House! Society for People and Spaces
Living courtyards and Living town
Living courtyards, a year-round program, has brought to life several abandoned semi-public spaces, the Maribor backyards in the city centre, giving an opportunity to artists to revive courtyards in collaboration with the local community. The project has won the best international collaboration prize at the BIO 50 (Biennial of Design (BIO)).
Living town programme aims at revitalization of deserted streets of the city in co-operation with the local clubs, street theatre, craftmen and residents. Widely popular Koroška Live brings dozens of activities to the temporary closed Koroška Street during the Lent Festival).
House! produces also street performances and interventions in public spaces (Vilin Klopčič), it collaborates with Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, organising in Maribor a line of street performances of Ana Desetnica, Ana Frost and Ana Blaze together with Vetrinjski dvor (Narodni dom Maribor).
Printmaking art centre
One of notable activities of the House! society is the Printmaking art centre, an on-going international workshop for printmaking art, located at Vetrinjski dvor.
In 2014 the the first Graphic Spring, an international student art prints exhibition took place at Vetrinjski dvor, featuring also the best student works of the fine arts academies in Zagreb, Belgrade and Sarajevo. At the second edition of Graphic Spring participated also the art academies of Vienna and Wroclaw, the works selected by international jury were exhibited in December 2015 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.
Rajzefiber biro
Rajzefiber office, an alternative tourist offer, is tailored to the individual and continuously discovers new curiosities of the town.