The Association for the Development of Voluntary Work Novo Mesto, the Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities (JSKD), the Art Collective Strelci and the Association of Slovenians Triglav Banja Luka connected young people from both countries with cultural workshops and events.
On Friday, February 25, 2022, a literary workshop of the international youth project Lepljenka /Collage/ was held in Banja Luka Grammar School. "Young people are the future layer of society, so it is very important to give width to their thinking. Different widths that will help them build a fairer and more tolerant society. Through the creative process of making collages, young people clearly presented their attitude towards social processes and showed their spontaneous, critical thinking," said the mentor of the workshop, poet and writer Samo Dražumerič.
The workshop was intended for Banja Luka Grammar School students. The end of the project, which was started in 2019 and in which, in addition to the Novo mesto Grammar School, seven high schools from other countries are participating, will follow in June this year, when JSKD - OI Novo mesto and the Art collective Strelci will prepare a collage exhibition and present a catalog. The first catalog, i.e. Collage - Traveling Swan was published in 2018 and it presents the best works from the project in which as many as 460 high school students from 13 Slovenian schools participated.
The workshop on Friday was followed by an artistic intervention in the hall of the National and University Library of the Republika Srpska in Banja Luka at the presentation of Sam Dražumeric's book 'Quantum boatman'.
Translation Ana Marjanović
