Clubture

History

2026. the implementation of the program Kultura kao praksa demokracije - jačanje kapaciteta organizacija u kulturi (Culture as a Practice of Democracy – Strengthening the Capacities of Cultural Organizations) began

2025. the 25th cycle of collaboration projects within the Clubture-HR program was implemented

2025. the 18th Clubture Forum was held in Koprivnica in partnership with the Kopriva Association and the Forum of Independent Culture Associations FUNK

2025. as a member of the DKC-HR network, Clubture participated in the coordination and production of a series of online conversations on the community radio KLFM, titled Lunch Conversations, with four organizations running socio-cultural centres in their local communities in Vinkovci, Sinj, Zadar, and on the island of Lastovo. The activity was carried out within the project DKC-HR: support, promotion and production, supported through a one-year grant from the Kultura Nova Foundation

2025. in collaboration with the Network of Socio-Cultural Centres (DKC-HR) and Operation City, the conference New Perspectives on Cultural Spaces was held on April 24 at the Journalist Home in Zagreb. The event included the presentation of the research report Analysis of the Implementation of Article 14 of the Act on Cultural Councils and a policy forum on experiences of allocating and managing cultural spaces in Zagreb. Public presentations of the report were held on June 9 in Rijeka, June 13 in Split, June 17 in Osijek, and June 25 in Dubrovnik. Policy forums on cultural spaces were also held in Split and Karlovac.

2025. a research report on the allocation of spaces in culture was published Analiza provedbe članka 14. Zakona o kulturnim vijećima i financiranju javnih potreba u kulturi te prakse dodjele prostora za kulturne djelatnosti u hrvatskim gradovima (Analysis of the implementation of Article 14 of the Act on Cultural Councils and Financing Public Needs in Culture, and the practices of allocating spaces for cultural activities in Croatian cities) produced within the project Public space is key to citizen participation: capacity-building of cultural stakeholders for the implementation and monitoring of Chapter IV of the Act on Cultural Councils and Financing Public Needs in Culture”, within the Impact4Values programme

2024. the 17th Clubture Forum was held in Šibenik in partnership with Kolektiv 4B | Šibenik Network for Cultural Cooperation and Development and in collaboration with Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society

2024. press conference was held regarding the non-transparent allocation of public funds through the call for public needs in culture in the Republic of Croatia

2024. together with other civil society organizations, we organized an electoral debate for young people: How do political parties see the role and participation of young people in society?

2024. pre-election demands for the cultural sector were published, gathering over 200 signatures from cultural workers and artists

2023. the implementation of the project Public Space is Key to Citizen Participation began

2023. the 16th Clubture Forum was held in Zadar in collaboration with Platforma Scena, the Association for culture and art Punktum, Nigdjezemska, the project ´Kino Zona´ (Alliance of Independent Culture Centre) and Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society

2023. as a member of the informal platform of independent archives and libraries, Clubture participated in the activities of the project Archives from Below – Organizational Memory as an Element of Civil Society Sustainability

2023. the conference New Public Culture and Spaces of Sociability was held at the Journalist Home in Zagreb, focusing on cultural and social centres and networking in culture

2023. within the project Nova javna kultura i prostori društvenosti (New Public Culture and Spaces of Sociability) guidelines for cultural infrastructure and community activities were developed

2023. Clubture representatives Domagoj Šavor and Matija Mrakovčić were elected as members of the Council for Civil Society Development

2022. a request was submitted to the Ministry of Culture and Media for an increase in funding for programs of innovative cultural and artistic practices in the Republic of Croatia

2022. the analysis Uključeni u sve, prioritet ni u čemu - može li ESF zamijeniti sustavnu kulturnu politiku? (Involved in Everything, with no Priorities - can ESF Replace Systematic Cultural Policy?) by Matija Mrakovčić was published

2022. the 15th Clubture Forum was held in Pula in partnership with the Rojc Alliance and the Metamedia Association and in collaboration with Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society

2022. within the project Bottom-Up Cultural Policy - From Good Practices of Socio-Cultural Centers to a Sustainable Participative Governance Framework the Code of Good Practice for Civil-Public Partnerships was developed

2022. the Clubture Network, Alliance Operation City and the Network of Socio-Cultural Centers (DKC-HR) organized a public debate on the Act on Cultural Councils and Financing of Public Needs in Culture. The debate was held in the Journalist Home in Zagreb

2021. the Archive of Crisis Practices was published

2021. the publication Clubture Network - 20 years of exchange and cooperation was published

2021 the 14th Clubture Forum was held in Osijek in partnership with the Association ReArt and in collaboration with the organization Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society

2020 the implementation of project Nova javna kultura i prostori društvenosti (New Public Culture and Spaces of Sociabilita) began within the call Thematic Networks for Socio-Economic Development and the Promotion of Social Dialogue in the Context of Improving Working Conditions

2020 Clubture representatives Domagoj Šavor and Miljenka Buljević were elected as members of the Council for Civil Society Development

May 28, 2020 the Network of Socio-Cultural centers (DKC-HR) was established, among whose founders are: Art Workshop Lazareti, Forum Association of Independent Culture - FUNK, Split Youth Center Platform, Hvar Platform, Alliance Kaoperativa, Clubture Network, Alliance Molekula, Alliance Operation City and Rojc Alliance

2020 the 13th Clubture Forum was held in Split in partnership with the Split Youth Center Platform and in collaboration with the organization Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society

2020 the 20th cycle of collaboration projects within the Clubture-HR program was implemented

2019 the 12th Clubture Forum was held in Zagreb in partnership with Alliance Operation City and in collaboration with the following organizations: Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society, Liburnia Film Festival, Kontejner / Bureau of contemporary art praxis, Pogon - Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth, the Cultural Development Association and the Autonomous Cultural Center

2018 the implementation of the project DKC-HR: Mreža društveno-kulturnih centara (DKC-HR: Network of socio-cultural centers) began, within the call Culture in the Center - Support for the Development of Public-Civil Partnership in Culture

2018 the 11th Clubture Forum was held in Križevci in collaboration with the K.V.A.R.K. Association - Creative conjunction of alternative culture development and in collaboration with the following organizations: Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society, the association Vibra, the Autonomous cultural center, the association KLFM - community radio and the association Drugo More

2017 the 10th Clubture forum was held in Rijeka in collaboration with Alliance Molekula and the association Drugo More

2016 the research Uvođenje reda u udruge - poticajno okruženje ili nadzor civilnog društva (The introduction of order in associations - enabling environment or civil society oversight) was published by authors and editors Tomislav Domes and Katarina Pavić, together with the expert contribution of sociologist dr. Kruno Kardov, in which the motives and conceptual basis of policy reforms towards civil society (2012-2015) were critically analyzed

2016 Clubture representatives Miljenka Buljević and Tomislav Domes were elected as members of the Council for Civil Society Development

2016 the 9th Forum in Vukovar was held in collaboration with the Vukovar Association of Cultural Activism, Youth Peace Group Danube, Kulturtreger / Center for the Documentation of Independent Culture and Kurziv - Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society

2015 on Clubture website an archive map was published with the overview of collaboration projects implemented within the program Clubture-HR: program exchange and collaboration

2015 the 15th cycle of collaboration projects within the Clubture-HR program was implemented

2015 the 8th Clubture Forum was held in Karlovac in collaboration with the KA-matrix association and the KA-operativa platform

2014 in collaboration with two trade unions and five union headquarters as well as six other civil society organizations (Croatian Youth Network, Right to the City, Green Action, GONG, Center for Peace Studies, Baza za radničku inicijativu i demokratizaciju) Clubture initiated Ours to Own! initiative. Through collaboration of these organizations over 520.000 citizens’ signatures were collected for the referendum on granting a concession on Croatian highways

2014 the 7th Clubture Forum was held in Čakovec in collaboration with Autonomous center - ACT

2014 in Zagreb organized the conference Culture, Common Goods and Institutional Innovation (in partnership with Alliance Operation City, the Right to the City association and Kooperativa – Regional platform for culture and in collaboration with European Cultural Foundation and the foundation Heinrich Böll – Croatia)

2013 in collaboration with the Drugo more association organized the symposium Perspectives of Cultural Industries in Rijeka, Croatia

2013 the 6th Clubture Forum was held in Split in collaboration with Platform 9.81 and organizations active in the premises of Dom mladih in Split

2013 pilot program Clubture cultural action lab (CT Lab) was initiated, within the program Knowledge Centers for Social Development in the field of independent culture

2012 formally established Kooperativa – regional platform for culture, initially launched within the program Regional initiative of Clubture Network

2012 the 5th Clubture Forum was held in Zadar in collaboration with the Zadar snova assocoation

2012 a panel discussion in the literary club Booksa marked the 10th anniversary of the Network and its implementation of the program exchange and collaboration

2011 the 4th Clubture Forum was held in Pula in collaboration with the Metamedij association and organizations active in the premises of former garrison Karlo Rojc

2010 the 10th cycle of collaboration projects within the Clubture-HR program was implemented

2010 the 3rd Clubture Forum was held in Dubrovnik in collaboration with Art radionica Lazareti

2009 initiated process Exit Europe, in Zagreb organized an international conference on the development of cultural policies in the region and across Europe (in collaboration with the platform Culture Action Europe, Alliance Operation City and Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth - POGON)

2009 the 2nd Clubture Forum was held in Zagreb in collaboration with the associations Attack and AKC Medika

2008 established POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth, the first public institution based on the principles of civic-public partnership

2008 organized an international conference Neoliberal Frontiers (in collaboration with Alliance Operation City, Multimedijalni institut, Platforma 9.81 and the association BLOK)

2008 launched program Clubture Forum and held the first forum meeting in Rijeka in collaboration with Alliance Molekula

2007 5th anniversary of the Network, published Clubture: kultura kao proces razmjene (Clubture: Culture as a Process of Exchange)

2007 Clubture became a member of the European cultural advocacy platform Culture Action Europe

2006 - 2007 implemented experimental pilot phase of program exchange and collaboration among independent cultural organizations in the region

2006 initiated Right to the City (joint advocacy initiative of the platforms Zagreb - Kulturni kapital 3000 and Clubture, Croatian Youth Network and three Zagreb based clubs: Attack, Mama and Mochvara) and the first actions began

2006 founded Zagreb platform of independent cultural and youth organizations Alliance Operation City (former Alliance for the Center for Independent Culture and Youth)

2005 the first manifestation of Operacija grad was held in the premises of Zagreb factory Badel-Gorica

2005 launched the program Education for Strategic Cultural Management

2005 launched the program Kultura aktiva focused on the development of local cultural policies and capacity building of local organizations

2005 launched the web portal www.kulturpunkt.hr

2004 gathering and connecting organizations of independent culture in the region, launched the program Regional Initiative of Clubture Network

2004 organized exhibition Clubture: Podaci in Galerija Nova in Zagreb (produced in partnership with Što, kako i za koga – WHW, Platforma 9.81 and Multimedijalni institut as a part of the project Zagreb – Kulturni Kapital Evrope 3000)

2003. Clubture Week in Split (31. 1. - 7. 2.) organized by Koalicija udruga mladih (KUM) in the Youth Centre

2003 created pilot issue of 04 - Megazin za hakiranje stvarnosti (04 – Megazine for hacking reality)

2002. Clubture Week in Rijeka (25. 11. - 1. 12) organized by Spirit Association

May 16, 2002 Clubture Network was formally registered

May 2002 the first founding Assembly meeting of the Clubture Network was held

2002 began implementation of the first collaborative projects within the platform through the program Clubture-HR: program exchange and collaboration

2001 initiated the process of creating a program platform of independent cultural organizations, initiatives and non-profit clubs which resulted in later establishment of Clubture Network