ESC: Photographer for cultural venues

We are a team of activists for whom current social events, community work and culture are important. In the 1990s, as young students and volunteers, we started a successful non-profit youth initiative. The result of our more than 20 years of work in the small European town of Zilina are two community and cultural centres - Stanica Zilina-Zariecie and Nova synagoga Zilina.

We host various different forms of community activities and social gathering focused primarily on art, social inclusion, critical thinking, education and community empowerment. We build on our personal experience – we started as young people interested in art and culture, involved in active citizenship and non-formal education and we have grown to become a leading cultural-creative centre in Slovakia.

In the 23 years of our existence, we have organized several thousand community and cultural events, local and international projects, which were attended by more than 300,000 people. Thanks to the content of our program, openness, courage and above all thanks to hosting foreign volunteers, we have succeeded in making our city and country more open to diversity, tolerance, international cooperation, as well as the role and commitment of young people. So far, more than 5,000 young people have been actively involved in the activities we organised.