# THE:PLACE
# 2nd Round Projects
The project seeks to strengthen cross-border collaboration between Puruli Culture & Art and Pogon by enhancing community engagement in cultural spaces, fostering youth participation in Eskişehir, and improving accessibility for disabled individuals in Zagreb through shared expertise, workshops, and best practice exchanges.
Images from project implementation stage
By promoting inclusion and participation in cultural spaces, the initiative works to create more accessible and engaging environments in both Zagreb and Eskişehir. In Zagreb, it enhances accessibility in arts venues by adopting non-ableist approaches and implementing practices such as audio description and caption subtitling. In Eskişehir, it engages young communities through participatory mapping to ensure their needs and perspectives are reflected in cultural spaces. It also strengthens cross-border collaboration between Puruli Culture & Art and Pogon, fostering knowledge exchange and mutual learning on accessibility and community engagement.
▼ Project Outputs
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Puruli Culture&Art, Ankara
Puruli Culture&Art is a cultural operator dedicated to improve access to culture by addressing cultural, systemic, and physical barriers. Since 2013, we have been organizing the Accessible Film Festival, providing visually, hearing, and orthopedically impaired audiences with access to recent examples of Turkish and world cinema. ın 2019, we co-founded the “BE IN! Network of Accessible Film Festivals”, uniting with five European festivals to promote accessibility in the film industry. Through collaborative projects like “Accessible Cinema: Breaking the Vicious Circle” funded by the EU in 2021-2022, we work with CSOs, policymakers, film industry stakeholders to address accessibility challenges and advocate for inclusive cultural policies.
POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth, Zagreb
POGON is the home of independent culture on the northern coast of the Sava river in Zagreb, which provides its premises and technical equipment to associations, art organizations and informal groups free of charge. POGON is a hybrid cultural institution based on a new model of public-civil partnership. Its founders are the Alliance Operation City, a network of NGOs working in the field of independent culture and youth activities, and the City of Zagreb. POGON’s mission is to provide quality and reliable service for the production, presentation and affirmation of independent contemporary artistic and cultural practices and for the active participation of young people in cultural and other activities in Zagreb.
▼ Municipalities
This section shows the local authorities collaborated & involved in the project’s development process.
