of 6 women artists from Skopje and in 2009 co-founded Art I. N.S.T.I.T.U.T. an artist group and artists-run space in Skopje. Initiated The Space, an art project in Skopje, and became a member of Jadro in 2013. She has over 10 solo exhibitions and projects in Macedonia, New York, and Germany. Winner of SIA Young artist award in 2014 and YVAA Award in 2016. She lives and works in Skopje, Macedonia.
Gjurgjica Hristovska
administrator (short cv)
hgjurgjica@yahoo.com
– BA in Fruit Production with Viticulture at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and food- Skopje
WORK EXPERIENCE
2009- 2017 – LTD TIM POINT Skopje, technical secretary
2018 – NGO Lokomotiva – Centar for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture,
Skopje and Association for theatre and educational activities Theatre of
the Navigator Cvetko, administrator
A huge fan and friend of children and young people. A great proponent of creating a cleaner and greener environment for a carefree childhood and proper development of children and youth; in fact, a champion for a more beautiful and cleaner environment which is something that our planet Earth deserves, and we do too.
Jana Dimitrova
volunteer
dimitrovajana10@gmail.com
Jana Dimitrova (Skopje) is a recent undergraduate from Utrecht University in the Netherlands where she studied International Relations and Religious Studies. She wrote her thesis dissertation on the topic of how trained attention through body-mind cultivation practices may alter one’s experience in reality and enable one to realize of one’s embeddedness in the environment and find one’s home within it, through the lenses of Japanese Zen-Buddhism and Shintoism. Philosophical ideas and conceptual frameworks that shed light on the inter-relatedness and ever-changing nature of all things, and which may be translated into concrete practices in socio-cultural as well as personal contexts is where her leading interest lies.
Lokomotiva Team 2020
Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski – programme director (short bio)
Violeta Kachakova – project manager, program editor for cultural policy (CV)
Slavcho Dimitrov – programme director (short bio)
Zorica Zafirovska – program/project coordinator (short bio)
Gjurgjica Hristovska – administrator (short cv)
Jana Dimitrova - volonteer ()
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