LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New initiatives in Arts and Culture is an NGO created in 2003 in Skopje by young individuals working as artists and managers in the field of arts and culture, who wanted to offer and explore new artistic and cultural content, innovative approaches in creation and production, and to enable development of democratic cultural and art environment in Macedonia.

Vision
is to be a platform, dynamic and open place for creation, information resource, platform for developing new ideas and discourses, innovative contemporary works, which will imply social and cultural changes on national level and wider.

Mission
Lokomotiva directs its practice towards creation of new dynamic civil environment, space for reflection, education, promotion and production. Its mission is to be a generator of new innovative ideas, addressing the needs of the cultural actors and articulating them into relevant project activities.

General aim
Lokomotiva aims to evoke and promote new models of cultural production and policy in the fields of contemporary arts, focusing on performing arts (contemporary dance), video, experimental and documentary films.

Long-term goals:

1. To be a platform on national and international level for exchange of knowledge and a space that creates opportunities for creativity and innovation development;
2. To integrate artists, cultural managers, producers, young authors, creators;
3. To initiate action, give impulse; stimulates regional, international cooperation and co-production and active networking on national, regional and international level with individuals, NGOs, institutions, independent art centres, working in the field of arts and culture;
4. To promote creativity, new initiatives and tendencies in arts and culture;
5. To produce new initiations and ideas in a particular context by establishing a relation and interaction between the media, culture, policy, territory and society;
6. To create new audience with a special focus on the new coming generation.

Programs

1. Lokomotiva's programmes are:
2. Shift _Forward [education and information programme]
3. Lift point [production stimulation programme]

Reflections[cultural management, cultural policy and cultural exchange programme]

Each of these programs is structured to generate interdisciplinary approach in a few fields of working by education, creation and production, artistic exchange, diffusion, research and debates on cultural policy, networking…

Lokomotiva was founded by Biljana Tanurovska, Iskra Sukarova, Natasa Dimitrievska, Ljupcho Tanurovski and Ilcho Cvetkovski