About us
In its current organizational form, the Center for Culture Tivat was formed in 1970, by unifying the activities of the then City Library and Reading Room, the “Radnik” cinema and the Local Amateur Theater. In the 1980s and up to the first half of the 1990s (1983 – 1994), cultural functions were also organized through the INDOK Center Tivat: “Center for Culture, Information and Documentation”, when Radio Tivat and the unit for photo and film documentation (for part of that period, FA “Boka” and klapa “Jadran” were at the Center), so that today this Public Institution unites: the National Library and reading room, the production of theatrical and documentary film productions, the Mediterranean Theater Festival “Purgatorija”, publishing and regular program-repertoire activity that entails; music concerts, literary events, reception and organization of guest programs, promotions and provision of technical services and support to numerous users of the spatial capacities of the Center and the city as a whole.
In all the previous organizational forms of the Center, from its founding to the current moment, it is recognizable the effort to, in the most rational and operational way possible, unite in one institutional place the heritage and traditions of cultural development, spatial, technical and financial possibilities of the community. This is how we also recognize the characteristic stages in the development of this institution.
It was formed for the needs and on the basis of the very pronounced mass and ideologically based work of numerous amateur societies in the area of the municipality of Tivat, which already at that moment inherited significant previous legacies. This primarily refers to the trade union Cultural Art Society “Bratstvo” (1945 – 1954), its music, choir and theater sections, then the tradition and activity of the “Musical and Educational Society” Tivat, founded in 1909, numerous tambourine and mandolin orchestras throughout the territory of today’s Municipality, significant theater activity, the beginnings of which can also be traced back to 1926 at the latest, the tradition of showing films, since the twenties of the last century and the like. (in addition to “Bratsva”, in the area of Tivat, after the Second World War, KUD “Sloga” also operated in the area of Krtola, “Josip Marković” in D. Latva, “Naprijed” and “Ilija Marković” in Gornja Lastva, “Budućnost” in Gradiošnica, “Jedinstvo” in Lepetani. )