Gdje: KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41 a, novi kreativni studio na katu (učionica 2)
Što: ciklus od 4 kreativne radionice za odrasle. Svaka radionica ima diskurzivni i kreativni dio: predavanja, analizu i kritičko promišljanje teme te crtanje, pisanje, izradu kolaža i drugog.
Kada:
subota 07.03.2026. od 12 do 14.30
subota 14.03.2026. od 12 do 14.30
subota 21.03.2026. od 12 do 14.30
subota 28.03.2026. od 12 do 14.30
s kim:
glavna voditeljica:
HELENA KLAKOČAR, akademska grafičarka, autorica grafičkih novela i stripova
Sudjeljuju:
TANJA VRVILO, izvedbena umjetnica i filmska kustosica
MARGARETA GREGUROVIĆ, sociologinja
ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ, video autor
ANA JANJATOVIĆ-ZORICA, sociologinja, kustosica i voditeljica Studija Artless
Zašto: Želimo dekonsturirati Zoričin strip Ljubavni slučaj Fahrije P. iz 1984. uočavajući elemente sadržaja: nekadašnja Jugoslavija i Hrvatska kao migrantske zemlje, ilegalna/legalna migracija danas, procesi dobivanja radnih dozvola za strance, nasilje prema drugačijima, tinjajući fašizam, netrpeljivost i drugo te stvoriti nove priče, zapise, crteže, ilustracije, a možda i strip!
Sadržaje ćemo tematski obrađivati u korelaciji sa stranim radnicima i domaćinima zainteresiranima za procese istraživanja Bavit ćemo se međusobnim utjecajem koji razni aspekti unutar umjetničkog djela, kao što su motivi, atmosfera, likovi, tijek radnje, stereotipi, reference i sl., imaju jedni na druge u kreiranju uvjeta za usmjeravanje doživljaja djela kroz željenu poruku. Polaznici će nakon radionice biti osnaženiji za prezentiranje važnih naglasaka kojima se prenosi poruka, ovisno o mediju u kojem rade. Veselimo se mogućnosti da uz podržavajuće druženje, istraživanje i učenje izmijenimo iskustva koja imamo i da se kroz intergeneracijsku i intekulturnu razmjenu uzajamno oplemenjujemo (pun intended).
Radionice su besplatne, materijal za rad i osvježenje osigurava organizator. Broj sudionika je ograničen, molimo prijave na:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Bq00E04Bc45MISzC9OM6Bg7vk-K8wly0xTGICTdOqp0/edit
ili na e-mail: studioartless1@gmail.com
RESEARCH ART WORKSHOPS
BASED ON THE COMIC BY ŽELJKO ZORICA ŠIŠ, THE LOVE AFFAIR OF FAHRIJA P.
Where: Center KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41 a, new art studio, 1st floor (classroom 2)
What: a cycle of 4 multi-layered research and creative workshops for adults, initiated by Željko Zorica’s comic The Love Case of Fahrija P. from 1984. Each workshop has its discoursive and creative part: lectures, analysis and critical reflection on the topic, as well as drawing, writing, making collages and more.
When:
Saturday 07.03.2026. od 12 do 14.30
Saturday 14.03.2026. od 12 do 14.30
Saturday 21.03.2026. od 12 do 14.30
Saturday 28.03.2026. od 12 do 14.30
Why: We want to deconstruct Zorica’s the comic by noticing the elements of it’s content: the former Yugoslavia and Croatia as migrant countries, illegal/legal migration today, the processes of obtaining work permits for foreigners, violence against those who are different, smoldering fascism, intolerance and more.
We will process the content in correlation to foreign workers and hosts interested in the research processes aiming to form new, fresh textual and visual notes and drawings, including comics. We will consider the mutual influences that various aspects of art, such as motifs, atmosphere, characters, plot, stereotypes, references, etc., have on each other. After the workshop, participants will be empowered to present important accents for conveying the message, depending on the medium in which they work.
We look forward to the opportunities to exchange our experiences with supportive socializing, research and learning aiming to mutually enrich us all through intergenerational and intercultural exchange.
Workshops are free of charge, organizer provides art supplies and refeshment. The number of participants is limited.
Application form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Bq00E04Bc45MISzC9OM6Bg7vk-K8wly0xTGICTdOqp0/edit
or e-mail: studioartless1@gmail.com
… ZA ONE KOJI ŽELE ZNATI VIŠE/please, scroll down for english …
HELENA KLAKOČAR (BIH, SLO, HR, NL) je akademska grafičarka, autorica stripova i grafičkih novela. Osim svojim osobnim migrantskim iskustvom, u brojnim se radovima strastveno bavi i situacijama izmještanja iz domicilnih kultura te pronalaženjem humanijih načina rješavanja društvenih problema povezanih s migracijama i ratovima.
TANJA VRVILO je izvedbena umjetnica i filmska kustosica čiji rad povezuje radikalne umjetničke prakse s posebnim zanimanjem za politike estetike i nevidljive povijesti filmskih i kazališnih avangardi. Tanja je s autorskim timom (Bartol, Burić, Milutinović, Marušić i dr.) 2017. realizirala intermedijalnu predstavu prema stripovima, tekstovima i filmu Željka Zorice Šiša.
MARGARETA GREGUROVIĆ je sociologinja (Institut za istraživanje migracija, Zagreb) iznijet će podatke i ključne teme dobivene i razrađene u najnovijim istraživanjima povezanima sa stranim radnicima, njihovim statusom i recepciji u RH.
ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ je fotograf, video snimatelj, montažer i realizator. Surađivao je brojnim video i umjetničkim projektima
ANA JANJATOVIĆ-ZORICA je sociologinja i kustosica, voditeljica Studija Artless.
Detalji o terminima:
Subota, 7. 3. 2026.
od 12 – 14.30, KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41a, (novi prostor na katu)
PREDSTAVLJANJE LIKOVNE GRUPE ZZOT (1984.-1995.)
ČITANJE I ANALIZA STRIPA LJUBAVNI SLUČAJ FAHRIJE P., 1984., ŽELJKA ZORICE-ŠIŠA
Vodi: HELENA KLAKOČAR
Asistencija: ANA JANJATOVIĆ-ZORICA I ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
Grupa ZZOT, osnovana osamdesetih, okupila je prijatelje likovnjake/inje (Ž.Zorica, H.Klakočar, M. Vukadin, N. Haramija, K. Mavar, M. Manojlović, M. Sekulić) oko oblikovanja stripova, animiranih filmova, izložbi i instalacija.
Osebujnim likovnim jezikom, grafičkim oblikovanjem, koji vuče korijene iz ekspresionizma i „bad paintinga“ ZZOT otvara pogled u multimedijalni svijet suvremene umjetnosti. Svojim stilom tehnikom i zahvatima radovi grupe ZZOT izmiču dosadašnjim okvirima jugoslavenske animacije i stripa i daju nove mogućnosti grafičkoj umjetnosti. (Z.Đukanović)
Govoreći o stripašima 80-ih Bojan Krištofić kaže: „..njihovi su stripovi odražavali karakterističan postmoderni popkulturni duh osamdesetih, osjetan ponajviše u slobodnom poigravanju različitim žanrovima kao pripovjednim okvirima (krimi-triler ili noir bio je jedan od najomiljenijih, potom komična parodija, pa čak i travestija kod Matakovića i Zorice) te izraženom, prepoznatljivom grafizmu koji se nerijetko temeljio na naglašenim ekstremima između crnog i bijelog, svjetla i sjene, sljedeći tako, a katkad i anticipirajući iskustva nekih od najistaknutijih europskih i američkih autora/ica.“
TKO JE ŽELJKO ZORICA ŠIŠ?
Intermedijalni umjetnik Željko Zorica (1957. – 2013.) bio je univerzalno svestran, uvijek neiscrpne kreativnosti, čitavim svojim radom i životom posvećen istinskoj umjetničkoj neovisnosti. U kazalištu počinje raditi s grupom Kugla glumište (1976.), a kasnije pokreće strip grupu ZZOT, kazališne grupe Ulješura, Kačinsky Troup te Uplašene žirafe. Kao samostalni kazališni i filmski redatelj, zatim scenograf, kreator lutaka, pisac i ilustrator, grafički dizajner, autor stripova te autor i sudionik happeninga, Željko Zorica snažno je obilježio gotovo četiri desetljeća suvremene umjetnosti u Hrvatskoj, donoseći zaigranost misli i svježinu ideja te aktivizmom i društvenim angažmanom obojeni umjetnički sadržaj. Bio je član ULUPUH-a i HZSU-a. Zoričin pristup umjetnosti bio orijentiran i aktivistički, pa je poticao kulturne i socijalne aktivnosti. Organizirao je projekte koji uključuju zajednički rad umjetnika i neumjetnika, ljudi s posebnim potrebama, manjinama, te podržavao edukacijske sadržaje o novim i aktualnim društvenim problemima (problemi migracija i izbjeglištva, pitanja obrazovanja, pitanja manjina, socijalna stigmatizacija drugačijih, rodni problemi, problemi tranzicije, hijerarhijski oblici organizacije sportskih aktivnosti i druge). Širio je i komunikaciju i suradnju s civilnim inicijativama, te problematizirao odgovornost šire društvene zajednice.
STRIP LJUBAVNI SLUČAJ FAHRIJE P., 1984.
“Zorica besramno upotrebljava veru u žanrovske obrasce. Oponašajući žanr Zorica ga ukida stvarajući autorsku poetiku.” (Zoran Đukanović).
Naoko jednostavna detektivska priča motive pronalazi u crnoj kronici i jeftinim ljubavnim romanima prezentirana je kroz ironiju i nadrealizam. Obična gospođa traži stručnu pomoć detektiva s klempavim uhom. Ljubitelj filmova za odrasle poslu pristupa hladno i odmjereno, sluteći intrigantan zaplet. Sjekira u leđima okončala je život ilegalnog migranta, navodnog brata klijentice. Priča otkriva „zaštitnika“ koji trguje ilegalnom radnom snagom baš u Münchenu, ne bez razloga, jer poznato je što se događalo u bavarskim pivnicama šezdesetak godina prije nastanka stripa, a kao što je vidljivo, ni na ulicama situacija nije mnogo bolja. Kroz neočekivani zaokret, doznajemo još nešto o navodno hladnoj germanskoj krvi. Dodajmo kako je, po Đukanoviću, Zoričin glavni lik, privatni detektiv Reiner Fass „…prešao granicu koja deli detektiva od žrtve. On je s one strane ruba, gonič i progonjeni.“
Momenat tragičnog često srećemo u strip travestijama Željka Zorice. Međutim, ležernim, gotovo uzgrednim odnosom prema očigledno tragičnom, ono se pretvara u travestiju. Gubi svoju očiglednost. Stalno ga slutimo, ali smo od njega odvojeni obručem ležernog suspensa. Setimo se: “Žrtve pogođene zrakom iz ZOT pištolja mogu opažati svijet oko sebe i misliti, ali se ne mogu micati: ostaju ukočene poput dasaka u plotu.” Ambivalentnost, stalna oscilacija između mira u tonu i užasa u događaju tera nas da i sami postanemo istovremeno iziritirani i mirni. Spokojni u svojoj užasnutosti pred onim čime ne možemo da ovladamo, a što upravlja našim životima. To “ono” neki zovu sudbina, a Rainer Werner Fassbinder ga je, u sopstvenoj projekciji žanra, nazivao melodramom. (Zoran Đukanović)
KREATIVNI RAD: PISANJE, CRTANJE, ILUSTRIRANJE
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Subota, 14.3.2026.
od 12 – 14.30, KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41a, (novi prostor na katu)
INTERMEDIJALNOST I INTERKULTURALNOST na primjeru predstave LJUBAVNI SLUČAJ FAHRIJE P.
Predstava Ljubavni slučaj Fahrije P. nastala je prema motivima iz stripova i drugih djela multimedijskog umjetnika Željka Zorice Šiša (1957. – 2013.). Autorski tim činili su Zlatko Burić Kićo, Damir Bartol Indoš, Dragana Milutinović, Tanja Vrvilo, Hrvojka Begović, Dina Puhovski, Sven Jakir, Domagoj Jankovic, Miro Manojlović, Ivan Marušić Klif, Igor Hofbauer Hof, Henning Frimann Larsen, Peter Oliver Joergensen, Ana Janjatović Zorica, a kostime su napravili Twins – Domagoj Štimac i Damir Begović u produkciji Kulture promjene SC u Zagrebu i Teatra &td 2017. godine.
Tanja Vrvilo, izložit će, između ostalog, na koji se način vizualni identitet i tekst stripa koji eksperimentira s formom te koristi subverzivne sadržaje – može retvoriti u dramski tekst i situaciju.
Predaje: TANJA VRVILO
Vodi: HELENA KLAKOČAR
Asistencija: ANA JANJATOVIĆ-ZORICA I ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
KREATIVNI RAD: PISANJE, CRTANJE, ILUSTRIRANJE
Subota, 21.3.2026.
od 12 – 14.30, KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41a, (novi prostor na katu)
MIGRACIJE DANAS
Posljednjih se godina u Hrvatskoj paralelno odvijaju procesi iseljavanja, a sve više useljavanja. No, jesmo li imigracijska zemlja ne možemo procijeniti samo prema broju doseljenika već i po načinu njihova uključivanja u društvo. Integraciju stranaca kao proces koji se nužno ostvaruje unutar lokalnih zajednica sociologinja M. Gregurović vidi kao dinamičan, dvosmjeran proces međusobne prilagodbe kako stranaca, tako i hrvatskih državljana. Izmjene zakona o strancima iz ožujka 2025. donose promjene u regulaciji rada i boravka stranih radnika: od produljenja dozvole za boravak i rad s jedne na tri godine, produženje boravka nakon gubitka posla, postroženja uvjeta za poslodavce, regulacije kvalitete smještaja i drugo – što bi trebalo utjecati na poboljšanje položaja stranih radnika u Hrvatskoj.
Predaje: dr.sc. MARGARETA GREGUROVIĆ, Inistut za istraživanje migracija, Zagreb
Vodi: HELENA KLAKOČAR
Asistencija: ANA JANJATOVIĆ-ZORICA I ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
KREATIVNI RAD: PISANJE, CRTANJE, ILUSTRIRANJE
Subota, 28.3.2026.
od 12 – 15, KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41a, (novi prostor na katu)
ŽENSKA POZICIJA NA TRŽIŠTU RADA, STUDIJA SLUČAJEVA (NL,HR)
Vodi: HELENA KLAKOČAR
Asistencija: ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
Helena Klakočar u svojim radovima preispituje vlastita nomadska iskustva i iskustva drugih, baveći se raznolikostima kultura. Uočava neminovnost migracija, prati ponašanje pridošlica i asimilaciju koja im se nerijetko nameće, preobrazbe karaktera u novim okolnostima, suživot, nepravednost izbjegličkih sudbina, traume, otpore i pomirbu. Bavi se prihvaćanjem različitosti, međunacionalnim uvažavanjem i poštivanjem. Osobito su joj važne ženske priče koje „hvata“ u svoje crtački vješte prizore, ilustracije i stripove. Njezina grafička novela Nemirno more nagrađena je na najvećem europskom festivalu stripa, u Angoulêmeu (Francuska), 2000. godine i proglašena je najboljim stripom stranog autora/ice te je dobila i specijalnu nagradu radija France Info ‘’za dokumentaristički pristup u mediju stripa’’.
Vodi: HELENA KLAKOČAR
Asistencija: ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
KREATIVNI RAD: PISANJE, CRTANJE, ILUSTRIRANJE
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PROJEKT SJAJNE NITI 2 – INTEKULTURNA RAZMJENA I POVEZIVANJE
Radi se o višemjesečnom programu usmjerenom na bolju integraciju osoba koje su dobile privremenu zaštitu te stranih radnica i radnika. Glavni cilj programa je povezivanje s lokalnom zajednicom kroz poticanje razmjene iskustava i međusobnog razumijevanja.
Namjera projekta je sudioništvo u razumijevanju višekulturnih identiteta, poticanju oblikovanja inkluzivne, kulturno pluralne zajednice i smanjenja diskriminacije kulturno različitih ljudi. Prema kanadskom teoretičaru multikulturalizma Willu Kymlicki „važno je ne samo da ljudi razumiju interkulturalne razlike na globalnoj razini, nego se trebaju povezati s ljudima u lokalnoj zajednici koji su drukčiji od njih samih“. Prema drugim teoretičarima, kroz proces interkulturne razmjene odvija se interkulturno iskustveno učenje kojim se lakše razumiju ljudi koji imaju različite vrijednosti, uvjerenja i konstrukcije značenja.
Projekt se provodi uz podršku Centra za kulturu na Peščenici – KNAP-a, Grada Zagreba i Zaklade Kultura nova.
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The workshop is led by academic graphic artist, author of comics and graphic novels HELENA KLAKOČAR (BIH, SLO, HR, NL) and her collaborators. In addition to depicting her personal migrant experience, in her numerous works, Helena Klakočar is passionate about depicting displacement from home cultures and finding more humane ways to solve social problems related to migration and war. During the workshop, we will also address the position of women in the labor market in the migrant context of the Netherlands and Croatia.
The project involves performance artist and film curator TANJA VRVILO, whose work connects radical artistic practices with a special interest in the politics of aesthetics and the invisible history of film and theater avant-gardes. With the team of authors (Bartol, Burić, Milutinović, Marušić, etc.), Tanja created an intermedia theather performance in 2017 based on comics, texts and film by Željko Zorica Šiš.
Sociologist MARGARETA GREGUROVIĆ (Institute for Migration Research, Zagreb) will present data and key themes obtained and developed in the latest research related to foreign workers, their status and reception in the Republic of Croatia. The workshops will be attended by Zdravko Popović and the head of the Artless Studio, curator and sociologist Ana Janjatović-Zorica.
Saturday, 7. 3. 2026.
from 12 – 14.30, KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41a, (new space on the first floor)
ZZOT GROUP
ŽELJKO ZORICA ŠIŠ: FAHRIJA P.’S LOVE AFFAIR, 1984.
Leader: HELENA KLAKOČAR
Assistants: ANA JANJATOVIĆ-ZORICA, ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
The ZZOT group, founded in the eighties, brought together friends and artists (Ž.Zorica, H.Klakočar, M. Vukadin, N. Haramija, K. Mavar, M. Manojlović, M. Sekulić) to design comics, animated films, exhibitions and installations.
With a distinctive visual language, graphic design, which has its roots in expressionism and “bad painting”, ZZOT opens a view into the multimedia world of contemporary art. With their style, technique and interventions, the works of the ZZOT group escape the previous frameworks of Yugoslav animation and comics and give new possibilities to graphic art. (Z. Đukanović)
ŽELJKO ZORICA ŠIŠ
Intermedia artist Željko Zorica (1957 – 2013) was universally versatile, always inexhaustible in creativity, dedicated to true artistic independence. He began working in the theater with the group Kugla glumište (1976), and later founded the comic strip group ZZOT, the theater groups Ulješura, Kačinsky Troup, and Uplašene žirafe. As an independent theater and film director, then a set designer, puppet creator, writer and illustrator, graphic designer, comic author, author and participant in happenings, Željko Zorica strongly marked almost four decades of contemporary art in Croatia, bringing playfulness of thought and freshness of ideas, as well as artistic content colored by activism and social engagement. He was a member of ULUPUH and HZSU. Zorica’s approach to art was oriented to activism as he encouraged cultural and social activities. He organized projects that included joint work of artists and non-artists, people with special needs, minorities, and supported educational content on new and current social problems (migration and refugee problems, education issues, minority issues, social stigmatization of the Others, gender issues, transition issues, hierarchical forms of organizing sports activities, and others). He also expanded communication and cooperation with civil initiatives, and problematized the responsibility of the wider social community.
LOVE CASE OF FAHRIJA P., 1984.
“Zorica shamelessly uses his faith in genre patterns. By imitating the genre, Zorica abolishes it, creating his own poetics.” (Zoran Đukanović).
A seemingly simple detective story that finds its motifs in cheap novels on crime and romance is presented through irony and surrealism. An ordinary lady seeks the professional help of a detective with a floppy ear. A fan of adult films approaches the job coldly and measuredly, suspecting an intriguing plot. An axe in the back ended the life of an illegal migrant, the alleged brother of the client. The story reveals a “protector” who trades illegal labor in Münich. We know what happened in Bavarian beer halls fifty years before the comic was created, and as it can be seen, the situation on the streets is not much better either in 80ies. Through an unexpected twist, we learn something more about the supposedly cold Germanic blood.
Let’s add that, according to Đukanović, Zorica’s main character, private detective Reiner Fass, “…crossed the line that separates the detective from the victim. He is on the other side of the edge, the chaser and the hunted.”
The tragic moment is often found in comic travesties by Željko Zorica. However, a relaxed, almost casual attitude towards the obviously tragic, turns into a travesty. It loses its obviousness. We constantly sense it, but we are separated from it by a ring of casual suspense. Let’s remember: “Victims hit by air from a ZOT gun can perceive the world around them and think, but they cannot move: they remain stiff as planks in a fence.” The ambivalence, the constant oscillation between the peace in the tone and the horror in the event makes us become irritated and calm at the same time. Calm in our dismay before that which we cannot control and which governs our lives. Some call this “it” fate, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in his own projection of the genre, called it melodrama. (Zoran Đukanović)
Speaking about the comics artists of the 80s, Bojan Krištofić says: “…their comics reflected the characteristic postmodern pop culture spirit of the 80s, felt mostly in the free play with different genres as narrative frameworks (crime thriller or noir was one of the most popular, followed by comic parody, and even travesty in the case of Mataković and Zorica) and in the pronounced, recognizable graphics that were often based on emphasized extremes between black and white, light and shadow, thus following, and sometimes anticipating, the experiences of some of the most prominent European and American authors.”
Saturday, 14.3.2026.
from 12 – 14.30, KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41a, (new space upstairs)
INTERMEDIALITY AND INTERCULTURALITY on the example of the play THE LOVE CASE OF FAHRIJA P.
The play The Love Case of Fahrija P. was based on motifs of comics and other works by the multimedia artist Željko Zorica Šiš (1957 – 2013). The creative team consisted of Zlatko Burić Kićo, Damir Bartol Indoš, Dragana Milutinović, Tanja Vrvilo, Hrvojka Begović, Dina Puhovski, Sven Jakir, Domagoj Jankovic, Miro Manojlović, Ivan Marušić Klif, Igor Hofbauer Hof, Henning Frimann Larsen, Peter Oliver Joergensen, Ana Janjatović Zorica. The costumes were made by Twins – Domagoj Štimac and Damir Begović, production by Culture of Change SC in Zagreb and Teatre &td in 2017.
Tanja Vrvilo will explain, among other things, how the visual identity and text of a comic that experiments with form and uses subversive content can be transformed into a dramatic text and situation.
Taught by: TANJA VRVILO Conducted by: HELENA KLAKOČAR Assistance: ANA JANJATOVIĆ-ZORICA, ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
Saturday, 21.3.2026.
from 12 – 14.30, KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41a, (new space on the first floor)
MIGRATIONS TODAY
In recent years, Croatia has been experiencing parallel processes of emigration, and increase of immigration. However, we cannot judge whether we are an immigration country only by the number of immigrants, but also by the way of their inclusion in the society. The sociologist M. Gregurović sees the integration of foreigners as a process that is necessarily realized within local communities as a dynamic, two-way process of mutual adaptation of both foreigners and Croatian citizens. The amendments to the Law on Foreigners from March 2025 bring changes in the regulation of work and residence of foreign workers: extending the residence and work permit from one to three years, extending the stay after losing a job, tightening the conditions for employers, regulating the quality of accommodation, and more – which should improve the position of foreign workers in Croatia.
Lecture: Ph.D. MARGARETA GREGUROVIĆ, Institute for Migration Research
Conducted by: HELENA KLAKOČAR
Assistance: ANA JANJATOVIĆ-ZORICA I ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
Saturday, 28.3.2026.
from 12 – 14.30, KNAP, Ivanićgradska 41a, (new space on the first floor)
WOMEN’S POSITION IN THE LABOR MARKET, CASE STUDIES (NL,HR)
Conducted by: HELENA KLAKOČAR
Assistant: ZDRAVKO POPOVIĆ
In her works, Helena Klakočar examines her own nomadic experiences and the experiences of others, dealing with the diversity of cultures. She notices the inevitability of migrations and follows the behavior of newcomers and the assimilation that is often imposed on them. She notices character transformations in new circumstances, coexistence, the injustice of refugee fates, trauma, resistance and reconciliation. She deals with the acceptance of diversity, inter-ethnic appreciation and respect. She „captures“ women’s stories, particularly important to her, in her skillfully drawn scenes, illustrations and comics. Her graphic novel The Restless Sea was awarded at the largest European comics festival, in Angoulême (France), in 2000. It was declared the best comic by a foreign author, and received a special award from Radio France Info ‘‘for a documentary approach in the medium of comics’’.
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PROJECT SJAJNE NITI 2 – INTECULTURAL EXCHANGE AND CONNECTING
It is a program aiming for a better integration of persons granted temporary protection and foreign workers. The main goal of the program is to connect with the local community by encouraging the exchange of experiences and mutual understanding.
The intention of the project is to participate in understanding multicultural identities, encouraging the formation of an inclusive, culturally plural community and reducing discrimination against culturally diverse people. According to Canadian theorist of multiculturalism Will Kymlicka, “it is important not only that people understand intercultural differences on a global level, but they also need to connect with people in the local community who are different from themselves”.
According to other theorists, the process of intercultural exchange provides intercultural experiential learning that makes it easier to understand people who have different values, beliefs and constructions of meaning.
The project is implemented with the support of the Peščenica Cultural Center – KNAP, the City of Zagreb and the Kultura nova Foundation.