To educate and empower a new team of activists able to contribute to the emancipatory process enhanced by the overall civil movement in Serbia. New generations of bearers of social change will utilize the CZKD secular cultural and intellectual legacy in order to create a new culture of struggle for freedom and social justice, against nationalism, xenophobia, and any kind of violence that can be questioned in the same way that they are developed – through culture, art and public speech. Center CZKD is an institution of critical thinking and the affirmation of the right to rebel, without separating human rights and justice, art, culture and truth. We believe that culture and art are of fundamental importance for the social development in terms of: -encouraging and supporting innovation/initiative focused on rethinking the role of public space, culture and art in contemporary society; -offering a real and virtual meeting space for artists of all ages and provenances, and systematically acting in order to identify and support new artists; -collecting, archiving and making available documents and other testimonies of struggle for survival of a culture of critical thinking and creativity in present time of social values crisis used as resource to the new activism; -stimulating inter-generational transfer of knowledge and investigating potentials of new electronic media. |