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Since 2008, Sala Zona 3 has been a space for experimentation, training and creation in the city of Castellón.

Mima Jankovic, director and playwright, was the driving force behind this multipurpose space that combines art with new technologies. Its operation is closely linked to creativity, focusing on multidisciplinary, visual and performing arts research, exploring new technologies. In recent years, Sala Zona 3 has committed to and participated directly and indirectly in cutting-edge cultural projects related to the arts and new technologies. This involvement has attracted the attention of new users and has achieved the participation of a multitude of citizens. The pioneering and research-oriented nature of many of the proposals born or developed at Sala Zona 3 reinforces the concept of an artistic and technological incubator, with an ongoing commitment to educating new audiences.

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Mima Jankovic

Theatre artist (actress, director and playwright) born in the former Yugoslavia, now Serbia. Her professional career traces the map of what has been and what is within her concept of ‘theatre of synthesis’. Her prolific career includes 48 titles that she has written and directed. Mima Jankovic created several series for national television in the former Yugoslavia and has performed as an actress, playwright and director in more than 1,500 cities around the world. She has received more than 30 national and international awards for her artistic work. She was awarded the honorary title of Distinguished National Artist of the former Yugoslavia for her artistic and social work. She currently works as a theatre director, carries out experimental projects, directs multidisciplinary and transmedia artistic shows, and collaborates with various theatre platforms and collectives.

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Maya Jankovic

In 1989, he graduated from high school with a degree in theatre performance. In 1995, he earned a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Belgrade. In 2001, he earned a postgraduate degree from the same university. In 2006, he graduated with a Master’s degree in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona.
His artistic work spans the fields of multimedia art, interdisciplinary art and the performing arts. In his works, he explores the relationship between the individual and society and integrates current issues from different social spheres, intertwining time and space.

Maya Jankovic conveys her passion for exploring creativity to citizens with the consolidation of Sala Zona 3, an innovative multidisciplinary artistic space.

She is the founder of Creative Connector, a multimedia art and new technologies platform, a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1996, a member of AVVAC since 2015, Professor of Multimedia Art and Urban Artistic Interventions at the Centre for Social and Cultural Activities, and the Communication Sciences Laboratory at the Universitat Jaume I in the 2017/18 academic year.

Since 2019, she has been a member of the governing body of the Association of Visual Artists of Valencia (AVVAC). Since 2020, she has been the coordinator and artistic director of “DISPLAY”-UJI.

She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the New Media department of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Bane Jankovic (1936-2015)

Bane was a multifaceted professional, actor and puppeteer, musician, set designer. To speak of Bane Jankovic is to speak of Teatro Fenix.

Part of his work at the Fénix Theatre was based on children’s poems by renowned Yugoslav poets. For this reason, he was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to the Dissemination of Children’s Literature Award (Novi Sad, 1985). Bane Jakovic was also the creator, author and producer of several children’s series at the Yugoslav national television studios. He participated in the founding of the exceptional Children’s Spaces in seven of Serbia’s most important national theatres. During the Yugoslav War, he worked as Ambassador of Theatre Arts for refugee children in collaboration with the Serbian Red Cross, for which he received the state award “Silver Seal”. Like Mima, he was also awarded the honorary title of Distinguished National Artist of the former Yugoslavia for his artistic and social work. In 1999, he moved to Spain, where he continued his artistic work until the end of his life in the same company, Fénix, which adapted its name to Teatro Pho.

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