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, 49th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2006 – Art, Life and Confusion, 47th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2005 – I CAN’T REMEMBER MY OWN DREAMS, KunstPavillion, Innsbruck, Austria