The founders of the citizens' association "Vidosav Club" were students of Vidosav Stevanović's 2009 writing school, several of his readers and friends. We turned an old English-style barn into a modern multifunctional space of over a hundred square metres where literary launches, chamber concerts, painting exhibitions, small theatre performances and gatherings of friends and admirers can be held.
The Club opened on 28 June 2009 before many guests and with a varied programme. Except for two winters — heating was only installed this winter — something has been happening continuously here.
The books that aren't there
Conceived as a cultural and educational institution, the Club has since 2009 organised programmes of the most varied content, with the desire to affirm the values of civic, multicultural and multi-ethnic society, expressed through the spirit of creativity, tolerance, truthfulness and justice.
In this way we have reached 90 organised programmes, in various forms of creative work, with more than 100 guests and participants — from Serbia and also from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, France, the United Kingdom and the USA.
During 2014 and 2015 the Club was renovated and extended, so that now as a self-contained whole "under one roof" it exists on 350 m², also using the auxiliary spaces of the courtyard and the parking.
Becoming ever more active and open to new authors and ideas, the Club thus fulfils the vision of its founders, the writer Vidosav Stevanović and the actress Marija Vasiljević, on whose estate it lives.
Governance
Petar Arbutina — administrator of the Vidosav Foundation
Stevan Stevanović — permanent secretary
Board members
Marija Vasiljević
Srđan Paunović
Mirko Demić
Nadežda Stojanac
Ljubomir Branković
Nevena Stevanović
Supervisory board
Nenad Božić
Bojan Kolak
Marija Lazić