The “Off Frame festival” (official site) (04.- 10. December 2012. Belgrade, Serbia) mission is to gather organizations and authors dealing with socially engaged theatre practice in Serbia and region, to promote the inclusion in theater work and to present those people who are disempowered in a particular social context.
In comparison with last year's program, this year festival is almost cuted in half thanks to a very serious economic crisis. But according to selected program that includes performances, plays, lectures, presentations, workshop, regional meeting, once again this festival is place of interesting encounters, exchanges and challenges
One of the festival’s programs is “Artists and marginalized groups- opportunities and challenges” regional meeting where artists and marginalized groups representatives from the Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia & Herzegovina are invited to explore trough the dialogue further potential fields of cooperation and to discuss and point out the most common examples of misunderstandings .
Boris Caksiran, choreographer, director and one of the leading artists in the field of Disability arts, gives lecture “Examples of of inclusion of people with disabilities in the field of the theatre and dance" with which he shares his experience from the Convention held in September in Washington DC and which deals with various aspects of inclusive work in Serbia and abroad. The presentation is primarily intended to inform the leading artists and the representatives of the institutions. The presentation is organized in the cooperation with ASSITEJ Serbia