Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress

The Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress was established in 1990 as a promoter of self-organised alternative culture in Slovenia. In 1991, it took over the MKC Koper Youth and Culture Centre in Koper-Capodistria, and a programme of so-called "permanent social experiment - an oasis of diverse human relations" - had been devised and developed for the association by late performer and alternative musician Marko Brecelj (1951–2022) and cultural activist Arijana Markučič up to 2015 when due to local authorities the organisation had to move out. Today it operates in the Botegin Centre.

Publishing

One of the association's main concerns is the invention of immediate media. It engaged in comic art activities involving various local authors and published their work in the photocopied Klarinet newsletter and in the Stripzid comic poster series which announced various events.

Since 2004 the Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress publishes online news on the activities of the MKC Koper Youth and Culture Centre on a daily basis. The blog forms part of the non-government sector's information and discussion forum at Dodogovor.org.

Activities and programme

The association fosters creative work and the development of independent critical thinking. It is also involved in anti-fascist and anti-clerical activism and civil disobedience acts, which have developed in a specific format of the so-called "Soft Terrorism" (Mehki terorizem). Most of these actions were recorded and later featured as video documents (e.g. Cottonssination [Vatentat] from 2003 or The Plums are Ripe [Slive so zrele], 2009).

Up to 2015 DPZN organised and co-ordinated public alternative cultural programmes, including the Koperground Festival.

Association of the Friends of Moderate Progress

Contents

Publishing

Activities and programme

Archive

See also

Operated by

Financed by