Training Team

Photo message training seminar will be in the hands of Ceca, Ana and Ksenija three experienced experts in youth work, poverty and social change projects, and photography.

Svetlana Kijevcanin – Ceca

She has served as program director of the World Learning/SIT Study Abroad/Princeton Bridge Year Program in Serbia since February 2009. Kijevcanin was born in Belgrade, Serbia and graduated from Belgrade University with a degree in psychology. Prior to joining World Learning, she managed the Bachelor of Education in Community Youth Work program for the Swedish NGO, Forum Syd Balkans Programme, where she also taught a course in conflict transformation and creative techniques in community youth work.

As Yugoslavia began its disintegration in the early 1990s, Kijevcanin embarked on peace activities with both local and international NGOs, including CARE International and the United Methodist Committee on Relief. She is one of the co-founders of Group MOST (“Bridge”): Association for Cooperation and Mediation. During the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, including during the NATO bombing of Serbia and Montenegro in 1999, Kijevcanin continued her peace work, conducting trainings with youth, refugees, psychologists, teachers, and NGO activists throughout the Balkans. She has created media, including a television series on conflict, documentary films on peace studies, and picture books for youth, to explore the potential for conflict transformation and to connect people across national and ethnic lines. Kijevcanin uses theater-in-education methodology for building tolerance and understanding among youth.

In 2008 Kijevcanin completed a distance-learning course through the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. Kijevcanin was named a University of San Diego, Institute for Peace and Justice, Woman PeaceMaker in 2006. From 1992 to 2000 she was a researcher and teaching assistant in the psychology department at the University of Belgrade.

Ana Adamovic

She graduated at the department for the World Literature at the Belgrade University and studied photography at the Art Institute of Boston.

She is a founder of Belgrade based KIOSK Platform for Contemporary Art (www.kioskngo.org).

Lives and works in Belgrade.

Selected One-person exhibitions:

2007 – BALKAN SOUVENIRS, Artget gallery, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia

2007 – MADELEINE, Zvono Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2006 – DAS IST KUNST, O3ONE gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

2005 – WITHOUT BORDERS, Galerie ArtPoint, Wien, Austria

2004 – METRO, gallery Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia

Selected group exhibitions:

2009 – VALUE POINT, Siemens ArtLab 2009 Hosted by Hilger Contemporary, Wien, Austria

2009 – LAND OF PROMISES, Galerie ArtPoint, Wien, Austria

2008 – ARTIST-CITIZEN, 49^th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia

2006 – Art, Life and Confusion, 47^th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia

2005 – I CAN’T REMEMBER MY OWN DREAMS, KunstPavillion, Innsbruck, Austria

Ksenija Milić

A youth worker that holds a Bachelor degree of Science with a major in Education awarded by Jonkoping University, School of Education and Communication-Sweden and degree in Communicology/Community Youth Work awarded by Braca Karic University, Serbia.

She has been a member of Young Researchers of Serbia-Voluntary Service of Serbia since 2003, where she was mostly involved in organizing and leading international work camps dealing with environmental issues.

Since 2007-2009, she was involved on The Balkans Youth and Health Project, that was established in Serbia by the Canadian International Developmental Agency (CIDA), Canadian Society For International Health and Ministry of Health of Republic of Serbia. During that period she gained a certificate of trainer for usage of the “Youth Participation, Youth Friendly Approach and Youth Voices Methodology Toolkit”.

Milic also holds certificate for Facilitators in non-formal education with young people in the field of social inclusion by Council of Europe.

The last two years she was part of the consultative process of establishing a National Association of Practitioners in Youth Work in Serbia-NAPOR.

Today she is very active on international and local level, cooperating with ONO-Omladinska Nevladina Organizacija, Centre for Youth Work and many others.