Text of the appeal to the public, which was adopted in Novi Sad on the 6th Meeting - Workshop of the SEE Heritage Network: “Cultural Landscapes and the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention in South East Europe – The Role of NGOs”
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The visit to the Museum of science and technology in Belgrade (Industrial heritage).

The play about Savka Subotic, a woman who fought for the emancipation of women in the 19th century and was recognized in Europe, had been shown in the Caffe Gallery Dublin. Women enterpreneurs from Novi Sad active in different field of business, culture or education were invited.


”The Danube and the tree as a heritage – urban experiment in vivo”, April 2009, Novi Sad

Six sculptors took part on the first sculpture symposium held in Novi Sad - ”The Danube and the tree as a heritage – urban experiment in vivo”. They worked to create monumental sculptures in wood, in the atelier under the open sky, on the Strand, one of the most beautiful beaches on the Danube. The topick was concerned on the Danube, the river which links European regions with Vojvodina as one of the most developed Serbian region, also on the poplars which had been a kind of ornament on this beach for 80 years. Both are a kind of Vojvodina’s heritage.

Miodrag Perić (1971), Art director, Serbia, Novi Sad

Graduated at the Academy of Art, Sculpture Department in Novi Sad.
Expresses himself in wood but also in other materials. Uses the colour in his sculpture creations as a result of a huge painting experience. He has been cooperated with artists, sculptors, painters, also with writers and musicians in designing books and CD covers. His art expression is a kind of the critic of Western consumer culture, have been resulted in unique pop artistic form of enlarged urban environment detail.Took part in a numerous art symposiums in Serbia, Montenegro,Germany,Greece. 17 personal exhibitions. www.miodragperic.com

Other participantes

Borislav Šuput (1954), Serbia

Andreja Vasiljević Baćo (1945), Serbia www.andrijavasiljevic.com

Emil Bachiyski (1969), Bulgaria emil_bachiyski@yahoo.com

Heiko Börner (1973), Germany www.boerner.kulturserver-thueringen.de

Christophoros Venetikidis (1977), Germany www.havati.com

The Round table

The symposium”The Danube and the tree as a heritage – urban experiment in vivo” was held on the last day. Participated: director of Public utility company “CITY PARKS" Snezana Repac (the author of the project), sociologist Dusan Marinkovic, architect Lazar Kuzmanov, art historian Radmila Savcic, drama writer Ivan M. Lalic, responsible in the Municipality of Pancevo for the culture Snezana Baralic. The Vice – President in the Municipality of Novi Sad Marija Vrebalov opened the discussion. Covered by media.

SUBURBIUM is the author of the project “Vojvodina little Europe” (January/April 2009), realized as a part of a dialogue among a variety of cultures. The project highlights the past as an active heritage and emphasizes that creativity surpasses local boundaries. String quartet “Season” from Novi Sad took part. The project was supported by the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Fund for development of nonprofit sector.

Sava Damjanov: Autobiography of Jovan Subotic as a novel
…He shows more (or at least equal) interest for a daily life and odd details than for so called “great history”: today this distinctiveness is a virtue, because ”a histories of private life” leaves aside “a classical history” and at the same time they are essential important for art…

Silvia Drazic: A legend about a Hungarian chanson “Gloomy Sunday”
Among devoted listeners of the chanson were John Steinbeck, Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlavi, Arturo Toscanini, Beniamino Gigli, Louis Armstrong, Prince of Wales, Jehudi Menuhin, Luchino Visconti, Spencer Tracy. The chanson is translated in 28 languages, including Esperanto. Here, Zvonko Bogdan, Predrag Gojkovic Cune sang it, too…

Gordana Stojakovic: Forgotten Petrovaradin
Croat heritage in Petrovaradin is utterly put back into a corner. It is little known that a house of ban (count) Jelacic, where he was born, is in the heart of the town or that Magazine for entertainment, instruction and economy was published in Petrovaradin, with a writer Viktorija Jugovic Risakovic as an editor.



“Suburbium” was a participant on the SEE heritage meeting in Prizren from 23 to 26 January, 2009 in Prizren. NGO EC Ma Ndryshe hosted the sixth meeting of SEE Heritage Network. The first part of this meeting was dedicated to the internal organizational matters of the Network, during which the member organizations discussed the legal, functionality and sustainability aspects of the Network. The member organizations have stressed the importance of strengthening the cross-border cooperation through joint activities that would be implemented under Network’s umbrella, while creating strong basis for upcoming projects in cultural heritage field.

South East European Heritage is a network of non-governmental organizations that believe in cultural, ethnic and religious diversity as a valuable resource. The Network’s work is aimed at protecting and promoting our common heritage which is leading to sustainable and responsible development. SEE Heritage Network has managed up to now to bring together organizations of cultural heritage field from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania and Kosova





Projects – „Sculpture as a Forgotten Urban Provocation“ and „Monumental Sculpture in Open Space“ were created in order to promote simultaneously the artistic creation of the young generation and the cultural-architectural heritage of the Lower town of Petrovaradin (“Suburbium”). Participants of workshops which lasted for several months and were held in the Suburbium of the Petrovaradin fortress came from the senior class of the School of Design Bogdan Šuput (academic year 2007/08), along with a moderator, academic sculptor Miodrag Perić. Followed workshops’ achievements the exhibition of the best sketches, was organized in „Dublin“ gallery in the Lower town of Petrovaradin. A round table “Sculpture as Urban Provocation“ was held on the occasion with the following participants: painter and Dean of the Academy of Art in Novi Sad, Dušan Todorović, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Živko Grozdanić, sculptors and professors at the Department of visual art, Borislav Šuput and Mladen Marinkov, art historian Svetlana Mladenov from Novi Sad and custodian of the „Meander“ gallery, art historian Radmila Savčić from the Cultural center in Apatin. The moderator was Vladimir Mitrović, art historian.


May, 2-4th, 2007, Novi Sad, International symposium CULTURAL/ARCHITECTUAL HERITAGE RENEWAL – ASPECTS, EXAMPLES, LESSONS, participants from Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia. Donators: Assembly of Autonomous Province of Voivodina, Secretariat for Education and Culture (Executive Council of Voivodina), Cultural Heritage without Borders (Sweden)



Alarming condition of The Petrovaradin Fortress with its Lower Town, as a cultural and historic monument from XVIII century, was a reason for the international and multidisciplinary meeting to screen a current situation in the Southeastern/Central Europe: a) what generally have been renewed b) what is in a state of renovation c) renovation ways of the architectural heritage. Participants:

Saša Brajović: The Understanding the Visual Culture of the Baroque,
Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Erdeljan: The City as the Framework of Sancity, Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Aleksandar Stanojlović: South-Easte Europena Cities– Continuity and Discontinuitie, Pančevo, Voivodina, Serbia
Christiane Feuerstein: Urban Renewal and Cultural Heritage in Vienna, Office for architecture and research, Vienna
Ivana Prijatelj-Pavicic: The Lost Heritage-Baroque Palaces in Zadar and Trogir, Department of Art History of the Academy of Faculty, University of Split, Croatia
Aleksandra Kapetanović – NGO activities in the cultural heritage field of Montenegro, through the voluntary working camps, examples of Perast Restoration, EXPEDITIO, Kotor, Montenegro
Stjepan Lončarić - Slavonski Brod Fortress Restoration, Institute for Protection of the Cultural Monuments, Zagreb, Croatia
Ninkov Kovačev Olga: Secession in Subotica – art heritage from the beginning of the 20. century, City Museum of Subotica, Province of Voivodina, Serbia
Janja Ranogajec: Human requirements and construction materials
Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Province of Voivodina
Vlatko Bosiljkov: Cultural Heritage at Risk – Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Masonry Structures, Section for Earthquake Enginery National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Slobodanka Babic: Petrovaradin Fortress, Architectural Heritage Renewal of the Cultural Historic Area, Institute for Protection of the Cultural Monuments of the Novi Sad City
Radivoj Dinulovic, Architectural Heritage as Art Stage, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Ljiljana Kosanovic, head of Cooperative “Earth”, Novi Sad: Waving as a Part of Cultural Heritage





The project “Let’s Talk European”, financed by European Agency for Reconstruction (EU) had been realised in 2005, from June to September.

Module I
The Civic Association „Suburbium“ invites you to attend The first modul of the project
„Let’s Talk European“ - “Concert of Awakening “ in the Art gallery “Likovni krug”,
Petrovaradin Fortress.

- Opening remarks: Sava Damjanov - European roots of this region
- Musical performance: two Johann Sebastian Bach baroque pieces of music performed by Svetozar Sasa Kovacevic, organ and Brankica Mladenovic, flute
- Svetozar Sasa Kovacevic, organ
Brankica Mladenovic, flute
- Student from The Novi Sad Academy of Art Adrian Kranjcevic, as a volunteer, presents Bach’s European masterpiece
- TV film: “Organ in Vojvodina” (30 minutes), author Dusan Petrovic, TV Apolo
- Panel discussion: European influences in Vojvodina
- Tea party – cups crafted tea cups from the University of Novi Sad workshop (The Faculty of Tehnology, Department for Materials)
- Distribution of flyers calling for integration in EU




Module II
Painting workshop “Europe – my world”.

The practicum, located in “Dublin” coffee gallery in the Lower City of Petrovaradin Fortress (Novi Sad), got together a group of 15 high (secondary) school students from The design School “Bogdan Suput”, professor Snezana Beric, moderator Mia Stojanovic and three volunteers from Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization. The intention was to create images, wall hanging size, inspired by photos of typical symbols from Italy, Austria, Great Britain, France and Spain. Easy recognizable symbols had been shown – Eiffel Tower, Big Ben etc, dance (flamenco, waltz), habits (Spanish bullfight arena, gondoliers), national dishes and drinks (Vienna cakes i.e.). Drawings were exhibited in the “Dublin” coffee gallery for the three months, during the project duration.




Module III
“Culture expands horizons and unites, isn’t it?”

Lecturers:
- Mihal Ramac (Petrovaradin): Multiculturalism as the bridge on the road to Europe;
- Ph.D. Nada Zgrabljic (Zagreb): Positive European Media Laws;
- Ph.D. Zeljko Vuckovic (Novi Sad): Cautious humanity of the Middle Europe;
- M.Sc. Silvia Drazic (Novi Sad): Balkans as a cultural stereotype.

After opening remarks, statements of guest speakers and a debate, an actress dressed in a symbolic costume “Europe” led a short stroll parade to the shoreline of Danube, where small paper boats were launched with messages to Europe.
Participants of to earlier Modules are invited, as well as representatives of local authorities, relevant institutions, media, university students, secondary schools students and citizens.




European Heritage Days (September 2004) “Water, the Sense of Continuity”
The Photo exhibition of „Petrovaradin Suburbium – Town on the Water“
(by Dragana Kojić, Novi Sad) and a presentation 3D map „The Danube Towns“ by the author Aleksandar Stanojlovic, Pancevo). The topic of an add-on discussion in Café gallery “Dublin” focused on Voivodina’s European roots.




Novi Sad – The Art Stage
The exclusive time for the project “Novi Sad – The Art Stage“was from 9 pm to 1 am, on May, 20th 2006. The project presented various art forms (painting, sculpture, performances, film, classical music, comics) in an atypical open/close space like boutique window, hairdresser salon, staircase, travel agency premises, bus station, and basement. Participants (about 50) were mostly young artists, although well known artists took part, too. This was the first time that such a big artistic event happened downtown Novi Sad and in the Lower Town of Petrovaradin Fortress.

Petrovaradin Fortress Authors:
1. Miodrag Perić
2. Slobodan Kojić
3. Mileta Poštić
4. Danilo Prnjat
5. Dušan Todorović
6. Students from the Academy of Art, Music Department