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The production They Are All Gone, written by Doruntina Basha and directed by Andrej Nosov, was performed on 10 October as part of the 66th International Theatre Festival MESS in…
Heartefact’s production How I Learned to Drive was presented in Naples this weekend as part of the first international edition of TXT Festival, held under the motto “The Pleasure of…
For many independent cultural organizations in North Macedonia, this question comes after years of creating programmes, building audiences, and responding to the needs of their communities. As their activities expand,…
What remains of love as time passes? How much can we trust our own memories, and do we remember events as they really happened, or do we gradually turn them…
As part of the Institutional Grant scheme and with the support of Helvetas, the Mentorship Program brought together six experts from the region and provided support to five local cultural…
As part of the new generation of the Kosovo–Serbia Fellowship programme, Hartefakt has selected four participants who will explore new and constructive narratives in the region. This cycle focuses on…
From 11 to 13 September, Sarajevo hosted the second edition of the Sarajevo Theatre Showcase. This annual professional event offers theatre artists from Southeast Europe a unique opportunity to present…
A documentary festival that pulls the world toward a small town in western Serbia and the work of building an organisation strong enough to keep it there…
Spanning four areas — Performing Arts; Research, Critical and Alternative Cultural Practices; Community and Public Space Cultural Practices; and Youth Empowerment and Inclusive Creative Production – the projects bring different…
The conference brought together artists, cultural workers, and organisations from Serbia, Belgium, Portugal, the UK, Switzerland, Croatia, and Slovenia, creating space to share experiences and turn them into transferable knowledge….
The Rebirth of Forbidden Histories (RoFH) project began with a launching programme held in Belgrade, Serbia, from 1 to 4 September 2026, comprising a public event, accompanying activities and an…
The regional Queer Art Showcase, where eight artists from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia presented work-in-progress projects they had been developing over the previous six months as part…
“The Woman Ties the Ponytail”, based on the dramatic text of the same title by Marija Rakočević, which was awarded at the 2023 Heartefact Competition for the Best Contemporary Full-Length…
This year’s programme brings together participants from Belgium, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Croatia and Slovenia, who will discuss with colleagues from Serbia questions shared by many independent cultural scenes:…
For the third consecutive year, Heartefact organized a visit to DokuFest, the international documentary and short film festival in Prizren, which took place from August 8 to 11. This year’s…
Following a successful theatre season during which Heartefact productions premiered or toured in New York, Milan, Brussels, Stockholm, and Skien, the summer at Heartefact House is marked by the beginning…
Rather than staging resistance as spectacle, the piece asks who the “small people” behind the “big protests” really are, and how ordinary participation has shaped both individuals and society….
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…
As part of the Swiss-supported Culture for Democracy (CfD) project, Heartefact launched the Job Shadowing call 2026, aimed at strengthening the capacities of independent cultural organizations through knowledge exchange, practical…