Danijela Dugandžić Živanović

Danijela Dugandžić Živanović (Sarajevo) is a directress of the Association for Culture and Art Crvena, cultural producer and feminist activist. She has been active in the women’s movement for the past 20 years and has worked with artists from all over the world. She co-founded the Foundation CURE, where she co-created PitchWise – the first festival of women’s engaged art in Bosnia and Herzegovina which collaborated with similar festivals internationally. Danijela is a consultant and a trainer in different projects dealing with women’s and youth issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through the work of Crvena, she promotes and contributes to development of an independent art and cultural scene, as well as emancipates the position of women in art and culture. As a member of the V-Day movement against violence against women and girls she produced Vagina Monologues plays in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Zagreb and participated in the V-Day events in New York 2001 and New Orleans in 2008. For her, feminism is a life style and at any project she departs from feminist values and solidarity.