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The Koper-based Association for Culture and Education PiNA (KID PiNA) is certainly one of the most active and diversely oriented Slovenian NGOs. Always simultaneously involved in several artistic, educational and civil society projects, PiNA also manages a multimedia centre and a separate cybercafe/event space. It has produced numerous research documents, booklets, documentaries and video manuals on everything from cultural management to human rights alongside an uncountable number of events.

PiNA's enterprises are mostly focused on the coastal region, yet also extend across the Slovene borders as many of its activities have a transnational dimension.

Background

Established in 1997 by the Open Society Institute, PiNA's stated objective fore-fronted strengthening the civil society and the development of public access to the modern tools of ICT. Thus, PiNA opened the first cybercafe in Slovenia (in 1998) and in 2004 joined with Ljudmila and Kibla to form the M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia, a Slovenian network of multimedia centres.

In the years that followed PiNA still maintained its multimedia and technological creed yet also started to venture more and more into other fields &ndsh; those of arts, cross-cultural dialogue, community-participation, sustainable development, the dissemination of info on the European Union and its projects, and so on.

Premises

PiNA manages two locations. One is a fully equipped multimedia centre for audio and video production and post-production. The featured Seed Sound Studio enables music recording and mixing. The centre is freely available for NGOs and individuals needing its services for non-profit intentions.

The second location, called eKavarna ("eCafe"), is fitted not only with computers but also with books and booklets on the topics of the European Union, sustainable development, informal education, and so on. It is used to host exhibitions, literary evenings, concerts, lectures, film screenings and the like – these are mostly produced by PiNA though the venue is open for outside productions as well.

Seed Sound Studio by PiNA on YouTube

Activities

PiNA engages in a broad range of activities. Culture-wise, it sets up exhibitions of comic illustrations, posters, multimedia works and photographs; screens films and documentaries, either as a part of its regular programme or featured as a part of particular projects; runs concerts (a series of them was produced in collaboration with the Cona Institute); and organises workshops on music production, film editing, etc.

These events are joined by more specific projects like photography exhibitions of villages burnt during WWII; an international conference on the historical treatment of woman involved in various sorts of resistance; round tables on the issues of discrimination in the theatre; workshops on oral histories (co-produced with the Science and Research Centre of Koper; and so on.

PiNA also organises training and mentoring for other NGOS, conferences, cultural management workshops, webinars, employment and therapeutic consultations, all manner of civil society development projects (urban gardening being one of the recent ones), and analysis (a resounding one was about the situation of youth in the coastal region, published in 2014). A recent notable project is Iskra, a networking hub and a virtual meeting point for NGOs in the Karst and Istra regions of Slovenia, meant for sharing experience, information and collaborative projects. Iskra means "spark" and is also a combination of Istra and Kras (the Slovenian name for the Karst region).

Festivals

Between 2009 and 2015, PiNA organised the 3-P Festival – the festival of future poetry. PiNA is involved in the In/visible cities – International Urban Multimedia Festival which takes place in the border cities of Nova Gorica and Gorizia (IT) and the surrounding towns. PiNA was (or is) also a part of various other local festivals and events, among them the Festival Izis in Izola (also dealing in multimedia art). In 2009 and 2011, PiNA was a partner of Memefest - International Festival of Radical Communication.

Additionally, PiNA (which runs the Europe Direct Koper initiative) plays a part in the European Film Week, during which it organises film screenings in the Art kino Odeon Izola.

Videos and booklets

Among the many PiNA-produced materials, one can mention educational videos for youth centres on how to run social networks and how to approach multimedia, a series of video shows on the topic of the information society, a table-game on the structure of the EU, a documentary film about activism and NGOs, a documentary titled The Social impact of Art (2012), and manuals on topics that feature green entrepreneurship (2016), cultural management (2014) and urban gardening (2014).

Loesje crosses the Mediterranean by PiNA on YouTube

International activities

PiNA has collaborated with more than a hundred partners from abroad. It is the regional partner for a number of networks and is featured in programmes like Erasmus+, Europe for Citizens, Creative Europe, European Social Fund, the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, the Grundtvig and Leonardo da Vinci programmes, and the Anna Lindh Foundation.

It sends dozens of people abroad each year for various exchanges, training programmes, volunteering projects and the like.

External links

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-| name                = KID PINA
+| name                = KID PiNA
-| local name          = Kulturno izobraževalno društvo PINA / PINA Associazione culturale ed educativa Pina
+| local name          = Kulturno izobraževalno društvo PiNA / Associazione culturale ed educativa Pina
-| street              = Gregorčičeva 6
+| logo                = KID PINA (logo).jpg
+| street              = Gortanov trg 15
 | town                = SI-6000 Koper-Capodistria
 | telephone           = 386 (0) 5 630 0320
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 | contacts = {{Contact
 | name                = Vid Tratnik
-| role                = PINA President
+| role                = PiNA President
 | email               = vid.tratnik@pina.si
+}}
+{{Contact
+| name                = Borut Jerman
+| role                = PiNA Vice-President
+| email               = borut.jerman@pina.si
+}}
+{{Contact
+| name                = Darja Oražem
+| role                = PR
+| email               = darja.orazem@pina.si
 }}{{Contact
-| name                = Katerina Kljun
+| name                = Multimedia centre
-| role                = PINA PR
+| role                =
-| email               = katerina.kljun@pina.si
+| email               = oprema@pina.si
+}}{{Contact
+| name                = eKavarna PiNA (cybercafe)
+| street              = Kidričeva 43
+| town                = SI-6000 Koper-Capodistria
+| telephone           = 386 (0) 5 627 8072
 }}
 | accounts            =
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+{{Teaser|
-{{Teaser|
-One of the most internationally active Slovene NGOs, the Koper based [[KID PINA]] has a very broad profile of activities. Besides running a multimedia centre (featuring a music studio) and a separate event and exhibition space, cybercafe, called e-caffe PiNA, it is very active in several artistic and civil society projects, educational programmes, international exchanges and joint projects, festival co-productions and so on.
-Culture-wise, it is especially active in inter-media arts, yet also in poetry (it runs a festival), music, film (both making them as well as screening). It hosted exhibitions of art, comic illustration, posters, multimedia and photography at its premises. Politically, its topics are sustainable development, urban gardening, women empowerment, and such.
+The Koper-based Association for Culture and Education PiNA ([[KID PiNA]]) is certainly one of the most active and diversely oriented Slovenian NGOs. Always simultaneously involved in several artistic, educational and civil society projects, PiNA also manages a multimedia centre and a separate cybercafe/event space. It has produced numerous research documents, booklets, documentaries and video manuals on everything from cultural management to human rights alongside an uncountable number of events.
+PiNA's enterprises are mostly focused on the coastal region, yet also extend across the Slovene borders as many of its activities have a transnational dimension.
 }}
+{{TeaserSlo|KID PiNA je neprofitna organizacija za dejavnosti na področju umetnosti, izobraževanja in civilne družbe. Stacionirana je na slovenski obali, v Kopru.}}
 ==Background==
-Originally established in [[established::1997]] by the Open Society Institute, this centre was registered as a non-profit association officially called The Association for Culture and Education PINA in 1998. with the aim to support the development of a civil society, democratic dialogue and public access to modern tools of information and communication technology.
+Established in [[established::1997]] by the Open Society Institute, PiNA's stated objective fore-fronted strengthening the civil society and the development of public access to the modern tools of ICT. Thus, PiNA opened the first cybercafe in Slovenia (in 1998) and in 2004 joined with [[Ljudmila]] and [[Kibla]] to form the [[M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia]], a Slovenian network of multimedia centres.
+In the years that followed PiNA still maintained its multimedia and technological creed yet also started to venture more and more into other fields &ndsh; those of arts, cross-cultural dialogue, community-participation, sustainable development, the dissemination of info on the European Union and its projects, and so on.
+==Premises==
+PiNA manages two locations. One is a fully equipped multimedia centre for audio and video production and post-production. The featured Seed Sound Studio enables music recording and mixing. The centre is freely available for NGOs and individuals needing its services for non-profit intentions.
+The second location, called eKavarna ("eCafe"), is fitted not only with computers but also with books and booklets on the topics of the European Union, sustainable development, informal education, and so on. It is used to host exhibitions, literary evenings, concerts, lectures, film screenings and the like &ndash; these are mostly produced by PiNA though the venue is open for outside productions as well.
+{{YouTube|1mrB1HGPdVE}}
+==Activities==
+PiNA engages in a broad range of activities. Culture-wise, it sets up exhibitions of comic illustrations, posters, multimedia works and photographs; screens films and documentaries, either as a part of its regular programme or featured as a part of particular projects; runs concerts (a series of them was produced in collaboration with the [[Cona Institute]]); and organises workshops on music production, film editing, etc.
+These events are joined by more specific projects like photography exhibitions of villages burnt during WWII; an international conference on the historical treatment of woman involved in various sorts of resistance; round tables on the issues of discrimination in the theatre; workshops on oral histories (co-produced with the [[Science and Research Centre of Koper (SRC Koper)|Science and Research Centre of Koper]]; and so on.
-In 2002, it opened e-caffe PiNA. In 2004, PiNA formed [[M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia]], a Slovenian network of multimedia centres together with [[Ljudmila]] and [[Kibla]]. Recently, it reoriented slightly to promote a tolerant civic dialogue and critical thinking, but in particular to promote and encourage active participation in the community.  All projects implemented by PINA share a common idea - the social impact.
+PiNA also organises training and mentoring for other NGOS, conferences, cultural management workshops, webinars, employment and therapeutic consultations, all manner of civil society development projects (urban gardening being one of the recent ones), and analysis (a resounding one was about the situation of youth in the coastal region, published in 2014). A recent notable project is Iskra, a networking hub and a virtual meeting point for NGOs in the Karst and Istra regions of Slovenia, meant for sharing experience, information and collaborative projects. ''Iskra'' means "spark" and is also a combination of Istra and Kras (the Slovenian name for the Karst region).
-==Projects==
+===Festivals===
-There are regular activities such as trainings, exhibitions, festivals, movie nights, evenings of physical, static and inter-media art performances, lectures and presentations, courses, seminars, workshops, providing of info material as well as other publications and multimedia production we seek to encourage our surroundings to constantly reflect and critically re-thinks social norms, opening space for dialogue and discussion on important social issues.
+Between 2009 and 2015, PiNA organised the [[3-P Festival]] &ndash; the festival of future poetry. PiNA is involved in the In/visible cities &ndash; International Urban Multimedia Festival which takes place in the border cities of Nova Gorica and Gorizia (IT) and the surrounding towns. PiNA was (or is) also a part of various other local festivals and events, among them the [[Festival Izis]] in Izola (also dealing in multimedia art). In 2009 and 2011, PiNA was a partner of [[Memefest - International Festival of Radical Communication]].
-Among their activities is also the provision of public access to a wide range of ICT and multimedia tools and the advanced promotion of sustainable environmental solutions. Furthermore, KID PiNA offers support and guidance for young creative minds. Several now successful artists and writers started their way at KID PiNA
+Additionally, PiNA (which runs the Europe Direct Koper initiative) plays a part in the European Film Week, during which it organises film screenings in the [[Art kino Odeon Izola]].
-They allow interested people to gather and to debate about current issues. KID PiNA's services and activities include: a creative multimedia studio, a virtual meeting point for NGOs and individuals, mentoring and advising on projects, assistance in organizing and advocacy of civil initiatives - all this enables the targeted public to realize their ideas and projects
+===Videos and booklets===
-PINA has established ''Porton.si'', a multimedia web portal of the Coast and Karst Region.
+Among the many PiNA-produced materials, one can mention educational videos for youth centres on how to run social networks and how to approach multimedia, a series of video shows on the topic of the information society, a table-game on the structure of the EU, a documentary film about activism and NGOs, a documentary titled ''The Social impact of Art'' (2012), and manuals on topics that feature green entrepreneurship (2016), cultural management (2014) and urban gardening (2014).
-===International projects===
+{{YouTube|2wY3ol0B78s}}
+===International activities===
+PiNA has collaborated with more than a hundred partners from abroad. It is the regional partner for a number of networks and is featured in programmes like Erasmus+, Europe for Citizens, Creative Europe, European Social Fund, the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, the Grundtvig and Leonardo da Vinci programmes, and the Anna Lindh Foundation.
+It sends dozens of people abroad each year for various exchanges, training programmes, volunteering projects and the like.
 ==See also==
-*[[Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival]]
+*[[:Category:M3C|List of the Multimedia centres Network members]]
 *[[Memefest - International Festival of Radical Communication]]
-*[[:Category:M3C|List of the Multimedia centres Network members]]
 ==External links==
-*[http://www.pina.info/ KID PINA website] (in Slovenian)
+*[http://www.pina.si/en/ KID PiNA website]
+*[http://burntinmemories.eu/en The Burnt in Memories project website]
+*[http://invisiblecities.eu/en/ The In/visible Cities Festival website]
+*[http://sticisce-iskra.si/ The virtual NGO meeting point Iskra website]
+[[Category:Producers]]
+[[Category:Venues]]
 [[Category:New media art]]
 [[Category:New media art venues]]
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 [[Category:EU funding of Slovene organisations (Culture and MEDIA Programmes)]]
 [[Category:EU Creative Europe, Culture funding recipient]]
+[[Category:Updated 2020]]
+[[Category:New_media_art_festival_and_event_organisers]]

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