Kistarcsa
Bercsenyi u. 18.
2143
Hungary
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
Presidency (6 persons), board of trustees (6 persons).All members are volunteers. Budgetary in a year is about 50 000 Euro. Main sources are: proposal grants, contribution of local government, donations. We often participate in international exchanges, and organise seminars. Our main partners are from Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, France.
The civic association, which has a membership of 60, is committed to contribute to the improvement of the cultural life of our settlement.
The members of the association meet once a week, when educational lectures are held.
We annually organize show evenings when local amateur and professional artists perform. There are show evenings for talenred local children too.
We offer yearly award prizes for which local inhabitants may apply.
Every autumn is held a cultural week.
Since 1998 we have published a local calendar yearly.
We are active in researching local history, saving traditions and hand them to the youth.
For us is important our heritage and the European integration too. So we keep in mind and prefer the cultural diversity of diferent nations in our activity.
Our method of community building is via cultural programs like organizing courses, study visits, cooperation with partner organizations in transnational level.
Publication of printed publications connected to our town, handycraft courses, Europe for Citizens and Erasmus+ projects, making creations for local public places, exhibitions of special objects.
We can contribute the network with our communication tools, with giving information to media.
We want to make more in the field of cultural diversity. We are looking for partners from countries outside the European Union too.