Space Tetova | Social Cultural Space Tetova
Social Cultural Space Tetova (Space Tetova) is a community of independent people who interact, create and cultivate the natural human culture of functioning in equality.
This developing community is focused on creating new standards and norms of collective functioning, which transcend the needs of the time and the circle of action.
On a completely voluntary basis, new and avant-garde events and ideas are created and maintained there, which are always put at the service of the ‘space’ society and beyond.
Public events have an educational and instructional purpose, and in some cases they even present creative forms of protest, but there, of course, there is also fun in a society very open to the different.
The essence of any activity is voluntary work, arising from the desire to contribute on behalf of the community and the acceptance of others as equal collaborators.
Retrospective
The space is the product of the tireless volunteer work of the active group that maintains it, but which has its genesis from a spontaneous visit to the center of similar character in Prishtina ‘Termokiss’.
This is where the first incentives and contact with the Belgian autonomous collective ‘Toestand’ begin, who with similar projects aimed at ‘revitalizing unused and abandoned public spaces’, almost every year create new spaces in different European countries.
The tireless work of these two groups during July, assisted by local volunteers and supported by the organization DemocracyLab and the Municipality of Tetova, was rewarded with two new spaces, hitherto unused and left in oblivion for almost a decade. Tetovo, in addition to the ‘socio-cultural space’, also won the Skate Park (Skatova) the only one the city has ever seen.
After the completion of the first phase of the revitalization of the building, the volunteers enthusiastically continued the revitalization and maintenance of the building, and today, after several years of activities, the ‘space’ is slowly becoming the main socio-cultural center of the city, where the only events authentic and self-funded in the city.