House! Society for People and Spaces

Contact

Hiša! društvo za ljudi in prostore

Orožnova 7, SI-2000 Maribor

http://www.ziva-dvorisca.si/

Katja Beck Kos, President

katja@drustvo-hisa.si

House! Society for people and spaces (Hiša! in Slovenian) was set up in 2010, its first and still prominent initiative being the Living courtyards programme with its peak during the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012, and later in the scope of the summer Lent Festival. Being an incubator of new ideas and young activists, Hiša! has developed also the Polygon of Knowledge for the Maribor 2013 – European Youth Capital.

House! is part of the Actors of Urban Change the Robert Bosch Foundation. It is recognized as an innovative local community initiative (Award InLoCom 2013), and received two Challenge Future Summit 2013 awards in the category of social enterprises and the main prize of Maribor. Today it fosters culturally and socially invigorating programmes, its professional team working intensively on the cooperation of the private, public and creative sector.

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)).

Živa Dvorišča - Dvorišča Plešejo / Dancing Courtyards by Bostjan Selinsek on Vimeo

Living town programme aims at revitalization of deserted or forgotten streets of the city in co-operation with the local clubs, street theatre, craftsmen and residents. Widely popular Koroška Live brings dozens of activities to the Koroška Street temporary turned into a pedestrian zone during the Lent Festival).

Hiša! produces also street performances and interventions in public spaces (Vilin Klopčič), it collaborates with Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, organising a Maribor 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 CGU Printmaking Art Centre, an on-going international workshop for printmaking art, located at Vetrinjski dvor.

Rajzefiber biro

Rajzefiber office, an alternative tourist offer, is tailored to the individual and continuously discovers new curiosities of the town.

Re:Ciklama by Niko Poljanšek on Vimeo

See also

• Vetrinjski dvor

External links

• Living courtyards website
• Living City on FB
• Rajzefiber biro website
• Rajzefiber biro on FB
• Rajzefiber office presentation on BIO 50, 2014
• Actors of Urban Change website

Gallery

Located at the GT22 cultural hub, the CGU Printmaking Art Centre runs different workshops on printmaking art, 2017

The Ana Mraz (Ana Frost) festival is – in a way – the winter edition of the Ana Desetnica Street Theatre Festival. Held across Slovenia and co-organised by various producers, the House! Society takes care of it in Maribor, 2017.

The Spoken Word Maribor is an open stage. It is available not only to musicians but also to others who'd like to share their work or their thoughts. The venue in question is theRajzefiber biro, led by the House! Society, 2017

The Pošta Maribor Cultural and Arts Society traditionally presents the works created during its annual art course during the Lent Festival, 2017

A poetry reading and painting exhibition, held in one of the courtyards in Maribor and organised by the House! Society, 2017

A travelogue lecture at the so called Rajzefiber biro, 2017