Building Strong Organizations Means Building a Stronger Cultural Sector
One of the biggest differences the organizations describe is having the opportunity to focus on themselves, not only on the next project. Several organizations also spoke about something less tangible but equally valuable: time.
Learning That Stays: How Job Shadowing Helps Cultural Organizations in North Macedonia Grow
Instead of offering a standard training model, the programme supports cultural organizations in developing the capacities they identify as most important for their own future. The first completed grants show just how different, and how practical, those learning journeys can be.
Open Call For Participation In The Dokufest Visiting Program 2026
The call is intended for final-year students and young professionals interested in documentary film, contemporary art and culture, media, socially engaged practices, cultural production, and regional cooperation and exchange initiatives.
No Apologies! Balkan Tour: What if Kurt Cobain had been a trans woman?
Bringing the performance to the Western Balkans carried particular significance. In a region where queer and trans communities continue to face exclusion and limited visibility, No Apologies! offered a space where these experiences were not explained or defended but lived and shared.
Hamam Internacionala – Under the Domes
Hamam Internacionala – Under the Domes is a transnational artistic project that traces this lost geography of togetherness: from Debar, Skopje, and Tetovo, through Prizren, Peć, and Pristina, to Mostar, Stolac, Sarajevo, Vranje, Niš, Novi Pazar, and Belgrade.
Supporting Albanian-Language Playwrights: The Playground Mentorship Programme Begins
Following a highly competitive open call and selection process earlier this year, Fatbardha Zyberi and Ardit Dragusha have been selected to develop their original dramatic texts through the programme.
No Apologies! in Skopje: a gathering of the queer communityaround performance, visibility and alternative archives
This June, Heartefact brings No Apologies! to Skopje, presenting the internationally acclaimed performance by Emma Frankland as part of the No Apologies! Balkan tour.
Serbian journalists visit Pristina: exchange and strengthening of regional cooperation
Over the course of four days, journalists from Serbia had the opportunity to get to know Kosovo’s media landscape, speak with colleagues from different media, and gain broader insight into the social and political context in which media in Kosovo operate.
No Apologies! comes to Prishtina: Emma Frankland’s acclaimed queer performance arrives at Termokiss
This June, Heartefact brings No Apologies! to Prishtina, presenting the internationally acclaimed performance by Emma Frankland at Termokiss on June 3.
Heartefact brings No Apologies! to the Balkans — a live collision of music, memory and performance
At its centre is a direct and uncompromising focus on identity through queer and trans experience. The piece uses Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged concert as a starting point, not as nostalgia but as material to be broken apart and reassembled into something immediate.