PMM is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation working in the fields of youth, culture and civil society. Zavod je bil ustanovljen leta 1997 leta kot organizacija, ki spodbuja in podpira projektno sodelovanje med posamezniki in skupinami na področju umetnosti, kulture, izobraževanja, raziskovanja, ekologije, informiranja in humanitarnih aktivnosti, prav tako pa izvaja pomoč pri reševanju njihovih kratkoročnih ali dolgoročnih potreb pri nastanitvi in prostoru za ustvarjanje. Naša organizacija je eden izmed vodilnih producentov na področju kulture, tako v Kulturnem centru Pekarna kot v Mariboru, s poudarkom na neodvisnih, alternativnih in premalo predstavljenih oblikah umetnosti, kulture in mladinskih programov. Vsi programi Pekarne Magdalenske mreže so razglašeni za “Programe v javnem interesu” s strani Mestne občine Maribor in Ministrstva za kulturo Republike Slovenije. Pekarna Magdalenske mreže in njen Mladinski informacijsko-svetovalni center letno organizirata preko 250 dogodkov na področju kulture in mladine. Pekarna Magdalenske mreže je članica mreže CNVOS (Center nevladnih organizacij Slovenije), Trans Europe Halles (Evropska mreža neodvisnih kulturnih centrov), regionalni partner mreže Clubture (neprofitna participatorna mreža, ki povezuje neodvisne kulturne organizacije Hrvaške in njene regionalne partnerje) in članica in podpornica številnih pomembnih nacionalnih in mednarodnih mrež na področju kulture in mladine. Programsko naša organizacija deluje na treh ključnih področjih: NEODVISNA KULTURA, MLADINA in CIVILNA DRUŽBA. V naših prostorih se prav tako nahaja Knjižnica tete Rose (poimenovana po Rosi Luxemburg), ki vsebuje radikalno in družbenokritično literature. Znotraj organizacije deluje Mladinski informacijsko-svetovalni center INFOPEKA, ki javnosti ponuja mladinske programe. Njegovo ključno delovanje predstavljajo informiranje, svetovanje in neformalno izobraževanje za mlade med 15. letom (mladostniki, študenti, zaposleni in brezposelni mladi), za vse, ki živijo in delajo z mladimi ter za zainteresirano javnost (učitelji, starši, svetovalci, mladinski delavci …), s poudarkom na prostovoljskem in družbenokoristnem delu. Pomemben del našega programa predstavljajo Delavnice kritične pismenosti za srednješolce in mladinske delavce. Kritično pismenost razumemo kot koncept, ki omogoča pismenost z etičnimi in političnimi dimenzijami. Prav tako smo del mariborske iniciative Odločaj o mestu (www.odlocajomestu.si), ki si prizadeva za uvedbo participatornega proračuna v Mestni občini Maribor. Na področju prostovoljskega dela je INFOPEKA lokalni koordinator mreže »Prostovoljstvo v Mariboru«, ki jo sestavlja 65 organizacij iz Maribora, ki nudijo programe organiziranega prostovoljstva. Prostovoljske programe za mlade prostovoljce izvajamo že 16 let. Prostovoljsko delo vključuje nudenje brezplačne učne pomoči za mlade, tedenske izobraževalne in ustvarjalne delavnice za mlade z manj priložnostmi, raznovrstne informacijske programe, delavnice kreativnega pisanja za osnovnošolce, programe aktivnega državljanstva za mlade in različne preventivne delavnice za osnovnošolce. Smo gostujoča in pošiljajoča organizacija Evropske prostovoljne službe (EVS) od leta 2004.
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Pekarna Magdalenske mreže is a non-governmental, non-profit institution, founded in 1997 as an organisation for encouraging and supporting programme and project cooperation among individuals and groups conducting artistic, cultural, educational, research, ecological, informative and humanitarian activities as well as for granting assistance in solving their short or long-term residential needs for creative spaces. Our organization is one of the leading cultural producers in the complex of Cultural centre Pekarna, as well as in the city of Maribor, with focus on independent, 'alternative', under-represented forms of art, culture and youth programmes. All of PMM's programmes are declared »Programmes in Public Interest« by the Municipality of Maribor and Slovene Ministry of Culture. Pekarna-magdalenske mreže and its Youth Centre provide the public with more than 250 events in the domains of culture and youth per year. PMM is a member of CNVOS (Centre of Non-Governmental Organisations of Slovenia), Trans Europe Halles (European network of independent cultural centres), a regional partner of Clubture (a non-profit participatory network that connects independent cultural organizations from Croatia and their regional partners) and member and supporter of many other relevant national and international networks in the field of Culture and Youth. Programme-wise our organization works in three main areas: INDEPENDENT CULTURE, YOUTH and VOLUNTEER WORK. Our cultural programme includes organisation, co-organisation, promotion and realization of non-profit cultural events, mainly from the fields of visual arts, films, photography, theatre, which find it harder to gain recognition within the established environment and are actually shaping the distinct programme image of the Cultural Centre Pekarna, paying special attention to the idea and message behind them. We are also the home of Aunt Rosa Library (http://www.knjiznicateterose.org/) - named after Rosa Luxemburg, library with radical and critically engaged literature. Within the institution, the Youth Informative-Counselling Centre INFOPEKA is active in providing the public with the youth programmes. Its basic activity is providing free information, counselling and non-formal education programmes for the young, aged between 15 and 29 (children, students, employed and unemployed young people) and for all, who live and work with them and to the interested public (teachers, parents, counsellors, youth-workers …), with the focus on volunteer and community work. An important part of our programme are also Critical Literacy workshops for high school students and youth workers. Critical literarcy being a concept that provides literacy with ethical and political dimensions. We are also a part of the Maribor initiative Odločaj o mestu (www.odlocajomestu.si) that tries to introduce participatory budget to the municipality of Maribor. In the field of Volunteer work, INFOPEKA is a local coordinator of a network »Volunteer Work in Maribor«, a network of 70 organisations from Maribor, which provide organized volunteer programmes. We have been organizing volunteer programmes for young volunteers for fourteen years now. The programmes, which our volunteers are working on, are providing free instructions for pupils, weekly educational and creative workshops with children with fewer opportunities, different informational initiatives, creative writing sessions for elementary school pupils, in the form of active citizenship youth projects/initiatives and different prevention workshops for school-children. We also provide technical, organisational and service support to interested producers of programmes and projects, not only to regular active users of the premises, but also to other interested users with their own programme schemes and to a variable number of external organizers of cultural, educational activist and other events. We have been an EVS hosting and sending organisation from 2004 onward and have since hosted 33 and sent abroad 25 volunteers.
