Novo Doba needs your support!
Listen friends, lovers and patrons! Novo Doba – the best festival of alternative, non-aligned, mind-altering comics in Eastern Europe (and beyond) – needs your help.
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Novo Doba is the New Era. It is a self-organized, inevitable and life-changing organism that grew out of Belgrade, Zemun and Pančevo and the domestic post-Yugoslav new-wave comics scene. It is a meeting point for artists, publishers, connoisseurs and curious crowds with a hunger for graphic highs. It is an indispensable node in the world-wide network of small press festivals. It is in fact much more than a festival, a nursery for new visions and a transmitter of weird frequencies. This September we are planning the 7th edition of the festival. But this time we can't pull it off without your help.
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We wouldn't ask for your help if it wasn't for the sudden and unexpected misfortune that left us without public funding this year. We, the organizers, obviously invest all our time and hard work to make the festival happen for free. But we need money to pay for travel expenses and accommodation for our guests, as well as for printing the renowned festival catalogue and showcasing the best new works of some of the world's most interesting artists. If you help us now you will not only get our eternal respect and gratitude, you will also be rewarded with perks so rare and exquisite that no money can buy (just your money just this time). You are a patron of the future, you help us stay independent, wild and idealistic!
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This year's festival programme is as ambitious as ever. In six days, from September 20th to 25th, we will host six separate exhibitions in carefully chosen venues. We move around the city, always exploring new places and new partner institutions or anti-institutions. Among this year's guests are famed and infamous artists such as Wostok (Serbia), Igor Hofbauer (Croatia), Craoman (France), Pakito Bolino (France) and Attila Stark (Hungary).
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The exhibitions will be accompanied by insanely noisy concerts from the cellar of the underground. Novo Doba is self-organized and therefore our ambitions never cease to grow. We expand every year like a hungry movement, a crossroad where experimental artists, editors, printers, musicians, readers, groupies and hobos meet. We are all eternal volunteers of the festival.
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The 7th edition of Novo Doba is subtitled 'All the best'. All the best is just an expression, a common way to end disputes and quarrels, a polite way to say goodbye when goodbye means good riddance, to deflate the tension, to clear the table of dirty plates and make room for dessert - but don't you move! let the butler do it, he's paid to do it - you can relax and in your mind begin to close those old chapters, end the internal debates and tirades, let the curtain fall and contemplate its exciting design.
All the best means you are given permission to exit the cursed cycle and anticipate fresh beginnings, an expression perfectly suited to say goodbye to this rusty era and clear the way for the parade that celebrates the New Era, the "Novo Doba", a festival where we all dress up in drawings and music and take part in something better, crazy-er, cozy -er, much, much more bubbly.
Thank you, we appreciate your help. It is urgent. The New Era is coming.